Buffing Tip of the Day

[wingtime]

While buffing your boat be careful who you let operate a high speed buffer in the vicinity of your transducer and speed paddle wires that you are holding!     Just your friendly Aquasport tip of the day!  

Bonus tip of the day:  If you want to quickly remove a single cable from your rigging tube without having to undo everything a great multitasking tool is a high speed buffer.  

[seabob4]

Bruce, Bruce, Bruce...  

When I was at Stamas, I used to drape all my harnessing over the side of the hull before the boat got decked.  One of our finishers caught all those harnesses with a Makita buffer...damn near broke his wrist!!  I should have made him untangle all that mess, but he had to take a few days off with his arm in a sling...

[wingtime]

Yeah against my better judgment I let my (idiot) cousin run the buffer as I held the wires off to the side and away from the transom.  For some reason he decided to go up under the wires I was holding instead of just doing one side than the other...  jsut as I was about to open my mouth and say something.... TOO LATE! in a flash the wires were snatched out of my hands and wrapped around the buffer pulling them out of the rigging tube!  SON OF A #$@#$!

Years ago I was buffing my Slick Craft with a buffer my buddy lent me.  It was a weird Craftsman deal the you held sort of like a router....   I was buffin away and life was good..  when in an instant that thing grabbed the cord and extension cord instantly wrapping them around the pad and both my wrists pulling them tight against the machine...  so tight that I could not release the trigger to turn it off! For a moment that seemed like forever I stood there wondering what the Eff to do....  In a panic I had to run until I reached the end of the 100' cord to rip it out of the outlet!  Of course then I was alone in a boat yard with my hands tied up in a buffer!  I had to Houdini my butt out of that mess!   BTW this happened in Buck Thomas' boat yard.  They were tied in with Compaq Yachts in the early 90's

[Blue Agave]

Funny chit

[John Jones]

I probably have 6 extension cords around and they all have splices in them from one power tool or another.

The worst ride I ever took was with a big commercial 3/4" drive drill motor.  The thing comes with a 3' T-handle so your helper can hold the other side.  When he turns loose...

[seabob4]

I probably have 6 extension cords around and they all have splices in them from one power tool or another.

The worst ride I ever took was with a big commercial 3/4" drive drill motor.  The thing comes with a 3' T-handle so your helper can hold the other side.  When he turns loose...

       

A good one?  At Wellcraft, a guy was rub-railing a 36 Martinique late in the build as they had been out of extrusion.  He drilled through the hull-to-deck joint...and into the 120VAC wires, which were hooked up to shore power, energized...

Another guy cutting an engine room vent on a 33 Coastal, his air-line in the hull, draped over the top of the hull flange.  Cuts through his air line, is staring at the jigsaw wondering why it don't work while the air line is doing the crazy snake dance in the hull trying to beat the other guys to death!  That was a funny one!!

[wingtime]

We had this portable hand held rigid pipe threader at work. That thing was geared down so low that even when you let go of the switch the motor coasting was enough to lift you off the ground!