Also, just a little tip, knowing ahead of time that you’re an engineer, already pretty smart and handy- you can use bar soap on the wheel, or even cutting disk grease if it’s available (in the shops tool room). Helps it cut faster, cuts down on spark a little, and the wheel lasts way longer.
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Can also cool off drill bits. Nothing like the smell of burning Irish spring.
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I’ve used cutting fluid, but never bar soap. Interesting idea.
Bar soap is good if you don’t have the good stuff. The good stuff is like a very firm waxy grease. Sticks to the disk at speed and kinda melts as you use it. Must clean before welding (I don’t use it for weld prep, just cutting/grinding).
Hmm, I’ll have to give that a shot sometime. Thanks for the tip.
There’s a video floating around today from a security camera of a guy on the roof where they think the fire started. There’s a “flash” by him that could be anything – reflected metal thing or, more likely, an iPhone camera flash – or an ignition.
Anyway, this being 7:00 pm and France, the workers were all gone for 2.5 hours.
I thought the same thing. Hot areas can sit for quite a while before they go up. Our insurers require that open flame work has a dedicated individual as spark watch at all times during the work and fire watch for two hours after torches are out to ensure nothing goes up. Several years ago one of our competitors lit up a townhouse block in Toronto. At the moment, most of our open flame work labour costs are devoted to making sure things don’t burn down.
I just looked at a clip of that. Not calling bullshit on the vid, but I’m dubious. It’s too distorted for me to see anything much other than that flash.
Yeah, all I see is a human on the roof and then some sort of flash somewhere center-of-mass on him/her. To me, it still looks like an iPhone flash. I could easily believe its some sort of inspector wandering around 2 hours after work taking pictures of whatever.
Still would like to talk to the person, given the fire started blazing 10 minutes later.
Anybody see this shit? Copy cat?
It’s either newbatman or the universe telling me I should go back into that niche of fabrication.
If that dude had succeeded I’d have personally gone to where ever he was and fucked him up. I have 3 solid mos. of work in that Cathedral.
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Piggy backing on one from awhile back, apparently the guy and his girl who are acquaintance/friends that applied for the supp company ambassador program got it (well she did) and she is also the one that was let go from our facility because she was a pain in the ass to her bosses and pissed and moaned (stupid games stupid prizes gal). Well I hadn’t seen her in weeks, she came to the gym this morning, I make small talk, “Hey, how ya been…” blah, blah, blah. Well she didn’t even hesitate, “I’ve been good, how are you? By the way I got a discount code, if you use it it gets me reward points.” I just kind of chuckled awkwardly, said, “Cool.” and went and lifted, but man, it was uncomfortable, and honestly…kind of made me angry, for shit’s sake, haven’t seen you in weeks, you and your boyfriend are probably going to ask me to help you fkn move 3 hours away, for free, and you lead with that? Soft move, hon, soft move.
Just cause she can lift and get “sponsored” doesn’t mean she has sales skills. Now go use that discount code! How else you gonna get your RDA of stims, niacin; powdered sugar and proprietary blend containing .001gm of beta alinine?!
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Psycho bastid~
You know me well
So we have a couple we double date with. Been friends with them for 15+ years. I lift with the guy once a week. Following conversation happened over text:
Me: “Can I borrow your weed burner for the garden today?”
Him: “Sure thing. Do you have room in your gun safe for four more rifles and a few handguns?”
Me: “… uh yeah. You going to have a houseguest you don’t trust?”
Him: “will explain in person.”
Later…
Me: “So what’s up?”
Him: “when the wife gets home I’m going to have a really difficult conversation with her. I thought it’d be good if there were no guns in the house.”
Me: mind racing “you file for divorce? Consider having the discussion somewhere in public?.. wait… nevermind. Not my business. Um… best of luck and don’t die.”
Now that was awkward.
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Just be sure to tell him that you love him and that you will miss him.
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This went in the direct opposite direction to where I was expecting it to go.
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Yeah no partner swapping. I don’t share. Sorry to disappoint.
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Making awkward, repeated eye contact with someone in the gym, no lady, I’m really not trying to creep on you, I promise!