Today at the hardware store I saw the ultimate “expert” at work.. He was chewing out the clerk for selling him lumpy concrete.
“How do you expect me to do nice work with all these stones in it?” The poor clerk was beside herself. “you asked for concrete and that’s what I sold you,” she said..
“But I need the smooth kind for brick work!”
“Oh, you need morter I voleentered,” thinking I was doing a favor for a do-it-yourselfer. He actually wanted his money back for the “lumpy” kind.
As he left I noticed he was driving a nice new 1 ton duelly with a sign on the side, advertizing Expert chimney repair.
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Wow.
You know, that first batch of mud in the morning is always hard to get right...
Wow. If I had known they sold smooth concrete, I wouldn't have spent all that time sifting mine through window screen before I use it. Live and learn, eh?
zak
"so it goes"
Makes me wonder if he ever ate porridge.
You can make it fool proof but not idiot proof
Amazing. Doing a little block repair today if the rain ends. I better check to see if I have lumpy or smooth. DanT
Every good mason knows that the stones in concrete mix are spacers.
you get small stones for tight joints and larger ones for big joints.
aside to frenchy:
You notice the article in FHB about building a crosscut sled???
I think you need to set them straight!!!
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Mr. T.
The Emperor has NO clothes!!!
the emporer has no closet...
the emporer has no clue...
the emporer needs someone to tie his shoes..
the emporer doesn't care about polls (they can be fixed)
What's wrong with crosscut sleds?
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Gunner,
My issue with cross cut sleds is in regards to the wood workers who think the only way to cut across grain is on the table saw with a cross cut sled.. You see them dragging out these big homemade monsters with dubious accuracy and try to cross cut an 8 foot 2x4 (for example).
Or they have some little piece that really calls for a compound mitre saw and they again drag out that big monster and have at it..
It's the jig mentality. If they can dream up a jig they will do evewrything from making cove molding to polish their shoes with their table saw..
Give me a break!
I worked for a while with a guy that made jigs for everything- some were quite ingenious.
But frequently he spent more time making the jig, than it actually took to just do the task.
I don't mind jigs, but some people can get carried away with the building process, and forget that there's supposed to be a result at the end.
So your issue is with people who overthink the problem or the solution? I can see your point on that.
I'm gonna make one. It's a lot nicer for repetitive cuts of wide stock. But I'm like you if I can flop it up on the miter saw and whack it then that's what I'm doing.
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Well for me I use the KISS system. If I can use a existing tool to do a job such as a mitre saw..Ill use it. If I can Ill adapt (make a jig) a tool to do the job. If the jig will take longer to make and cost almost as much in materials to make it, Ill buy a tool to do it
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Any jig I'm likley to use has been already built. I'll see one somewhere and make it up if I think I might need it later. Gives me something to do when I'm bored.
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"Any jig I'm likley to use has been already built. I'll see one somewhere and make it up if I think I might need it later. Gives me something to do when I'm bored."
Funny you mention that . For a man like your self that can think of all the things you do for entertainment , I never figgured you were ever bored . But what do I know ? Struck me as funny .
Tim
LOL. For some reason I thought the same thing when I posted that. I thought about restating it like this. When I'm looking for something to do to take my mind off of everything else. But then thought "What the heck, nobody will care."
I didn't figure in the "Mooney Factor." LOL
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We sure don't want you bored! That makes for a dangerous Tavern visit.
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LOL Aint that the truth.
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>>"Or they have some little piece that really calls for a compound mitre saw and they again drag out that big monster and have at it..
The one thing I actually do use either the mitre gauge or crosscut sled on the table saw for is the little wee pieces. Want to be able to count to ten without taking off my shoes.
If my imagination says fingers/hand whapped into the blade if there's an uh oh on the SCMS, it goes to the table saw/sled.
Actually had a close call on an old Makita slider that developed a bad trigger switch. Cutting hardwood shims for a tread/riser install. When the blade lost power during the cut, you can probably imagine how much force is involved when the blade grabs the wood. Only reason I still have all ten is my hand got flipped into the side of the blade instead of the teeth. Happens in a tenth of the blink of an eye. Like a firecracker going off.
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philarenewal,
Tablesaws account for more lost fingers than almost anything (except radial arm saws)
A little 2 inch by 1/4 inch thick by about three inch long piece of wood came flying off mine and broke my arm in two places. My fault really. I had been making dado cuts and had removed the guards. I see way too many table saws used with out the guards in place.
Can't use a sled with a guard!
"Can't use a sled with a guard! "Wrong again.Depends on the quard.However, I don't used the guard on mine. But when I do use the cross cut sled it performs the function of a guard.
perhaps she did sell him the correct stuff but a few lumps fom his head spilled out and landed in the crete.
Tmaxxx
Urban Workshop Ltd
Vancouver B.C.
cheers. Ill buy.
AND THEY TALK ABOUT THE HISPANICS NOT KNOWING THE LANGUAGE!!
hoowee is Notchman going to be mad at you fer telling on him!
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