I bought a new bench grinder and needed to make a larger plate for the top. I had a big old chunk of 3/8" steel plate and cut it up with an angle grinder with a cutting disk (I bought three for 1.99 each from Do It All) Happily cut out the plate with most of two of them and then picked it up awkwardly as I was avoiding the sharp edge on the side I'd just cut, but then the plate slid along my finger with the side I'd previously cut...I grabbed a roll of dressing from the First Aid Box and couldn't find the scissors so had the whole roll flopping around with a big bloodstained mass of bandage around my finger...
...then one of the pupils comes in and asks if they can use some particular tool, not even an "are you ok Sir - that looks like a lot of blood?"
Then I cut a piece of wood to fit on top so it has some extra space for a water pot and some aftermarket grinder rests. So this afternoon the grinder rests arrive and I find I made the thing too small by about 100mm as the rests are about twice as big as I'd imagined them in the picture!
The next job was making my loco boiler, for some reason after marking out with marking blue, scribing a centre line with a height gauge, fitting the vice down to the pillar drill, centre punching and then drilling with a centre drill and finally the correct size drill, i still end up with two holes pointing out at crazily different angles from the top...and then to finish off my carefully flanged boiler ends end in disaster as I can't seem to get my silver solder to flow so it looks like it's been splattered out from the tail end of a pigeon after it ate a few vindaloos the night before....
