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I went to use my cutting torch. The valves were already open. First gage was oxygen I looked at. The tank was empty. Acetylene tank was a 1/3 full. I probably lost 1/3. Some idiot left the valves open.(me) I am usually very careful to close the valves, but this one time I just forgot. What have you done lately that makes you look like an idiot. Stan
 

I keep my set up near are at a door I use the most its a habit to make sure the tank valves are rubbed on (shut off check) when I walk past them...

Everyone has left them on welcome to the club.... You only get one Mulligan tho...
 
Imagine having 40 neophyte university students remembering to shut them off every day all semester!!!!! Jim
 
I placed my order at the drive through today, pulled up to the window and gave the girl my money. She handed me my change and my drink and I said thank you and took off. Got back to work and realized I’d driven away without my food....

-Scott
 
Yup, me too on the way to church a few years ago. The AWD on our Ford Fusion doesn't help much when the car is being supported by its belly in the deep snow.
 
Bought a smart phone from Sprint for a project I thought I was going to be involved in, in November on the Senior Discount Plan, no contract because I paid for the phone outright, $50.00 a month. Haven't even used it yet. First bill was about $69.00, second bill was $118.00, next bill was $98.00. Going to have a little talk with them at the store next week.
 
Man, welcome to the club. Years ago, I had to do some cutting. I have that big, big Oxy tank that is almost 5' tall. Thought I was soooooo smart to get the big cyl. Rolled the cart out, grabbed the handle on the valve and - WHAAAAAATTTT!!!??? Already open, gauge reads zero. Then I got to thinking about it, l had just refilled it three weeks ago, and now it was completely out.

Grrrrrr. Won't make that mistake again. But yeah, I sure felt dumb.
 
I dropped keys somewhere between the garage and the truck, about 80-90 ft. Spent a good three hours looking for them in the melting slush and gravel. Can't get a new key made. It's a '99 and Ford destroys the key codes after ten years. So I spent another hour searching in the inch of new snow and the afternoon drilling out the lock cylinder.
 
Piece of equipment at work not running. Motor just hums. Me and another guy worked all over it for a good hour. Checked everything we could think with plenty of meter checks. Finally figure the motor is bad. Find out the next day the breaker box is wired WRONG. Double breaker for 22o volt and another single breaker for the other PHASE. I think I will rant until that gets changed!!!!
 
10:30 PM, 10 below zero
Get in the truck to go home
Turn key
Clunk, not click, each time I turn the key
Try two different jumper cables
NOT WORKING
Oh well
I guess I will sleep over at her house tonight
She's asleep, I Hope I can crawl into bed without her freaking out.
 
How about at a miky des go through the drive through, pay money, get bag of
stuff and head down the road. Couple of miles and figure to pull over a minute
to grab something to eat and get back on the road. Was TOTALLY the wrong
order. Double size burgers with cheese. Also two frys. Oh well, I got a little
extra.
 
I have a habit of shutting the lights off when I leave my windowless shop. I had 2 employees working on ladders when I left......Yup they yelled loud enough for me to come back....
 
I've forgotten to shut mine off a couple of times, but fortunately they didn't leak down. But more than once I've walked by my shop and heard the air compressor kick on, realizing I'd left it on several days before.
 
(quoted from post at 23:50:00 01/24/19) I dropped keys somewhere between the garage and the truck, about 80-90 ft. Spent a good three hours looking for them in the melting slush and gravel. Can't get a new key made. It's a '99 and Ford destroys the key codes after ten years. So I spent another hour searching in the inch of new snow and the afternoon drilling out the lock cylinder.
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You mean you passed on the perfect excuse to buy yourself a metal detector.
 
Many years ago I got into the habit of grabbing the valves and checking them every time I walk by the tanks.In the 70's I went out to a car crash with the wrecker,the police had
called and said to bring torches.I had to cut a section of guard rail to free a car.One of us had left the valves on,and had no gas to chop with.That was an embarrassing lesson
that I will never forget.Now though it is just expensive.I just got three bottles.Acetylene was $148,Oxy was $68.The shocker was argon at $111.02.
 
Just yesterday, went out to the shop to discover my 2 torpedo heaters were empty.

Thermostat must have had them off, I must have thought I'd turned them off.

And I'd quit the day before shortly after filling them up

Sigh

Fred
 
I noticed that the hose on my MIG welder had a hole in it. I called the manufacturer and they sent to me a new lead. Later I noticed that after I had welded something, that I could hear a hissing sound from the gun. I turned the welder off and the hissing stopped. I called them again and they sent to me a new solenoid valve and that solved that problem. I had been wondering why the tank was not lasting as long as I thought that it should. I think the bad solenoid is why the lead had the blow out. I turn the valve off after almost all the welds and double check before I leave the garage, because I know it will happen to me too.
 

I towed in a mid 80's Ford Taurus from the projects I had worked on it before it was not worth the tow bill but poor folks like to ride to... I took the keys and laid them on the dash THEN all of a sudden they slid toward the windshield and down the defroster duct...

I called the gal and ask if she had a extra key NOPE she said... I offered her $400 for the car she said NOPE :(... I could not get her to give me a price she wanted her car fixed...Now long after a tool truck pulled up and just for giggles I ask him if he had a tool to retrieve Keys that had slid down the defroster dunk... He went to the truck and brought back a magnet on a aluminum wire about 22" long... I fished it down the duct it took all of it to get to the bottom I felt the keys it pulled them out...

That tool saved me a hard days work its one of my prized positions..

https://www.zoro.com/mag-mate-magnetic-pickup-flex-bend-20-in-3-lb-928s/i/G4557691/
 
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