Drawings of some tools...

**-=Drifter=-** · 13 April 2006, 01:36 AM

YOU ARE 100 PER CENT CORRECT, BILL! TELL HIM WHAT'S HE'S WON, BARBIE...

**-=Drifter=-** · 13 April 2006, 05:15 PM

This is one of my favorite tools, my Ryobi rechargeable screwdriver.
(I went to buy some more before Christmas for my sons and they don't make this one anymore...)

**parahandy** · 13 April 2006, 05:49 PM

Great drawing Bob, I'll have 2, one for each hand. Please make sure they come complete with batteries.

***** Norman

**Soquili** · 13 April 2006, 07:19 PM

Great drawing Bob.

It's a sign of the times, nothing is around long enough to buy the same model when you want it. When I was growing up things were made to last and the same model was available for years. People worked at taking pride in making something that lasts. Now everything is designed to wearout by the time the limited warranty runs out and a model is only available for a few weeks.

The biggest problem is that the top level management of most companies treat the employees the same. Disposable material, lay them off before they are around long enough to get any benefits. Run the company into the ground while taking everything they can before moving to the next target of their distruction.

Sorry for the soap box speech. They laid off 10% of the full time employees where I work today. I wish they would lay me off so I can get a break.

**Soquili** · 13 April 2006, 07:35 PM

Bob, I hope you don't mind but I got an email from a friend about Hard Drives. Our discussion about them when you posted the image you drew.

Here's his image of an old disk from an old hard disk pack.

Hi Bill,

I was just reading the tool post about where you guys where talking about Hard drives the other day. It reminded me of when we had to declassify a disc with classified data after we could no longer use it in a HD. See attached picture. Notice the #2 pencil in front of it for scale. We would take the thing apart and remove the disc and use it for a frisbee in the back room. We had to totally destroy the disc and the entire shop would take out all there frustrations on this disk. Problem was these discs were machined aluminum about 18" across with an iron oxide coating. Not the easiest thing to destroy with what we had at hand. We ended up making some really neat dents in the ciderblock walls with those things... Had to stop doing that when someone embeded a disc in the wall...

This particular disc had unclassified data on it and was made into a plack, the picture is of the backside of the plack.

if you could post the picture and the text I would appreciate it.

Thanks...

John Rayner

I remember RKO-7 disk packs, the 'drive' unit they sat in looked like a top loading washing machine

**-=Drifter=-** · 13 April 2006, 07:58 PM

Wow, that's real cool Bill. That disk is huge. Is that a drawing or a photo? Hahahahaha - funny we were talking about tossing the thing as a frisbee.

**parahandy** · 13 April 2006, 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by Soquili

Great drawing Bob.

Sorry for the soap box speech. They laid off 10% of the full time employees where I work today. I wish they would lay me off so I can get a break.

You were saying Bill?

Sorry couldn't resist it.

----Norm

**-=Drifter=-** · 13 April 2006, 10:09 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I love it!!!! Gee Norm, you made Bill with a HUGE chest - he must be some kind of weight lifter or something. That flying metal disk won't hurt him!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahaha

**Soquili** · 13 April 2006, 11:55 PM

Great image Norm! Lifebouy soap and big feet

Bob, that is a photo that John attached to his email. As he mentioned the disks without classified data were used for frisbees or making plaques once they were decommissioned. Disks that had contained classified data were subject to a lot of physical abuse to ensure they could not be read.