[TheForge] The mind 1st to go

[Jerry Frost]

At least you hadn't put them someplace you couldn't lose them!

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>
To: "theforge" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 6:23 PM
Subject: [TheForge] The mind 1st to go


>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
>
>