HARRY BARKER
ArboristSite Guru
explain please.
explain please.
Keep your eyes open around carry outs. They are constantly updating and changing tator chip racks, food displays etc. They usually just throw the old ones out. They can make great shelves, pegboards, and cases.
An old muffin tin is great for holding small parts. A big cookie sheet also makes a great tray to tear down a saw on and keep all the gunk off the bench.
I had a mouse problem. I now have a small panther of a shop cat--Grapple, who has taken care of that problem. In return, I have put a nice fleece pillow in his cat carrier, and will wrap the carrier up with insulation so he will keep warm in the upcoming winter.
Cardboard and cookie sheets to keep the gunk off the bench?
C'mon, it ain't work bench if'n it ain't got gunk on it.
A "real mans" bench is oil and grease soaked, has paint spilled on it and drippin' over the edge (pink paint don't count), a pile of left-over parts from things you've taken apart, fixed and put back together (some day I'll figure out where they're suppose to go), at least three blood stains, a couple holes where ya' went too far with the drill (filled in with paint and grease), a shop vise with a bent handle, at least two "burnt" areas, notches in the front edge where ya' hooked it with the circular and/or jig saw, a half-full coffee cup with something (gross, according to my wife) growing in it, several rolls of various tape (with dirt and metal shavings stuck to them), something that you're relatively sure was half a baloney sandwich at one time, a bench grinder with missing shields and an inch of grindings around it, at least one power tool that you borrowed (two years ago) and leave on the bench-top until ya' remember to return it, half-a-dozen filthy shop rags (one with blood on it, another is a snot rag but you don't remember which one), one of those "organizers" with the plastic drawers (has to have a few missing drawers and nothing "organized" about the contents... Christmas present from the kids one year), several empty beer cans, some broken glass, 4 bolt-holes clean through the bench-top where something was once mounted (but you can't remember what), and knife jabbed into the bench-top.
Hey, ... what can I say?
After all, I did grow-up in the 60's.
"SMOKIN' DOPE........SKIPPIN' ROPE...............AND LOVIN' JESUS"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:wink2:
Zip ties. Far more handy than duct tape.
one that i learned recently is using some 80-100 grit sandpaper on a dowel to roughen up the surfaces on a drill chuck to help it grip drill bits, etc. better.
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