"Chore Boy Pads" get me the queer eye

[Eddietruett]

On Sunday, I stopped in a local convenience store. I notice behind the counter there was a display box of Chore Boy Pads. Been looking for some as Walmart was out the last time I was there. These were single pads and not in a 3 pack like Ive usually bought. After telling the clerk I would take 10 as they were a dollar each, I looked around and everyone in line and also the other clerk was staring at me funny. The Clerk asked me did I really want 10 and after I responded yes, he did start looking at me funny. I told him that they were great to clean guns with and got a "yeah sure" response. After I got home, I mentioned the strange looks I got at the store to my gf. She started laughing and reminded me we had seen Cops confiscate brillo pads on tv from crack heads. Thats why they were behind the counter next to incense etc and not with the cleaning products. I guess all the other customers thought I was really having some kind of party!!! Glad I didn't get pulled over for speeding on way home or I would have had every narc in the county searching my truck. If I had realized why everyone was looking at me so hard, I would have said I was going home to smoke some lead. Guess that would have got them thinking.

 

[DWalt]

What's the connection with crackheads?

 

[moosedog]

The "rock" of Crack Cocaine sits on the Choir Boy when you smoke it. Acts as a perch and screen filter to hold it and keep it in place while you torch it with a lighter.

 

[pharmer]

I notice behind the counter there was a display box of Chore Boy Pads. Been looking for some as Walmart was out the last time I was there. .

The WalMart ones are steel with copper coating. makes a mess rusting after the first use. Brand name are copper mesh and worth the extra$. Joe

 

[carpriver]

Learned something new just now, not use full but new information to file away in the useless information file in my brain to be used when I lest need it.

 

[dubtap21]

The WalMart ones are steel with copper coating. makes a mess rusting after the first use. Brand name are copper mesh and worth the extra$. Joe

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[JayFramer]

Yeah they work great for crack pipes.

Wrap some around a bore's brush and use it to scrub lead away. Works really nicely.

 

[joeintexas]

I never fail to be amazed. What will they come up with next?

 

[Muss Muggins]

Pretty much anything at or behind the counter is there because it gets stolen frequently when it's out in general population. It generally gets stolen frequently because it's used in the abuse of illegal controlled substances . . .

 

[Onomea]

Hmm. Back in the day, it was Playboy — etcetera — magazines behind the counter. Times sure have changed.

 

[Rule3]

Put a magnet next to them and see if they just coated steel??

Go to a hardware or Marina store and get real bronze wool.

Why in the World would you need 10 of them?? It only takes a single stand wrapped around a brush.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

Reminds me of the time we ran out of batteries for the wife's blood sugar meter, the same one also fits my guitar tuners. Went to a local Fred's to buy a few, and the lady told me they didn't carry them because people would steal them. I asked her why, she said they were used to make meth. I thought she was lying to me.

I asked son in law, he's a LEO, about it, and he said sure, they use the Lithium in the batteries to make dope.

I guess I don't get out enough.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[eb07]

The "rock" of Crack Cocaine sits on the Choir Boy when you smoke it. Acts as a perch and screen filter to hold it and keep it in place while you torch it with a lighter.

Learn something new every day. Wow

 

[nachogrande]

DANG DRUGGIES

When they figure out how to make meth out of water we are really gonna be in trouble.

 

[Eddietruett]

Put a magnet next to them and see if they just coated steel??

Go to a hardware or Marina store and get real bronze wool.

Why in the World would you need 10 of them?? It only takes a single stand wrapped around a brush.

Bought 10 because they are much smaller than ones in stores and for $10 I'm set up for years. I have a "problem" according to gf. I buy large quantities of just about everything I purchase. Don't like to run out and dislike shopping even more.

 

[billwill]

Glad that is one thing I did not know about 'alternate product use', you guys must watch a lot of youtube!

 

[DWalt]

I have used the same three copper Chore Boy pads for many years. I don't shred them for bore cleaning, although I understand that they are good for scrubbing lead from the forcing cone. I normally use them only for removing rust from guns as they don't harm the bluing.

I had no idea they were used for holding rocks.

 

[NYlakesider]

FWIW I found a new and very legal use foe the Chor boy a few years ago. I had a 35 + years old Lawn Boy 2 stroke 18'' lawn mower. It still ran good after all those years and no sense upgrading to one of the new machines with all the nanny devices on them.

I needed a air filter and no one had any in stock for that old timer, one shop said it could order me one and it would be about $30 and a couple weeks.--

I saw a few green Chor boys on the wifes sink and a idea hit me. I grabbed a new one cut it in 1/2 used both pieces and if filled the filter housing perfectly. Cost to me 0 and about 2 minuets of labor, cost to wife a few cents. Mower ran the best it ever did with that Mickey Mouse set up! Used that for the next 4 years or so and hit a big rock and totaled the motor by bending the shaft.

 

[vmumford]

FWIW I found a new and very legal use foe the Chor boy a few years ago. I had a 35 + years old Lawn Boy 2 stroke 18'' lawn mower. It still ran good after all those years and no sense upgrading to one of the new machines with all the nanny devices on them.

I needed a air filter and no one had any in stock for that old timer, one shop said it could order me one and it would be about $30 and a couple weeks.--

I saw a few green Chor boys on the wifes sink and a idea hit me. I grabbed a new one cut it in 1/2 used both pieces and if filled the filter housing perfectly. Cost to me 0 and about 2 minuets of labor, cost to wife a few cents. Mower ran the best it ever did with that Mickey Mouse set up! Used that for the next 4 years or so and hit a big rock and totaled the motor by bending the shaft.

Pull the Chor boy out and use them in your scrubbing efforts.

 

[Bill Raby]

My Mom went to the "garden store" to get some fancy lights for her plants. Starts them indoors in the winter and moves them out to the garden when weather gets warm. She thought it was weird that the store had all the walls covered in tin foil in the part where the lights were and all the other customers either looked like creepy bikers or hippies. They sold all sorts of garden stuff she never of before. Girl working there was really surprised when she paid with a credit card. Told her that it is a store for people that grow marijuana in the basement.