[sdiy] Future SYNTH-DIY

[Bob Weigel]

Hehe.  Reminds me of another one of my funny stories.  Working at U of O 
we had this guy who managed the student shop.  You'd go in and ask the 
guy a question and he'd be holding a mug that said "Sure I'd like to 
help you out....can I show you the door?" or something.   And so you say 
"Hey I need to use the table saw" and he'd say "What do you need to do 
with that?"  and I'm "Uhhh..cut this piece of plexiglas (now I can see a 
huge thread starting on this.  I've used carbide blades to carefully cut 
plexi for years...no worn out blade, no injuries.  NOT recommended for 
people who don't know how to do it.  Don't do it. Ever! CLEAR! :-) )  " 
and he'd say "You're not cutting that on my saw".   Or sometimes he'd 
just greet your question with "It can't be done...it's impossible". 
Hehe.  I've never done more 'impossible' things in my life than I did at 
that university. But anyway,  he'd driven one of the high end shops to 
actually buy their own tools (Griffith lab with Walt Skoczylas as I 
recall working on the first photo electron microscope which they 
developed there.  Cool setup..)  and just walking around the shop you 
would see notes all over.  Now Aluminum in grinders does annoy me and I 
sympathize with that one.  But someone had added onto his note "No 
Bismuth!" which I guess made some kind of overall funny statement about 
how nit picky the guy was. Hehe.  But he DID keep the shop in order when 
they let him go it all fell apart.  You could never find the drill you 
wanted.  I walked around the corner one day to see a guy hitting the 
switch on a lathe with a piece of aluminum 1" round stock sticking like 
6' out of the back of the thing!  I yelled TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF and 
he got this puzzled look on his face....but then we heard this 'whoom 
whoom whoooom  WHAACKKKKK' as the piece went into a resonant orbit and 
smashed into the tile floor.  Hehe.  I remember the motor screeching 
another second or so before he finally believed me and shut it off. :-) -Bob

karl dalen wrote:

>People!
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>I say only one thing'!
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>Bismuth! :-)
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>Reg
>KD
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