I bought my first mig welder off of my buddy for dirt cheap as he swore it didn't work.Not in the machine shop but running the plasma cutter yesterday...Oh my, how dumb do I feel! Been doing this stuff all my life and I'm 70.
Plasma cut was really bad, I mean REAL bad. I fiddled and farted around with everything and just could not understand what the heck was going on...
I hadn't attached the ground clamp. My good buddy was there watching as witness, I'll never live it down.
I had my safety glasses on and my readers up on my head one day and looked everywhere for either pair so I could go out on the shop floor to diagnose a die problem.Does looking for my phone when it’s in my left hand count?
Yup. Made a fresh pot once, forgot the pot. And I wonder why my wife bought me socks with the instructions sewn on them.Let's see, so far, I've made coffee without the filter, without the basket, without the water, and without the coffee.
Come to think of it, I've done that too. On our coffee maker, the valve at the bottom of the basket will retain the coffee if there's no carafe but if not caught in time, it will eventually overflow.Yup. Made a fresh pot once, forgot the pot. And I wonder why my wife bought me socks with the instructions sewn on them.
Simpler times; now it can be a challenge replacing a bulb. I remember how easy it was doing a full tuneup and oil change on even a small block V-8.While in high school in 1971, I went to a night class at a local vo-tech school on automotive tune-up. I bought a dwell/tach meter, vacuum gauge and timing light and had fun tuning up the family cars. Well, my algebra instructor had a Ford Fairlane with a V-8, and it needed a tune-up so I volunteered to do the work after school one afternoon in the school parking lot. Plugs, points, condenser, cap and rotor in hand and some tools and I went to work. Of course, this attracted a few doubting bystanders. I got the distributor all set with new points and condenser, and the new plugs gapped and installed. I jumped behind the wheel to fire it up. Cranked great, but not even a cough. Well, the peanut gallery was enjoying this way too much, and I could see my math teacher with a concerned look on his face (never a good thing). Then I spotted the new rotor - sitting on the fender. Popped it in and the engine fired right up. Tweaked the dwell, timing and idle settings and my math grades were safe!