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Re: Any funny stories during the season?

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Ok, so one evening I'm using the circular sander to clean up the edge on a few pieces of a peer award. I am not paying enough attention and I try to grind the piece using the far edge of the disc. The little piece of metal in my hand promptly shoots out of my hand. Thankfully no one was hurt...in fact no one even knew where the object had landed. I then spend a good 15 minutes searching the floor for the piece. I end up finding it outside the machining cage about fifteen feet from the sander.
I had once made a funny-looking assembly consisting of a rolling car attached to a rod of slotted aluminum chassis by a spring. I then tried to drill a hole in the car without clamping anything down. After I inevitably lost my grip, the part climbed up the drill press, spun around a few times, then was ejected forcefully into the floor, compressing the spring and causing it to hop 12' across the shop. Fortunately no one was in the area when this occurred - both for their safety, and for my dignity.

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However I walked in the room a bit late one evening and 4 or 5 of the students were just finishing drilling the 4th of 4 1"+ holes in the 4X4's of the tower for the pipes. I knew they had been working on them a while. As I walked toward them I smelled hot wood and noticed that big wood bit turning in reverse. They had drilled the first 3 and most of the 4th with the drill running backwards. Quite amusing! In addition, these were the 4X4's that were cut 6" short and we had to add 6".
The first time I drilled a hole in the piece of polycarbonate, I had the drill running backwards. It took about sixty seconds to get through 1/8" of plastic. I remember thinking out loud, "man this stuff is tough!," when in reality I wasn't drilling through the material: I was melting through it.
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