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Whitewater Woman's Equipment Maintenance and Repair

Nitro said:
Having spent a greater portion of my career in manufacturing taught me that any tool that makes a job easier is worth owning.

Work smarter, not harder

Demolition/construction tool:
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It can pull nails, twist studs into alignment, serve as a hammer and do prybar work
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Demolition/construction tool:
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Fairly universal piece of equipment that can serve in many capacities beyond a common prybar
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Red, adjustment slots
Yellow, wrench/stud twister
Blue,nail puller

The curved shoe on the bottom assists in nail pulling
The claw is adjustable so there is no need for a block of wood which is hardly ever the right size when you need it.
It can be used as a wrench in 1/2 inch increments up to six inches if needed.

It's not hoarding if it is tools :p
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I wish I'd been a little girl hanging on your every word when you were working. 🌞
 
My crowbar collection consists of nearly any size they ever made from a short hand sized one to a 3 footer.

I own two six foot digging bars and an assortment of common pinchbars from 4-6 foot long.

The hammer collection numbers well over 150 choices from ball peens to claws to sledgehammers to shot filled dead blows to rubber to birchbark to lead and brass.

The ball peen assortment goes from 2 ounce ones up to three pounders.
 
Own a lot of pipe tooling too, threaders, taps, vises, wrenches, cutters and deburring tools.
I can thread up to 2 inch pipe

All Rigid of course.
 
There is likely over 100K worth of automotive tools here, a fairly well equipped machineshop and metal fabrication tools.
(it's a gearhead thing)

(If I could ask for anything back in my lifetime, it would be all the cash sacrificed to the gods of speed and half of what I spent on gasoline :p )
 
Nitro said:
The hammer collection numbers well over 150 choices from ball peens to claws to sledgehammers to shot filled dead blows to rubber to birchbark to lead and brass. The ball peen assortment goes from 2 ounce ones up to three pounders.
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If it can't be fixed with a hammer then you need a bigger hammer. :)
 
Nitro said:
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I take duct tape on every canoe wilderness trip. I’ve fixed everything from sleeping bags to boats.
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So, I stopped yesterday at the Home Depot. I don’t know what possessed me to think that was a better choice than the more local hardware store where they actually do have staff that know something about hardware.

I finally corralled a youngster, who looked about 20, though probably older. He couldn’t figure it out. He went and got a supervisor who also puzzled over this. Finally the supervisor opened a package and using the screws I bought figured out I needed a number 25. Then we had to figure out which package actually had a number 25, because it is not clear from the packaging and there was no neat package like Nitro’s photo.

Then they forced me to use a self checkout which I told them I didn’t know how to use, so a staff person had to come over and do it for me.

Going to the big city takes a whole day, if you factor how tired I am by the time I get home.

This morning I put the #25 into the driver and Voila, the screws came out. Hurray! 🌟🌈

Thank you everyone for the advice, comments and humor.

Now, I have to go back and get more duct tape. ;)
 
Nitro said:
There is likely over 100K worth of automotive tools here, a fairly well equipped machineshop and metal fabrication tools.
(it's a gearhead thing)

(If I could ask for anything back in my lifetime, it would be all the cash sacrificed to the gods of speed and half of what I spent on gasoline :p )
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For any that doubt I have a metal shop inside of my home, here is my Grizzly 7X14 inch metal lathe on my diningroom table :p

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l am getting an education in fixing things from this post. l have hung a fan light combo and did the connections, helped installed a garbage disposal, and lots of painting. That's pretty much it.
 
ELECTRICAL PROBLEM? Or is it a bad dryer.

I won't bother you with the running up details, but as it stands right now, I have a BRAND NEW DRYER, delivered and installed YESTERDAY. It worked one dryer cycle and now will not work again.

I checked the breaker and it was fine. I reset the breaker anyway, just to make sure and pressed it hard so I am sure it is seated. I have reseated the plug - it is one of those big huge three pronged plugs (I think it is a 220V?)

No response from dryer.

The dryer people are going to try to tell me it is my problem, ie. an electrical problem in my house. If that's really what it is, okay. But how do I tell short of having the electrical people come out which is a minimum of $100 just to drive here.

How likely is it that there is something wrong with the dryer cord or the dryer electronics.

(Now, here is the whole story. They delivered it yesterday and it was all plugged in and no lights came on. They told me it was my electric problem. Breaker was fine, but I reset it anyway. Still didn't work. I reset the plug, and it worked fine. I did a load of laundry and dried it in the dryer. Today, I ran a load of laundry and put it in the dryer and there is no response from the dryer.)

Is this more likely my problem or theirs?

Thank you.
 
WhitewaterWoman said:
Breaker was fine, but I reset it anyway. Still didn't work. I reset the plug, and it worked fine. I did a load of laundry and dried it in the dryer. Today, I ran a load of laundry and put it in the dryer and there is no response from the dryer.)
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This makes me think there could be a problem with the wiring in the plug. 🤔 Or the socket the plug is plugged into. If it started working after you reset the plug. But I don't know, it's difficult to tell. Maybe you could post a picture of the plug?
 
Do you have anything to test that outlet with? Are you following all the dryer instructions? There may be a "Start" button to press or other quirk. Is the door sensor sticking, or a lint filter askew? These new machines can outsmart themselves.
 
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