Posted by daisyman on December 08, 2015 at 19:53:10 from (207.199.230.154):
In Reply to: Re: Funny Shop Mishaps posted by Karl in MD on December 08, 2015 at 10:32:34:
Many years ago when the company I worked for was starting out, they had borrowed a small single cylinder air compressor for my area. I had a steel bench with a large steel plate on the wall with small rods welded to it to hang all my tools on. Beside it was my drill press and a plate that I had attached the three tiers of a drill index. The compressor sat under the bench. This was in a steel building with horizontal purlins, one about a foot off the floor and again about four feet up and so on. One day I had been working at the drill press and the compressor turned on, and I had just stopped for lunch and was setting about 30 feet away and a table. I thought is seemed like that thing had run quite awhile, when, BOOM, the back blew off the tank, hit the bottom purlin, shot up to the second one, and flew about 15 feet over my head and landed about 100 away in the back of the building. The compressor shot across the isle and hit my 6 x 8 foot wood bolt bin, knocked it over against a building pole and scattered stuff everywhere. All the wrenches and drill bits come raining down on that steel bench what seemed like forever. I about ChiTT my pants. It bent the tin on the side of the building and ruined the purlin. Workers poured out of the buildings down the whole block on both sides wondering what happened. The switch on the compressor had stuck and the pop off valve was corroded shut. Mercy me!! If had been still working where I was a few minutes before, it would have cut me in two. Irv
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