Not mine, but saw this and had to pass it along to the group. I
particularly like the part about "have a Detroit Diesel generator that
will power it, willing to make a package deal...!"

http://www.craigslist.org/sby/tls/88958059.html

Just the thing if you have any battleship shaft couplings that need
touching up.

Regards,

Bob

Bob wrote:
Not mine, but saw this and had to pass it along to the group. I
particularly like the part about "have a Detroit Diesel generator that
will power it, willing to make a package deal...!"

http://www.craigslist.org/sby/tls/88958059.html

Just the thing if you have any battleship shaft couplings that need
touching up.

Regards,

Bob


someone *really* needs to take a picture of themself touching up a 1/8"
toolbit with that hog

--
Fred R
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Bob wrote:
Not mine, but saw this and had to pass it along to the group. I
particularly like the part about "have a Detroit Diesel generator that
will power it, willing to make a package deal...!"

http://www.craigslist.org/sby/tls/88958059.html

Just the thing if you have any battleship shaft couplings that need
touching up.

Regards,

Bob


Having lost a buddy to a high pressure tank accident nearly 50 years ago
I get a funny feeling every time I see a bottle standing up like that
without a safety strap. At least that one has its shroud screwed on, but
I still don't like seeing it.

Jeff

--
Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented."

We have one at work that is almost as large. The wheels are around 14
inches in diameter. They are very inefficient compared to a three or four
inch wide belt grinder driven by a three phase motor. It sits by our drill
press so I never have to worry about people grooving the wheels and it is
right handy for sharpening larger bits.
As for removing material nothing seems to beat a belt.
Randy

"Bob" wrote in message
oups.com...
Not mine, but saw this and had to pass it along to the group. I
particularly like the part about "have a Detroit Diesel generator that
will power it, willing to make a package deal...!"

http://www.craigslist.org/sby/tls/88958059.html

Just the thing if you have any battleship shaft couplings that need
touching up.

Regards,

Bob

test
On 5 Aug 2005 10:53:56 -0700, "Bob"
wrote:

Not mine, but saw this and had to pass it along to the group. I
particularly like the part about "have a Detroit Diesel generator that
will power it, willing to make a package deal...!"

http://www.craigslist.org/sby/tls/88958059.html

Just the thing if you have any battleship shaft couplings that need
touching up.

Regards,

Bob

Browsing through other stuff, and came across the following on Ebay. A
variety of 7 tool holders and one setter, each individually listed
starting at item # 7588898082.

30 Taper Collet Chuck, NMTB , Quick Change, w/ DA300 Co

Seller = lathesplus

Take care.

Brian Lawson,
Bothwell, Ontario.

Sorry, but a quick visit to the official website
(http://www.darwinawards.com) shows that some of these stories date back to
1997, some of them can not be found at all (using the site's search tool),
while the elephant story is nothing more than an "urban legend" dating back
to at least 1998.



"Brian Lawson" wrote in message
...

Latest Darwin Award Candidates:

In September in Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in
two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide
sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.

In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally
zoned out when he ran", accidentally jogged off a 100-foot-high cliff
on his daily run.

In Buxton a man died on a beach, when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug
into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach-goers said Daniel
Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had
been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom of the hole Thursday
afternoon when the tide came in and a wave filled the hole and it
collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach,
on the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their
way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA, but could not reach him.
It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free
him while about 200 people looked on.
Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.


In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he
Fell face-first through the ceiling of bicycle shop he was
burglarising. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed
in his mouth (to Keep his hands free) rammed into the base of his
skull as he hit the floor.



According to police in Dahlonega, GA, ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, was
stabbed to death in January by fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who
was trying to prove that a knife could not penetrate the flak vest
Berrena was wearing.

Silvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in February in Selbyville,
Delaware as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a
revolver loaded With four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.


In February, according to police in Windsor, Ontario, Daniel Kolta,
27, and Randy Taylor, 33, died in a head-on collision, thus earning a
tie in the game of chicken they were playing with their Snowmobiles.



Darwin Award Honourable Mentions:

In "Guthrie, Okla, in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a millipede
With a shot from his 22 calibre rifle, but the bullet ricocheted off a
rock near the hole and hit pal Antonio Martinez in the head,
fracturing his skull.


In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Martyn Eskins, attempting to clean out
cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a propane torch instead of a
broom, and caused a fire that burned the first and second floors of
his house.


Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalised in Andover Township, NJ, and his
wife Bonnie was also injured, when a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up
in their car. While driving around at 2 AM, the bored couple lit the
dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen,
but apparently failed to notice the window was closed.



Runner Up....

TACOMA, WA Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when
One of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from the
Tacoma Bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more
heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at
4:30 am. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered
that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued
drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable
lay nearby. One end of the cable was secured around Bingham's leg and
the other end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before
the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He
miraculously survived his fall into the icy river water and was
rescued by two nearby fishermen. "All I can say "said Bingham, "is
that God was watching out for me on that night." "There's just no
other explanation for it." Bingham's foot was never located.


And The Winner....


PADERBORN, GERMANY Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt fed his
constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than
a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up
pachydermfinally let it fly, and suffocated the keeper under 200
pounds of poop!
Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the
ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on
him.
"The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr.
Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay
unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of
him" said flabbergasted Paderborn police Detective Erik Dern. 'With no
one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for At least an hour
before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated. It
seems to be just one of those freak accidents, or just"**** happens!"

In article ,
"Carmine Castiglia" wrote:

Sorry, but a quick visit to the official website
(http://www.darwinawards.com) shows that some of these stories date back to
1997, some of them can not be found at all (using the site's search tool),
while the elephant story is nothing more than an "urban legend" dating back
to at least 1998.

True, but pretty funny for fiction

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