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Best tip or Trick you got?

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J Puleo

03-08-2005 07:18:44

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I just posted in the metal stud thread about a neet way of doing walls. It got me thinking...Even the most untalented of us (like myself) have a great little trick/tip that is sometimes so simple and usefull, but often not well known. Since I already used my best, once year I wash all my chrome plated tools in the dishwasher..come out like new. just dont tell wife! Anyone care to share a nugget of wisdom

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730-LP

03-08-2005 19:53:31

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

When taking things apart like antique tractors [that you are going to put back together tommorow but tommorow might be next year]take some zip lock bags and bag the bolts,washers and nuts from each part taken off an label with a permant marker.

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Joe (Wa)

03-08-2005 19:52:42

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

The best advice you can give yourself before troubleshootng a problem:

KISS...."keep it simple stupid".

The last tractor I went to look at, the seller was pulling the carb as I drove up. He had just done a tune-up and now it won't start.

The old rotor was on the ground, the new rotor was laying on the starter.

Joe

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Frank M.

03-08-2005 19:23:43

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

Lets say you want to pull the grease seal and inner bearing out of a hub. You don't need a hammer and punch for this one. Remove the cotter pin, nut, washer and outer bearing, etc. Put the nut back on the spindle a few turns. Pull the hub out til you feel the bearing contact the nut. Push back in just a little, then give it a quick jerk. Bearing and seal will be hanging on the spindle undamaged. Learned this over 30 years ago. never seen it fail.

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Scott Green

03-08-2005 17:00:52

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

Here's one for running a nice bead of caulking. "Never Back Up With the Caulking Gun". EXAMPLE: While running a bead , you have air pop from the caulking tube. Start over at that point , don't back up.

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old blue

03-08-2005 16:50:27

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

The best tip i was ever given was from my dad and that was dont back into the camper when your plowing. my number one trick whenever you go to the basement, garage, shop, or barn grab a utility knife with a retractable blade adn stick it in your pocket.its alot easir to keep sharp

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Jay (ND)

03-08-2005 16:04:18

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

Don't drywall cats into the walls.

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dr.sportster

03-08-2005 15:52:56

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

Now for the best tip I ever recieved; was from the book Caifornia Hot Rodder.The authors brother built dragsters and told him work on your project twenty minutes a nght.Often it will turn into several hours but for the nights when your tired at least something will get done for those twenty minutes.That guys idea really helped me complete things by the twenty minutes nightly method.Even if your just making notes or parts orders its progress slow and steady.

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DaveCA

03-08-2005 20:41:39

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to dr.sportster, 03-08-2005 15:52:56

I like that.
Just be real careful that the work you do on the tired nights don"t mess up the other work ya done. Some tip I found handy working in a small wood shop is, when you go in, put away ten things, no matter how small they are, it"s amazing how much more room there is.

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dr.sportster

03-09-2005 04:49:05

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to DaveCA, 03-08-2005 20:41:39

Good idea,it took me years not to be a workbench slob.Its time saving to put things back in place for sure.

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Hound

03-08-2005 15:23:43

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

..not really mechanical,.... don't p!ss into the wind.

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Redmud

03-08-2005 14:52:03

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

When pulling tree stumps with your 4x4, and your buddies pull up about sundown with a case of beer. Unhook the stump before you help with the beer.

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Rod in Smiths Falls, ON,

03-08-2005 14:14:09

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Re: Best tip for brides and grooms in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

Best tip for brides:

Don't sneak up on your new husband when he's using the band saw! Just because he looks cute when he's concentrating doesn't mean your affection will be well received at this time.

Best tip for grooms:

Don't drive your snowmobile into the laundry room to work on it. It will create an unbelievable stink in the house and your bride will not appreciate it. "The door was wide enough!" is not an acceptable excuse.

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Allan in NE

03-08-2005 13:28:17

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

Hook the timing light to the coil wire, not #1 plug wire.

Allan

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bcPA

03-08-2005 12:46:49

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

I removed a broken head bolt from a cummins diesel without drilling or welding. or removing the head. The engine started to chirp like a bird when under throtle. A friend had already told me about this sign of a broken head bolt, so I knew what the prob was. After limping home I found the bad bolt and pulled the loose top part of it out Then I removed the washer from under the bolt head and tried to turn the bolt out. The break was too smooth and the bolt had been streached when tight and now it snapped back to its shorter length. So I ground some metal off the under side of the bolt head. Then I cleaned the ends of the break with starting fluid. Next I made a sleeve out of some loose leaf paper and slid it down in the head around the broken bolt piece still in the head. Next I mixed up some 2 part epoxy and put some on the top half of the bolt where it had broken. Then I slid it into the head and into the paper sleeve and mashed the epoxy into the other piece of the broken bolt.I then let it set about 16 hours and was able to turn the whole bolt out with ease.

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sawtooth

03-08-2005 10:57:40

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

Unfortunately this won't help others much. In a nearby town is a toolbox manufacturer, Kennedy Mfg. Occassionally they discard all kinds of stuff at the scrap metal yard. There was a huge pile of all sizes of drawers. I found many uses for them. Heavy duty drawers, about 38" wide, 21" front to back and 5" deep made a perfect box to go on the back rack of my atv. I cut a couple pieces of channel iron uprights that hold it onto the rack with 2 bolts thru wood blocks. Even tho it comes off quickly I have it on almost all the time for hauling tools, firewood and when I work in the woods it has room for 2 chainsaws, fuel, oil, axe and light chain. I salvaged a bunch of shallow drawers about 19" by 25", bolted the corners to angle iron and made shelves with the drawers inverted. I made a bunch of nice dust pans out of deeper ones by cutting out one side and adding a handle. I made a really big one of those with handles on each side to use in the yard. I used a shallow drawer and hinged it upside down to one end of my roll around tool box using a removable light angle iron frame to hold it up. I cut another drawer in half to make a riser between the bottom cabinet and upper chest. The company should sell drawers (at scrap prices) for these and other things- there's scads of uses.

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J. Schwiebert

03-08-2005 18:25:08

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to sawtooth, 03-08-2005 10:57:40

You must be in northwest/western Ohio

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LP GS ONLY

03-08-2005 10:51:00

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

Don't yell out your kid's name when he is using the pressure washer. There is a story there not to be told today

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thurlow

03-08-2005 10:47:48

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

1. Drink upstream from the herd 2. Don't p*ss into the wind

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Txsprigger

03-08-2005 11:21:11

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to thurlow, 03-08-2005 10:47:48

3 Golden rules for plumbers:

1. Payday is Friday

2. Don't chew your fingernails

3. Shutt runs downhill

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Txsprigger

03-09-2005 08:53:15

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to Txsprigger, 03-08-2005 11:21:11

Don't squat with your spurs on.

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upred

03-08-2005 17:35:13

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to Txsprigger, 03-08-2005 11:21:11

4. don't eat the big mint.

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Sam in NJ

03-08-2005 09:15:35

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

When re-installing a self-tapping screw back into old threads in wood, metal, or plastic, give the screw a slight turn counter-clockwise until you hear a click. This will insure that you have found the old thread path and won't strip out any material.

Sam

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deanop

03-08-2005 09:02:06

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

buy a telescoping magnetic tipped screwdriver type grabber thingy..it's gotten those one of a kind nuts/bolts/etc..out of the tightest areas....

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JoeK

03-08-2005 10:17:52

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to deanop, 03-08-2005 09:02:06

A"cow magnet" heat swaged into the end of a 3ft piece of 1/2"pvc pipe is extremely handy as you get older and taller,and the shop floor gets further away,also great for fishin escaped steel hardware from here&there. :)

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Richard Kline

03-08-2005 09:16:10

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to deanop, 03-08-2005 09:02:06

I got a little round tray that almost looks like a metal ashtray, but it has a large magnet on it's base. It will hold hardware and will stick to metal. If you work under the car, stick it to the undersite of the frame and each nut you take off put in the tray.

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Opa A

03-08-2005 08:30:13

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

I stumbled across 2 large aluminum cookie sheets, 30 x 24" at an auction from a bakery, they have a 1" raised edge all around. Paid $1.00 for both of them. I use them for everything especially catching drips under engines, hydraulic pumps etc. as they are being disassembled or assembled. I also use them on the work bench when taking something apart with lots of small pieces, if something like a small screw, poppet ball, needle bearings, small springs or anything falls out of the component it usually lands in the cookie sheet and saves alot of time looking for it. Just hit them with the pressure washer after the job.

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Yabbut....

03-08-2005 07:38:40

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

they make a hulluva racket in the dryer afterward....OH,and don't use a softener sheet!

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dr.sportster

03-08-2005 07:33:21

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to J Puleo, 03-08-2005 07:18:44

Ive found after years of wrenching that the struggles have become easier and the work more enjoyable.If there was one thing to tell a young guy who wants to beat flat rate time for the boss it would be a real simple one;Never Drop Hardware-when then nut or bolt is about to come off the thread hang on to it.I have spent a week looking for a special clutch nut that popped from my hand onto a speaker magnet.

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Bob Collins

03-08-2005 13:26:52

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to dr.sportster, 03-08-2005 07:33:21

After years of wrenching I found just telling someone (or yourself) to "never drop hardware" doesn't always work, but what helps when it happens is train yourself to WATCH where it rolls, you can't always trust your ears, but if you look immediately when it falls it saves lots of time looking for it.

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Eddie in MI

03-08-2005 15:21:33

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to Bob Collins, 03-08-2005 13:26:52

Watch where it rolls... I wish someone would've told me that about 15 years ago! Simple, completely sensible, but often overlooked.

Here's one: In today's age of digital cameras, take pictures as you work on a project. That way you can go back and see how things were before disassembly.

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spud in mo

03-08-2005 22:14:34

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to Eddie in MI, 03-08-2005 15:21:33

When trying to pull a race thats been pressed in, run a bead on the inner surface, and let it cool. The race will easily come out.

When in doubt consult the instruction, or use documentation!!!

Don"t get Pi$$ed. The equipment wont know and you will only hurt you!!

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John/FL

03-09-2005 19:42:13

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to spud in mo, 03-08-2005 22:14:34

When lending "tool" to friend/relative, record it in a book ... have them initial it, also when returned.

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36BinMN

03-09-2005 21:14:51

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Re: Best tip or Trick you got? in reply to John/FL, 03-09-2005 19:42:13

I got one more for the dishwasher. Use it to wash your favorite hats. Take the dirty dishes out and find a clean bowl that fits your hat , put the bowl up side down and set your hat on it and wash it with the dishwasher soap. it works great and it don't mess up the bill. hang it up to dry and your set!!

PS. Don't tell the wife HEHE

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