Lathe, drillpress, milling machine available, but.....

often does. Some of my
60s longhairs also learned they needed to restrain their flowing locks
when
working near
rotating machinery. I had to constantly preach on that point. No total
scalpings ever occurred, but it was a constant worry and a few small
floating locks were removed.

Harold
KD5SAK

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Boy does that bring back a funny memory. Back in the early 70's when I
was in shop class down in Coral Gables High we had a great teacher who
was a bit of a "redneck". There was this kid named Tracy who had hair
down to the middle of his back, that kinda bothered poor ol Mr S but he
was a trooper and didn't give this guy too big of a hard time. Mr S
always kept the belt on the drill press set on the loose side so if
there was a hang up no one would get hurt too bad. Well, one day Tracy
was using the drill press and leaned over a bit too far and got his
hair tangled up in the chuck and sure enough it yanked him right into
the press. The teachers desk was about 50 feet away and after Mr S
realized there wasn't a huge threat to this kids life he SLOWLY got out
of his desk, walked over to the press and turned off the switch. By
this time the whole class was gathered around the scene and it was
clear Tracy was not hurt, but for sure pinned tightly to the chuck. By
about this time a grin came across Mr S's face and instead of just
grabbing the chuck and revolving it backwards to unwind his hair, he
slowly walked over to the tool board and got a big pair of scissors. Up
till then poor Tracy wasn't making any noises, that is till he saw the
scissors. Then the screaming started ..... Of course ya all know what
happened next G. The whole class laughed till we all ****ed in our
pants. Those were the good ol days................

stol wrote:
Of course ya all know what
happened next G. The whole class laughed till we all ****ed in our
pants. Those were the good ol days................


So, the 'good ol days' is now defined as a classroom of kids standing
around laughing in wet pants and smelling like ****? Billy Joel was right.

The good ol days weren't all that great,
and tomorrow isn't as bad as it seems.

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This is by far the hardest lesson about freedom. It goes against
instinct, and morality, to just sit back and watch people make
mistakes. We want to help them, which means control them and their
decisions, but in doing so we actually hurt them (and ourselves)."

Ernest wrote""""""""""""""'

So, the 'good ol days' is now defined as a classroom of kids standing
around laughing in wet pants and smelling like ****? Billy Joel was
right.

The good ol days weren't all that great,
and tomorrow isn't as bad as it seems.


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Ben is writing""""""""""""""'

Back is those days one could have a "moment"where no one was hurt and
laughter would break out.

Nowadays,
The drill press has multiple safety devised attached so that one
cannot get within 5 feet to even operate it. The stupid idiot that gets
far enough along to injure him/herself will undoubtably have a freight
train of lawyers lined up to sue everything is sight, including but not
limited to........ The contractor that built the school, the family
that sold the land to build the school, the school board that
hired the teacher, the drill press maker, the power company that
supplied the electricity to run the drill press, the people who
laughed at the stupid fool because it made the fool feel inferior,
dumb, weak, and of course it defamed his character and he now has daily
nightmares that prevent him from sleeping, or holding down a job which
would let him get his hair stuck in another piece of machinery . ETC
................... By now you should be getting my drift Ernest.

By the way, Hasn't ol Billy Joel gone bankrupt once of twice because he
was sooooooo stupid to manage his life properly???? He is probably
not the best person to listen to.................

Have a nice day... Opps, thats a Bon Jovi thing
isn't it ??? G



Ben.