Recent content by 545_days

FWIW, my mother is in a GOOD memory care facility that doesn't smell of urine and water with excellent enrichment activities for the residents. All in (including room, nursing, prescriptions, medical, meals, etc.) is just over $12k per month.

I agree that a lawsuit is unlikely to be worthwhile. I'm thinking more about prosecution. It would be worth of a call to the DA's office. Who knows, the guardian and/or civil court judge involved might be political rivals that the DA would relish pursuing.

I would invest in a phone call with the local prosecutor in Oregon. The sale of your Father's vehicle to a family member for 25% of market value certainly sounds like elder abuse. There will be a paper trail for both the appointment of the guardian and the sale of the truck. I have no...

I use them with the soft jaws occasionally. The few times I have used them they have been pretty handy. There are much better tools for installing or breaking loose nuts and bolts, so I don't frustrate myself trying to use them for those tasks.

Same here. Generally gloves that don't fit well ****, so buy the size that best fits your hand.

Maybe it is over 20 years of industrial project management, but telling people no doesn't bother me. As a result, I don't feel like I am taken advantage of because I haven't been. My advice would be to rejoin the club scene but draw clear boundaries. It's easy to say that you are not...

Mike, A simple response of "I do not do RV work for 3rd parties." is not being an ***, it is a simple statement describing where you are in life. Once you have made that statement, any response beyond "OK, If you ever change your mind, please let me know." Means the person hounding you is the...

Very nice job. I have to admit that when I read the thread title I was expecting the word precision to be sarcasm, and the shade tree bending to involve a big hammer, and a very rough result.

I'm south of Houston on the coastal plain, and didn't have rust problems for the 25 years prior to installing the AC units. However, I religiously kept unpainted steel waxed or oiled in order to achieve that result. It's rough in the cooler months when a warm front rolls in and the increase in...

Kerf cuts under the stainless strips would give the wood room to move, and could save some heartache down the road.

I'm south of Houston and run two window units in a stick built and insulated garage (including 1/2" foam on the overhead doors) slightly larger in size than yours. If I want to work in the garage on the weekend I turn the AC on the evening before. One window unit is the biggest I could get on...

My wife and have been on a clean out campaign both in the house and the garage over the past few months. We are far from hoarders, but after almost 30 years in our home we have accumulated a lot of "stuff". It is amazing what you find at the back of cabinets and closets that hasn't seen the...

Unless the wind blows them up against the structure, rolling them up as they travel across the ground. I just throw all my solvent soaked rags into a no. 10 can covered with poultry cloth and set them on fire. Once the fire is out I stir up the ashes and I know things are safe.

A too small shop and too big projects.

It's easy enough to roll paint onto walls. What do you gain by painting before hanging it other than the fastener heads being unpainted? I would think that managing multiple sheets while painting one side would be a nuisance as well as an opportunity for the OSB to warp and make hanging it...