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Old 05-16-2011, 06:37 PM   #1
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Thanks Griff, Dana, plt!

I'm not dead yet... yet.

anyhow, plt, for you, I have nothing to offer to get your tools back. I do however have something that might make you laugh. Damn you auto correct is insanely funny. Enjoy, but swallow your beer first.
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Old 05-16-2011, 06:44 PM   #2
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Lmao V! I have seem that. Shall the link here somewhere. In fact....new thread coming. For smartphone only...
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Old 05-18-2011, 06:56 PM   #3
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today might as well should have been Monday. so i'm working on a panel getting ready to power it up with 120v (the main breaker and panel is 208v) but since there were no 2 pole breakers i could get away with 120v for testing purposes. my coworker gives me a 120v power cord that is rigged up in such a way to bolt it into the thermal magnetic circuit breaker which has 3 legs. i'll try and take a pic to clarify tomorrow. anyway, the branch leg wires were not big enough and when i went to tighten it down one of the lugs passed through and came unthreaded on the inside of the lug compartment in so which stripping out not only the lug but the allen head screw too. can someone please answer this: why do they make these lugs out of aluminum?? i digress. so before lunch i had removed and disassembled the main breaker and started trying to figure out how to unfuck myself. one of my coworkers went to the warehouse to see if we had an extra one. we didn't. so the super comes along after lunch and starts messing with the lug. eventually he got it and i put the breaker back together. so i shitcan the three 120v leads and go to the warehouse armed with hand cable cutters in search of the biggest cable i can find. #1/0 maybe #2/0 (about as big around as my index finger without insulation.) so rather than take my time and circum saw/cut the cable i'm in a hurry because of the time lost repairing the breaker so i clamp down on that sucker and give it all i've got. right when the cutters snipped through i pinched the side of my left index finger so hard that meat shot out like a zit. new cuss words were invented at the same time i looked at my finger in awe. right now it only looks like a small knick. at the time when meat was hanging out of it and blood leaking everywhere it was a little different. so here i am trying to cover up my bad fuck-up of the day. i sucked the blood to keep it from getting on the floor then i cup my fingers back into the palm of my hand and calmly walk to the restroom to patch it up. ultimately i went back to the warehouse and cut the other two leads, taking my time of course. only while cutting the second lead i notice that i was once again bleeding everywhere again so i rebandaged it and went on about my duties. and yes, that phase of the panel checkout was completed. what a day. i'm now at the track safe and sound behind the counter. ol' ron is working a 2 hour walk in party thank god because sure as shit with the day i'm having? i have no business in the pit today. i'd break a leg or foot or worse for sure.
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Old 05-18-2011, 08:30 PM   #4
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right when the cutters snipped through i pinched the side of my left index finger so hard that meat shot out like a zit.
Hey! I've done that! Good times.

Aluminum appeases the bean-counter gods. You can also get the added benefit of corrosion.
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Old 05-18-2011, 09:53 PM   #5
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why do they make these lugs out of aluminum??

Heat dispersion

Oh and Sorry Bout yer finger ( NOT !!! )
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Old 05-19-2011, 09:13 AM   #6
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here, filthy:








...a few paragraph breaks for you
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Old 05-19-2011, 01:35 PM   #7
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here, filthy:








...a few paragraph breaks for you
*chuckles*

I read Philthy's post on my i-phone. I think I broke my eyes :p
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Old 05-19-2011, 09:29 AM   #8
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he's channeling stacyv
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Old 05-19-2011, 03:52 PM   #9
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he's channeling stacyv
Do you miss her? She is a blonde now you know
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Old 05-19-2011, 03:42 PM   #10
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I did not read it.
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Old 05-19-2011, 04:12 PM   #11
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Oh, well in that case...
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Old 05-19-2011, 05:15 PM   #12
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i know guys, sorry about the format. i was at work and trying to type the story while waiting on customers or leaving the counter to go help them with something so i typed it up as quick as i could.

zip, i know heat dispersion but i was just bitching about how soft the metal is.

here is a pic of the cables i cut yesterday. basically you take an extension cord and cut it to expose the hot, neutral and ground wires. the hot (black) goes to the other side of the terminal blocks you see there in the pic with a jumper to the other two terminal blocks then stab in and tighten the large cables into the main circuit breaker then attach the neutral to the neutral bus and the ground to the ground buss in the panel and you're ready to test the circuitry. one of those cables has a little blood on it

my finger is much better today. had to squeeze a little stuff out of it but once i did that it was more comfortable.

i vaguely remember stacyv hmmmm.....
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Old 05-22-2011, 07:56 AM   #13
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Think I'm going to have reformat that in word before I can read it.
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Old 05-23-2011, 11:20 AM   #14
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My younger son needs some help - counseling (dealing with anxiety...this has happened before)

Thus far - our odyssey to get "help" for him has us telling the doc that his insurance won't cover the meds the doc wants to Rx (it would be 600.00 out of pocket per month for us to pay for it) AND the insurance co. will start paying 100% of his counseling bills AFTER we meet his 4,000 dollar deductible.

And this is considered "good" health insurance...
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Old 05-24-2011, 08:01 AM   #15
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My son has a rash on his exposed skin, in pretty much the same locations where a person would get sunburn if they were wearing a tshirt and shorts. No idea what's causing it, but I can't help coming back to the fact that we just installed all new carpeting upstairs on Friday. I really hope it's not the carpet. He also went to a birthday party on Saturday and played in a different park, and ate different food. And threw up at that sleep over. Some kind of stomach bug. Let's see, he also helped us wash the walls with some sort of cleaning product and water before we painted them, That was dripping all over his arms. And he helped paint. That was Saturday. And then on Sunday, he felt better after being sick, and he did a lot of the work of replacing the old toilet, and was with me while I (carefully) used some solvent based chemicals to try to remove the last bits of wax reside from the old toilet.

He's been exposed to a lot of different stuff in the last few days. Could be anything, but I hope it's not the new carpet.
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