After posting those photos of my gloves I went to a job assembling large metal doors where they didn’t provide me with gloves and now my hands really really hurt a lot, which is kinda ironic I guess. Interesting observation – they had things that were powered by the wrong sort of source. A forklift truck was fueled by gas, in that it had a tank of the kind you find in a heater and the exhaust smelt, well, like a gas heater, and the electric screwdriver wasn’t electric – it was powered by compressed air. All very odd.
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
You probably came here via a Google search or from following a link on some old blog post somewhere. I hope what you find is useful in some way, though do check the publication date - it might be rather old now.
Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
Followers of the American sitcom Tim “the toolman” Taylor will know that bigger is always better and when it comes to torque then compressed air gives much more torque than electricity. That’s why people stranded on the motorway look so helpless with a flat tyre – the garage used compressed air to tighten the wheel nuts and there is no way their flimsy hand wrench from the toolkit will ever undo them.