Popular Post Square Wheels Posted August 1, 2020 Popular Post Share #1 Posted August 1, 2020 I have a need for a biscuit joiner, I will use it once now, and maybe not use it again for years. I like buying tools. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Longjohn ★ Posted August 1, 2020 Popular Post Share #2 Posted August 1, 2020 I like buying tools. I don’t buy very many anymore. By the time you reach 70 if you don’t already have it you probably don’t need it. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted August 1, 2020 Share #3 Posted August 1, 2020 Buying tools brings with it the anticipation of projects to come. Then there is the reality of cleaning the shop, garage, and basement. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Longjohn ★ Posted August 1, 2020 Popular Post Share #4 Posted August 1, 2020 Before last winter I did buy a big snow blower and a big generator. Worked like a charm , no snow and no power failures all winter. 2 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted August 1, 2020 Share #5 Posted August 1, 2020 I have tons of tools. I even have an adequate collection of 10 mm wrenches and sockets. My rule is if I'll probably never use the tool again, rent it. Otherwise buy it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted August 1, 2020 Share #6 Posted August 1, 2020 Just now, Longjohn said: Before last winter I did buy a big snow blower and a big generator. Worked like a charm , no snow and no power failures all winter. Same here except it was over 3 years ago and I finally needed to use the generator when we had an overnight power failure a few months ago. I also bought a set of mounted snow tires for WoJSTLs car a few years ago and didn't even bother to install them on the car the last two winters. Now that we are both retired, we really don't need to go anywhere if there's any snow or ice. I may put them on this winter as the tires will be nearing 7 years old. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted August 1, 2020 Share #7 Posted August 1, 2020 25 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: I have a need for a biscuit joiner, I will use it once now, and maybe not use it again for years. I like buying tools. What cha making ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_in Ray Of Sunshine Posted August 1, 2020 Share #8 Posted August 1, 2020 48 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: I have a need for a biscuit joiner, I will use it once now, and maybe not use it again for years. We can work on this together. I have a biscuit joiner. I am in the part of the cycle where I won’t be using it again for years. By the time I need it again, you will be done with it. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted August 1, 2020 Popular Post Share #9 Posted August 1, 2020 Not any more. So7 sells tools for a living. I can borrow whatever I need off of his truck. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 1, 2020 Share #10 Posted August 1, 2020 I only like buying cheap or fun tools. Cheap AND fun is the best, The best example is a pincher thingy, like spring-loaded very long needle nose pliers. I've used them a few times for difficult tasks and that is very satisfying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Square Wheels Posted August 1, 2020 Author Popular Post Share #11 Posted August 1, 2020 2 hours ago, Further said: What cha making ? Ripped out old carpeting. Tile floor underneath, wooden top step not flush with floor. Top had two layers of flooring. I am joining the new piece of floor to overhang the top step as oddly the double layer floor moves a bit. I will use 5 or so biscuits and a lot of construction adhesive and long flooring screws to make sure nothing moves. Having this installed in the tiny hallway and small office area. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #12 Posted August 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Old No. 7 said: Not any more. So7 sells tools for a living. I can borrow whatever I need off of his truck. I have a small, albeit relatively expensive, collection of Snap-Ons. I had most of my S-Ks stolen to support a cocaine habit and a decent paying job at the time. It’s mostly wrenches, sockets and plier-type tools. I’m thinking about adding a set of metric combos, maybe of the ratcheting flavor. The thing about Snap-On is that the price of the set is equal to the sum if the individual pieces. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #13 Posted August 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Old No. 7 said: Not any more. So7 sells tools for a living. I can borrow whatever I need off of his truck. Ask if he knows Stephen Dreger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #14 Posted August 2, 2020 24 minutes ago, jsharr said: Ask if he knows Stephen Dreger He said no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #15 Posted August 2, 2020 44 minutes ago, Old No. 7 said: He said no Ask if he knows Heywood Giablome or Hugh Jorgan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #16 Posted August 2, 2020 4 hours ago, Longjohn said: I like buying tools. I don’t buy very many anymore. By the time you reach 70 if you don’t already have it you probably don’t need it. I love buying tools. I'll be 70 when my house is rebuilt and State Farm is paying me the new, not the depreciated, value of my tools including a metal lathe, band saw, drill press, table saw, router & table, grinder, and more. I don't know how much I'm going to replace - but it will be fun! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #17 Posted August 2, 2020 4 hours ago, Square Wheels said: I have a need for a biscuit joiner, I will use it once now, and maybe not use it again for years. I like buying tools. Can you rent? I hate to have to buy specialized tools that I may not use again for a long time. That is why I use to make a deal with the LBS, that I would buy specialized tools he could use, and he would do my modifications or repairs. Worked out well for us over the years. This also the guy that would close his shop and come get me, if I had a real problem. He would also do this for cross country riders, and tell them to call if they had additional problems. I think he would drive 100miles to help a cyclist. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #18 Posted August 2, 2020 56 minutes ago, Old No. 7 said: He said no Stephen has been with snap on for over 30 years so I thought there was a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #19 Posted August 2, 2020 I'm a tool? Who wants to buy me? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #20 Posted August 2, 2020 1 minute ago, Dottles said: I'm a tool? Who wants to buy me? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #21 Posted August 2, 2020 Men and love of tools/weapons probably goes back to the time the first shaped-stone ones were invented hundreds of thousands of years ago. It's not widely known that, according to the legends, most of the city-state and island kings among the Greeks didn't want anything to do with the Trojan War - they were forced into it by an oath they had taken earlier involving beautiful Helen. On the Island of Skyros, their king was the greatest of all the Greek warriors, Achilles. But Achilles dress as a woman and hid from the messengers of King Agamemnon (I stood at his grave and in his bedroom at the ruins of Mycenae!). the brother-in-law of Helen and the #1 king in Greece. Achilles didn't want to fight the Trojans over some unfaithful woman! So the messengers of Agamemnon laid out two big tables in the main square of the island's city. One table had linen, clothing, jewelry, and the like. The other table had tools and weapons. When someone dressed as a woman began admiring the weapons, the messengers caught Achilles and delivered to call to arms. Similarly Odysseus - the guy who came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse than won the war and the main character in the Odyssey - was King of the Island of Ithaca. When the messengers came, he pretended to be insane and began plowing a field and sowing it with salt instead of seeds. The messengers placed a baby in front of Odysseus's path. He stopped, proving his sanity, and the call to arms was issued. The result - according to the legend - was that the Kings of Greece met at the Port of Aulis, bringing there 1200 ships, each filled with 80 warriors armed to the teeth with weapons of bronze. And so Helen was called, "The face that launched a thousand ships." In real life, there certainly was no Trojan was as told by Homer, etc. But, when 19th Century archeologists discovered the Troy of 1184 BC, They found the west wall of the city was the poorest built. In Homer's Iliad, he says the gods told the Greeks to attack the West wall. When Heinrich Schliemann was searching for Troy. He had runners run around various "Tels" in Turkey - large hills that build-up over the ages from dirt caught from the winds by the ruins of cities. They're all over the Middle East. When the time required to circle one particular tel matched the time of the one-on-one battle when Achilles killed Hector, circling the city, it turned out to be the site of Troy. When I was at Troy in 1996, I asked my companion to take a picture of me against a certain section of the Wall of Troy. She, a history major, remarked, "Oh, yeah, "The angle of Troy's wall!" I had notice how the wall wasn't close to straight up - it sloped back a lot, apparently due to being in an earthquake zone. In the Iliad, Homer wrote, "Three times brave Patroclus tried to scale THE ANGLE OF TROY'S WALL, and three times the god Apollo batted him back." Homer lived about 500 years AFTER the Trojan war, and much of his Iliad and Odyssey were surely passed down from other bards who sang in pubs and restaurants. SOMETHING happened. Among the ruins are signs of a siege, homes turned into bakeries. etc. Arrowheads are found among the destroyed areas. Echos of what really happened in terms of the walls and some of the action were clearly passed down. But it's more likely that the Trojans were charging a toll or raiding ships that traveled between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. between which they were situated. So the Greeks probably had enough and raided Troy and knocked it out for good. There were later cities built on the site which retained the name "Ilium" which Homers mentions a lot and was likely the city's real name. But the later cities weren't as strong. Also, Ilium is also mention in the Hittite records as being a vassal city of the Hittite Empire and the Greeks may have wanted to keep the Hittites far to the East and away from the Aegean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted August 2, 2020 Share #22 Posted August 2, 2020 I have a biscuit joiner on my wish list. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jsharr ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Popular Post Share #23 Posted August 2, 2020 17 minutes ago, MickinMD said: Men and love of tools/weapons probably goes back to the time the first shaped-stone ones were invented hundreds of thousands of years ago. It's not widely known that, according to the legends, most of the city-state and island kings among the Greeks didn't want anything to do with the Trojan War - they were forced into it by an oath they had taken earlier involving beautiful Helen. On the Island of Skyros, their king was the greatest of all the Greek warriors, Achilles. But Achilles dress as a woman and hid from the messengers of King Agamemnon (I stood at his grave and in his bedroom at the ruins of Mycenae!). the brother-in-law of Helen and the #1 king in Greece. Achilles didn't want to fight the Trojans over some unfaithful woman! So the messengers of Agamemnon laid out two big tables in the main square of the island's city. One table had linen, clothing, jewelry, and the like. The other table had tools and weapons. When someone dressed as a woman began admiring the weapons, the messengers caught Achilles and delivered to call to arms. Similarly Odysseus - the guy who came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse than won the war and the main character in the Odyssey - was King of the Island of Ithaca. When the messengers came, he pretended to be insane and began plowing a field and sowing it with salt instead of seeds. The messengers placed a baby in front of Odysseus's path. He stopped, proving his sanity, and the call to arms was issued. The result - according to the legend - was that the Kings of Greece met at the Port of Aulis, bringing there 1200 ships, each filled with 80 warriors armed to the teeth with weapons of bronze. And so Helen was called, "The face that launched a thousand ships." In real life, there certainly was no Trojan was as told by Homer, etc. But, when 19th Century archeologists discovered the Troy of 1184 BC, They found the west wall of the city was the poorest built. In Homer's Iliad, he says the gods told the Greeks to attack the West wall. When Heinrich Schliemann was searching for Troy. He had runners run around various "Tels" in Turkey - large hills that build-up over the ages from dirt caught from the winds by the ruins of cities. They're all over the Middle East. When the time required to circle one particular tel matched the time of the one-on-one battle when Achilles killed Hector, circling the city, it turned out to be the site of Troy. When I was at Troy in 1996, I asked my companion to take a picture of me against a certain section of the Wall of Troy. She, a history major, remarked, "Oh, yeah, "The angle of Troy's wall!" I had notice how the wall wasn't close to straight up - it sloped back a lot, apparently due to being in an earthquake zone. In the Iliad, Homer wrote, "Three times brave Patroclus tried to scale THE ANGLE OF TROY'S WALL, and three times the god Apollo batted him back." Homer lived about 500 years AFTER the Trojan war, and much of his Iliad and Odyssey were surely passed down from other bards who sang in pubs and restaurants. SOMETHING happened. Among the ruins are signs of a siege, homes turned into bakeries. etc. Arrowheads are found among the destroyed areas. Echos of what really happened in terms of the walls and some of the action were clearly passed down. But it's more likely that the Trojans were charging a toll or raiding ships that traveled between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. between which they were situated. So the Greeks probably had enough and raided Troy and knocked it out for good. There were later cities built on the site which retained the name "Ilium" which Homers mentions a lot and was likely the city's real name. But the later cities weren't as strong. Also, Ilium is also mention in the Hittite records as being a vassal city of the Hittite Empire and the Greeks may have wanted to keep the Hittites far to the East and away from the Aegean. It was a yes or no question I think 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #24 Posted August 2, 2020 Just now, jsharr said: It was a yes or no question I think Shirley you jest. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #25 Posted August 2, 2020 9 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said: Shirley you jest. No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #26 Posted August 2, 2020 1 minute ago, jsharr said: No Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #27 Posted August 2, 2020 It has to be said. We may join some biscuits this morning for breakfast. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #28 Posted August 2, 2020 9 hours ago, jsharr said: Stephen has been with snap on for over 30 years so I thought there was a chance. Is Stephen corporate or a franchisee? So7 is corporate but has only been there one year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted August 2, 2020 Share #29 Posted August 2, 2020 12 hours ago, Old No. 7 said: Not any more. So7 sells tools for a living. I can borrow whatever I need off of his truck. Will you be my friend? 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted August 2, 2020 Author Share #30 Posted August 2, 2020 9 hours ago, Kzoo said: I have a biscuit joiner on my wish list. I'll send you @F_in Ray Of Sunshine's, he's not using his. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_in Ray Of Sunshine Posted August 2, 2020 Share #31 Posted August 2, 2020 Just now, Square Wheels said: I'll send you @F_in Ray Of Sunshine's, he's not using his. ...after you get done not using it, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted August 2, 2020 Author Share #32 Posted August 2, 2020 Just now, F_in Ray Of Sunshine said: ...after you get done not using it, right? I'm using mine today. The lust won't wear off for a few days / weeks. I'll let him borrow mine in the winter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted August 2, 2020 Share #33 Posted August 2, 2020 3 hours ago, maddmaxx said: It has to be said. We may join some biscuits this morning for breakfast. I assumed a biscuit joiner was salted butter, or maybe jelly or jam? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted August 2, 2020 Share #34 Posted August 2, 2020 13 hours ago, Square Wheels said: Ripped out old carpeting. Tile floor underneath, wooden top step not flush with floor. Top had two layers of flooring. I am joining the new piece of floor to overhang the top step as oddly the double layer floor moves a bit. I will use 5 or so biscuits and a lot of construction adhesive and long flooring screws to make sure nothing moves. Having this installed in the tiny hallway and small office area. I have no idea what a biscuit joiner is, but if you need to eat two biscuits at once, I guess you should get one. Do they make a left-handed version for right-handed people? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_in Ray Of Sunshine Posted August 2, 2020 Share #35 Posted August 2, 2020 14 hours ago, Philander Seabury said: I only like buying cheap or fun tools. Hazard Fraught has your number, then. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #36 Posted August 2, 2020 35 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: I assumed a biscuit joiner was salted butter, or maybe jelly or jam? I use local unfiltered honey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Popular Post Share #37 Posted August 2, 2020 I used a cast iron biscuit joiner this morning 2 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #38 Posted August 2, 2020 34 minutes ago, F_in Ray Of Sunshine said: Hazard Fraught has your number, then. I splurged there for a roll of electrical tape there a while ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_in Ray Of Sunshine Posted August 2, 2020 Share #39 Posted August 2, 2020 Just now, Philander Seabury said: I splurged there for a roll of electrical tape there a while ago. I await the news of your house burning down, shortly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikeguy Posted August 2, 2020 Share #40 Posted August 2, 2020 11 hours ago, jsharr said: 11 hours ago, MickinMD said: Men and love of tools/weapons probably goes back to the time the first shaped-stone ones were invented hundreds of thousands of years ago. It's not widely known that, according to the legends, most of the city-state and island kings among the Greeks didn't want anything to do with the Trojan War - they were forced into it by an oath they had taken earlier involving beautiful Helen. On the Island of Skyros, their king was the greatest of all the Greek warriors, Achilles. But Achilles dress as a woman and hid from the messengers of King Agamemnon (I stood at his grave and in his bedroom at the ruins of Mycenae!). the brother-in-law of Helen and the #1 king in Greece. Achilles didn't want to fight the Trojans over some unfaithful woman! So the messengers of Agamemnon laid out two big tables in the main square of the island's city. One table had linen, clothing, jewelry, and the like. The other table had tools and weapons. When someone dressed as a woman began admiring the weapons, the messengers caught Achilles and delivered to call to arms. Similarly Odysseus - the guy who came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse than won the war and the main character in the Odyssey - was King of the Island of Ithaca. When the messengers came, he pretended to be insane and began plowing a field and sowing it with salt instead of seeds. The messengers placed a baby in front of Odysseus's path. He stopped, proving his sanity, and the call to arms was issued. The result - according to the legend - was that the Kings of Greece met at the Port of Aulis, bringing there 1200 ships, each filled with 80 warriors armed to the teeth with weapons of bronze. And so Helen was called, "The face that launched a thousand ships." In real life, there certainly was no Trojan was as told by Homer, etc. But, when 19th Century archeologists discovered the Troy of 1184 BC, They found the west wall of the city was the poorest built. In Homer's Iliad, he says the gods told the Greeks to attack the West wall. When Heinrich Schliemann was searching for Troy. He had runners run around various "Tels" in Turkey - large hills that build-up over the ages from dirt caught from the winds by the ruins of cities. They're all over the Middle East. When the time required to circle one particular tel matched the time of the one-on-one battle when Achilles killed Hector, circling the city, it turned out to be the site of Troy. When I was at Troy in 1996, I asked my companion to take a picture of me against a certain section of the Wall of Troy. She, a history major, remarked, "Oh, yeah, "The angle of Troy's wall!" I had notice how the wall wasn't close to straight up - it sloped back a lot, apparently due to being in an earthquake zone. In the Iliad, Homer wrote, "Three times brave Patroclus tried to scale THE ANGLE OF TROY'S WALL, and three times the god Apollo batted him back." Homer lived about 500 years AFTER the Trojan war, and much of his Iliad and Odyssey were surely passed down from other bards who sang in pubs and restaurants. SOMETHING happened. Among the ruins are signs of a siege, homes turned into bakeries. etc. Arrowheads are found among the destroyed areas. Echos of what really happened in terms of the walls and some of the action were clearly passed down. But it's more likely that the Trojans were charging a toll or raiding ships that traveled between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. between which they were situated. So the Greeks probably had enough and raided Troy and knocked it out for good. There were later cities built on the site which retained the name "Ilium" which Homers mentions a lot and was likely the city's real name. But the later cities weren't as strong. Also, Ilium is also mention in the Hittite records as being a vassal city of the Hittite Empire and the Greeks may have wanted to keep the Hittites far to the East and away from the Aegean. Read more It was a yes or no question I think Or Mick was sampling too much ouzo, then went into teaching mode and started to write a history lecture about tools, but he got distracted by Helen? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #41 Posted August 2, 2020 2 minutes ago, F_in Ray Of Sunshine said: I await the news of your house burning down, shortly. Non-electrical use. Biking use, in fact! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_in Ray Of Sunshine Posted August 2, 2020 Share #42 Posted August 2, 2020 Just now, Philander Seabury said: Non-electrical use. Biking use, in fact! Cool. I’m sure it will be a first and you will make the news when your bicycle goes up in flames. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #43 Posted August 2, 2020 3 hours ago, Old No. 7 said: Is Stephen corporate or a franchisee? So7 is corporate but has only been there one year. He works in an office here in Dallas. Started in a warehouse 30 years ago and now works in logistics are in some sort of call-center Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted August 2, 2020 Share #44 Posted August 2, 2020 Nice. So7 attended ten days of training in Dallas last year. He may know him or met him at the convention last year. He denies it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted August 2, 2020 Share #45 Posted August 2, 2020 Be forewarned, once you own a biscuit joiner, anything not joined will become a candidate for biscuiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted August 2, 2020 Share #46 Posted August 2, 2020 1 hour ago, donkpow said: Be forewarned, once you own a biscuit joiner, anything not joined will become a candidate for biscuiting. What makes biscuits better than dowls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted August 2, 2020 Author Share #47 Posted August 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Further said: What makes biscuits better than dowls It seemed a lot less fussy. The biscuits move left and right easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted August 2, 2020 Share #48 Posted August 2, 2020 29 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: It seemed a lot less fussy. The biscuits move left and right easily. The biscuits swell to fill the slot when glue is applied. 1 hour ago, Further said: What makes biscuits better than dowls I don't know. The tool is very precise and gives you repeatability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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