[TheForge] Big Jig Saw Puzzle

[Bob Ehrenberger]

I spent most of the day cutting small parts out of sheet metal with a 
Beverly shear. As sometimes happens when doing something so boring, my mind 
started to wander. The thought came to me that the scraps that were left 
over were like a big jig saw puzzle with holes where the parts were taken 
out. Then I started to wonder if it would be possible to actually put it 
back together. On the different crime shows they show them reconstructing 
all kinds of stuff from broken windows to the chaff out of a paper shredder. 
I know that these shows are largly fantacy, not that it couldn't be done, 
but it would take so much manpower that they wouldn't bother.

So what do you guys think? Could the scraps from a Beverly shear be 
reconstructed? Or would there be so much distortion that by the time you 
flattened the pieces out they would no longer fit back together?

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net