JohnSprung2

Another thing you might want to do with this is run the fence and hook piece a little long. Nail it off in the right place, and the first time you use it, the saw will cut the fence off exactly right. Then when you need to make those oddball shorter blocks, you can just line the cut end of the fence up with your pencil mark.




-- J.S.

I live just a few blocks from the epicenter of the 1994 Northridge earthquake (though I wasn't there at the time). Haiti had a quake about the same size as Northridge or Loma Prieta in 1989. In those quakes, dozens of people died, not hundreds of thousands. From this we can draw a conclusion:

Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings kill people.

So, yes, any aid should come with some kind of follow-through to make sure things are built right. Because of the corruption issue, it may require third party inspectors from first world countries. We certainly have enough qualified people here looking for work, they could be those boots on the ground.




-- J.S.

Good idea. You might want to find a heavy duty plastic zip bag to keep it in. It'll work with the bag on it, and after a while when it picks up a bunch of magnetic crud, like from sawzalling thru steel, carefully removing it from the bag will let you easily get rid of the particles.



-- J.S.

The only little drawback to these rare earth magnets is that they pick up any tiny particles of steel or iron that are anywhere nearby -- like from sawzalling thru nails. So, I keep mine in a small but thick-walled plastic bag that some parts came in. You can from time to time carefully pull the magnet out of the bag and thereby separate it from the magnetic crud it's picked up. The bag works well for dangling it, and is gentle on painted surfaces.



-- J.S.