Speaking of cats and shop happenings, the worst one for the cat I ever
saw, was at the engine building shop of one of my friends. He had a
hot tank (caustic) he used to clean engine blocks, heads, etc. The
tank was insulated and back then fuel costs where low so he kept it on
all the time. One of the mice catching shop cats (named Mrs. Gasket)
liked to climb up on the top of the tank and sleep on the warm cover.
One afternoon when we were cleaning some parts and had just taken the
parts out the tank the cat came bounding in the shop, jumped up on a
box and on to the cover. She hit the hot caustic and didn't even
struggle, just gone. We always had a much healthier respect for the
injury potential of that stuff from then.
Bill
At 03:54 PM 5/7/2008, Elton E. (Tony) Clark wrote:
*I had one of those"cat under the hood" encounters but the cat
wasn't so
> lucky . . .I waited 'til the lady next door who owned him went to
work
> before I gathered up all the pieces and gave him a hasty burial .
. She
> never could understand why he "ran off" like that . . . *
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