Badger
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"Hey Boy! go get a tin of striped paint from the stores".
Double Whoosh!
I didn't want to, but I guess I need to....
He was messing with the gullible apprentice.
There is no metal shrink paste. It's just a lubricant.
I was on welding forum and guys where discussing why things are called what they are called. So I gave them my story of one of my apprentices.
"My apprentice 7 or 8 years ago called me a liar. I explained to him that he just used up his one and only I get to call the boss a name to his face. I continued to explain to him that next time I send him after paste on metal shrink he better go get it. I don't want that spray on stuff. He argued that there was no such thing a metal shrink paste. I grabbed a jar of never seize. I had him try to put the a 0.9995" pin in a 1.0000" hole it just wouldn't fit. Then I use the magic metal shrink paste and the pin went right in. His jaw almost hit the floor. I explained that it bonded with the base metal and allowed it to shrink 0.0001" per inch of circumference. So a 1.0000" inch pin would shrink 0.000314".
He still calls it metal shrink and the guys can't believe that I never set him straight.
Yea I know I shouldn't have been that way."
I am sure that there are a some good storied out there so lets have em.
I had a friend, his wife complained that her "blinkers" blinked slower than they should, he sent her to the parts store to buy "blinker fluid", being low on fluid caused the blinkers to blink slower. The auto parts guys caught right on and informed her they were out, but the shop down the road might have some. Needless to say, when she learned what was going on, she was not a nice wife.