deacdiggler
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clearly you meet at biff's house in charlotte
We are trying to find a spot to meet up as a mini family reunion after my nephew is born.
The city right in the middle is Greensboro. Going to be real tough to get excited enough to plan that trip.
YO Bmoney, how old is DeaconBlue? He knows just about everything when it comes to home improvement, but also said "U-tube" in a thread on the sprots board.
I’m guessing 70. He posts some on CT.
YO deaconblue how old are u?
Well maybe I shall remain team Amazon
BLUE
are you familiar with the term "shim" and presuming you are, what is the most creative use of one you've ever employed?
when we were kids, i went fishing with my grandpa and cousin, and we were carrying a cooler through the woods when we banged it against a tree and the drain stop on the cooler fell off. my grandpa sprung into action and ripped a branch off a tree and pulled out his pocket knife and carved it into shape so it was more or less watertight against the cooler, took about 2 minutes and we were back in action, no ice water leakage for the cooler that trip, his beers, our sodas, and later our fish stayed icy cold.
I think I hurt my back deadlifting this morning creamy. I should have slept in.
hit the adhesive industry hard, too
I always thought of shims as those slim wedges of wood that you would use to do things like level wobbly woodwork or hold things in place
I think they are but also my grandfather used the term to just mean anything you fabricated to solve a tricky problem of construction or any piece of scrappy handiwork
Our grandchildren telling stories about how when they were with grandpa, and a problem came up, he was able to immediately find something called a "youtube video" that told him how to fix it.
i remember him dissembling a beer can with a pocket knife and using the rolled up aluminum into a cone and funneling oil/gas mix into his mower
he had some device he made out of PVC that had a nozzle to hook up to the hose he used to clean his gutters that was retractable, so he never got on a ladder
the bane of his existence was squirrels on his porch birdfeeders, so he was always trying to devise a squirrel proof birdfeeder. he'd put grease on the poles, spikes underneath the feeders, etc.
maybe these are what people today would just call DIY, but he tended to call them all shims
i remember him dissembling a beer can with a pocket knife and using the rolled up aluminum into a cone and funneling oil/gas mix into his mower
he had some device he made out of PVC that had a nozzle to hook up to the hose he used to clean his gutters that was retractable, so he never got on a ladder
the bane of his existence was squirrels on his porch birdfeeders, so he was always trying to devise a squirrel proof birdfeeder. he'd put grease on the poles, spikes underneath the feeders, etc.
maybe these are what people today would just call DIY, but he tended to call them all shims
I call all that stuff jury-rigging.