Technical Little tips and tricks for garage hobbyists.

I'm glad there are precision tools like that out there, but OMG they are valuable!
70 bucks for a hammer handle!?!

 

Special Pentagon pricing!

 

I just saw this on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/reel/1017616770271103

 

Best garage tip ever given to me , marry a fat tattooed woman . Shade in the summer , Heat in the winter and moving pictures all year long ! Sorry couldn’t resist sharing !

 

Might be good in the Quotes to live by thread lol
Dan

 

Based on how many times I'm startled by visitors in the shop, I'm planning on installing a shopkeeper's bell. My pal, Brian, has one and says it helps except when machines or the compressor is running... which is generally when people come in and yell in my sanctuary. Hahaha.

 

Modify the idea to turn a couple of light bulbs on as well.

 

Or an audio recording of a vicious sounding Doberman Pincer!

 

If you have to work under the dash of your car for any amount of time, remove the seat first. It makes it way more comfortable and much easier to do the work needed.

 

As I was quite young, I never gave it much thought.
Being handed a set of channel locks ( wheel bearing service, tutor lesson ).
Found them to work quite well.
When doing a hard pull, there are times they need to be flipped over.
Well today, since life's been giving me sour g****s to the point that I need distraction.
Thought I'd pin-point the difference, here goes.
JAWS The Greater Grabs. The Puny Pushes.
Thanks for your time

 

From the web,,,,,

 

News flash,

Working in the shop today my reading gl***es got so filthy I could barely see through them. Not wanting to take the time to go to the house to wash them I sprayed some carb cleaner on a paper towel and cleaned them.

Voila!!!

Gl***es look brand new.

 

Don't do that with coated plastic lens!

 

How do you know if your plastic lenses are coated?

Btw, these are dollar store readers. Cheap at twice the price.

 

I only know my expensive prescription gl***es are coated plastic lens. The droplets from many of the spray chemicals will destroy the coating and, therefore, the scratch protection. I'm guessing most cheap readers are gl*** lens. Coated plastic is lightweight and more expensive to produce.

 

Thanks.

 

you can tell by his typing the lenses are hard to see through now!

 

With lens coatings we must also take care to not use Windex.
The ammonia will remove the coatings.
To answer why the coatings: They reduce UV ray damage and reflective glare.
They are also applied to inhibit scratching on plastic lenses.
Another thing to avoid is wiping the with paper towling.
Only blot away the water. I once ruined a pair with Bounty and Windex.
Still I use Bounty and half strength Dawn, by blotting them dty.

 

Talk about timing? Last night I was sitting in my local drinking establishment, having a brew , while the missus was playing her dominoe game with her friends, my old friend Henry walked it! He is about twenty years younger than me. We had a few and he was trying to read some small printing on his phone and was having trouble. So I handed him my pair of $2 readers. He looked confused, so I said put them on! He did! And it was fun to watch him….look at his phone with the readers, then with out,then with! He looked at me said I can see the fine print with these! Then he started looking at pictures of his grandchildren on his phone! Never saw a guy so amazed! See…I’m not a total a-hole! I do a good deed , occasionally!

PS. I gave him those readers! lol


Bones

 

Let a man use your gl***es for a day and he will see for a day, give em a pair and he’ll see forever!
Ya did good sir!
Dan

 

I have posted this before, but can’t see it on this particular thread.
To take hubcaps off without damaging paint, use a cheap stiff plastic s****er/ trowel. 6” is good.
The wide edge should have a bevelled edge which can be wiggled under without damaging the paint.
Works better that a screwdriver……..
edit, I just see a similar idea in post 1074

 

Ya gotta use the sarcasm emoji or people will take you seriously when they shouldn't.

 

The remark was intended for @Boneyard51. No that it matters much.

 

I get my readers in quan***ies of 4 from Amazon. I seem to like those a little better than the ones from Wally World and the dollar stores. Slightly higher priced but not much.

 

If I get readers, will it help my spelling?

 

No you need spellers for that

 

I've had a 235 chevy 6 hanging on a cheapo (taiwan?) engine stand for at least 10 years with no apparent sagging...

 

For rejuvenating leather or rubber, Ballistol apparently works well (Google it)

 

Also good for locking stuff to your floor, including OT 2-wheelers