In the mid ’90s, I bought several pounds of random stainless screws from one of the surplus machinery shops in San Jose. Got a couple of multi-drawer parts cabinets and spent several days sorting. Seems the dismantled machinery was mostly Imperial, and almost all the screws were Phillips heads, but I added to the collection. I’m set for the rest of my life. Mostly.
Hubby inherited all his dad’s garage stuff (his brother, being a mechanic, already had a garage full). In 2008, son and dad went to old shop teacher and asked “can you use?” Most, not all, was donated to the program.
Program builds (or did, don’t know what 2020, etc., did to the program), from scratch, electric go-cart-cars, and races them throughout the PNW. Including the “year-end” Memorial Weekend, event at the Portland Raceway. One of the few, if not the only, 100% school, not club, programs.
Also the only program where student/youth cars are 100% designed and built from scratch, annually, by student teams. (I’d attach pictures, but would have to go through FB links.)
I have a rolly-rack full of bins, with stuff piled up on top. About half my harddware collection is there, the rest is in tool boxes, drawers etc.
I -hate- being short a couple of fittings and having to go to the store in the middle of something. First thing I did when I was no longer poor was buy hardware. I am Mr. Got Hardware Guy.
Now, late in the game, I have a lathe so I can -make- hardware. That’s like God-Emperor level MacGyver shit, you can fix -anything-. I managed to make the Unobtanium fitting that attaches the antenna to the nylon roll-up part of a 1964 General Motors power antenna. If you have that stupid little brass crimp fitting, you can fix the antenna with weed-whacker nylon line. Go me! ~:D
However, there are a great many screws, bolts, washers, fasteners, shims, nails (of many kinds), horseshoes, straps, thongs, chains, lubricants (of various viscosity and weights), scrap lumber, scrap metal, scrap motors, spare parts, spare fittings, spare engines, pipe (of various lengths and diameters), pumps (manual and electric), one-off tools, circuit boards, cables, cuttings, clamps, measuring devices, scopes (of various magnification and uses), braces, buttons, thread, rope, paracord (of various lengths), scrap cloth, scrap leather, unfinished tools, unfinished projects, unfinished dinners, springs, gears, pulleys, and other random junk…
Mostly organized in a fashion that I recognize where I can find stuff in a reasonable amount of time. Glass jars, drawers, shelves, racks, and suchlike.
However if you need something for the IH 350 Farmall, I’m fresh out.
Screw lids into the bottom of a shelf and you can then screw the jars right to the lids. Then you can see what is in the jar and it’s right there when you need it.
Not me, from a funny book someone wrote, and no I can’t remember the title. The general idea was how to clean up your shop and still keep all your crap and your wife won’t bitch as much.
I have a 4′ x 4′ x 10″ hundred drawer parts cabinet, a shelf-size 30 drawer parts cabinet, the little baby-food jars, the big peanut butter jars, an old fishing tackle box (stainless steel & metric), easily a thousand pounds of lead ingots to cast bullets (and molds I’ve never used.) My favorite story of lead is German packers who packed us to transfer home from Germany years ago, when I only had around 600 pounds – they put it all in TWO cardboard boxes and labeled them “Bleistifte” (German for pencils but literally means “lead sticks”). The joke backfired because the same packers came back the next day to load the moving van – they had a two-person harness with a platform between for heavy things which they used, with one more restraining the harnessed pair from the front and one from the rear to carry them down the stairs from our apartment.
Re the fifth one down. When my middle daughter was studying in Central Asia, she told me how she intended to find success via marrying a rich Central Asian oligarch. After he’d accidentally step in front of rivals firing machine guns, she’s be positioned to take over the empire.
I told her the oligarch plan is fine, as long as he’s venal.
Hug people you don’t like? How droll. My wife encourages folks to be considerate and include the guy you hate the most into your lifeboat. So you’ll have someone to eat later.
Number 3 is me and my entire family. Very nearly the only thing Bo Katan did right in Mando Season 3 was hand us a rare opportunity to use “You’re far too trusting” in a conversation.
Just thought I’d post a weather report. I’m in the middle of The Dread Hurricane Hilary and…it’s raining. Slowly. Started around 3 AM and in 9 hours it’s rained about half an inch. There are puddles!
The wind is blowing, about 2-3 MPH, with gusts up to 5 MPH. Hats might flutter. Unsecured sheets of paper are in serious danger of being blown short distances.
This is the disaster they’ve been issuing Emergency Alerts! about for 3 days? The First Hurricane To Hit L.A. Since 1939! Prepare for blackouts and loss of cell phone service! We’re all gonna DIIIE!!
Uh, no. Yet Another example of The Glowbull Wormening Crisis! hysteria.
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“The Science Is Settled!!” we are told, again and again — but then ‘The Science!’ changes every week, and somehow it’s always exactly what the politicians need it to be.
According To Hoyt 
Good job at Prometheus. Woof!
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I don’t know. I feel a little guilty chuckling at some one who is worse off than I.
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I think he means Prometheus awards….
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Assume a spherical cow …
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in a vacuum, absent friction.
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And the spherical cow is of uniform density…
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It’s the perfect physics chicken.
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OK, you’ve got your spherical chicken, but is it uniform density? :-D
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Nope. The chicken is far less dense than Joe Biden.
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I tried to follow my dream, but then she got a restraining order.
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Since I don’t drink coffee, I have to keep all those random screws in copier paper boxes.
I have four of them full….
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Baby food jars, with the lids nailed to the rafters. And the screws sorted by size and imperial/metric order.
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In the mid ’90s, I bought several pounds of random stainless screws from one of the surplus machinery shops in San Jose. Got a couple of multi-drawer parts cabinets and spent several days sorting. Seems the dismantled machinery was mostly Imperial, and almost all the screws were Phillips heads, but I added to the collection. I’m set for the rest of my life. Mostly.
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Gotta love stainless steel, so you’ll always have a good screw.
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My dad used mayonnaise jars.
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Grandpa did similar, but the lids went on the ‘sides’ of pie tins….
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Hubby inherited all his dad’s garage stuff (his brother, being a mechanic, already had a garage full). In 2008, son and dad went to old shop teacher and asked “can you use?” Most, not all, was donated to the program.
Program builds (or did, don’t know what 2020, etc., did to the program), from scratch, electric go-cart-cars, and races them throughout the PNW. Including the “year-end” Memorial Weekend, event at the Portland Raceway. One of the few, if not the only, 100% school, not club, programs.
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Also the only program where student/youth cars are 100% designed and built from scratch, annually, by student teams. (I’d attach pictures, but would have to go through FB links.)
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I have a rolly-rack full of bins, with stuff piled up on top. About half my harddware collection is there, the rest is in tool boxes, drawers etc.
I -hate- being short a couple of fittings and having to go to the store in the middle of something. First thing I did when I was no longer poor was buy hardware. I am Mr. Got Hardware Guy.
Now, late in the game, I have a lathe so I can -make- hardware. That’s like God-Emperor level MacGyver shit, you can fix -anything-. I managed to make the Unobtanium fitting that attaches the antenna to the nylon roll-up part of a 1964 General Motors power antenna. If you have that stupid little brass crimp fitting, you can fix the antenna with weed-whacker nylon line. Go me! ~:D
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Revy
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Second meme reminds me of one of my favorite lines (and comebacks) from the highly-quotable movie Miller’s Crossing:
“All in all not a bad guy, as long as looks, brains, and personality don’t count.”
“You better pray they don’t.”
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That was echoed in an Oliphant cartoon decades ago
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What’s wrong with Skeltor?
He voted for Biden.
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I want the duck boat. No good reason why, and I don’t have a boating license. But I really want that duck boat!
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I want it too. Badly.
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use it for duck hunting and you don’t need decoys….snark
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What more reason could you possibly need than it’s a duck boat!!!?
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also a DUK
https://cdn.britannica.com/69/48069-004-F336D279/DUKW-military-World-War-II.jpg?w=400&h=300&c=crop
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The head turns when you steer, right? I mean, if the head doesn’t turn, they half-assed it. :-P
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chuckle
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I don’t drink coffee, so no coffee cans.
However, there are a great many screws, bolts, washers, fasteners, shims, nails (of many kinds), horseshoes, straps, thongs, chains, lubricants (of various viscosity and weights), scrap lumber, scrap metal, scrap motors, spare parts, spare fittings, spare engines, pipe (of various lengths and diameters), pumps (manual and electric), one-off tools, circuit boards, cables, cuttings, clamps, measuring devices, scopes (of various magnification and uses), braces, buttons, thread, rope, paracord (of various lengths), scrap cloth, scrap leather, unfinished tools, unfinished projects, unfinished dinners, springs, gears, pulleys, and other random junk…
Mostly organized in a fashion that I recognize where I can find stuff in a reasonable amount of time. Glass jars, drawers, shelves, racks, and suchlike.
However if you need something for the IH 350 Farmall, I’m fresh out.
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Screw lids into the bottom of a shelf and you can then screw the jars right to the lids. Then you can see what is in the jar and it’s right there when you need it.
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Not me, from a funny book someone wrote, and no I can’t remember the title. The general idea was how to clean up your shop and still keep all your crap and your wife won’t bitch as much.
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Creating twice as much horizontal surface by using the underside of shelves. Genius.
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Keeping the shop locked and wife without a key works pretty well. Do not ask the Reader how he knows.
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I mean, when the weatherman is Carl the Wonder Llama…
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Llama llama duck?
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Llama duck president.
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Those who explained the references have been sacked.
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The shark that stepped on the lego wins the interwebz for today. French Revolution lego set is a close second.
Lego-related humor for the win. ~:D
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I have a 4′ x 4′ x 10″ hundred drawer parts cabinet, a shelf-size 30 drawer parts cabinet, the little baby-food jars, the big peanut butter jars, an old fishing tackle box (stainless steel & metric), easily a thousand pounds of lead ingots to cast bullets (and molds I’ve never used.) My favorite story of lead is German packers who packed us to transfer home from Germany years ago, when I only had around 600 pounds – they put it all in TWO cardboard boxes and labeled them “Bleistifte” (German for pencils but literally means “lead sticks”). The joke backfired because the same packers came back the next day to load the moving van – they had a two-person harness with a platform between for heavy things which they used, with one more restraining the harnessed pair from the front and one from the rear to carry them down the stairs from our apartment.
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Re the fifth one down. When my middle daughter was studying in Central Asia, she told me how she intended to find success via marrying a rich Central Asian oligarch. After he’d accidentally step in front of rivals firing machine guns, she’s be positioned to take over the empire.
I told her the oligarch plan is fine, as long as he’s venal.
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Right?
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Hug people you don’t like? How droll. My wife encourages folks to be considerate and include the guy you hate the most into your lifeboat. So you’ll have someone to eat later.
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Number 3 is me and my entire family. Very nearly the only thing Bo Katan did right in Mando Season 3 was hand us a rare opportunity to use “You’re far too trusting” in a conversation.
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“I mostly communicate using obscure sci-fi movie references. Mostly.”
(Steve Rogers) I understood that reference! (/Steve Rogers)
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Just thought I’d post a weather report. I’m in the middle of The Dread Hurricane Hilary and…it’s raining. Slowly. Started around 3 AM and in 9 hours it’s rained about half an inch. There are puddles!
The wind is blowing, about 2-3 MPH, with gusts up to 5 MPH. Hats might flutter. Unsecured sheets of paper are in serious danger of being blown short distances.
This is the disaster they’ve been issuing Emergency Alerts! about for 3 days? The First Hurricane To Hit L.A. Since 1939! Prepare for blackouts and loss of cell phone service! We’re all gonna DIIIE!!
Uh, no. Yet Another example of The Glowbull Wormening Crisis! hysteria.
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“The Science Is Settled!!” we are told, again and again — but then ‘The Science!’ changes every week, and somehow it’s always exactly what the politicians need it to be.
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It may be hysteria, but it looks terrifying.
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1539705466798477326
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LOL
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I want to know when and where the one shark attack in Illinois happened….
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Right? Inquiring minds…..
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