A Johnson Bar is a steel bar 5 ft long. Round on one and chisel shaped on the other.
A Stevador is a long wooden handle with steel wheels and a steel plate at the bottom to lift and move heavy stuff.
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A Johnson Bar is a steel bar 5 ft long. Round on one and chisel shaped on the other.
A Stevador is a long wooden handle with steel wheels and a steel plate at the bottom to lift and move heavy stuff.
Frank46
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Bought a hookaroon to move tree limbs. Go into lowe's and ask where the hookaroons are. Big deer in the headlights stare. Got mine from granger. Old hand planes. I have one of dads. took it apart and cleaned it up. stoned the blade then added a microbevel cuts shavings you can see through. Frank
LennyLames
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I've been a fountain pen user for many years. Most people don't know how to use them. I've even had a carry-on bag inspected by TSA because the person didn't know what a fountain pen was. My fountain pens don't get a chance to walk away because when someone asks to borrow my pen, I have a valid explanation that the nib shouldn't be used by someone else whose handwriting angles and pressures are different.
If you're a pilot, you most likely carry an E6B slide rule. Could be your primary calculator or a backup to electronics.
Another old tool I use is the plumb bob with a thick, visible line. Perfect for mounting scopes to ensure that the reticle is indeed vertical and aligned with the bore.
If you're a pilot, you most likely carry an E6B slide rule. Could be your primary calculator or a backup to electronics.
Another old tool I use is the plumb bob with a thick, visible line. Perfect for mounting scopes to ensure that the reticle is indeed vertical and aligned with the bore.
ostlund
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How do you write Tim Allen doing his "ar ar AR!"?
I remember helping a friend install a spinnaker on his boat when battery power drills just came out. He was impressed that I had a cordless drill. He was very surprised when my cordless drill had a hand crank on it. Still have three and they work.
I have two corded drills, you need a side handle on the 1/2" one. I also have 3 cordless that I reach for first. My Roybi 18 V will run an 8" auger and drill a dozen holes in 12" of ice before I need to change batteries. I wouldn't be with out the Dwalt for most jobs. I really find cords to get in the way. If I have a choice of cordless or listening to a generator, the cordless wins every time.
My dad was a Carman, machinist and tool and die maker for AT&SF. I think he did some sheet metal work, too. My dad passed in -'15 and I have all of his tools - high quality American made stuff. After a 40+ year career, that's a lot of stuff!
Looking back, my biggest regret was not taking him up on his offer to teach me all he knew when he was younger and healthy. At the time, I was too young (late teens) and arrogant to realize the gift he was offering me. But, but we tried to make up for it later in life and I got a crash course in the final years of his life.
The best part was sitting with him watching "forged in fire" as he did the color commentary on what was going on. His pet peeves were people not cleaning/prepping the metal and not knowing how to use a file properly.
Looking back, my biggest regret was not taking him up on his offer to teach me all he knew when he was younger and healthy. At the time, I was too young (late teens) and arrogant to realize the gift he was offering me. But, but we tried to make up for it later in life and I got a crash course in the final years of his life.
The best part was sitting with him watching "forged in fire" as he did the color commentary on what was going on. His pet peeves were people not cleaning/prepping the metal and not knowing how to use a file properly.
You forgot a hacksaw to cut that EMT and Greenlee punches to get into boxes.
You must have worked at a station.
Lead pots are more of a plumbing thing for making lead soil pipe seals. I have used non electric soldering irons (but for soldering sheet lead shower bases)
For Solder & Tape electrical connections, I've always used an electric iron. I don't even see how one would use a lead pot in that application.
Is knob& tube code anywhere anymore?
Sure seen enough of it around here (I like saving the ceramic fittings). Never dealt with Romex as it's not code here. EMT or rigid only. I don't trust putting zip cord in the walls anyway.
ha ha, yep. Make sure they're on the same hand and wet your fingertips
( Had a City of Chicago Supervising Electrician's license for about 10 years when I was doing it as my main gig)
riverrat38
US Veteran
If interested in watching a master hand tool wood worker with over a half century of professional furniture making and teaching experience, I recommend Paul Sellers you tube videos. Paul is English, but spent over half of his professional life in the US. Texas, I think.
https://paulsellers.com/paul-sellers-videos/
He not only shows in detail how to make wood working projects, but how to maintain tools, including sharpening them. I had never gotten the ability to sharpen hand saws correctly, until I watched him show how it's done.
73,
Rick
https://paulsellers.com/paul-sellers-videos/
He not only shows in detail how to make wood working projects, but how to maintain tools, including sharpening them. I had never gotten the ability to sharpen hand saws correctly, until I watched him show how it's done.
73,
Rick
Mechanical electric tools
You're right, I did forget Greenlee KO punches, and also hacksaws, to cut EMT. EMT, I cut with a small tubing cutter, using a method that I devised myself, I scored the EMT, with a tubing cutter, then broke it into, leaving the EMT with perfect inside/outside edges, and if there was a slight burr on the inside edge, it could be removed with one swipe of a hawk billed knife.
You stated that I must have worked at a station. What kind of a station did you mean? I've worked in gasoline filling stations, Coal fired power stations, and nuclear power stations.
Solder & tape joints, used in residential, knob & tube wiring were made, by scarping the wires, clean, twisting them together, applying solder paste, and then dipping them into molten solder, contained in the solder pot, or dipper. The solder pot was heated with a large blow torch. Overhead wires were pointed downward, and a dipper of molten lead was slid up over those wires thereby coating them with lead. I've been retired since 1994, and don't know if Knob & tube wiring is still used. It is considered, with its many flaws, to be the best residential system ever devised. Those ceramic tubes make fine knife sharpeners.
Romex, is the most common, worldwide residential wiring method, in use, that I'm aware of.
delcrossv, I's truly been enjoyable, reminiscing, and discussing the electric trade, with you.
Chubbo
You're right, I did forget Greenlee KO punches, and also hacksaws, to cut EMT. EMT, I cut with a small tubing cutter, using a method that I devised myself, I scored the EMT, with a tubing cutter, then broke it into, leaving the EMT with perfect inside/outside edges, and if there was a slight burr on the inside edge, it could be removed with one swipe of a hawk billed knife.
You stated that I must have worked at a station. What kind of a station did you mean? I've worked in gasoline filling stations, Coal fired power stations, and nuclear power stations.
Solder & tape joints, used in residential, knob & tube wiring were made, by scarping the wires, clean, twisting them together, applying solder paste, and then dipping them into molten solder, contained in the solder pot, or dipper. The solder pot was heated with a large blow torch. Overhead wires were pointed downward, and a dipper of molten lead was slid up over those wires thereby coating them with lead. I've been retired since 1994, and don't know if Knob & tube wiring is still used. It is considered, with its many flaws, to be the best residential system ever devised. Those ceramic tubes make fine knife sharpeners.
Romex, is the most common, worldwide residential wiring method, in use, that I'm aware of.
delcrossv, I's truly been enjoyable, reminiscing, and discussing the electric trade, with you.
Chubbo
Me too, Chubbo, me too.
As soon as you started talking about setting brushes, i figured you worked at a power (not gas ) station
As soon as you started talking about setting brushes, i figured you worked at a power (not gas
) stationI remember using a star drill and a hammer to drill holes in concrete block while helping my dad wire some buildings. No wonder dad had Popeye arms...
How to Hand Drill Holes in Stone and Concrete - Core77
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How to Hand Drill Holes in Stone and Concrete - Core77
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