Of course, and thanks.
Roger that! Avg high for this day is 60 but as we hurtle toward global warming doom we had snow on the ground until noon today and the
10-day forecast shows highs mostly in the 40's with a coupla faint fifties.T-t-t-t-t-trick or t-t-t-t-treat! Maybe I'll hand out popsicles this year...
From a century ago, no less. Neat!
I have two such braces. Problem is clearance: some of the eyes had to go within a couple of inches of an upright.
GeoLane at PTD dot NET wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
He covered a variety of approaches. He started out working on time locks for the Walthm Watch company. Folks would ignore the annual maintenance, and the locks would fail. For big bank vaults, the best approach was to bust through a wall. For old safes, you can drill out the locking bar in the combination lock. He discussed all of the new tricks they have with tugsten carbide parts to make it hard to drill, and glass rods that activate extra locking mechanisms if they get broken. If you are a legit safe cracker, you have time to use approaches that are too slow for crooks. Safes are rated in terms of the number of hours it takes to bust in. As long as you have a security detail check up more often than that, you are in good shape.
Plenty of folks just use their birthday, or an anniversary for their combination. There were also lots of cases (like deceased store owners) where folks would write down the combination someplace, and the easiest thing was to find that. Frequently it was pretty convenient to the safe. The alarm code for my house was neaty written down in small print near to the alarm box when we moved in. Probably not where a thief would find it in time to disarm the alarm, but there if the homeowner (who knew where to look) forget the code.
Doug White
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:45:45 -0500, the infamous Don Foreman scrawled the following:
So, Don, who says you can't install an eye at an angle? Drill a shallow starter hole and go for it!
-- Seen on a bumper sticker: ARM THE HOMELESS
A very similar tool (sold for inserting and removing suspended ceiling threaded supports) is available at most lumber yards and home improvement stores. It works with most round screw eyes too!
Carla The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. --Mark Russell
I suppose I could -- but the cordless drill sure makes quick work of it.
I think the neat part is that we who have shops and skills can do this sort of thing. One can buy a shoulder bolt to replace the worn one holding the front wheel on the lawn mower. It only costs a couple of bux and only takes about 4 hours finding a dealer that has one and is open. Or...we can go to the lathe, make one in about 10 minutes, finish mowing the lawn and be sipping a brewski rather than standing in line somewhere only to be told that bolt was discontinued by the mfr in 1983. ("But the mower was made in 1991!" "Too bad, NEXT!")
A neat tool -- but I've got one which came as a part of a multi-style bit set (Allen, Torx, security versions of those, tri-wing and offset-wing Phillips and even a clutch head bit or two (how long since you've seen a clutch-head screw?).
The thing which puzzled me was a hex-shanked (like all the others) tool with a pot metal 'Y' cast onto the end. There is a groove in the inner faces of the 'Y', and I finally saw a web page offering a similar set of bits which explained that this was to drive screw eyes and cup hooks. Sure enough -- it works great for that.
Enjoy, DoN.
My lawnmower was made around 1955 and is slowly becoming completely home-made.
jsw
WHAT? No more swarfsicles? ;-)
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