I spend over a year trying to decide which pin nailer I should purchase when the time came. Buddy has me working on what he considers a high end kitchen. Time to buy, right?
Order a Cadex plus pins and Flexeel hose from Floyd Tools yesterday.
I have had an overwhelming guilt since then. Just called to cancel. Still out $21, but not $290.
I don’t see me using it again in the near future, and can get by with the brad nailer. Besides, I’m thinking of getting a band saw and jointer and there goes $800. Got furniture to make for the house.
That’s another monetary/emotional ordeal I have to go through.
I don’t have enough money to support my habit.
“Hi, my name is Glenn, and I’m a toolaholic.”
“Hi, Glenn.”
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I have 2 pinners- an older P-C, and the Cadex.
You want the P-C?
And don't feel bad about not being able to support your habit; I think most of us are in that situation.
"And don't feel bad about not being able to support your habit;"I have no idea what you're talking about...
Hey- even I can't afford all the tools I want. My wife still wants money for stuff like food, and heat, and electricity.
You know, all those unnecessary frills.
Maybe I am weak, but I consider electricity to be a necessity as well...After all I can't pedal the bicycle generator and run my table saw at the same time!! :)
Yeah, well-
I guess I'm addicted to electricity as well. I know I sure do like my power tools.
Show off.Glenn
Thanks, Bob, but 20 minutes later my friend called. I told him I had cancelled the order, and he persisted and convinced me to get it. Told me he would hand me the $$$ tomorrow.That's not the issue, I said. I don't want anymore money than I'm earning. However, I think I just don't want him to keep it. So I called Floyd Toll back and they hadn't cancelled it yet.What's going on with the possible move?Again, thanks for the offer.Glenn
Nothing new on the move. Who knows when anything will happen?
I go through the same exact thing every time I buy something new. The remorse usually lasts up until I use the tool for the first time though. Then it's all good.
Matter of fact, I go through it on almost every purchase I make. I try to "trick" myself too. Even with materials for my own use. As an example. Say I've got about $300 in materials I need to buy; I'll go to the big box or lumber yard two days in a row so the bills are like $150 each instead of one big $300. Somehow makes me feel better about spending the money.
Pretty sad,eh?
Shawn
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Checker Contracting - SE Michigan
Edited 4/1/2008 3:47 pm ET by CheckerContracting
That reminds me of my brother and his wife. they used to have a deal; Can't spend more than $50 without consult the other.She would come home after shopping with receipts for a couple of hundred bucks. But each one was less than fifty. Piss him off big time.So if I was down working on his house when he lived in PA, and she had done it recently, he would spend more at HD or somewhere just for spite.THAT'S sad.Glenn
Don't feel too bad, I have the same pinner and hardly ever use it. I LOOK for places, but an 18g is usually better... course I three of them<G>
Hey, those Floyd Tool folks are nice, aren't they?... glad they weren't in biz when I lived up there, I WOULD be broke!
Must be, and that is all.
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Stand up straight and tall.
In harmony with the cosmic sea,
True love needs no company,
It can cure the soul, it can make it whole,
If dogs run free.
Yeah, they were real nice.If my wife doesn't see money soon, SHE might not be so nice.Glenn
Tashler,
I'm the opposite.. I have to really wrestle with myself to keep from overbuying..
Sure I know that you can tune up Stanley hand planes and get decent results with them but somehow those Lie Nielsen brass and rosewood ones are so appealing! I know I could use craftsman wrenches just fine but those Snap On ones feel sooooo much better.
Buying wood is just as bad.. The sawmill will give me such a wonderful deal on that fine fiddleback maple that it's a sin not to take it home and I wind up storing another 1200 bd.ft. of wood. I mean $120 for what retails for as much as $54,000 if you can believe the prices in the catalogs.. And black walnut.. all heart no early wood for 17 cents a bd.ft. only problem is I need to take all 4800 bd.ft..
Hello my name is frenchy and I'm a toolaholic and woodaholic.
Wish I could split some of that wood with you. Couldn't find a place like that around here.I have the overbuying problem sometimes, too. Just not the bank account to keep it up.Glenn
Frenchy -
Please - if you have even the slightest amount of compassion in your soul - don't EVER mention those kind of wood prices again!! I would tell you what I paid for some very nice black walnut a few months ago, but I'm still in denial.
(Just when I thought my blood pressure was back to semi-normal!!) - lol
Dave.
I know the pain you feel and I can sympathise with you. To be fair these were special deals available once in a lifetime.
But I have been a strong advocate of buying directly from sawmills.. prices there are fraction of retail.. (although that subject requires a great deal of conversation in order to get the good prices possible)
You know Frenchy, I can help you get over your addictions...
First thing you need to do is send all your fiddleback maple to me....
Mike,
No hablo English senior. <grin>
Tu tienes "fiddleback maple."
Manda me lo.
Gracias.
Mike
Nien spreken zie duetz?
Nope.
I don't even speak much Spanish.
Had to ask DW for help with that response.
She speaks Spanish, Russian, and some Czeck and some French.
I can barely speak English. Married up.
I can say "Ich ben ein Berliner" though.
"Hi my name is Andy and I'm a toolaholic"
"Hi Andy"
and im only 15. good golly gosh will I have a house full of tools someday
Can you hold the laser level while I shave?
I have a PC 23ga, bought it for $230 around 8 yrs ago.
About 6mo ago was in my local building supply and came across this for $59.95
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Shoots good, I've run about 10 boxes of 2500 pins through it and it is beginning to leave the odd nail proud but I am consistently pinning hardwood, it always sinks in softwood and ply.
It came with a second driver, so I will be installing that soon.
http://www.kingcanada.com/Products.htm?CD=193&ID=19865
"Perfect is the enemy of Good." Morrison
Well I think we can all relate to the "guilt". LOL! However, not to be an inabler but.... here's the link to the Bostitch 23 g pin nailer from Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000EX71F0/ref=xs_gb_20_right-3_1.1_18708?pf_rd_p=305207201&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=701&pf_rd_i=20&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=057C1XFSYZXJPYPDA50G
I just looked this morning and it is there for $119 and ships from Amazon. Not a bad pinner. Just got one myself actually. Well, actually, I ordered it for $119 and then 4 hours later it was on special for $79.99 so they credited my credit card for the difference.
Anyway, go ahead buy it.... it'll make you feel good.
Barney
Its not the destination, but the integrity of the journey.
Oh, the Cadex is on it's way.The reason I picked that, With it's higher price tag, was it did very well it every tool review I could find, and the chat about them online.The others like Bostitch, PC, Senco,et al, all had someone saying various degrees of disappointment with their performance.I'm a buy it once kind of guy.Glenn-Hoping to be overjoyed when the UPS man comes.
No problem. Hope you enjoy it.I figure I'll get my money's worth out of it.I looked at the grex, but the price was a little more than I could spend right now.I see you are from North Jersey. What area? Grew up there.
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Live in Wanaque. Grew up a couple of towns over in Pequannock.Glenn
Grew up over in Morris county in Mendham.
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