[TheForge] Freak accident

[barkingcrow at comcast.net]

You'll be hard to replace Ron, so I'm hoping your taking some of your own advice and being more careful.  Wish I could attend the conference, but my light of my life daughter is getting married that day and i think i have to take some part in the ceremony, pass the anvil to the new son or something like that.  

See ya,  Jeff 

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On Sep 20, 2011, at 7:48 AM, "Ron Childers" <ron at munlaw.net> wrote:

> Guys, please accept a word of admonition from an old buzzard: Yesterday
> I was moving some large oxygen cylinders and since I had to  drag them
> over some clutter I inserted a "T" hook into the slot in the cap and
> proceeded to haul one out. Just as I had all my weight pulling on it the
> cap came off and I fell backward into a junk pile.  The cap looked brand
> new and tightened down just fine. It was the same cap that was on it
> when it came from the welding supply place (a shiny new red one), but
> the lateral movement must have disengaged the threads. When my buddy got
> there he screwed the cap down tight and the same thing happened but he
> was ready for it. Anyway, it really racked my frame. Bad timing; I have
> three classes to teach at the conference in Barberville, Fl the 2nd
> weekend in October. Ron C
> 
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