RadonHuffer
11-14-2008, 07:43 PM
was going to hurt until you did it.
My grandfather had a fantastic shop, Mills, lathes, forges, crucible stoves and every kind of tool you could ever dream of.
The Forge facinated me you could make metal white hot in that thing and being an adolecent pyro just looking at all that heat facinated me!:D
So granpa and I was in the shop early one cold winter morning and he had fired up my hearts desire, I just could not wait for him to start banging on hot steel. I had strict orders to clean up the floor and was working on a couple chip piles when grandma called from the house about 100 feet away.
Grandpa left the shop and turned around and pointed right at me and said "Dont touch any thing."
As soon as he went into the house a grabbed a 3 foot chunk of inch and a quarter blackpipe and stuck about half of it into the forge, The white light was hypnotic and I watched the pipe take on a glow that almost made it transparent.
The banging of the outer door to the shop broke my trance and I knew I would be in deep Doo Doo if I was cought.
I grabed the cool end of the pipe and plunged the hot end into the quench tank to cover up my indiscretion.
Hot steam shot up the inside of the pipe heating it to the point where the cold end of the pipe was instantly hot enough to burn my hand the hot steam continued up and also burned the inside of my arm all the way up to my armpit.:eek: I was blistered from palm to pit instantly.
Grandpa had no mercy.
My grandfather had a fantastic shop, Mills, lathes, forges, crucible stoves and every kind of tool you could ever dream of.
The Forge facinated me you could make metal white hot in that thing and being an adolecent pyro just looking at all that heat facinated me!:D
So granpa and I was in the shop early one cold winter morning and he had fired up my hearts desire, I just could not wait for him to start banging on hot steel. I had strict orders to clean up the floor and was working on a couple chip piles when grandma called from the house about 100 feet away.
Grandpa left the shop and turned around and pointed right at me and said "Dont touch any thing."
As soon as he went into the house a grabbed a 3 foot chunk of inch and a quarter blackpipe and stuck about half of it into the forge, The white light was hypnotic and I watched the pipe take on a glow that almost made it transparent.
The banging of the outer door to the shop broke my trance and I knew I would be in deep Doo Doo if I was cought.
I grabed the cool end of the pipe and plunged the hot end into the quench tank to cover up my indiscretion.
Hot steam shot up the inside of the pipe heating it to the point where the cold end of the pipe was instantly hot enough to burn my hand the hot steam continued up and also burned the inside of my arm all the way up to my armpit.:eek: I was blistered from palm to pit instantly.
Grandpa had no mercy.