Annoyed at thread drift

[raljr1]

Didn't learn the slide rule but I learned these items very well!

I started my career as a machinist and always wondered why you guys left certain dimensions off of drawings, like angles, that then I would be calculating using a stub pencil and a machinery's handbook to perform trig calculations on a dirty workbench....

 

[loknload]

Robert,,, That wasn't me,,,,,I never followed through with that as a vocation!, so you can't blame me for it!

 

[snubbyfan]

Bikes are ready to go and it's warm out.
We're gonna hit the trail.
See y'all later.

 

[loknload]

Check out the new look of watermelons?

Wonder who came up with these things?

 

[kwselke]

Check out the new look of watermelons?

Wonder who came up with these things?

The Japanese, I believe they just grow them in a box. Labor intensive and expensive. Space saving novelty.

 

[DHENRY]

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[DHENRY]

An 'epic fail'...sorry.

 

[kwselke]

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An 'epic fail'...sorry.

You can say that again!

 

[loknload]

Originally Posted by DHENRY,,,,
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Now I guess the Drift has secrets, have to get out the old trusty Orphan Annie Decoder pin!

 

[soFlaNative]

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I get that when I fall asleep on the keyboard...

 

[kwselke]

Featured in many of my Beer Time posts is a Church Key Style can and bottle opener I purchased last year at the Dollar Tree for a dollar. I have other bottle openers, but this one is a refrigerator magnet, so I do not have to look far when I pull out a cold one.

My beer drinking days go back to the time of the pull tab, then the safer flip top can came along. I do remember opening soft drink cans, juice cans, and motor oil cans with the pointy end of a church key. You would punch a big hole in one side and a small vent hole in the opposite side of the top of the can.

It occurred to me the other day... In the second decade of the 21st Century, what products come in containers which need the pointy end of a church key in order to open? With the mass of knowledge available here, I'm sure someone can tell me what to do with the pointy end of my can and bottle opener!

 

[Skeptic 9c]

O F F !!
Nice piece, by the way!!


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Considering the age and era, Jordan gunfighter grips in layered mesquite and zebra wood.
Geoff
Who likes the classics.

 

[bigwheelzip]

I started my career as a machinist and always wondered why you guys left certain dimensions off of drawings, like angles....

Short answer is bad training and bad management. Bad training was responsible for the production of a substandard product, and bad management allowed that garbage to reach your hands. It's been decades since peer review and a formal checking were a standard feature of design departments.
I used to cringe when drawings with my name on them were given to other people to revise.

 

[arjay]

Featured in many of my Beer Time posts is a Church Key Style can and bottle opener I purchased last year at the Dollar Tree for a dollar. I have other bottle openers, but this one is a refrigerator magnet, so I do not has to look far when I pull out a cold one.

My beer drinking days go back to the time of the pull tab, then the safer flip top can came along. I do remember opening soft drink cans, juice cans, and motor oil cans with the pointy end of a church key. You would punch a big hole in one side and a small vent hole in the opposite side of the top of the can.

It occurred to me the other day... In the second decade of the 21st Century, what products come in containers which need the pointy end of a church key in order to open? With the mass of knowledge available here, I'm sure someone can tell me what to do with the pointy end of my can and bottle opener!

I remember using one to open a tin can in a pinch,no can opener around,but punch enough holes,you can get the top off [emoji1]

 

[Skeptic 9c]

The drift is a perfect example of controlled chaos.
Chuck

ARRGHH! Chaos Theory! More math!
Geoff
Who notes knowing how to use a sliderule is different than knowing WHY and WHEN to use it.

 

[Skeptic 9c]

I spent much of the day doing laundry. In a small hot room with two washers, two dryers and much work.
Geoff
Who made it on lemonade and diet Coke (TM).

 

[bigwheelzip]

I spent much of the day doing laundry. In a small hot room with two washers, two dryers and much work.
Geoff
Who made it on lemonade and diet Coke (TM).

Sounds like the journey through paradise you envisioned when you first asked about RV rentals.

 

[kwselke]

I remember using one to open a tin can in a pinch,no can opener around,but punch enough holes,you can get the top off [emoji1]

I was going to mention doing that, but even bean cans are going pull tab these days. For non-pull tab bean cans I'd opt for the Zyliss manual, multi-tools not pictured, any decent knife to punch holes, then the church key to punch holes.

 

[kwselke]

Time to quit contemplating the current uses for the pointy end of a church key. It's Beer Time!

No church key needed. I'm having a Busch Beer. "Clean, clear and refreshing as mountain air." It has a graphic of the shape of Texas with a single star on the can. Right underneath that it reads "TEXAS". It clearly states on the can that it is a "Product of the U.S.A." I know this beer was made in Houston at ABInbev's facility located at Gellhorn and I-10.

It is a good tasting reasonably priced beer. Is it a foreign or domestic company? It's local as opposed to the Lone Star stuff I was drinking that had to be shipped in from Ft. Worth.

Cheers!

 

[timn8er]

WHERE'S SNUBBY??? I've got some info that may be vital to him and the understanding of the cats & their actions...