I never got detention, but I did get fried on a Heidelberg once.

[SOteric]

[JVS]

1. Huh?

[SOteric]

3. It loses something if you have to explain it..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4605466

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Fried on a Heidelberg?

How many colors?

[jmowreader]

7. Probably two, unless the back unit wasn't working

You know those old fuckin' 25-inch low-pile SORGs that say "made in occupied Germany" on the data plate? It was one of those.

[Gormy Cuss]

8. I have a relative who was attacked by a 4-color

Knocked him out cold.

[jmowreader]

9. I know a guy who really was attacked by a printing press

The official OSHA-approved method for cleaning a blanket on a press is to hold the cleaning towel in your right hand, put some blanket wash on it, wipe the blanket, jog the press with your right hand, clean the blanket, jog the press and so on. This doesn't work.

The way everyone actually cleans blankets is to put the press in creep and scrub the blanket down with the cylinders turning. If your head and your ass are wired together properly and you use enough blanket wash, it's safe. And if you don't use enough blanket wash, about the only thing that can happen to you--if the guards are in place--is that your hand will be pulled up against the guard then deflected away. You won't get hurt because the nip between the blanket cylinder and the front ink roller is well-shielded.

What this fucking guy did was to remove all the guards from the press and let his rag dry out. The blanket grabbed his rag, which was wrapped around his index finger, and pulled it into the nip. A printing press will not crush your fingers. It will debone them--you will be left with your finger bones still hooked to your hand and the meat from your finger stuck in the press.

The doctor we rushed him to knew how to fix it, so he's fine now.

But don't do that.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. And don't smoke in the chemical room

Same relative is a foreman and has to repeat this warning at least once a month in winter.
He also has a friend who lost a fight with a press and has a gnarly stub where his right hand used to be.
It's amazing printers survive at all, based on the stories my relatives tell.

[GOPisEvil]

4. That reminds me, I have a couple of Moretti's in the 'fridge.

:beer::beer:

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Just one? And just one time?

:7

[SOteric]

6. *L* - Just one.

I don't weight enough to donate blood, so it doesn't take much to make me giggly. And if I'm imbibing I vastly prefer a good red wine, a bit of cognac or an after dinner grappa, - or the occasional Martini.

[merh]

11. I betcha that just burned you up!

:grr:

Don't you just hate that when it happens! :smoke: