Quote from: Chillylulu on June 05, 2014, 09:52:36 AM

Quote from: Aunt Phil on June 05, 2014, 12:17:25 AM

Quote from: Nolatoolguy on June 04, 2014, 05:41:17 PM

Quote from: Batz on June 03, 2014, 09:15:01 PM
A little like the old 9" grinders, give one to a young apprentice and he would do two circles when he turned it on.

Hey Hey when I turned on one for the first time I didn't turn around two times.....just once 

Either you're overweight & not being worked hard enough, or the wheel was worn down.

I got one you can pull the trigger on while I hold the plug in the wall.  It'll make you do backflips.

Phil's like an old journeyman talking to a 1st year cub.

Chilly

Thanks for the recognition.

Trade?

OK I'm a 'Fitter and Turner' here in Australia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinist

What do you guys call me in the US?

Batz

Quote from: Batz on June 06, 2014, 05:47:55 AM
OK I'm a 'Fitter and Turner' here in Australia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinist

What do you guys call me in the US?

Batz

Probably "Batz" & your occupation is "machinist" or "fabricator"

I am what is known as a "Fitter" or "Sprinkler Fitter"

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprinkler_fitting
http://www.sprinklerfitters669.org

Chilly

I think that would translate to a steel fabricator here in Canada.

Just a stupid weldor who can also chop metal up with a lathe and mill and make the crap enginincompoops ship actually work in the real world.
Worked my way to being the idiot who sits in the trailer screwing off, and spent more time out of the trailer showing kids how to do their job than I did in the trailer.
Now I'm ancient and obsolete.

Quote from: Aunt Phil on June 06, 2014, 03:02:26 PM
Just a stupid weldor who can also chop metal up with a lathe and mill and make the crap enginincompoops ship actually work in the real world.
Worked my way to being the idiot who sits in the trailer screwing off, and spent more time out of the trailer showing kids how to do their job than I did in the trailer.
Now I'm ancient and obsolete.

I still have my card, but I have been designing systems or on the management side for 27 of my 32 yrs. I'd like to apologize for any thing I enginincompoopeered that didn't fit. Thats also the reason I'm glad our installers  are called fitters. They made my designs fit!

Chilly

Haha, speaking of wrist breakers, I just picked up this Thor model #2041... might have paid too much for it, but gosh is it pretty... and terrifying... 5/8 chuck, and the bloody thing must weigh 30 lbs. Has the previously mentioned slide-switch, no trigger, no quick easy off if you set it to spinning.