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I always liked him in "Columbo". He let the crooks believe he was the bumbeling detective, but he was shrewd and then lowered the boom on the bad guys out of the blue. Often it works that way in real life ordinary circumstances...... it's fun watching peoples faces sometimes, when that happens.....

Thomas Sheard (1866–1921) The Arab Blacksmith c.1900 oil on canvas 115 x 163cm Bendigo Art Gallery collection Purchased 1903 1903.1 My edit. Permission to use for educational purposes.

I went back and reviewed that story and it was a woman with a glass eye and it was too small. She tried packing it with cotton to keep it from falling out but the cotton hung out and put people off.

I haven't read it in years but Mark Twain wrote a short story called "The Ram" where he described a character that had a glass eye that rotated around in his socket while he was talking. As I recall it was fun story.

Forged prosthetic hand attachment's offer a lot of possibilities, both practical and outrageous. Discussion could get out of hand. Dad had a friend who had a glass eye and he told some slightly dubious tales. He said it was ultimately lost in a poker game.

There's a name for everything, thanks. My cousins all moved and dissapeared, including the star gazer. They were into smithing and metal work also, so maybe they will see this. D, D & D, are you out there? Phew.... Math just get's in the way of things. Maybe I will start a quantum mechanics topic in "Everything Else" so as not to bog down this thread...... It might be fun if we can just make things up.

Das, I think a lot of people feel and see it exactly as you do, I know I do. Thanks for putting it into words. I made a few extra leaves and would like to do the same. Frosty, one can't control the weather or other circumstances. We don't need you falling off an icey roof fixing a stove pipe.

One of my cousins was a star gazer and bought a telescope. He started believing all creation was a small particle of a much larger "thing", whatever that meant. Nothing good came from that.

Jim Hawkins would most likely make a fine shop apprentice.

Well, I was just ratteling your chain. I'm no astrophysisist so I will have to defer to you and Einstien. I could look a lot of blather about such things on the internet and postulate them but somebody would on here would call out my bs. Hard to to have fun anymore. Have you experienced being in a black hole recently? It would be nice to have a first hand account to confirm all this.

I found an odd assortment at the flea market friday. It's so cheap there though. . The grammar of ornament book is facinating.

Thank you John. I'll have to pass on something like that. The old grey mule just ain't what he used to be. It was fun to warch though. I love how he lights his cigar. There was a movie once where the actor stuck a knife in his wooden leg to hold it, while peeling and eating apples.

Do you just make this stuff up as you go?

I should say that I have had one a friend gave me years ago and it was a frustrating POS. Maybe they have improved in quality, I don't know. I don't mean to sound so negative on them.

Thanks Bud but I'd rather a sharp stick in the eye than a cheap flux core welder. If it comes to that I will remember the tip. Might be blind in one eye, though.

You have that backwards, of course. New to him stuff would be getting sucked towards him but all his stuff would be behind him, getting sucked deeper into the hole, never to be seen again. You are probably right about throwing things out of one though, you should probably duck.

I once posted a picture of a similar one on the "what did you do in the shop today" thread I plucked off the internet to describe the concept but I thought I had no photo of mine. I think the other one just had one movable roll to provide bend adjustment. I really don't live in a black house. It's brick. I will stop derailing this hossfeld bender thread now.

I just had a memory. When my mother I flew here to NC to attend my sisters retirement ceremony from the Army they personally thanked us for giving up time we lost while she served. We were suprised and it was a good feeling. It was a bit of a special ceremony. USN 1985-1989

That's a good point. I'd like to ammend my comment and give my thanks and appreciation to the family and friends of all veterans. I think I will go have a read through the "military veterans?" thread we have right here on IFI. It's been a while.

Well that looks like it has potential to me. Beats the squeegee set up. I would give you some of my ideas but I don't know what tools, skills and the size of your pocket book and scrap pile are. Also, I like to build projects like that with an idea in mind and on the fly... . (not always....) Modification and tinkering around. It's a wonderful thing when such a project turns out and meets or exceeds your expectaions. I'm not sure what you mean by an "arch over the motor" but build it solid for sure.

Happy Veterans Day. That was a nice story Randy, and I almost put some quotes from it in my comment, but people really should read it. I would like to post a link to the SOFK9 memorial site I like but there seems to be issues. We didn't make it this year.

Too bad I live in a black house, the charred stick idea sounds like a lot of fun. . I just took a picture of it on my puter screen instead. Actually you can barely see it in the top photo. I was still working on it. I guess what made me happy was, it included the old ring roller which went in the scrap hopper when we moved. I built a beefier one that went in also as they were both worn beyond salvation. And too heavey.... Thought I had no photo of those. I don't know why I did a collage of pictures like that, I might have been sending it to someone. The photo looks sort of ok on my small phone screen but if it's all pixelated blur on a regular size monitor IDK what to say, theres always a fly in the ointment, eh? The photo is from 2008. Time sure flies.

I would go to the nearest welding supply store and ask them what best suit's your situation. Let me guess, there is none near you.

I have to quit forecasting things I can't deliver on.... I will draw a picture of it tomorrow and post it. I suppose we ran out of pencils now.