I always use that scheduling option to post the blog for the next day, and for some reason, I managed to get the thing programmed wrong for yesterday... And I didn't study it long enough to figure out what it was that I did wrong....
So I finally awakened to the fact that blog didn't post, because I didn't have any comments... I know it wasn't much of a blog, but usually someone will say something just to make a wise crack or something.... You know, kinda like a lot of my comments on your blogs.... Just to let you know I stopped by...
But today I got caught in my master plan of putting off that last Ikea book shelf until another day...... Right in the middle of the football game, but KC was loosing badly and stinking up the TV anyway... I grumbled, but it didn't do me any good... The jig was up...
So down in the basement I went with screw driver in hand... They had hex heads, so I had the T Handle allen wrench, but I got the wise idea of cutting off one of the little allen wrenches that came in the parts bag with the angle grinder... Then I stuffed it into my cordless drill.. Hey no sense making this last all day.!
But that didn't work so well, as the steel in the allen wrench from Sweden or where ever they get that stuff made, was sooo soft that with the drill behind it it rounded off the corners so quickly that I had a round piece of rod in the drill...
So I began to run the screws mostly down to the tight position and then finishing with the T Handle... I would have been much faster at it if I hadn't turned the TV onto the NASCAR race, which made me spend copious amounts of time catching all the wrecks and stuff....
Finally I rode off on the motor scooter to catch a burger and drop by my younger son's house.... They were out working on their very dead yard from this summer's nasty heat wave... It's coming back green somewhat, so they were raking up the dead part...
Tonight I spent most of the evening talking to a dear friend in Des Moines that I haven't seen in a couple of years..... We had a lot of catching up to do...
Anyway if you missed yesterday's post you can go back and read it if ya want...... Or maybe not........!
Retired Rod
WE TOOK THE MOTORHOME TO SALMON ARM FOR A FEW DAYS.
14 hours ago
I hate to assemble furniture anymore. I remember doing an Ikea bookshelf in about 1989 - got it assembled in no time and with no trouble. Now I can barely understand the instructions, and the assembly seems to be unnecessarily complicated.
ReplyDeleteI had to assemble so much of it when we first moved here that I went with the cut off driver idea. It only works if you set the clutch on your driver at a fairly low setting, otherwise you'll strip it for sure. Got so I didn't need the instructions too much after the first couple pieces.
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly an example of "function over form". We moved from a furnished house in the Netherlands (with actual closets!) to an bigger place here with nary a place to hang or store anything. I was busy.
Bob is right, the cordless will work if it is on a low torque setting, thats how I did mine last project after I rounded off the first one, or you can buy a set of black Rockwell hardened bits to go in the cordless.Having a ball at the rally, be safe out there. Sam & Donna...
ReplyDeleteI'm dreading having to put together this quilting frame together (but, that's a new expanded story I have to blog about soon) as I always seem to end up with extra bolts and nuts so I'm left wondering when the thing is going to fall apart.
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