"Ignoramus11139" wrote in message
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We had a certain woman visit us today (our son's 4th birthday party).

She astounded all of us with her metalworking skill, and worked with
my lathe quite expertly. Everyone who witnessed it, myself included,
was rather impressed. She looked great in protective eyewear...
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What... no photos?

Ignoramus11139 wrote:

We had a certain woman visit us today (our son's 4th birthday party).

She astounded all of us with her metalworking skill, and worked with
my lathe quite expertly. Everyone who witnessed it, myself included,
was rather impressed. She looked great in protective eyewear...

i



Is this a Mother's Day story?

ff

What happened next?
Did you wake up in a puddle?

"Ignoramus11139" wrote in message
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We had a certain woman visit us today (our son's 4th birthday party).

She astounded all of us with her metalworking skill, and worked with
my lathe quite expertly. Everyone who witnessed it, myself included,
was rather impressed. She looked great in protective eyewear...

i

Chuckle!

Yep, it's a real shocker when you find women that have such skills. I
recall with fondness a gal named Sue that had more knowledge of bearings,
sprockets and gears than everyone at her place of employment, and that
included her boss.

Harold

On Sun, 8 May 2005 01:42:35 -0700, "Harold and Susan Vordos"
wrote:

Yep, it's a real shocker when you find women that have such skills.

And some of them are likely to be grandmothers.
Who do you think were running the machine tools in the factories
during WW2?

Harold and Susan Vordos wrote:

"Ignoramus11139" wrote in message
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We had a certain woman visit us today (our son's 4th birthday party).

She astounded all of us with her metalworking skill, and worked with
my lathe quite expertly. Everyone who witnessed it, myself included,
was rather impressed. She looked great in protective eyewear...

i



Chuckle!

Yep, it's a real shocker when you find women that have such skills. I
recall with fondness a gal named Sue that had more knowledge of bearings,
sprockets and gears than everyone at her place of employment, and that
included her boss.

Harold




In college a friend had a bad wheel bearing on her car. She wanted me to
do it for cash, which I turned down, but I offered to help her do it for
free. She dove right in, got greasy and we had it apart quickly. I had
been doing a *lot* of repairs to my car, and we took the bearing down to
the place I bought parts at to be pressed off the axel.

While we waited, there were several barely heard comments about women
working on cars. Theresa didn't pay any attention to them. She was
playing with the new bearing, looking at all the pieces. After a minute
or two, she started telling me in detail how the different parts of the
thing was made. The guys making cracks got pretty quiet. Theresa was a
materials science major at MIT.

Steve

"Steve Smith" wrote in message
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In college a friend had a bad wheel bearing on her car. She wanted me to
do it for cash, which I turned down, but I offered to help her do it for
free. She dove right in, got greasy and we had it apart quickly. I had
been doing a *lot* of repairs to my car, and we took the bearing down to
the place I bought parts at to be pressed off the axel.

While we waited, there were several barely heard comments about women
working on cars. Theresa didn't pay any attention to them. She was playing
with the new bearing, looking at all the pieces. After a minute or two,
she started telling me in detail how the different parts of the thing was
made. The guys making cracks got pretty quiet. Theresa was a materials
science major at MIT.

Wonder if it was the same Theresa that I worked with on a couple of
projects at HON during the '90s. She had an MSME from MIT earned perhaps
in the early to mid '80s. Tools fit in her hands just fine.

Don Foreman wrote:

"Steve Smith" wrote in message
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In college a friend had a bad wheel bearing on her car. She wanted me to
do it for cash, which I turned down, but I offered to help her do it for
free. She dove right in, got greasy and we had it apart quickly. I had
been doing a *lot* of repairs to my car, and we took the bearing down to
the place I bought parts at to be pressed off the axel.

While we waited, there were several barely heard comments about women
working on cars. Theresa didn't pay any attention to them. She was playing
with the new bearing, looking at all the pieces. After a minute or two,
she started telling me in detail how the different parts of the thing was
made. The guys making cracks got pretty quiet. Theresa was a materials
science major at MIT.



Wonder if it was the same Theresa that I worked with on a couple of
projects at HON during the '90s. She had an MSME from MIT earned perhaps
in the early to mid '80s. Tools fit in her hands just fine.



I don't know if she stayed on for an MS or not. If you want to discuss
in more detail, feel free to email me.

Steve

Thanks for the pictures. A couple of comments...Gentlemen, there is no
offensive metal on the left hand of this lovely lass so all who have asked
in the past for a proper mate The line forms to the left.. A bit of
training will be needed to get her to close the drawer in the bench so as it
will not fill with chips, A lesson that I have learned 4-5 times in the
recent past. Thanks Iggy for blessing us with the pictures and keeping
hope alive.
lg
no neat sig line

"Ignoramus8220" wrote in message
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On 8 May 2005 04:16:40 GMT, Ignoramus11139
wrote:
We had a certain woman visit us today (our son's 4th birthday party).

She astounded all of us with her metalworking skill, and worked with
my lathe quite expertly. Everyone who witnessed it, myself included,
was rather impressed. She looked great in protective eyewear...

i

pictures

http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/mww/


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"larry g" wrote in message
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Thanks for the pictures. A couple of comments...Gentlemen, there is no
offensive metal on the left hand of this lovely lass so all who have asked
in the past for a proper mate The line forms to the left.. A bit of

On the other hand (so to speak) she may simply be following
the safety guidelines of no jewelry etc. around machinery (and
a lathe can take it off pretty quick ... )

mikey

On Sun, 8 May 2005 08:33:41 -0700, the inscrutable "larry g"
spake:

Thanks for the pictures. A couple of comments...Gentlemen, there is no
offensive metal on the left hand of this lovely lass so all who have asked
in the past for a proper mate The line forms to the left.. A bit of

Yeah, she could play in my shop any time.


training will be needed to get her to close the drawer in the bench so as it
will not fill with chips, A lesson that I have learned 4-5 times in the
recent past. Thanks Iggy for blessing us with the pictures and keeping
hope alive.

Long and loose sleeves aren't a good idea around spinny machinery,
either. Think we could talk her into machining naked, for safety?
Then I'd -really- want pics. domg


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Ignoramus11139 wrote:
We had a certain woman visit us today (our son's 4th birthday party).

She astounded all of us with her metalworking skill, and worked with
my lathe quite expertly. Everyone who witnessed it, myself included,
was rather impressed. She looked great in protective eyewear...

i
Very cool. I was pounding out some wrought iron a few years ago and
the old lady wanted to try.. Didn't take more than a few minutes and she
was holding and applying the hammer like she'd done it for years..

John

On 8 May 2005 14:03:28 GMT, Ignoramus8220
wrote:

On 8 May 2005 04:16:40 GMT, Ignoramus11139 wrote:
We had a certain woman visit us today (our son's 4th birthday party).

She astounded all of us with her metalworking skill, and worked with
my lathe quite expertly. Everyone who witnessed it, myself included,
was rather impressed. She looked great in protective eyewear...

i

pictures

http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/mww/

Moderately tall, blond, the body looks fair, early to mid 20s based on
the hands, which has no wedding ring....

Does she like cowboys?

Gunner

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being
free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stewart Mill

Let the record show that Gunner wrote back on Mon,
09 May 2005 02:05:31 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :
On 8 May 2005 14:03:28 GMT, Ignoramus8220
wrote:

On 8 May 2005 04:16:40 GMT, Ignoramus11139 wrote:
We had a certain woman visit us today (our son's 4th birthday party).

She astounded all of us with her metalworking skill, and worked with
my lathe quite expertly. Everyone who witnessed it, myself included,
was rather impressed. She looked great in protective eyewear...

i

pictures

http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/mww/

Moderately tall, blond, the body looks fair, early to mid 20s based on
the hands, which has no wedding ring....

She's a machinist, or used to working around machinery. Machinist who
wear rings get called "Nine Fingered" if they don't get named "Gimpy",
"Stubby" or other sobriquets.


Does she like cowboys?

Are there any more like her at home?

Gunner
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pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."

In article , Gunner says...

Moderately tall, blond, the body looks fair, early to mid 20s based on
the hands, which has no wedding ring....

Heh. She took it off because she was running a lathe!

Does she like cowboys?

What, you know a cowboy in need of a mate?

Jim


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On 9 May 2005 05:48:52 -0700, jim rozen
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In article , Gunner says...

Moderately tall, blond, the body looks fair, early to mid 20s based on
the hands, which has no wedding ring....

Heh. She took it off because she was running a lathe!

No ring line visible.

Does she like cowboys?

What, you know a cowboy in need of a mate?

Jim

Depends on the woman.

Gunner

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being
free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stewart Mill

In article , Gunner says...

What, you know a cowboy in need of a mate?

Depends on the woman.

I thought you were more of a machinery kinda guy.
When was the last time you rode a horse?

Jim


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On 9 May 2005 12:19:28 -0700, jim rozen
wrote:

In article , Gunner says...

What, you know a cowboy in need of a mate?

Depends on the woman.

I thought you were more of a machinery kinda guy.
When was the last time you rode a horse?

Jim

Three or 4 weekends ago I was helping a friend move a couple hundred
head of cattle down out of the Twisselman range. On horseback of
course. I keep a lariat and my working spurs hanging on the rifle rack
in the back window of my pickup. I still keep my hand in , so to
speak.

You really dont know much about me, do you....?

Im still a member of the PRCA..Professional Rodeo Cowboys Assoc,
though its been years since I rode broncs and bulls. I dont heal as
fast as I used to....and getting crippled up now is a death sentence
for my machine addiction, not to mention everything Ive worked for
over the years. Which is why I also stopped flat tracking years ago.

I hardly even get a chance for team penning on Friday nights, as Im
usually driving home from LA while its going on here locally.

The screwed up rotator cuff in my right shoulder is the result of a
rather stupid and very embaressing ****up while moving stock. Shrug.

Gunner

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being
free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stewart Mill