[TheForge] Finding things

[Andrew Vida]

Oh, you just had to go mention multi meters... that gets me thinking 
about the one a certain unnamed person still has and all the machinery 
of mine he sold/lost/GAVE AWAY.  It's been a sore point with me the last 
week or so because I've been trying to get my machine shop back in 
operation... slow going.  As I go through things the inventory of items 
lost to me or buggered up to no end keeps going through my head.

For example: what would cause a sane person to remove three of the six 
jaws on a Buck chuck true-set?  This guy buggered up no less than 5 of 
my chucks in various ways.  I have a very expensive Swiss made BANI 
chuck the drive gears for which grind and skip!  Scratch about $2K.  He 
DESTROYED my Chambersburg, lost TWO Bridgeports, an extremely rare 13x60 
Southbend in pristine condition, gave away another lathe that today 
would cost me $45K to replace, gave away my hardness tester... and so on 
down a miserably long list that I am trying hard to forget about.

So keep your fancy talk of multimeters to yourself, sir.

:P

On 8/12/2012 8:02 PM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> I only have one multi-meter.  I've had it for 35 years, and have never lost
> it.  Mainly because I keep it in the same drawer of the same work bench that
> I owned when I bought it.  I'm on my 5th house but have kept on moving that
> work bench. One of the few constants in my crazy life.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Frost"<akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
> To: "Bob Ehrenberger"<eforge at centurytel.net>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored
> by ABANA"<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 6:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Finding things
>
>
> Yeah, the replace the lost tool was one of my main methods but I now have
> three multi meters, bought the first one, used it, put it in a good place
> and couldn't find it after a couple days looking so I bought the second. I
> used it and put it in a screamingly obvious spot, no WAY I could forget
> where I put it and when I set it down realized I put it right next to my
> first multi meter. So, there they are sitting in contact in a perfectly
> logical place and I keep my THIRD multi meter in my electrical tool box. I
> bought the tool box at a yard sale just to put the electrical stuff in.
>
> And yes I tried looking for something else . . . to no avail.<sigh>
>
> Jer
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Ehrenberger"<eforge at centurytel.net>
> To: "theforge"<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 7:24 AM
> Subject: [TheForge] Finding things
>
>
>> I find that I remember the first place I stored something when I got it.
>> Unfortunatly I've moved a few times in the last 30 years and on the last
>> move we didn't have a shop for over a year and had to store things in the
>> barn.  There are still things that I haven't found after that move and
>> it's
>> been 13 years.
>>
>> Usually the best way to find something is to buy a replacement, and then
>> when you put that away you will find the original.
>>
>> Robert Ehrenberger
>> Shelbyville, Mo.
>> eforge at centurytel.net
>>
>> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:46:26 -0800
>> From: "Jerry Frost"<akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] R: Pot Way OT by now...
>> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA"<theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>>
>> The most sucessful technique I've found for finding things is to look for
>> something else.
>>
>> Jer
>>
>
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