Cleaning "behind" my desk :D

I wanted a chemistry set but my mother wouldn’t allow. She was afraid I would blow the house up.

 

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In contrast, my mother was completely unsuspecting. At first.

 

She caught on didn’t she?

 

I had and old cast iron/enameled counter with "laundry" sink (had a build in washboard) in the basement on the ground lvl side with a window with fan/vent (house was built on a slope) So I had a pretty good chemisty/electronics setup there until I set the garage on fire (messing around with an old microwave core and sheilding... How was I to know it would effect something 30 ft away )))

 

I was watching a video of a laser welding tool that's apparently on sale to the general public now. The guy demonstrated using it to make beautiful welds very quickly. Then he said "but whatever you do, don't do this."

The thing comes with a conventional metal welding nozzle to carry gas, and a wire lead to clip to your work piece. The laser can only fire when the nozzle is in contact with the workpiece, as a safety measure.

It's a safety feature if you don't clip the wire lead directly to the nozzle. He did that, pointed the thing at the other side of the garage, and lit a poster on fire.

One of these days, we'll get enough blinded idiots and innocent bystanders to precipitate a serious crackdown on high-powered laser gadgets. In my day , equipment like that lived in locked rooms full of safety gear, and you didn't get admitted to the room until you'd been through extensive training. It's odd how chemistry-related stuff has been regulated to the point where it's very difficult to pursue as a hobby, while laser stuff has become an ever-wilder West.

 

This thread is completely useless without pictures of the miscreant four legged beast that purloined the coins and deposited them behind the OP's desk.

I say that because I have a couple of little black four legged coin thieves myself.

 

hehe.. Oh I know all to well about black kitties I just wish someone had warned me about this "Tabby" BS!!!!!!
anyhoo this is baby (the big black tumor on moms hip) then my Snafu, the present sneak theif and I even included Ms Pita her predicessor (lived to 23) she was evil incarnate