Most Excellent, sir. Shall I send you a box of Femtex Bullet Hole Plugs for the trouble?
Hanging is best since you can see the tooth pattern completely.
Yeah, I figured you'd be close to there when working in the blighted area.
Or bake it off?
Danke mucho, monsieur.
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Hey, that's great!
I think I can handle that. Let me know how much to send you for the shipping.
Agreed.
Perhaps if you saved the punch cards, you could use them to separate layers of files.
How about the expanding plastic jackets used to protect motor shafts and to bundle cables?
[ ... ]I've never tried this.
Got any files made for aluminum? They are easier to clean if they get used on aluminum. :-)
Enjoy, DoN.
They wouldn't last long, but that would work.
Rather than buy a $100 tool, I found some 6" x 9" x 8mil poly bags and am using them to sort stuff in my BOB. A straw inserted into them sucks out excess air and low-vacuum seals them.
PVC tubes mounted on the side of the workbench work for me to store files. remember to put a cap on the bottom end of the tube.
John
How about some of the heavy vinyl used to make good quality canopies. I get scraps fro a local factory, and most are a couple square feet in different shapes. I have some long strips that are six inches wide. Heavy, mostly black pieces and reinforced. I'm looking for an old industrial sewing machine to make equipment covers, but I have a steady supply. I also get scraps of the heavy vinyl screening they make their dividers out of.
There's always the option of labeling the tang or handle. LLoyd
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oil will make that stuff turn to goo in short order. Lloyd
What happens if you forget to put a cap on the bottom ?
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He's probably afraid all the oil would leak out. With golf balls as handles, it's unlikely the files would fall through
I know they're a couple of bux each, but what's wrong with a proper file handle with a reinforced ferrule?
LLoyd
Nothing wrong with proper file handles. But I have a lot of files, maybe 50 to 75, and golf balls actually work well. I get the golf balls at garage sales at about 10 cents each. Drill a small hole in the golf ball and force the tang into it. A lot better than no handle. Try it before saying it is not reasonable.
Dan
I've never seen an IBM punch card drawer before.
Thrown in the box?
I've never used a file with a handle. I've heard of them before, though.
I hope you've never been caught on their property unwanted.
Muriatic acid is also a great drain cleaner after using bleach for some odd weeks. Also, after you wash your car, using muriatic acid on the hub caps will give them such a shine that its like they will glow.
And brake fluid, nail polish remover, white gas or isoprop. alcohol.
Yeah, the stuff and aluminum in any form can cause fires, too.
That's why I dislike the electrical industry, because they approved of aluminum wiring. It can cause fires easier than copper.
I learned to draw-file long ago, no handle needed
They will be sharper after an acid bath, but they won't cut flat anymore.
MikeB
Like my 39 year old Xcelite 99SM roll tool kit? It's starting to dry out & crack, but it never turned to goo. I've had it since Augst '74 and carried it on service calls for over a decade. A lot of oil was put on those tools over the years.
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I guess it's what is in the oil. I have a Service Master kit, too, and most of two of their suitcase kits, and wouldn't trade them for the world. You and I must've gotten into the trade at the same time. My first (owned) one was around April of '74.
The only oil I ever got on my Xcelite tools was light non-detergent "turbine oil", like sewing machine oil, since that's the stuff used in most electronics. As you said truly enough, it never hurt it.
I've had peanut oil-based coolant wreck heavy vinyl in short order... and I've had canopy-canvas of the sort on golf cart rain huts go bad from exposure to regular high-detergent motor oil.
So I guess YMMV, depending upon the oil you get on it. It probably has to do with whether or not the oil and the plasticizers are co-solvents.
Anybody else want to guess how a high-sulfur cutting oil will affect vinyl? I'm still picking 'no good'.
LLoyd
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