[TheForge] Big Jig Saw Puzzle

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Bob, i tend to regard such stuff as possible pieces of the next 
composition.
You've already subtracted the parts of the last one.

Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> 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
> 
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