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Was just reading about an accident using tools. so thought it was appropriate
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<blockquote data-quote="Dreman" data-source="post: 946876" data-attributes="member: 61303"><p>Arrogance in engineers about mechanical things is a time honored tradition, usually driven out of an engineer by various dangerous methods until he finally "gets it" that no matter how well he thinks it works, something in there is doing it's own thing. Being an engineer, I know how hard that can be to accomplish! Raised by my machine operator dad, I have always had a healthy respect for the ornery ways of mechanical devices.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>My dad told me a story about an engineer that designed a machine to do a certain task, and there was a hole in the machine near the operator. Operators being curious people, one stuck his finger in the hole one day, only to have part of that finger removed. Notice of the situation made it's way through channels to the very engineer that designed the machine, who proceeded to state that there was no possible way that anything could have cut that operator's finger off in that hole, and proceeded to stick his own finger in the hole to prove it. He then promptly lost his own finger! Hopefully he learned from the experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dreman, post: 946876, member: 61303"] Arrogance in engineers about mechanical things is a time honored tradition, usually driven out of an engineer by various dangerous methods until he finally "gets it" that no matter how well he thinks it works, something in there is doing it's own thing. Being an engineer, I know how hard that can be to accomplish! Raised by my machine operator dad, I have always had a healthy respect for the ornery ways of mechanical devices. My dad told me a story about an engineer that designed a machine to do a certain task, and there was a hole in the machine near the operator. Operators being curious people, one stuck his finger in the hole one day, only to have part of that finger removed. Notice of the situation made it's way through channels to the very engineer that designed the machine, who proceeded to state that there was no possible way that anything could have cut that operator's finger off in that hole, and proceeded to stick his own finger in the hole to prove it. He then promptly lost his own finger! Hopefully he learned from the experience. [/QUOTE]
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General Sport Trac Discussion
Was just reading about an accident using tools. so thought it was appropriate
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