Magnetic dent balls

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:50 pm

It looks like, after reading the discussion on this thread, that dent balls are no different than any other tool: a good tool, which has its place, which must be wielded with care by a person with proper training, in the proper context. In that regard, it is just another tool for specific jobs -- not a "cure-all," not necessarily a substitute, possibly good in the hand of a good amateur (from a repairman's perspective) to get through an emergency situation; a good addition to a workshop that already has the appropriate array of other bench and hand tools. Finally, like any other tool, as a torch or a hammer, something that can completely damage an instrument if not wielded correctly.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:15 pm

"wielded"

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:53 pm

Yeah -- caught and fixed.

OK -- all together now:

"I before E except after C
Or when sounded as A
as in neighbor or weigh"

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:43 pm

iiipopes wrote: OK -- all together now:

"I before E except after C
Or when sounded as A
as in neighbor or weigh"

That's not a very scientific rule, is it?

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:33 pm

Chuck(G) wrote:
iiipopes wrote: OK -- all together now:

"I before E except after C
Or when sounded as A
as in neighbor or weigh"
That's not a very scientific rule, is it?

I don't know -- it seems to work on single syllable words.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:43 pm

iiipopes wrote:I don't know -- it seems to work on single syllable words.

Well then, sir, I suggest we hoist a stein or two to celebrate this discovery. To do otherwise would be the height of folly!

It's weird--I'm gettin'a headache over this rule stuff, but a little codeine ought to blunt the pain...

"I before E
Except after C,
Unless pronounced A
As in 'neighbor' or 'weigh'"

Education is forfeit for reinforcing such rules!
Sound a feisty reveille while eyeing the schools!
Neither will our heirs be agreeing to deceptions
Once seeing, herein, these sufficient exceptions:

We were seized by a feeling
For fleeing on the ceiling
To a leisurely meal
With Keith, Sheila, and Neil

We drank madeira, so foreign, in steins
Along with a surfeit of weird blueish wines
Being foolish, took codeine, ate ancient proteins
Therein guaranteeing these ogreish scenes

Wherein we're canoeing to a new sovereign state
While deicing a kaleidoscope on a hot jadeite plate
And kneeing obeisance to an overseeing king
Our plebeian lips kissed his counterfeit ring.

Then we unveiled their sleight-of-hand trick
Deifying a heifer, with effect atheistic
And falling from the heights with a loud seismic crunch
We reignited the nonpareils we had heisted for lunch.

So I before E
Except after C
Unless pronounced A?
False decreeing, I say!

Â©1995 by Jef Raskin
It contains, I think, 51 exceptions to the usual rule.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:52 pm

As I have said on another thread, if I didn't say it the way it really was, I'd get skewered. I have just been skewered. Now I'll have to console myself, being the outdoor concert season, with my souzy and a few break strains to a few good marches.

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:52 pm

bloke wrote:Another thing for which we must be cautious is the combination of magnetism and spheres...

Yeah.... and you gotta be careful not to get your fingers between the magnet and the ball. Even worse... fingers between two magnets! Yikes!

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:51 pm

iiipopes wrote:As I have said on another thread, if I didn't say it the way it really was, I'd get skewered. I have just been skewered. Now I'll have to console myself, being the outdoor concert season, with my 38K and a few break strains to a few good marches.

Ah, but it's skewering, I trust, among friends, no? That's the best kind!

Carroll · Post by **Carroll** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:07 am

TubaTinker wrote:
bloke wrote:Another thing for which we must be cautious is the combination of magnetism and spheres...
Yeah.... and you gotta be careful not to get your fingers between the magnet and the ball. Even worse... fingers between two magnets! Yikes!

And the magnet WILL erase your PDA memory if worn on the belt while working over a sousaphone.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:22 am

Chuck(G) wrote:
iiipopes wrote:As I have said on another thread, if I didn't say it the way it really was, I'd get skewered. I have just been skewered. Now I'll have to console myself, being the outdoor concert season, with my 38K and a few break strains to a few good marches.
Ah, but it's skewering, I trust, among friends, no? That's the best kind!

Yeah, I guess it is my turn to buy the beer.