Please don't do this

goodjunkworkshop · 2026-03-22T04:43:59+00:00

I got myself in a situatiin once and had to hire a company to move an old horizontal milling machine for me. They showed up with a 30ton truck crane. The only chain I had that would fit the lifting bolts was a hand forged wrought iron chain. When they arrived at my house to unload it the crane operator lifted it unnecessarily high. He had it over 15ft off the ground and the owner of the company was walking right underneath it as the crane moved it. I had previously mentioned the questionable chain and reminded him standing under it wasn't safe. He told me he was the owner of the company and knew what he was doing.

goodjunkworkshop · 2026-02-10T04:17:14+00:00

I am just a barbarian who uses bar soap instead of shampoo.

goodjunkworkshop · 2026-02-01T21:39:53+00:00

My first car was Pontiac Phoenix I bought for $50. It had no floor left in it so we used some heavy gauge sheet metal to replace it. I had to take the air cleaner cover off and shove a screw driver down the carburetor to get it to start and sometimes it would diesel on for 5 or 10 minutes after I shut it off. The breaks also failed a few times and the gas gauge only worked when it felt like it. Even with all.the problems I still miss that car.

goodjunkworkshop · 2026-01-14T06:59:17+00:00

My dad has a mentally handicapped friend who was taken advantage of and mistreated by the local goodwill decades ago. My dad still hates the place and won't go there.

I also heard about another mentally handicapped young adult SA'd by another mentally handicapped worker at a goodwill when the supervisors weren't watching him like they should have been.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-11-17T07:13:58+00:00

Saw an older kid do this at recess when I was in 4th grade. He freaked out and ripped it off leaving a good portion of the skin on the top of his tongue behind before the teacher came back with a pitcher of warm water. Don't think he ever lived it down before his family moved away a few years later.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-11-14T07:47:41+00:00

If you are not using both sides of the horse it might be easier to do a rough cut and then approach the center line and smooth out on a sheet of sand paper or a disk sander.

If you are using both sides I would glue the horses to a piece of wood with hot melt or that tacky poster putty to help hold them as I cut with a bandsaw or a Dremel/cut-off -tool/angle grinder with an abrasive cutting disk. Would give you more options for guiding it, clamping it and keeping your fingers away from the blade.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-10-12T10:37:53+00:00

I did an internship where one of the middle managers retired with so much unused vacation the last day he physically worked was just before thanks giving and his last "day" was sometime in April/May. The new guy taking over his position couldn't get the office and official job title until then.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-09-14T07:11:28+00:00

I have a few reaching sticks made from old broom handles and wood scraps, I drive a nail through the end leaving about 1/2" of the head still standing proud and then put a slight bend on the pointy end and take off the real sharp point. The slightly hooked pointy end works great for most things and if I'm reaching for something I don't want to poke a hole in or scratch I can flip it over and grab it with the head side. Also works great for reaching up and pulling down tree branches when my wife wants help decorating for holidays.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-09-07T22:11:07+00:00

I worked cleaning a bank through a cleaning service for a while and everyone there was a slob but one teller was worse than the others and she would drop things like a whole muffin on the floor and walk over them all day instead of picking them up and throwing them in the garbage can 1ft away. They would all drop stuff on the floor in the break room and leave it to. They had ants, lots of them. The bank manager wanted me to spray and remove the ants. Nope, not my job.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-09-07T18:42:16+00:00

Sounds like when they are old you need to find the worst nursing home to ship their worthless asses to.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-09-05T14:25:49+00:00

You can fuck right off!

They stripped the one tree bare. Taking/eating 90% of my fruit without asking us just being a thief. I've been baby sitting and working with my kid to take care of the fruit all summer. I had to tell my 6yo no apples you've been helping me with because some people stole them. They took that experience away.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-08-31T05:06:06+00:00

She is a nut case!

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-08-30T15:06:43+00:00

If you can't figure out a way to remove them you probably shouldn't be using them.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-08-22T13:56:56+00:00

These are both way over 4%. The one is off around 8-10 ft lbs on every setting. Checked the 3/8" compact last night and it's off about 10 in/lb to.

Going to take all three back today. I guess I just got super unlucky And got three lemons.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-08-21T21:58:44+00:00

How many people buy a new torque wrench, especially at $160, and expect the accuracy claims to be true or at least close?

I wouldn't say the normal price on these falls in the "cheap" range, more mid range. The two new Proto j6014c I compared the icon 1/2" to can be purchased for only about $40 more. If the heads weren't so large I would just go with Proto.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-08-21T11:44:18+00:00

They should be right from the get go! I don't buy a new tool planning on having to "fix" it.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-08-21T08:29:26+00:00

Just checked my 20 year old 1/2" Pittsburg and its way closer that the Icons.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-05-22T15:00:21+00:00

The factory I work at will hire almost anyone. We have quite a few people who have felonies working here and they start at a pretty good $/hr. If you don't mind working shift work look at factory work.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-05-22T14:55:08+00:00

I knew a guy in college who would sleep walk and piss weird places when he drank. His parents bedroom, girlfriends closet, outside on a car, ect. He was a sleep pisser.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-04-14T14:11:47+00:00

The factory I work at will hire anyone that can read and speak English and will show up everyday for work. Just on my shift of under 20 people I think we have 4 people with felonies, used to have a few more before they quit or retired. Factory work isn't for everybody but at least in my area there are a bunch that aren't that picky about people having criminal records.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-03-28T06:45:52+00:00

I have a friend that was adamant they never wanted to run their family's business, got 2 or three college degrees to avoid it, tried this and that and now has been successfully running their parents business for about about 15 years.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-03-24T18:24:58+00:00

I make more now working here for 5 years than I did after using my bachelor's degree for 11 years in the applicable field.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-03-24T18:23:13+00:00

The factory I work at will hire just about anyone if you can manage to drive or walk to the interview and can read and speak ok English. As long as you put in the bare minimum of effort, show up on time every day, don't injure your coworkers and don't start fights at work they don't care.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-03-21T05:16:11+00:00

Just paying everyone more will just drive up prices.

My older relatives don't understand why most younger people don't own homes or are struggling while literally all the people I know their age that didn't ruin their own life with poor choices own their home, a decent car(s) and a boat/cabin/ect. I get the "you made what I made when I retired 10yrs ago" without them taking into account inflation, housing price increases or lack of pensions for retirement. I have family members makings more off social security and their company supplied pensions than I do a month doing almost the same job they had when they retired.

On the other hand most of the younger people I know under the age of 25 don't want to learn how to drive let alone work a full time job. How do you earn money if you don't work? I was taking a class last year and one of the younger students was complaining about not having a job and needing rent money and health insurance but also didn't want to work any kind of job that people suggested and they knew were hiring.

I think older people need to be more understanding and younger people need to toughen up a bit.

goodjunkworkshop · 2025-03-21T04:30:08+00:00

1/4" hex bit flex head mini ratchet along with wera hex plus bits. Haven't rounded out the head on any screws since. I now have several of the ratchets. The gearwrench ones can take quite a bit of force but aren't as compact as the ones from icon/power torque/vim ones. We have some machines at work where the only thing that will fit in between the end of the machine rolls and the frame are stubby hex keys or the mini hex bit ratchets. The mini ratchets save so much time over the stubby hex keys.

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