New use for a bandsaw

The feckless suffer and bleat pitifully while the competent improvise, get 'er done -- and then help others. Careful, you may have just earned a place on Gunner's list of "survivalists"...

Now THERE is thinking outside the box. Using your bandsaw to pump out the basement.....

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

Indeed.

"adapt, improvise, overcome"

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

Ayup! :)

Among the ways to perform a task successfully are: Money, Mind, and Muscle. Lacking the first, the other two may have to do, and often will if carefully applied.

That I wouldn't have thought of when I had too much water, and a burned out sumppump

Ended up using some powerheads from the fishtank.

All those years I thought thos GPH rates on those little things were all BS, but was pleasantly surprised on how much, and how high those could lift/move water

Let the record show that Gunner Asch wrote back on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:17:02 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

And here I thought he'd figured some way to use the bandsaw to "fling" water. All he did was figure out how to use the coolant pump on his bandsaw to pump water ... still a clever application, and the ability to see the operation part of "coolant pump" is "pump".

Like the time I needed to keep some candles dry, and was trying to figure out how to wrap them in plastic wrap, when She Who is So Smart says "Use a Condom." that's how I got the flat forehead; "Well," smack!, "Du'h!". :-)

tschus pyotr

I'm told it's also good way to keep the moisture away from your Land Rover ignition coil if you're a serious off-roading fan.

Chris

Yes, the "nebish" guys wander around the parking lot asking, "Anybody got any jumper cables?".

The smart ones, fewer in number every day, have a set in their trunks and are usually willing to stop and help the suffering.

(But rarely need them to start their own cars because they keep their vehicles maintained and remember to shut lights and stuff off.)

Jeff

Many years back I was in Sweden. They had recently found and retrieved the well-preserved hulk of a ship, the Wasa, built in 1628. It was on exhibit in a new museum. The story, as I recall it, was that king Gustav II ordered the ship built, and then got involved in the engineering. He insisted on adding huge amounts of armor to the ship's walls. On it's maiden voyage, it capsized and sank before leaving the harbor.

I have saved a 100 Kronor note from that time (1977). The note has a big picture of the king in profile. The top of his head in this portrait slopes back at about 45 degrees. It cracked me up. I assumed it got that way from slapping his forehead after the Wasa sunk.

......... The story, as I recall it, was that king Gustav

So today we have Congress engineering health care, is it any wonder it's sinking? ;)

"Take the saran wrap back to the kitchen and put all your faith in the Pill" - early '60s rural mantra Gerry :-)} London, Canada

My 1960 Austin (4 cyl.) got a rubber glove over the distributer which was located in the direct splash zone of the right wheel, wich, in Canada, hits every puddle on the road. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

"Gerald Miller" wrote: clip)"Take the saran wrap back to the kitchen and put all your faith in the Pill" (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A guy walked into the coffee group the other morning and said, "I heard that high school kids are using Saranwap in lieu of condoms. I wonder why...easy to come by, I suppose."

Gunner would have plumbed his Quincy, if he can find it, and pumped it out in 12 minutes.

Yeah. And they make sure that their wives and daughters have jumper cables and know how to use them safely.

There was an interesting post on the Subaru newsgroup about synthetic oil and dead batteries. The gist was that cars with synthetic oil crank a lot easier in all weather and as a result, you don't know that your battery is getting weak. As a result, you come out one morning and it's totally gone instead of giving you a hint for a month....

I change mine every 5 years, minus a year for every time it gets deep-discharged, which has only been a couple of times over the last 10-15 years.

I was amazed that the original OEM batteries in our Ford Contours were still working flawlessly after 7 years in Minnesota, and one of them had been discharged to dead a couple of times. Our cars live outdoors all winter. There is no longer room in my garage for one car, much less two. (I have a very rare wife!) I replaced them with batteries from the Ford dealer. They were about $10 more than most aftermarket batteries, less than some from Sears.

blush...well...I do have a rather underutilized 1" water pump somewhere in the stacks of stuff. I got it from a guy who was going to use it for a fire pump, using his swimming pool as a reseviour, until he discovered the electric motor was 3 ph. I suspect it came out of the oil fields.

Never even fired it up. Not a lot of call for it here in the desert. Though..I suppose I could use the pressure washer..still need a nozzle/gun assembly for it. It too is 3ph, but I can handle that...

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

You dont have a vacuum sealer????? What the $%&^!! kind of survivalist are you???

Somebody slap him..hard!!

Btw...I got another tank of welding gas during the week, another freebe....guy gave me a 125CF tank filled with

As my son, the daughter in law and grand baby are living here now..I decided to have a bit of fun with them...so I dug through my Stuff and found an old Fiesta pack of resiviour tipped ribbed condoms, and filled a bright pink one with the gas...DAMN you can really blow them up! and tied string to one end..and carried it into the house tonight and gave it to the 18 month old grand baby. She loves balloons...and was toddling around the house with it. I went back outside and was working in the shop below an open window when it suddenly dawned on the kids what the balloon was.....

The old man still manages to mess with the kids heads pretty good sometimes

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

"Yeah. And they make sure that their wives and daughters have jumper cables and know how to use them safely. "

why do you assume that everyone with a uterus is an idiot??

FYI .... I just finished installing a rebuilt transmission in MY car which by the way saves us about $1200.

Keep your sexist comments to yourself please...