That's a piggyback spade connector. Not the intended use. But as long as it was crimped tight around that bullet, that's not a bad hack.Menards soldering haul
The snow plow wiring on my JD Gator was installed by Ray Charles using his toes. It’s a hot mess.
They actually bent a spade connector over a male bullet connector and wrapped the mess in electrical tape.
One by one I am soldering the connections.
Never soldered before but the first one came out okay.
That's a piggyback spade connector. Not the intended use. But as long as it was crimped tight around that bullet, that's not a bad hack.
I really like my Craftsman V Series. I have both the SAE and Metric sets. I filled in the gaps with a Towallmark set that guys from GJ recommended. The only other ones that I have are the laminated type from the 1960s.
Wodka warm Russian man.Hmm.... that's a tough call. I always come down on the side of utility. When I was a boy, my father tried to teach me The Proper Way to wear a black watch cap. Not over the ears! I was cold, we had real winter. I considered this to be stupid. I pulled the hat down and covered my ears, so that they could be warm.
I learned a few years ago that the Russian ushanka hat (what we now call "mad bomber" hat), which is about the best winter hat there is, the kind with the big ear flaps that can tie together under your jaw? They're great but if you're a man in Russia you can't bring the flaps down or you're a sissy.
Don’t welders routinely wear caps backwards?My dad was a very gentle soul. But when he would see someone with their baseball hat backwards he would get irritated and say he would like to smack it off their head.
Now that I’m older when I see someone with the cap backwards they always look like loudmouth broski attention seekers so I just ignore them. HOWEVER, if I see someone with a cap askew, either rotated left or right or tilted, it hits my OCD and sends me into a murderous rage. I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!
Yep. Same reason as my post above--slag down the back of your neck *****.
Not going to lie, I was just there and looking for them and I saw something shiny and forgot about it.... And I bought something for my secret Santa victim.I buckled and bought the Mrs. the Purple box for her scrap room & just to be fair got myself a Blue one….
Steve
I may go back soon. I stopped at Harbor Freight, Lowe's, and Home Depot to check out each of their offerings--and these were the best of the batch from my rudimentary examination.I buckled and bought the Mrs. the Purple box for her scrap room & just to be fair got myself a Blue one….
Steve
There's one of these available locally to me. I don't need it at the moment, but it is tempting...
You will not be disappointed.Ended up getting the set a forum member mentioned in this thread for Christmas! Nice:
🫡Ended up getting the set a forum member mentioned in this thread for Christmas! Nice:
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The three feet of electrical tape they balled around didn't inspire much confidence in their work....lolThat's a piggyback spade connector. Not the intended use. But as long as it was crimped tight around that bullet, that's not a bad hack.
I got frustrated the other day needing a Torx I didn't have.
Will the tool even fit? I guess I figured when you ream it out you're sizing the hole (per say).
Those look amazing. Someday
However it has an unforgivable flaw of zero not being at the left edge like on every other steel ruler I've ever used.Timco Fixings Gauge and Ruler 300mm
Chucked this in with an order for fasteners. It's come in handy while organising things. However it has an unforgivable flaw of zero not being at the left edge like on every other steel ruler I've ever used. The illustration of how to measure different screw types could have been done differently to avoid this. It was just to keep in the fasteners cabinet anyway. But still, I might cut it down or at least paint the edge in a bright colour.
My grandson would always wear his backwards, I'd kid him by saying that I could never figure out if he was coming or going. As a young boy his father would buzz his hair off several times during the summer resulting in a white head and a dark tanned body. I would call him "gearshift head" referencing a white Hurst shifter ball. He didn't like that either.
Very pleased.
I also got the purple one for my wife. She loves those color by numbers coloring books and this would be the perfect way to store her pens and supplies.I buckled and bought the Mrs. the Purple box for her scrap room & just to be fair got myself a Blue one….
Steve
This surprises me unless something was lost in translation. I speak some Russian and worked there before (including the winter) and generally speaking, it seems Russians are more phobic on cold exposure -- particularly on the head. In fact, they look at pics on American midwesterners in T-shifts and even shirtless out in the cold and regard it as a sign of insanity like the people are going to die for sure. There is a reason for all of this though since the Russians have serious winter cold in many regions where our arctic cold snaps are pretty much normal winter days. I used to get lectured for going out without sufficient coat + hat + gloves in minus 25 ish C => -13 F. I saw no shortage of ear flaps down. But for sure, Russian guys do tend to like to act macho outside of being adverse to cold exposure! Insults can be frequent and very unenlightened by sensitive western standards.
Oh, what? You think your first-hand experience trumps someone else's learnin'?
That was meant to be sarcastic.No slight intended. It just struck me as funny when immersed in Russian culture in the late 90s to early 2000s (with scientists though) how cold adverse the group was relative to our "crazy" mid upper westerners!!
It is really sad what has happened in Russia with 25+ years of propaganda building on the mess communism left. The scientist group I was around was mostly not so bad though also not fully immune. However, convos with more ordinary folks (to the extent I could communicate well enough with my not so strong Russian) were sobering on the impact of propaganda. I used to think we were way better here in the USA, but I have to say I am less sure in recent times with how things are evolving with all the them vs us on both sides and cooked up tribal-like narratives.
I do not think I can go back to Russia. I would likely be arrested for a loooong stay before I would get out of the airport
