Sick feeling in pit of stomach ;
So Leib and I are on upper E side installing a Lalique chandalier for  
Bill Cosby's foyer that I had refurgished the yr before. About 50  
workmen were in the house trying to finish so a dinner party for all  
the big AA mucky mucks Nelson, David, Jesse 'hymie town' fame etc.
We're on two laddes trying to fit the 'wings' (cast glass "chunks")  
not remembering just how it went together cuz it was a yr ago. Then I  
saw the solution - just loosen these two screws and slip the pcs into  
their place. So I loosen the two screws and three other wings came  
loose and fell 15 ft to the marble floor. Not only did I get a sick  
feeling in the pit of my stomach, 50 workers froze in place not  
knowing what the f happened but KNOWING something really bad did happen.
"Luckly" the pcs broke claan (not shattered which is a tribute to the  
LaLique glass craftsmen at the turn of the century cuz the glass was  
anealed well so was nice and soft and not brittle) and I was able to  
epoxy them together and eventually hang the f-ing thing.
Wew!
j
Quoting Jim Follett <[log in to unmask]>:

> Fine Tuning
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> Ken,
>
> Your story brought back memories of that sick in the pit of my stomach-cold
> sweat feeling I used to get when something on one of my projects went
> terribly wrong. Most of them happened when I was off the job and came back
> to discover crap that made me put my head in my hands and walk rapidly
> around in small circles. I particularly remember the guy who framed every
> rough opening in a house too small for the windows I ordered. I had to come
> back on a Saturday and tear them all out and build them to the correct
> dimention. I also had some guys who allowed a very long first floor exterior
> wall on a 2 storey house get 1 3/4" out of plumb in the middle. Looking down
> on the house from the hill in the front yard it was obvious. I had to pull a
> string from corner to corner and use a saws-all to cut all the joists to
> proper length (taking progressively more off the end of the joists as the
> bow got worse toward the middle of the wall span) and then use a come along
> and a sledge hammer to pull the top of the wall back into the joists.
>
> When I read your story the first thought I had was "wow, Ken needs to
> install a really wide stone base moulding around that room", but it would
> have looked like a curb and you would probably would have had looked really
> stupid when you got to your first door opening! Just make all the casings 4"
> thick. It will look fantastic. What a mess. Good luck with it...
>
> Brian
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