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    Garage in northern Norway

    Silly question, would that by any chance be a Bosch GCM8SJL mitre saw ? How do you like the saw and the stand, any complaints ? I'm gonna start a garage build in a week or 2 and have been looking at that mitresaw for months now but can't find any real user reviews, and am wondering if it's any...
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    What tool, Job or Task Intimdates you?

    For the people who hate belt changes because of possibly skipping a tooth, i have a sorta foolproof way an old mechanic taught me. He used to use fast drying paint, i use a paint marker. 1. Paint 2 belt teeth on the camshaft sprocket, and extend onto the sprocket. On twin cams on the...
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    What tool, Job or Task Intimdates you?

    I'm always VERY carefull when using the tablesaw, as I know a few 8 and 9 fingered carpenters, its doesn't freak me out or anything, but after seeing the end results on someone that had been a carpenter for over 30 years when it happened...... :shocking: you start to respect what it CAN do...
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    Your Favorite Small Gas Engine Tools!

    Exactly! :bowdown: Used to have one with 21 and 10 mm, but a Bing Carburetor Floatbowl, is a 14mm, and the flathead screws for the engine cover and such are sorta Huge :bounce: And the one I had was kinda flimsy, plus it had a tiny flathead So I made my own out of spare german quality...
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    Craigslist funny for today

    Is it me or are his squares not square ... ??? Be glad, sales tax in Holland is 21 % :willy_nil
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    Your Favorite Small Gas Engine Tools!

    A pack of mascotte rolling papers gets my vote. Fold the lid double, and its just about exactly 0.40 mm thick , and usefull as a feeler gauge for both the spark plug gap and points gap on old german and Japanese mopeds. Want to know exactly when the points open, put a rolling paper in between...
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    wee bitty mouse

    I live next to farm land, so plenty of mice around here, and they used to come into the house in the winter. I tried traps, poison, snares, just about anything But a claymore. No joy, the little #^^%$& just kept on coming Since I got my 3 cats, no mice in the house. They smallest of the 3...
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    Need the GJ opinions on this landscaping

    Next up he will paint the walls yellow, and you will be living next to IKEA... :lol_hitti I'd start thinking about a nice privacy fence, cause this is UGLY :eyecrazy:
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    What is the next tool you want to buy?

    A 20 FT Shipping container to build a small shop in. I only have a 7 x 16 x 5 foot high, old derelict chicken coop outback to use for parts storage and garden stuff, so my workshop is my driveway, which with dutch weather gets real old real fast. :mad: Also a gastank and regulator for my...
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    Air Ratchet Question

    Anyone feel free to correct me here if I'm wrong, but if you leave out the pin, spring and mushroom, and just place back part 5 and 6, which by the looks of it are the Cap/adjustment screw and 6 being the o-ring seal, Once you then hook it up to air (or use a blowgun is what I would do) it...
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    Air Ratchet Question

    Could be that the blades are stuck in the rotor ( don't know if that's the right terminology, I'm dutch so... ) This happens sometimes at work on the air impacts, either some temp thinks oiling one is dropping half a bottle of oil in there :eyecrazy: (say nothing , just wait till they hook it...
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    $150 Lift gate service charge - is this reasonable?

    Don't know about US, but in Europe liftgates are Probably mandatory if your transporting heavy goods to places without there own forklift / loading dock, or without a Kooi aap or Moffet type "stick it on the back of the truck forklift" (No idea what you call those things in English...) A lot of...
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    San onofre nuclear generating station auction

    LOL :lol: I rattle canned all my tools at work magenta a couple of months back. I thought the girly colour would stop them growing feet , Company tools, not my own . That and the fact that we had about 14 cans left after a project, and we will probably never use that colour ever again. Now...
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