[TheForge] The mind 1st to go

[Bob Ehrenberger]

I needed to texture some stock yesterday so I went to put the texturing dies 
on the power hammer.  They weren't by the hammer so I looked by the treadle 
hammer, not there either.  By the welding table? no. In the grinding room?, 
no.  Under the bench?, no. I was starting to get concerned and a little 
frustrated.  It was almost noon so I found some busy work, and broke for 
lunch.

Arter lunch I took another look in all the places where they mught have, 
should have, been. No luck.

I decided to proceed with the texturing using the fullering dies which are a 
bit too agrassive so I have to be real careful to use a light touch.  When 
texturing my second piece it hit me, they were in the vermiculite barrel. 
The last time I used them, about a month ago, one of them chipped.  I had 
made them from sucker rod and had just normalized them. So this time after 
fixind the chip I heated them up and stuck them in the vermiculite. And 
there they were, waiting for me to put them back into use.  I knew when I 
couldn't find them, that when they showed up it would make sense, and it 
did.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net