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  1. New Milwaukee Power Tool Teaser

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    The insurance inspector told me it would lower our premium if I swapped out the copper for pex. He also said it isn't much of a selling point because most people don't know or care about their plumbing as long as it works. Saving $40-45/ year isn't worth the expense unless there's an issue later.

  7. Goatheads

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    Spent an hour or so digging weeds out of the front yard/weed patch today. Put my hand down and found out the hard we have puncture vine, goathead, ouchfuckthatfuckinghurtslikehell weed, whatever you want to call it. I got the vine up and searched the yard, didn't find more. Anyone got some tips for how to get the thorns up? Aside from using my hand as a pincushion.

  15. Refurbish wood floor

    in Pub Talk

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    The worst is trying to scrape up the glue that is used on out door carpet......you talk about adhesive!!

    Tell me about it. I removed some 70's foam back glue down carpet from the kitchen in my last home. The carpet came up fine. The foam, not so much. I spent close to 8 hours scraping that crap off.

    I suppose I'll have to do the same if the linoleum is well secured.

  16. Welcome

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    I've purchased recon corded and pneumatic tools in the past. There weren't as pretty as new, but they worked just as well. Electronics, on the other hand, are a little more delicate and touchy. I don't think I would ever buy a reman laptop or tv. I've seen too many people get burned.

  17. Refurbish wood floor

    in Pub Talk

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    Thank you all. I think it's out of the cards for now. We're supposed to have some crappy weather for the next few days. Gonna be an early fall in the Pacific Northwest.

    I think when I get around to it I'm going to go for either the distressed/primitive look, or natural tone. Any opinions?

  18. Refurbish wood floor

    in Pub Talk

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    Today my gf and I were at our new house preping for move in. She was painting our daughters room and I was vacuuming and cleaning carpets.

    As I was vacuuming in the front room I got a snag from the carpet wound up it the vacuum. It pulled up the corner, so I take a look and the carpet is on top of linoleum which is on top of wood flooring.

    We were planning on taking the carpet out anyway and putting down a laminate. I begged my gf to let me pull that carpet and linoleum out today! We aren't moving in for a week and a half. And I would rather do that job when we aren't living there.

    My question is this, barring a major patch job, could a guy refurbish a 20x12 wood floor working 3-4 hours a day in that time?

  20. Welcome

    in Introduce yourself

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    Yeah DR I imagine it may have been under warranty. Once it seized up and the percussive adjusting maintenance (hitting it) didn't work, I trashed it. I've been checking the reman market out too. I'm thinking that's probably what I'm going to do unless I find a hot deal around Christmas.

    Conductor I love free. It cost a lot less. :-)

  21. Welcome

    in Introduce yourself

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    Let's see a Dewalt hand saw, Fastback knife, 100 or so piece Husky tool set, Estwing framing hamer, and a Stanley ratchet and wrench set. No power or pneumatic except an old Craftsman corded drill. But we are moving out of this small apartment and buying a 30's built home with detached garage, and double lot yard.

    So maybe tax time I can start picking up stuff here and there.

  22. Welcome

    in Introduce yourself

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    Hello there. IRL everyone calls me RD. I'm a Capricorn, and enjoy long walks on the beach, candle lit dinners in front of the fireplace, and romance novels. Baaahaaaa!!!

     

    I'm a reformed tool hoarder. In other words I had to sell all of my tools to liquidate my assets and nicely give the money to my ex-wife. You know the story she got the house and kid, I got my clothes. She told the mediator the reason she cheated was I loved my tools more than her. I told her, “With the tools I brought home I had fixed and built things. Most of them I cleaned up and sold. The tools she brought home cost a doctors visit and a round of antibiotics.”

     

    I did have a lot of tools that I never used. I'm no mechanic but had a pickle fork and two sets of jaw gear pullers. I had a shingle froe yet never made one shingle. I owned a broken hose crimper I never got around to fixing. Never once did I use the Miller Falls breast drill I oiled and hung on the wall.. Most of the time I bought old/antique tools, cleaned, oiled, sharpened them and resold them. You would be surprised how cheep you can pick up a box of “junk” tools for at an auction or yard/estate sale. If I would have done some research and used eBay I would have made bank.

     

    Now a days I work at a big box retailer where the best brand of power tool you can buy is Blech & Dicker. My gf was kind enough to buy me a 12v B&D driver tool set for Christmas last year. After trying to use it to install some cameras and other equipment at my mothers business it quit working. I had to finish with hand tools.

     

    I've been learning a lot here. Even though everyone has their go to brand, Milwaukee, Dewalt, etc and you have to hack on the other brand, (Stihl saws rule and you have to wear frilly panties to own Husqvarna,) I appreciate the honest reviews, so that when I can afford to start buying again I'll be better informed. Thank you.

  24. Stolen Equipment

    in Around The House

    Posted

    I would also like to address buying used equipment. Be very aware of too good to be true deals. I bought a used 066 power head from a "friend" for $200 because he "needed rent". I figured it wasn't working so I dropped it off at the saw shop to have them give a once over. When I went to pick it up that night the service guy and to my surprise a cop wanted to know where I got the saw.

    Apparently my "friend" had stolen a bunch of tools out of the back of a pickup a few months earlier. I assume he thought there was enough time passed he wouldn't get caught. The saw shop kept records of names and serial numbers of all the equipment they sold. Plus the rightful owner had engraved his phone number behind the fuel tank.

    I nearly ended up in the clink and out $200 for an awesome deal. The rightful owner ended up letting me keep the powerhead because he had already gotten it replaced through insurance.

    I learned to watch out for hot deals and inspect used tools and equipment. Ask lots of questions. It's a good idea to inscribe some kind of identifier (phone number, initials smiley face, etc) in an inconspicuous spot or under the case of your high dollar items.

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