Stupid Team Member Tricks

[Bob Merkel]

Originally posted by Katie Reynolds
A few years ago, one of our team members had just finished machining a gear. He was holding it with about eight paper towels (because it was so hot) but decided to touch a kid on the arm with the burning gear. As he put the gear up to the other kid's arm, he said "Is this hot?" -- yeah, he was banned from the shop for the rest of the year, and the kid he burned still has a scar on his arm (in the shape of a gear, no less!)

- Katie

Actually, he wasn't even machining the gear. Someone was showing him how to use the lathe and all he had to do was bring it from the machine shop into the other room. As far as the scar goes, I still have it but it is fading a little