At the cabinet factory where I work, I sent a college student to another area
to have them use a board stretcher on a 13" drawer panel. They were a bit
hesitant, but I pressured them a bit (I had already planted a longer panel with
the employee they were to talk to)
you should have seen the look on their face when they got back with the bigger
board!!!!
"Paul A. Asgeirsson" wrote:
> Sure were a lot of guys in the military that gave up a lot more than we can
> imagine. Lousy loosing some of your eyesight while watching out for your
> buddies coming in to land on a moving postage stamp in the ocean..
>
> I worked as an ophthalmic optician for about 25 years. Was pretty easy to
> make a lens too small for a metal frame. We always sent the newbies to the
> stock room for lens strecher!
>
> Paul A
>
>
> In a message dated 08/11/2000 7:36:39 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> PAsgeirsson@compuserve.com writes:
>
> > a
> > carpenter sent me down to another house to get a round square! I was so
> > naive!! Funny looking back at it!
> >
>
> Years ago I taught in a Jr. high school where the coach had served on the
> Hornet (aircraft carrier) in WWII in the north Atlantic...his first day at
> sea as an assistant in the radio room they sent him out with a bucket to
> collect some electrons...
>
> He was mostly blind in one eye from looking into the sun for airplanes on
> his
> tour. He also said it wasn't at all like in the movies...just about every
> time they launced the planes they splashed at least one...with no chance of
>
> recovery in the cold water.
>
> RH
>
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