Will i ever get any smarter?

[2mJps]

I have been working on a old camel back drillpress. I needed to bore a 14" pulley but i had loaned out my phase converter on a long term loan. I wanted to build another converter but i hadnt so i started jerryriging one to do this one job so the press would be done and wouldnt be seating in the middle of the shop. Tonight i had the convert ready to try and it work so tomorrow night i could use my big lathe. Before i left the shop i looked at the lathe i had got this summer to replace my big lathe. It came from a guy that had died i know he had a converter so i thought the lathe was 3ph but when i looked at it the cord only had 2 wires the motor is 1ph 115 volt. If i would have looked at the motor a week ago the drillpress would have been done.

 

[jabberwoki]

Ha ... sounds like something I`d do.

 

[thehorse13]

Target fixation. It happens to us all.

 

[Oldtuleguy]

I have spent countless hours on such projects. The payoff is in the satisfaction you get in a job well done.

 

[dkroth]

I skimmed a study a few years ago that concluded our mental capacity peaks in the late thirties - early forties. Experience contributes to our effectiveness through our fifties before things start to tail off and it's all downhill from there.






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[bmwrd0]

Old age and experience beats youth and exu... wait, what was I saying?

 

[bonneyman]

Old age and experience beats youth and exu... wait, what was I saying?

We get old too soon and wise too late.

 

[2mJps]

Target Fixation now i have a name for my problem.

 

[2mJps]

I drilled a hole with the drill press last night . I need to put a switch on it and work on the belt but it works i can get it out of the way and i am giveing my other camel back to a buddy.

 

[Cleave]

I skimmed a study a few years ago that concluded our mental capacity peaks in the late thirties - early forties. Experience contributes to our effectiveness through our fifties before things start to tail off and it's all downhill from there.






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Well shucks, I'm 36 and don't feel all that bright....

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Bad news is it's all downhill now