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Originally Posted by Bowhunter
Just as I was transferring this "hot" part to the brick, the pliers let go and the hot piece of steel fell into my plastic bag lined garbage can. Luckily my basement floor is concrete. I dumped out the entire contents onto the floor to get to the steel piece. By this time, it was fully coated with everything it had touched, including some packing "popcorn" styrofoam, plastic bag, wood shavings, etc., etc.! Lesson learned. Don't handle a "hot" piece of steel with the "wrong" tool, especially if the part is irregularly shaped!.................Dick
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This has been a black & blue thread. When I started your story I was expecting a burn ending. Equipment failure, wasted effort with hot sticky metal released the tension. Bad enough but not the worst case I was expecting.