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    Quote Originally Posted by thehomeengineer View Post
    In our workshop we had a brand-new rotary table and the very first job someone drilled 9 holes into it. (I was gutted as it was less than a week old) anyway after a bit of investigation I found out who caused the damage. The guy said he didn’t realise he had done it. When I looked at the job he had machined on the rotary table it was an 18-hole bolted flange. So, a bit tongue in cheek I said to him “did you not go deep enough on the other 9 holes”.
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    9 holes in one in a single round but wasn't quite up to par on the other 9 Eh? That's bad. Back in the day I would have gone Hiroshima and Nagasaki on him.
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