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Ed, Occam's razor, parsimony and other scientific terms suggest that you look at the simplest explanation for an event first. The eight dimension is far removed from that. So starting with the simplest first - how many beers did you have before discovering this screw and how many before deciding to post it?

"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" was on TV a few days ago so being a big fan, I mean I have the beach towel, I just felt like having some fun.

But really I did find a set screw on the floor, that part is true.

Ed

BuckeyeDennis wrote:

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My Mom use to say that some dogs need to have their tail cut off right behind the ears....... perhaps some people have the same feelings for cats?

Ed

JPG wrote:Maybe we best determine the size first.

Okay but I'm sure my dropped screw got gobbled up by a worm hole. Then suddenly a screw that Reible didn't drop shows up in Reible's shop. I think the only logical conclusion is that there is in fact a Shopsmith worm hole that is transporting parts between Shopsmith users.

I dropped a 1/4-20 nut yesterday. If this shows up in some other users shop let us know it will be proof of the worm holes existence.

Good thing I have whole bin of these nuts they too seem to fall and vanish. Some of that seems to have gotten worse as I age. Perhaps in is not wanting to craw on the cold shop floor any more, like been there and done that.

Ed

In a wood shop it wood have to be a wormscrew hole I think?

reible wrote:I dropped a 1/4-20 nut yesterday. If this shows up in some other users shop let us know it will be proof of the worm holes existence.

Good thing I have whole bin of these nuts they too seem to fall and vanish. Some of that seems to have gotten worse as I age. Perhaps in is not wanting to craw on the cold shop floor any more, like been there and done that.

Ed

Last frustrating set screw I remember well fell off a shelf above my bench and rolled into and became part of my freshly varnished project, which I suspect happened as I closed the shop door just after getting the final coat on the night before I left on vacation.

A Luthier friend came over after I returned and found it. He looked at it an smiled, then went to his car to retrieve his 'kit'.

On returning, he got some of my original varnish on a small tool like a palate knife. He popped out a pencil soldering iron and began to gently heat the protruding section of the set screw by touching it, then removing the iron and heating the base of the palate knife. After a few cycles, in a few minutes, it moved, then he took it out with some tweezers, then immediately applied the warmed varnish into the area.

Wow I said. It looked beautiful. His skill developed over years of craftsmanship was amazing. He said it was all in knowing how much varnish to place in the blemish.

So my set screw story is not one that vanished, then reappeared, it is one that varnished, then disappeared.

I asked him how he learned that trick and he said these are the sorts of things they made him do in his Luthier School, over and over.

He challenged me to really finish a fine piece of scrap wood, then intentionally distress, mar, or blemish it in some ways until I could repair them flawlessly.

I played with the techniques he showed me some, and admit he was right. Until you have been there and undone that yourself, it seems impossible.

There are craftsmen and craftswomen in these forums that can do those sorts of things and much more far better than I, and I love reading those how-to do it stories.

Everett