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#70597 10/10/06 09:50 PM
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LOL @ "seal tight couplings" :rollin

When I was in the service I was asked to go get the "2x4 straightener."

#70598 10/10/06 10:04 PM
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sky hooks?

#70599 10/10/06 10:12 PM
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Licking fluorescent tube ends before installing.


Hank
#70600 10/10/06 10:18 PM
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Yep those 'skyhooks'. For example, about to install a transformer in a ceiling, or some highmast lights in a parkinglot etc? I have heard of apprentices on those jobs being sent to fetch for that infamous tool. :P


Luke Clarke
Electrical Planner for TVA.

#70601 10/10/06 11:01 PM
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Once when handing my help a light bulb, I told him if you hold the base tight and spin it real fast in your hand that your body had enough electricity in it that it would lite up and I walked away. Came back in a few seconds later and found him spinning the bulb. He has never lived that one down.

#70602 10/10/06 11:08 PM
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While I was in the military it was the ID-10-T form. "Sgt. what was the nomenclature of that form again?" - "Here duffus, let me write it down for ya..." ID10T "Go ask the 1st Sgt. for one of those..."


Mark Heller
"Well - I oughta....." -Jackie Gleason
#70603 10/10/06 11:39 PM
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I know of a car dealership parts lady sent to the parts store across the street for a bucket of welding sparks and a set of muffler bearings.

One day, I was mixing a batch of potting compound for zome Z-80s with a mod. Our receptionist walked in from the office area. I asked her if she saw the Jamaican walking by outside. She asked, "What Jamaican?" I said, "Oh it's just a batch of potting compound."

I once asked a substitute biology teacher if you can inherit sterility. She thought about it and said that she thought so. So I said that if my parents weren't able to have children, chances are I won't be able to either... She realized that she had walked into one.
Joe

#70604 10/11/06 12:43 AM
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Another one, the RMC heater. Works realy well if you are already around and using a PVC heater.


Luke Clarke
Electrical Planner for TVA.

#70605 10/11/06 01:05 AM
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Heard of the "U-Tube bender", "Skyhooks", "Hydraulic wire stretcher"...

Heard of one guy sending the apprentice into the supplier for a " Long weight" ("wait")... Counter guy kept the apprentice waiting for 1/2 hour then sent him out the door.

When I was first year apprentice I broke a compact fluorescent lamp while installing it so I sent our "co-op" kid down to the trailer with just the plastic lamp base and strict instructions to get "new glass inserts to fit the base and a can of argon gas" off the forman.. 34 1/2 minutes later the forman came up to tell me to stop wasting his time but could not stop laughing either!

Oh ya, buddy of mine sent his "help" to the supplier for a list of parts, one of which was a can of "lemon sented WD-40" [Linked Image]
A.D

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#70606 10/11/06 04:05 AM
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UK apprentices were sent on the usual 'fool errands', a long weight [of course[, a bubble for a spirit level, set of 4" ACME taps and wrench, buckets of steam, etc.. One [ no fool he ]cockney lad was sent to the local Engineers' shop for a left-handed 1 gallon metal teapot for our stove. Off he went, on the shop tradesbike, and disappeared for the whole day. Claimed to have visited every hardware store for miles, but had spent the day in a cartoon cinema watching Bugs and Daffy.
Best part- it was the Boss who sent him out so no recriminations on us oiks!

Alan

A little sketch of 'tradesbike'. Handy little machines, I wonder if they still make 'em?


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