Our team shares a classroom in our local high school. When we walk in each evening we’re used to seeing junk strewn everywhere and some level of damage, but today it was elevated to an art form:
So that’s a cordless drill that’s been run through a hammer twice, wrapped with solder, and drizzled with an oil-based stain.
Discuss.
Art
What recipe were they trying to follow
I do this all the time? Seems normal to me
When I shared a classroom with CAD (they had a local college adjunct professor as their part time instructor. He would leave early each day due to his schedule and they’d be alone for 5-10 minutes at the end of class) and stuff was messed with all the time. I came in one day to find some of our AC/DC convertors plugged into the wall, ends stripped bare and dangling freely. Someone was trying to create an electrical fire.
I took pictures, documented it and turned it into my Admin. The CAD classes were moved to another room going forward. Robotics equipment is too dangerous for regular students to be left with. Construction tech kids are worse because they know just enough to ruin tools really effectively.
None of it was ours (this time). We’ve needed to be quite careful to lock up anything we value.
For bonus points the drill safety does not appear to be on.
In freshman mechanical design in college there were a few students hammering screws.
At least this incident had nails “hammered” in.
We have problems all the time. The biggest problems this year have been from the wood shop teacher himself. He started building a boat in the class but stopped after attaching part of the frame to this giant cart and then keeps putting it in front of the shop door. He built this the first week of school and hasn’t touched it since. Then we found him using the Bridgeport as a drill press and when we removed the drill chuck head he hopped the wall to our tool closet to steal it and then locked it in his office. I wouldn’t have had a big issue with using the Bridgeport that way but he left it a mess. He doesn’t watch his students and they have broken into our snack cabinet a few times and punched holes in the doors. We have been thinking of installing security cameras around the shop. Right after kickoff we left our only game piece out and we figure it was one of his students took it and threw it on top of the air duct. We just by chance found it a couple days later
I know the answer to the question of how they nailed down the hammer is “second hammer” but I want it to be something else so bad
I mean a drill battery and a hammer are basically the same thing, right?
They don’t call it a hammer drill for nothing!
"In freshman mechanical design in college there were a few students hammering screws.
At least this incident had nails “hammered” in."
The three other nails are bent over. Not even an apprentice carpenter would do that.
What a tool!
I’m confused (not too unusual for me).
What’s wrong with using the B’port as a drill press? They’re great for that!
I hope that removing the drill chuck from the B’port does not imply that endmills were being held in that drill chuck and used to make lateral (XY axis) cuts rather than Z axis cuts (drilling with an endmill).
To clarify: I hope your team wasn’t using a drill chuck to hold an endmill and mill laterally with it. That is neither safe nor precise.
For our Middle School “tool time” event this Spring I had the smart idea of making nail driving races for one of the activities. We would do it for the county fair when I was a kid. At the fair there were always a fair number of people that could drive a 3-4 inch nail in one hit.
The activity was a great success. The middle schoolers enjoyed it, but then all the high schoolers wanted to take turns between classes. The number of high schoolers that couldn’t drive a straight nail was about 3/4 or higher it seems. It was a bit surprising but fun to watch. One or two of the boys gave up after bending several nails even.
Facts! We are in the Ag Barn…it is scary! We have our “field elements” out in the open…since we cannot lock it up. I check it out everyday.
I gotta know the thought process behind this, how did they get there lol?
Reading off of your other comment, it seems like another person (not a member on your team) did this deliberately.
I’d suggest taking pictures and documenting all these events as evidence, so you can ask the principal/admin/supervisor, for a dedicated robotics room
Being in a shared barn adjacent to the ag lab comes with some unique stuff. The cows stock tank water spigot was left running by accident a couple times recently. I was lucky to find it before it stayed on overnight.
having a robotics lab next to a barn is something I’ve never seen before.
