Past mistake ...

[NazNomad]

Thought I'd post this for anyone who needs a laugh.

You'll note that there isn't a glass window behind the chuck ... anymore. :roll:

 

[MattRoberts]

Nice - what did it spit through there then?

 

[NazNomad]

Several pieces of a rotting (overly spalted, for those posh turners) bowl.

Worst part was picking all the glass up off the lawn.

 

[Monkey Mark]

Hope you weren't hurt in the process. Bet it woke you up though!

 

[NazNomad]

I never run the lathe without a facemask on... and yes, it did wake me up.

If any of it ended up inside the shed, I haven't found it yet.

Funniest part was the ''nothing Dear'' when asked what I was doing to the shed window. :-D

 

[vanitycat]

Excellent . Mine usually goes down like this:

"What was that noise?"

"I think it was the neighbours".

"But <insert neighbour> isn't in."

"Probably came from the other side".

Luckily both neighbours have never been put at the same time. But I have my "could be a burglar" excuse at the ready


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[Adam9453]

I had a similar, albeit less exciting, event a couple of weeks ago.

I was happily cross cutting some pieces of skirting on the table table, using the fence for my length guide (stop block) and I had run quite a few before i forgot to pull one back slightly from the fence before cutting...
As you can expect it got caught on the fence and succinctly got thrown out the back of the saw!!
Luckily because I always have the riving knife and guards in place, plus I pretty much never stand behind the cut, it missed me and fairly gently came to rest on the floor.
It did however remind me to maintain attention and stick to the best practices to avoid injury.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

What's the lathe? Poolewood?

 

[NazNomad]

Yes, it's a Poolewood with no markings on it anywhere. I wonder if it's an early one from when they were with Silverdrive?

 

[Bm101]

Think yourself lucky Naz! A bloke I worked with managed to stand on a sloping plate glass window on the back of a Hatton Garden jeweller. It imploded with dramatic effect. The desk under the window had a 2 foot shard sticking out of it. The jeweller had gone to take a call moments before thank god. This was a dealer not a shop. As the alarms started howling the police were automatically called. Amid the chaos we were told he'd been counting diamonds at his desk. They had to find about 60 tiny diamonds among a million pieces of broken plate glass before they would let us in to tidy up.... Got home about 10 pm that night.

Glad you're OK mate.

 

[NazNomad]

''A bloke you worked with...'' and an attempted diamond heist?

Too much information. :-D

 

[Bm101]

Lol. Same response I got when I was on holiday and them old fellas abseiled into that Hatton Garden safe depositary.... :-$ :-" O

 

[Wuffles]

Recently went to buy an antique safe to use as a side table, got the dimensions well and truly wrong in my head, when I got there to pick it up it was larger than a couple of washing machines stacked on top of each other and I can't tell you how many washing machines in weight. Three of us couldn't even tilt it to get any kind of gauge of weight.

Advert said "will need two men and a van".

 

[Bm101]

I'd put a bit a jelly on that pal. Be a lot lighter without the bleedin' door eh? Say no more, wink wink. How's ya farver?

 

[Wuffles]

I'd put a bit a jelly on that pal. Be a lot lighter without the bleedin' door eh? Say no more, wink wink. How's ya farver?

Wouldn't fit in the Granada anyway.

 

[NazNomad]

To tie in the original theme of this thread with Bm's cartoon-style safe-cracking career, I thought this appropriate piece of scrolling wouldn't look out of place where the window used to be.