Senior Moment

[jocat54]

I was finishing  an arbor for a project that needed a 5/8 x 11 thread on the end--set up the lathe per the chart
Started cutting the thread but was in a hurry and did not check the scratch pass. Store bought nut would not fit so I finally :)get the thread gauge out--not 11tpi. Recheck my setup by the chart, looks good--checked 3 times I was tired so locked up the shop and went in the house.
looked up the chart on line. The duh moment--calls for 22t gear not 24t.
Almost all the gear changes for thread cutting use 24t and 48t- ALMOST ALL.
I am claiming a senior moment

[woodchucker]

uh.. no.

[f350ca]

Happens,
Set up to cut a thread on the end of the piston rod for my steam engine, was going to cut 1/4 fine, looked at the chart read 20 tpi, cut it, went to check with a nut, doesn't start. hum, guess well use a coarse nut.

Greg

[chips and more]

You might have a senior moment. But I’ve got gremlins. Everything I set down on the work bench disappears! I can’t find a darn thing anymore! And if you drop something onto the floor, forget it. That’s a black hole where it’s gone for good!

[kvt85]

wait how can you have my gremlins.   They still seem to be in my shop.  Still can't find a new bit I know I purchased recently. 
Won a Brand new PM drill chuck at Good of the land,  I know I made it home with it but cannot find it in the shop.   

[4GSR]

Yeah, I have several "black holes" in my shop.  The moment it hit's the floor, it finds the heaviest thing to hide under, that you cannot move, nor get anything under the craw space to draw it out!  I thought my cat was keeping the gremlins in check, boy was I wrong!

[pep]

A wooden dowel rod will scoop out that kind of stuff., and all the other lost gems, oh the swarf also :[)

Pep

[kvt85]

My luck it just pushes it farther under it.

[4GSR]

My luck it just pushes it farther under it.

Or get it stuck under a leg or something....  Nothing in my shop will set level on four legs, always one that will have a gap under it.  Door shims usually fill part of the gap, it's the other part of the gap that catches things.

[savarin]

They all ring a bell.If it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all.(cue for a song)

[jpigg55]

They all ring a bell.If it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all.(cue for a song)

Me thinks I detect another "Hee Haw" fan.

[savarin]

dunno about Hee Haw I first heard it from a Cream song in 1968The title was "Born under a bad sign"
(Just now found it was originally released by Albert King in 67)

[chipwelder]

I don't understand why they are called Senior MOMENTS, they seem to last a lot longer than that.

[kvt85]

Agree do not know why they are called senior moments when they started a long time ago for me, and don't seem to stop.

[Carpenter84]

Don't have to be old to have senior moments...

Crashed my slitting saw into a 123 block... Was slitting an aluminum block in half to avoid the portaband, first pass went fine, only had room to cut half way through, so two passes required. Went around to the other side to find out I didn't have enough Y travel. Shimmed work piece forward in the vise with a 123 block, didn't change the setup, 123 block is higher than my vise jaw. Didn't notice anything was wrong on the reverse side of the cut until the mill started shaking and the blade stopped moving...
 Oops