Thread: Boatbuilding jokers

Originally Posted by pmcgee

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Curvy little joints « A Shipwright in Training


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On the lighter side, I brought my remote controlled electrical outlet back from Madison for a little magic tool fun. It’s normally used to turn on your dust collector remotely so that you don’t have to walk across the shop every time your use your stationary tools. However, in this case, we hid it and hooked it up to the band saw by our bench, and had it suddenly start up when folks walked nearby.

NOTE TO OSHA: This was not done in such a way as to endanger people. Come on, how stupid would that be??

Of course, folks would stop and look, and then I’d turn it off remotely. They’d look around, and we’d say, “Yeah, it’s been doing that all day… go figure” and give it a little kick. It’d start up. Kick. It’d turn off. One guy gave it a couple of kicks and we suggested he be nicer about it, and maybe apologize to the saw for kicking it. He apologized, it turned on. He kicked it, it turned off. After a while we had quite a little crowd all trying to figure out what in the world was wrong with the saw. Of course, once it started responding to voice commands the jig was pretty much up and it was just a lot of experimentation trying to figure out what kind of commands the saw would respond to.

Shop fun. It’s not for everybody.

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