Looks good! I will do something similar when I move the too big air compressor behind the garage. Keeping the cleaning supplies handy will motivate me to clean more often.
@M.Brane, I've used it three times this week to get the dust and dirt off the windshield on the PT Cruiser.
Bob
Your daughter’s confidence in your abilities is based on years of observation of your super competence! As for the cripple comment, heck with 8 arms (one attached to the body and the 7 arms of creativity and cleverness) your are more dexterous than an octopus and definitely most two handed humans !
Great job on the shelf!
@gman007, you are too kind. I tried to instill in our daughter and son to at least try. Failure is not even trying. Same thing went for food. It's OK to try something and not like it but refusing to try food because of the way it looks or smells is unacceptable. OK, we made one exception for Limburger cheese. It turned into an amazing blessing when Liane put "Limburger" on opaque containers that may have contained chocolates or other delicacies. There was always one container that indeed contained a block of Limburger and mistakenly opening that one prevented further attempts.
Just so you know, I watch for tricks like the magnet, which are also quite useful to folks with an extra arm.
@Prospecter, I learned the trick from an able bodied person. Sometimes you can't reach the nut or bolt regardless of how long your arm is.
Bob: I have noticed for a while now that you seem to really like and maybe LOVE milwaukee power tools. yes? i've always loved the plug in ones and I own quite a few, but i've bought so maybe second hand Ryobi 18v and Dewalt 18v tools that i'm not sure I could afford the 18 volt milwaukee tools. that said most of my 18 volt batteries (maybe 20 Ryobi and 10 Dewalt) are coming to their end. So do I bite the bullet and buy all new Milwaukee and give the Ryobi and Dewalt to my kids and grandkids and let them buy new batteries or what's your opinion of the quality of Milwaukee 18 volt tools and their batteries?
I've always been amazed at what you can and have accomplised with only one arm and still can't believe you changed an engine (or two or more) by yourself that you posted a picture of.
Also you have mentioned a few times about some Redwood parks or areas in Northern California so if you'd like to post them up either here or on my thread or a PM (conversation) i'd appreciate it cause I have a road trip planned to visit our new granddaughter in San Diego this summer.
here's to another "Saturday" above dirt!!
Drives, I think it's more like I've "settled" on Milwaukee tools. My first battery tools were the Black & Decker NiCad but I bought a few cheaper battery tools with the same battery system. They didn't hold a charge for very long and they died after what seemed like a fairly small number of re-charges. I went with Craftsman and even bought their Nextec line of 12v Lithium Ion tools. Pretty limited selection of tools so I adopted Porter Cable 12v Lithium Ion tools and a couple of Harbor Freight tools. Those companies abandoned battery designs as often as I change socks. I found Milwaukee and have been happy with the performance of their brushless Fuel model tools. 90% of my Milwaukee tools are 12v because they are powerful enough but almost always lighter than the 18v tools.
I have a Milwaukee Portaband mounted on a SWAG table. Bought a well used one because new was too much of a gamble. I wasn't sure I would use it that much but it gets used a lot.
Changing an engine when you have a crane is easy to do. It's harder if all you have is a chain and length of pipe and a gullible friend to help.
I visited Mount Lassen, Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks in 1955 and took Liane to see Yosemite in 1993. Liane went to Muir Woods when she and my mother took a trip to California a year or two before. The Sequoias were impressive but the Sugar Pines really got my attention as a kid. I had never seen cones that big. I think it took less than five minutes to collect enough to bury me in a pile of them.
re. the aged William H. Macy:
Mother doesn't allow me to watch such shows.
(Really, a friend of mine around your age, she's heavily into film and theater, now retired, actually gets a vote come Oscar time, recommended the show to me, but it didn't take much investigation to find out it involved a lot of ******* and such, and Ms. Squankum would not be able to tolerate it. Which means I can't.)
@Squankum, Liane was a bigger fan of
Shameless as well as
Hoarders because it made her feel better about her slightly less dysfunctional family. Not sure why she's enthralled by
Naked and Afraid,
Signs of a Psychopath and
Law & Order ... in all its incantations. Actually the Discovery ID channel seems to be on most of the time.
I wouldn't watch it either. I'm very much not into all that mating rituals of the useless and imaginary. It just doesn't do it for me. Now a real, live girl is a different matter. IMNSHO the best *** scene ever filmed was on Star Trek. Kirk scoops the girl and walks off. Cut to Kirk putting on his boots.
Kay, I was fine with the five or six broadcast channels and would give up the Uverse cable in a heartbeat. For a long time I did enjoy the car building shows but seeing a mob of people tear a car apart, restore it in an hour and then act like it was reality got old real fast.
The television is becoming more obnoxious with each passing year and it is gaining ground on my smartass phone as a hateful intrusion into my life.
Mr. Bob... For a while I've had a small affinity toward watches. And fixing them... I have some pocket watches that I can fix, with new batteries.
@WordMan has a very old pocket watch that he wants to take apart and clean, re- oil.. I really hope he speaks up on this. Not write a novel, just some thoughts on how he'd do this. I haven't worked on a mechanical watch myself, but I do have my original Micky Mouse mechanical watch, where Mickey's hands move to tell time. I don't know where Mr. Word's experience comes from, but he knows much about things like this. I'd like if he spoke up and we could learn from him.
Rick, I have always been fascinated with watches. I was gifted a wristwatch for my Confirmation when I was ten. Managed to get the back off and fiddled with the mechanism long enough to break it.
I do the batteries myself along with watchband repairs and re-sizing. I keep a selection of o-rings, spring pins and have the tools to hold and disassemble our watches.
