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Spencer,
Thanks for adding some great truths here.
Don't go picking on Tiny, he could place a hand on top of each our heads squeeze and pick both of us off the ground. I've seen him change a tire on his pickup, without using a jack.
The following should go in "Redneck Engineering" or under the category of stating the obvious but it's a good one,
When using force on a wrench of any type, cheater pipe, screwdriver or prying device, look where your hand knuckles or whole body is going to go if the tool or bolt breaks free before it's supposed to.
What caused me to think of this yesterday was using a long allen wrench to loosen a fixture on the milling machine. The bolt wasn't moving.
Tiny was the last one to have tightened it.
The wrench was starting to bend and I knew it might break so both hands were pulled away to see where things might go.
There was a very sharp cutter mounted in the milling machine quill and all this was right in the path of my knuckles if something broke.
Cutter removed, wrench almost broke but the bolt rotated free.
Have talk with Tiny.
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