[SBE] toxic chemical reminiscences

[William Whitt]

It's funny you mentioned tools that had to be disposed of because of
safeties missing. I bought a table saw from a company I was working for at
the time . the "kickback" bar was removed. Anyway, got the thing for a steal
. hooked it up in my garage. Perfect saw for everything I could ever use a
table saw for. I let my brother-in-law work on a project when I heard a huge
boom . launched a piece of wood into the wall of my garage. Now if that wood
would have been a couple inches lower ...

 

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Yeah, we had a nanny state OSHA visit at WSNS and got dinged for not having
a MSDS for solder. in LA we had to have dust capture for saws and all kinds
of  nanny state junk. Had to toss some nice bench tools because they weren't
OSHA compliant, no guards and such. At one site we couldn't pass electrical
inspection because the audio video cables were not in conduit and had to
rewire with plenum rated cable even though there was no plenum. Had one
inspector actually measure the voltage on the audio and video cables and she
complained that the speaker wires weren't in conduit because when the amp
was turned up there was over a volt and it was considered a fire hazard. I
asked her if her home stereo speaker wires were in conduit and she said it
wasn't required in residential buildings but was in commercial. So some
handy BX and J boxes and she was happy. Reminds me of the cartoon of a
safety net around the rodeo bull. 

Henry

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