Technical Little tips and tricks for garage hobbyists.

^^^^Think these are your slippers

 

Ben

 

Can I give the slippers two 'likes'?

 

Seasons greetings!

 

Hey, hang on a minute....... even they are marked wrong.

 

Good tip. Now I just need enough space to lay dow a pair of gloves.

 

The lettering seems to indicate that those slippers would be put on by someone other than the owner/operator. From the user side the lettering is upside down.

 

Another glove tip: keep your gloves in a ziplock bag. It keeps the spiders and other varmints out of them. Particularly useful down here, where the wildlife is antisocial.

Cheers,
Harv

 

^ This...and hornets camped out inside your ear muffs

 

Mud daubers..never saw one..just a nest appear overnight...

 

I always take my gloves and squeeze and twist the crap out of them, fingers too before putting my gloves on just in case there is a little fellow hiding in them.

Keep my face masks, new gloves etc in plastic bags to keep critters out of them...

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As for keeping those masks and gloves safe
Probably a good use for all those empty coffee cans you can't seem to toss.

 

I have a problem with coffee cans, cant seem to toss em either. drained some oil in one today and thought dump it in the used oil container then wash it out with a little gas and save it, then realized how many of them I have laying all over with nothing in them, what the hell am I saving them for? Habit I think or maybe I just dont pay attention.

 

Tin cans? Remove the top & bottom. Cut the cylinder lengthwise & flatten them. They make great shingles. Whole towns were made of them in the mining days.

 

I don’t understand marking the gloves left and right so you don’t have to look at the thumbs. Don’t you still look at the L and R?

 

I paint a line on all my ladders at the balancing point. Then I always know where to pick it up when I have to carry it to what I am working on.

 

And a "n"...

 

And if we're looking for time saving, just mark one glove ("L" would be easiest and quickest). By process of elimination, the other glove would most likely go on the right hand.

 

It's more important to look at the thumbs when you buy them new. I remember twice buying gloves at Harbor Freight and getting two for the same hand.

 

I always end up with two left hand gloves because I wear the right hand one out. Still works!

 

maybe learn to use your left hand as much as your right so they wear evenly, or turn you spare left glove over and use it on your right hand, it may be uncomfortable at first but with time you will get use to it. option 3 stop it your gonna end up blind.

 

Also check your beer cans for bees! Ask me how I know that!





Bones

 

But, they’d be “Happy” bees!

 

I'm really sorry I brought this up. It's such a minor deal that I shouldn't have.

Remember I said I always lay gloves down palm down and also that I mark the backside. If you're actually seeing the gloves well enough to pick them up you've already seen the L or R. Before even touching them.

 

I bought a pair of hip boots for my granddad at a yard sale on my way up to Lake Alpine where he was fishing. Turned out to be both left feet. We had a good laugh. He gave them back. I gave them to a friend who only had a left foot. He used them for years as Christmas stockings at a couple of local bars.

 

Nothing fancy; but lengths of PVC pipe cut at and angle and screwed to the wall make for an easily accessible place for tie wraps.

 

This is really ingenious, I need one!

 

To bad we don't live closer. Even though I am right handed, I wear out the left hand glove at about twice the rate of the right hand one.

 

Funny thing is I eat and write left-handed. I throw and use scissors right-handed. I shoot left-handed and bat right-handed. Go figure. I can't risk losing anymore sight. I had a stroke last year and it took about 40% of my eyesight. I tell folks if you don't like my driving, stay off the sidewalks!