Aaaaaaaargh! Plonker!!!

[Jimjam66]

I made up another 'window' blank last night (with clear acrylic rod inserted crosswise prior to drilling) and mounted it on the lathe for drilling. I had decided to start with a smaller diameter bit (9mm), then pulled the tailstock back and swapped for the 11mm bit. Pushed the tailstock forward towards the blank and - BANG! I had forgotten to switch off the lathe, and the drillbit just blew the front half of the blank apart ...

... So I called it a night and went inside for a whiskey.

 

[stevenw1963]

ooops

 

[turnaround360]

Its a learning curve David

 

[bellringer]

O no that when you know it all going wrong

 

[edlea]

Tut ! ..as you become more experienced you will overcome this sort of cock up

 

[Buckeye]

I feel for you, it is a momentary lack of concentration, I had one as well last night. I was assembling a Executive Clicker and forgot to put the clip on, I then spent the next 2 hours trying to work out how to take it apart without damaging the click mechanism.

Peter

 

[dotslad]

Things always look better after a whisky

 

[Grump]

Looks ok from here,
A Blind man would be glad to see it init?

 

[Buckeye]

looks good!

Peter

 

[paulm]

most important thing here is the quality of the whiskey

 

[Jimjam66]

most important thing here is the quality of the whiskey

Grants, Paul - £13 a bottle at Sainsburys recently so I stocked up ...

 

[Doug]

Shit happens David, I`ve been trying segmenting with thicker aluminium than the coke can ally I used before, my first blank separated at the ally wood joint & shot across the workshop half way through turning it, back to the drawing board, going to try epoxy instead of CA

 

[Jimjam66]

Shit happens David, I`ve been trying segmenting with thicker aluminium than the coke can ally I used before, my first blank separated at the ally wood joint & shot across the workshop half way through turning it, back to the drawing board, going to try epoxy instead of CA

Done that a few times, Doug! Nothing quite like crawling around on hands and knees sifting through the sawdust for the missing piece, is there?

 

[Jimjam66]

I feel for you, it is a momentary lack of concentration, I had one as well last night. I was assembling a Executive Clicker and forgot to put the clip on, I then spent the next 2 hours trying to work out how to take it apart without damaging the click mechanism.

Peter

"Aha, another finished pen! Wait a minute - what's that clip doing there? Oh £&@#!" :doh:

I can imagine how it felt, Peter - although I've never done it myself, of course ...

 

[Jimjam66]

Its a learning curve David

Tut ! ..as you become more experienced you will overcome this sort of cock up

Another two hundred years or so and this kind of madness will be nowt but a fond memory ...

 

[sbwertz]

I once payed $30 for a custom cast acrylic blank. I drilled it and started turning it. All was going great until suddenly the whole blank suddenly exploded off the lathe. I couldn't figure out what had happened until I started looking at the pieces. I hadn't glued a tube in the blank

Sharon

 

[yorkshireman]

Sharon that gets you straight in to the plonkers club, well done. Of course I'm not a member.......yet

 

[Woody]

Well I have never done anything as stupid myself cough cough but then I'm not a plonker splutter splutter
No wonder we had to start a plonker club with Terry as Mr chairman to keep an eye on you all and Ed secretary plonker to guide you all on the straight and narrow I think we now need a H/S expert to keep you all safe I will sit in on that job till we find someone then saying that I think David now seems to have learner the error of his ways
:pray::pray: God help us

 

[Woody]

Sharon that gets you straight in to the plonkers club, well done. Of course I'm not a member.......yet

Wanna bet

 

[Jimjam66]

I once payed $30 for a custom cast acrylic blank. I drilled it and started turning it. All was going great until suddenly the whole blank suddenly exploded off the lathe. I couldn't figure out what had happened until I started looking at the pieces. I hadn't glued a tube in the blank

Sharon

Sharon, the weekend hasn't started yet but I think I can safely say that made it for me!