Well, one of the guys I work with left his tool box open when he went to lunch the other day. I couldn’t help myself…
I took a layer of release film and put it over his tools. The drawers of the box were open so I molded the film down into the tools as much as possible. Then I mixed up a huge shot of 5 minute epoxy and poured it onto the release film. I dumped it into the area to make it look like someone hat dumped it into his tool box and tools.
When the epoxy had gone off, I pulled the big mess off of the tools and out of the tool box. I removed the release film and put a little water on the underside of the epoxy lump.
Then I put the epoxy lump back into the toolbox and tools. The effect was perfect. It looked like a lot of epoxy had been dumped into his expensive tools.
Then I just went to the far side of the shop to await his return.
He came back from lunch and saw this empty epoxy cup upended in his toolbox and a huge amount of epoxy in his tools and down his toolbox. He freaked out and wanted to know what person had done this. He accused the guilty party of having sex with someones mother, AND he said the guilty parties parents were not married!
When he got to the toolbox he grabbed the epoxy cup and pulled. When he did, the whole mess came up out of the toolbox without leaving any residue on his tools. He was still “perturbed” but even he thought it was funny later on.
Boredom gets ugly
Welcome to the board, and interesting first post.
Always try to break the ice with humor.
I built composite aircraft for a while then left before they went down the drain. I still make odd bits in the garage and when time permits with a few friends in their shop.
The vast majority of what I do is done using 250 and 350 degree cure prepregs under vacuum pressure. I have done some stuff with PEEK and PPS but those temps in my garage make me nervous.
I am starting to build a filament winding machine in the garage so I can make tubing and some other odd bits. (again, boredom gets ugly)
Larry
In my former classroom, I had the students to pour out the last bit of their color gel coats with the mixing stick and poured it out onto a sheet of HDPE. Once dry, they pop it off and use that as a gag on their parents or co-workers…:eek:
YAY!! someone else that does PEEK/PPS/etc…i get lonely doing thermoplastics all the time!!
Did you have issues in your work area with the smell of PPS?
been there with the spilled cup on things…
but…oh my God…SOOO many good ideas!!!
and what most of my ideas include include pissing off the safety officer 
Yeah, not enough of it. PPS is a happy smell!
I’m more of a fan of PP, and HDPE. And A-800 sealant tape.
Problem is, in our under ventilated labs…no one else thinks so!
I’m glad to be off PPS and PA6!!! Of course, now I keep burning PEEK, and that is a VERY unpleasant smell!
Welcome 