On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 04:00:50 -0700 (PDT), Jim Wilkins
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It helps that in the Army I learned how to control the heavy floor
buffers with one hand.

I generally had a beer in the other hand.

Casady

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On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 04:00:50 -0700 (PDT), Jim Wilkins
wrote:

It helps that in the Army I learned how to control the heavy floor
buffers with one hand.

I generally had a beer in the other hand.

Casady



Crap. I thought that talent was exclusive to us Navy types.

Those things were intimidating at first until you got the hang of it.
After that, it was a two finger operation.

Eisboch

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On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:25:23 -0400, "Eisboch"
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On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 04:00:50 -0700 (PDT), Jim Wilkins
wrote:

It helps that in the Army I learned how to control the heavy floor
buffers with one hand.

I generally had a beer in the other hand.

Casady



Crap. I thought that talent was exclusive to us Navy types.

Those things were intimidating at first until you got the hang of it.
After that, it was a two finger operation.

Eisboch

Once you get the hang of that big buffer you can also use it's little
brother, the DA and that gets us back to boats. ;-)
You need the same touch when you are prepping for your paint job. The
difference is if you let the DA dig an edge in you will have a gouge
that takes an hour to fill and buff out.
If the floor buffer catches an edge it will yank you half way across
the room.

Not the airforce buffers. They just took a leg off a nearby table. :) Or
at least bent the leg.

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On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:25:23 -0400, "Eisboch"
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On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 04:00:50 -0700 (PDT), Jim Wilkins
wrote:

It helps that in the Army I learned how to control the heavy floor
buffers with one hand.
I generally had a beer in the other hand.

Casady


Crap. I thought that talent was exclusive to us Navy types.

Those things were intimidating at first until you got the hang of it.
After that, it was a two finger operation.

Eisboch
Once you get the hang of that big buffer you can also use it's little
brother, the DA and that gets us back to boats. ;-)
You need the same touch when you are prepping for your paint job. The
difference is if you let the DA dig an edge in you will have a gouge
that takes an hour to fill and buff out.
If the floor buffer catches an edge it will yank you half way across
the room.

Not the airforce buffers. They just took a leg off a nearby table. :) Or
at least bent the leg.


The navy sent their defective buffers to the Air Force.

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On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:25:23 -0400, "Eisboch"
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On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 04:00:50 -0700 (PDT), Jim Wilkins
wrote:

It helps that in the Army I learned how to control the heavy floor
buffers with one hand.
I generally had a beer in the other hand.

Casady


Crap. I thought that talent was exclusive to us Navy types.

Those things were intimidating at first until you got the hang of it.
After that, it was a two finger operation.

Eisboch
Once you get the hang of that big buffer you can also use it's little
brother, the DA and that gets us back to boats. ;-)
You need the same touch when you are prepping for your paint job. The
difference is if you let the DA dig an edge in you will have a gouge
that takes an hour to fill and buff out.
If the floor buffer catches an edge it will yank you half way across
the room.

Not the airforce buffers. They just took a leg off a nearby table. :)
Or at least bent the leg.
The navy sent their defective buffers to the Air Force.

They were not defective, the airmen were.

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On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:22:06 -0700, "Calif Bill"
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If the floor buffer catches an edge it will yank you half way across
the room.

Not the airforce buffers. They just took a leg off a nearby table. :)
Or
at least bent the leg.

We all used the same buffer, I was just assuming you didn't hit
anything.
My wife just bought one for her guys to play with at the country club.
Same thing, a 1.5 HP motor spinning a 20" disk at 175 RPM.

Always seemed to be something in the way. Or we went out of the way to get
something in the way.