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Bob, I'm not sure if I've ever posted this old Weird Al song. Very early in his career!

Other than my VW Golf, the other first cars I worked on were some little Honda station wagons, guided by the book from John Muir Press. (They made not only the Beetle book, but a Rabbit book, and a Honda Civic book, too.) They had a lovely cooling system bleed ******, which I found to be most...

Bob, just a few weeks ago I was musing, "Yeah, in the old days, people used to take their pile of bent nails and straighten them out. Thank goodness we're rich nowadays!" Then I looked at the receipt for the things I grabbed at the hardware store and that box of nails cost WHAT?! :oops: From...

At the age of four or so I was dropped off at my grandmother's house for a weekend, and to reassure me, she slept in a bed in the same room as my bed. In case I got scared. I woke up in the middle of the night and was terrified -- GROWLING MONSTER! WHERE?!!! It was her snoring. What doctors...

Is that your only screwdriver drawer?

Kerosene?

And now to reconstruct the previously flimiest shelving, with proper pine boards for vertical pieces. I used 1x3 cleats on these, screwed and glued, and am proud to say that none of my shelf holder-downer nails from above missed. Original pine scrap boards mostly retained. Did sand them...

Some more catching up on photos from the very recent past: I took out those sad little cleats and used... 2x3's for cleats. Because that was the wood I had handy at this point. And it sure guaranteed I never missed with a nail from above. I tried to do the "small bit of overlap edge-on-edge"...

Another suggestion, for those of you who still haven't ordered... got one of these? https://www.harryepstein.com/products/8-end-cutter-nipper I only got a set (from a certain German company) just a few years ago and had no idea what I was missing. I haven't chopped anything with mine yet, I...

Just made another order, a birthday present for a friend a little bit ahead of time:

Congrats on the cotter key puller tool, everybody needs one of those, they're for 50 different tasks. And that bell? I must now tell a bell story. Friend of mine was in the U.S. Army in the late 60's. For a while he was stationed at a desert base in the American west, doing paperwork in an...

Excellent price on that Milton coupler! I think I bought one as a Prevost brand years back, upon the advice of a wise GJer, and yep, sure beats the brass sleeve coupler any day. I paid more than that more than a decade ago, for sure.

This is something done with the machine locked in the car for an hour or so, then all doors opened and HVAC fan run afterwards! Another option is chlorine gas generators. The packet of chicken meat has been discovered inside the cargo van door (which had no interior panel in those years) and...

I don't need it and I'm not buying it, but look at this beauty! From the New Items tab, another Council Tools ax was added. A 5 pounder for splitting wood. https://www.harryepstein.com/products/council-tool-5-sb-splitting-axe-36-straight-wooden-handle-su50d36s (Say, that link gets presented...

I am order #35180. Here it is: USA, USA, USA, USA, USA USA, USA, USA, USA, USA (Those little leather sheaths fit French pocket knives or any old timey pocket knife, but I use them as handle covers for a cast iron skillet in the kitchen.) USA, FRONCE, Japan, Japan, Germany Japan, India...

Well, now I will play this song on repeat while I make my order. I was hoping to be first, I just didn't realize it was tonight!

Jori gives more details on specials and discounts here: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/harry-j-epstein-day-2026.557168/post-11669271 Mostly, we're not here to get a discount, so much as support an independent hardware store and, when we can, American tool manufacturers. But there...

I have not bought or used them -- but if it says "FACOM" and "Made in France", I can recommend it. FACOM does not screw around.

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