I want to start a new thread about nothing, and let it run...

[ducksface]

Found this pot metal headed hammer with a slide switch of all things.
I had put it in a drawer and forgotten all about it.
Full weight, full size hammer.

[ducksface]

It's a lighter.

I had stashed it in the drawer so no one would hammer with it.

[ducksface]

I hope the engineers who did rendering layout and product test for this are ankle chained in the Sahara, behind camels and using inadequate shovels to pick up the dung for room and board as payment..

These are craftsman cabinets not Thor stuff,


I fixed it easily by removing the wrongly thought through sheet metal screw after I planted self-tappers where they won't interfere.
(The sheet metal screw interfered by not allowing the leg-bolt to go to full depth.)

[ducksface]

My shop is set up for fabricating with 1/4-20 fasteners.
I try to build everything using those alone if possible.

The doors with the bottles are 2 of 8 doors just like it.
This is the main/daily fastener cabinet.

The tool box is my 1/4-20 kit.
If I'm having to tear something down I know that box will have the specialty tools/daily tools to do it.

And
I'm rearranging the shop.
I moved 35feet of benches and cabinets in there a week ago yesterday and just refused to look at the mess until today.

Every thing in there needs reconsidered, put on a shelf or thrown away.
(The picture posted sideways...exactly how I feel about it.)

[Beau388]

Well I don't have a shop to reorganize. When I turned 79, I sold the 40 x 60 x18 ft shop that I built in 1992 from a kit delivered and dropped back yard. My, now, work space is a 12 x 26 ft attached garage with as 6x8 ft upstairs storage. Cluttered - yes, full - yes, air-conditioned -yes. A car guy can always find a space to make do, even when he is old and retired.

[macdaddy1111]

Originally Posted by ducksface

Today it cost me $75 to drop off 600lbs of garbage at the county transfer station.
And I had to sort it and listen to them whine about a metal rod attached to a wooden board.
Ridiculous.
Someone infirm, having to have their yard cleaned is at about $500 a truck load with labor time and fees,

Same BS here in Coastal NC!! Trash Lady is crazy at my mini dump!

SO!!!

I just take all my crap to townhome community we built and manage bunch as rentals in there and toss everything in the dumpsters the day before pickup! Let them sort it!


Man you got a lot of stuff!! HA

[ducksface]

I'm really looking forward to the downsize.
If you come to the shop and look at anything twice, I try my best to make it go home with you.
If you borrow a tool I haven't used in years I tell you it can live at your house as well as it does mine.
But
I will fire up the smithy xlt lathe for the first time in years to turn a center adapter for putting solid hub bearing wheels where plastic hub tyrds were.
So, too much/many is sometimes just enough.

Moving those cabinets in there ruined my many year dream of setting it up as a 1946 shop using the correct era pictures and power tools. A streamline/pre midcentury style based on that blue dentist cabinet.
Now it's just a shop within the garage.
I'm a more than a bit sad about it.
But sense overruled style.

I do less in this garage than I did my 20x22.
The garage itself is now the driving force/hobby.
The cars are just floor decoration.

[ducksface]

Anyone need magnetometers?
I have

Fisher fx3 with a high visibility custom made case good for a 100ft dive.(piratic intent not included, but recommended)

Magna-trak 102

And some super high precision desktop/field units.

Up for trade.
(I'm STILL loading cabinets from the garage move-around.)

[ducksface]

No points for knowing what they are.
Points if you've used one.
Extra credit if you actually ate due to one.

Long exaggerated stories are preferred.

[JimOIB]

Originally Posted by macdaddy1111

Same BS here in Coastal NC!! Trash Lady is crazy at my mini dump!

SO!!!

I just take all my crap to townhome community we built and manage bunch as rentals in there and toss everything in the dumpsters the day before pickup! Let them sort it!


Man you got a lot of stuff!! HA

Hubert, NC. My dad retired there from upstate NY in 2000 since he had a sister in White Oak and nieces in Newport and Havelock. He lived in Bear Creek Campground in a 1 bedroom park model. I kept the place when he passed in 2009 and sold it before I retired 2014 in Ocean Isle Beach, NC. It was a nice base to telecommute from. I also was a squid - 74-85.

[Chateau_Nomad]

Originally Posted by ducksface

No points for knowing what they are.
Points if you've used one.
Extra credit if you actually ate due to one.

Long exaggerated stories are preferred.

Looks like pocket fisherman. We used bamboo and string as kids... or the Kmart specials for kids. Couldn't afford that fancy stuff...

[JimOIB]

Originally Posted by ducksface

No points for knowing what they are.
Points if you've used one.
Extra credit if you actually ate due to one.

Long exaggerated stories are preferred.

Bonus awarded. Rocno Pocket Fisherman. 1980-ish. My grandmother and her two sisters all in their mid-80s would sit for hours fishing in the pond on the family farm and catch-n-release bullhead. They would pack a lunch of egg salad sandwiches and 6 ponies of Gennie Cream Ale. Sit in aluminum lawn chairs with plastic webbing and argue over who had a bite on their line. I would come home on leave and they would all want to take me fishing.

Catch-n-release because they knew my mom couldn’t heat hot water without burning it. My grandmother brought home 3 big bulls one afternoon, got a hammer and nail, and proceeded to nail them to the side of the barn and clean them with my mom. Luckily mom didn’t hit her head on the way to the ground - passed out cold.

[ducksface]

Are you a uss midway type squid?

[JimOIB]

Nope. Snort’n Morton, Connie and Happy Cappy. DD-948, CV-64, FF-1093. Good friend was on Midway, BT, Alan Morris. Me - ET1.

[ducksface]

Oddly, I have never ran into anyone who served on the midway.

[ducksface]

I'd swear someone on the forum is opening new accounts just to yank us.
The low count poster questions today are so silly.

[ducksface]

I know what this is.
I have three or five, I've never used one for myself but someone I gifted did.
Anyone else know?

[GTM41261]

Remove a spark plug and use to fill a tire using engine compression

[ducksface]

Originally Posted by GTM41261

Remove a spark plug and use to fill a tire using engine compression

Yup.
It works really well and fast.
Your compression dictates psi max.
Battery and 12v compressors make these redundant..
I don't have a problem with redundant.

I carry one of these in my offroader,. It weighs little and I have the room.

The one in the picture is from a great little kit with tire patches, tire plugs, gloves, a rag and a little bitty wd40 ample.
I'm sure it's from a yard sale for 50 cents.

[ducksface]

Originally Posted by GTM41261

Remove a spark plug and use to fill a tire using engine compression

Yup.
It works really well and fast.
Your compression dictates psi max..
Battery anx 12v compressors make these redundant..
I don't have a problem with redundant.

I carry one of these in my offroader,.

The one in the picture is from a great little kit with tire patches, tire plugs, gloves, a rag and a little bitty wd40 ampule and a little packet of lava soap.
I'm sure it's from a yard sale for 50 cents.
I have to imagine the hose burning up pretty easily