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Remembering how to tie my shoes, going back for a do-rag
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:23:51 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 7/6/2020 2:05 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 6 July 2020 13:05:44 UTC-4, AMuzi wrote: On 7/6/2020 11:37 AM, Lou Holtman wrote: On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 7:44:15 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:53:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/5/2020 6:47 PM, John B. wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:38:07 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/4/2020 10:42 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski wrote: On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 7:39:23 PM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 12:54:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/3/2020 10:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:21:57 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: For Jeff: The downside is I won't learn as much about glue and rubber technology. (But thanks for that technical content.) No problem. Looks like you've solved your shoe problem. You may not be learning much about glue and rubber: http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/hot-melt-glue/index.html Hmm. If I'd seen that a few weeks ago, I might have continued using the old cycling shoes! I thought that might get your attention. Good to know that I'm not the only person who repairs their own shoes: http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/drivel/index.html#shoes.jpg The reason for replacing my old shoes was a chunk of black sole rubber disappeared. It didn't affect their cycling utility, but it looked weird and seemed a harbinger of further trouble. Well, there's another tool you might find useful. It's called a hot air SMD (surface mount) desoldering station. It uses hot air to melt solder, but will work just as well on hot melt glue: https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+air+smd+desoldering+station&tbm=isch The problem it solves is re-melting the hot melt glue after you've applied it, and discovered that there are voids or areas that didn't "stick". You'll need a few nozzles to concentrate the heat. A hardware store heat gun might also work on low-temp hot melt glue. You'll also need the accessory nozzles to concentrate the heat. I've got a heat gun. If necessary, I'll try to cobble together a nozzle for that. I'm at the stage where I'm trying to minimize purchase of new special purpose tools I'll seldom use. It's sad, I know! But your photo interested me enough to go shopping. While sitting at my computer, of course (but wearing pants). I'm having Jeff B send me some black hot melt glue, which until your photo, I didn't know existed. I can also send you some of mine. Just one problem. I probably have 100 sticks of the black glue, but don't know who made it or the part number. No need to send it, thanks. Jeff Bezos just promised to have it here tomorrow. I'm hoping he'll deliver it personally. He and I go way back. But it is too bad some of us are as distant as we are. I can envision a colony of like-minded repair freaks trading tools, equipment and experience. Not to mention obsolete bike parts! One guy I knew, kind of well-to-do in a nice suburban home, said "Look at this. It's crazy. I've got thousands of bucks sunk into a riding mower, a snow blower, a rototiller, a weed whacker, a chainsaw and more. And so does my next door neighbor and the guy across the street and the guy next to him. We should have just bought one set of equipment and shared it!" There used to be companies that did that as a business. You needed a jack-hammer for a couple of days to break up the driveway you could rent one, along with the air compressor to power it. Are those sort of places all gone now? They still exist, and I've used them, but for one-off rentals of things I would use only once. One example was a trenching machine for when I ran new downspout drains. Another was a huge electric chiseler when I had to cut a new opening into my chimney. The items I listed above are things that would be used much more often. I actually did what I said regarding a riding mower. Our elderly neighbors moved into assisted living and their son put the riding mower at the street with a low price tag. The really nice guy across the street complained endlessly about how hard he worked at mowing his lawn, so much so that he briefly tried to sell his house. I like him living there, so I told him about the mower and he said the price was still a lot of money for him. So we bought it together, which was almost entirely charity on my part. I'm now half owner of a machine I use only a couple times a year. See, I still don't like cutting grass. Besides, our lot is complicated by a huge number of trees, shrubs and other landscaping. So I pay the young guys next door to mow it. Good Lord! How much land does you neighbor have that mowing the lawn in a back breaking task? Granted I haven't mowed a lawn in years and years but I used to. Front and Back lawns, Sunday morning, rake and edge. Done long before Lunch. -- Cheers, John B. Do you set a minimum how much land one should have before one is allowed to call lawn mowing a back breaking task? One of your not so bright posts. Your own experience always goes back 50 or more years. Pff.. Lou, mowing laws is one of the most stupid garden tasks I'm with you in principle but there are two not-obvious factors. One is the tick population which can be greatly reduced with shorter vegetation[1] Then there's regulatory punishment of the citizenry. First grass ticket of the year is $100, second $200 and so on. Neither may affect you but they have significance. [1]https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/tick/lyme-data.htm -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 People need to modify their push lawn mowers into bicycle powered lawn mowers. It's a great use for a lot of theose BSO things. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=is...Zw&sclient=img When Bike Nashbar had its headquarters here, they briefly sold something like that. I talked to a couple of their employees (my friends) who tried it. Nobody claimed it was any good. Well, that is because of the pitiful weak power supply. Fit something like a B&S 1.5 h.p. gasoline motor and you'll be racing around the lawn :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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Remembering how to tie my shoes, going back for a do-rag
John B. wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:23:51 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/6/2020 2:05 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Monday, 6 July 2020 13:05:44 UTC-4, AMuzi wrote: On 7/6/2020 11:37 AM, Lou Holtman wrote: On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 7:44:15 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:53:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/5/2020 6:47 PM, John B. wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:38:07 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/4/2020 10:42 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski wrote: On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 7:39:23 PM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 12:54:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/3/2020 10:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:21:57 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: For Jeff: The downside is I won't learn as much about glue and rubber technology. (But thanks for that technical content.) No problem. Looks like you've solved your shoe problem. You may not be learning much about glue and rubber: http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/hot-melt-glue/index.html Hmm. If I'd seen that a few weeks ago, I might have continued using the old cycling shoes! I thought that might get your attention. Good to know that I'm not the only person who repairs their own shoes: http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/drivel/index.html#shoes.jpg The reason for replacing my old shoes was a chunk of black sole rubber disappeared. It didn't affect their cycling utility, but it looked weird and seemed a harbinger of further trouble. Well, there's another tool you might find useful. It's called a hot air SMD (surface mount) desoldering station. It uses hot air to melt solder, but will work just as well on hot melt glue: https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+air+smd+desoldering+station&tbm=isch The problem it solves is re-melting the hot melt glue after you've applied it, and discovered that there are voids or areas that didn't "stick". You'll need a few nozzles to concentrate the heat. A hardware store heat gun might also work on low-temp hot melt glue. You'll also need the accessory nozzles to concentrate the heat. I've got a heat gun. If necessary, I'll try to cobble together a nozzle for that. I'm at the stage where I'm trying to minimize purchase of new special purpose tools I'll seldom use. It's sad, I know! But your photo interested me enough to go shopping. While sitting at my computer, of course (but wearing pants). I'm having Jeff B send me some black hot melt glue, which until your photo, I didn't know existed. I can also send you some of mine. Just one problem. I probably have 100 sticks of the black glue, but don't know who made it or the part number. No need to send it, thanks. Jeff Bezos just promised to have it here tomorrow. I'm hoping he'll deliver it personally. He and I go way back. But it is too bad some of us are as distant as we are. I can envision a colony of like-minded repair freaks trading tools, equipment and experience. Not to mention obsolete bike parts! One guy I knew, kind of well-to-do in a nice suburban home, said "Look at this. It's crazy. I've got thousands of bucks sunk into a riding mower, a snow blower, a rototiller, a weed whacker, a chainsaw and more. And so does my next door neighbor and the guy across the street and the guy next to him. We should have just bought one set of equipment and shared it!" There used to be companies that did that as a business. You needed a jack-hammer for a couple of days to break up the driveway you could rent one, along with the air compressor to power it. Are those sort of places all gone now? They still exist, and I've used them, but for one-off rentals of things I would use only once. One example was a trenching machine for when I ran new downspout drains. Another was a huge electric chiseler when I had to cut a new opening into my chimney. The items I listed above are things that would be used much more often. I actually did what I said regarding a riding mower. Our elderly neighbors moved into assisted living and their son put the riding mower at the street with a low price tag. The really nice guy across the street complained endlessly about how hard he worked at mowing his lawn, so much so that he briefly tried to sell his house. I like him living there, so I told him about the mower and he said the price was still a lot of money for him. So we bought it together, which was almost entirely charity on my part. I'm now half owner of a machine I use only a couple times a year. See, I still don't like cutting grass. Besides, our lot is complicated by a huge number of trees, shrubs and other landscaping. So I pay the young guys next door to mow it. Good Lord! How much land does you neighbor have that mowing the lawn in a back breaking task? Granted I haven't mowed a lawn in years and years but I used to. Front and Back lawns, Sunday morning, rake and edge. Done long before Lunch. -- Cheers, John B. Do you set a minimum how much land one should have before one is allowed to call lawn mowing a back breaking task? One of your not so bright posts. Your own experience always goes back 50 or more years. Pff.. Lou, mowing laws is one of the most stupid garden tasks I'm with you in principle but there are two not-obvious factors. One is the tick population which can be greatly reduced with shorter vegetation[1] Then there's regulatory punishment of the citizenry. First grass ticket of the year is $100, second $200 and so on. Neither may affect you but they have significance. [1]https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/tick/lyme-data.htm -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 People need to modify their push lawn mowers into bicycle powered lawn mowers. It's a great use for a lot of theose BSO things. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=is...Zw&sclient=img When Bike Nashbar had its headquarters here, they briefly sold something like that. I talked to a couple of their employees (my friends) who tried it. Nobody claimed it was any good. Well, that is because of the pitiful weak power supply. Fit something like a B&S 1.5 h.p. gasoline motor and you'll be racing around the lawn :-) -- Cheers, John B. Too many corners on your average lawn and not enough straightaways. |
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Remembering how to tie my shoes, going back for a do-rag
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:25:24 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 7/6/2020 6:41 PM, John B. wrote: On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 09:37:10 -0700 (PDT), Lou Holtman wrote: On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 7:44:15 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:53:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/5/2020 6:47 PM, John B. wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:38:07 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/4/2020 10:42 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski wrote: On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 7:39:23 PM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 12:54:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/3/2020 10:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:21:57 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: For Jeff: The downside is I won't learn as much about glue and rubber technology. (But thanks for that technical content.) No problem. Looks like you've solved your shoe problem. You may not be learning much about glue and rubber: http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/hot-melt-glue/index.html Hmm. If I'd seen that a few weeks ago, I might have continued using the old cycling shoes! I thought that might get your attention. Good to know that I'm not the only person who repairs their own shoes: http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/drivel/index.html#shoes.jpg The reason for replacing my old shoes was a chunk of black sole rubber disappeared. It didn't affect their cycling utility, but it looked weird and seemed a harbinger of further trouble. Well, there's another tool you might find useful. It's called a hot air SMD (surface mount) desoldering station. It uses hot air to melt solder, but will work just as well on hot melt glue: https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+air+smd+desoldering+station&tbm=isch The problem it solves is re-melting the hot melt glue after you've applied it, and discovered that there are voids or areas that didn't "stick". You'll need a few nozzles to concentrate the heat. A hardware store heat gun might also work on low-temp hot melt glue. You'll also need the accessory nozzles to concentrate the heat. I've got a heat gun. If necessary, I'll try to cobble together a nozzle for that. I'm at the stage where I'm trying to minimize purchase of new special purpose tools I'll seldom use. It's sad, I know! But your photo interested me enough to go shopping. While sitting at my computer, of course (but wearing pants). I'm having Jeff B send me some black hot melt glue, which until your photo, I didn't know existed. I can also send you some of mine. Just one problem. I probably have 100 sticks of the black glue, but don't know who made it or the part number. No need to send it, thanks. Jeff Bezos just promised to have it here tomorrow. I'm hoping he'll deliver it personally. He and I go way back. But it is too bad some of us are as distant as we are. I can envision a colony of like-minded repair freaks trading tools, equipment and experience. Not to mention obsolete bike parts! One guy I knew, kind of well-to-do in a nice suburban home, said "Look at this. It's crazy. I've got thousands of bucks sunk into a riding mower, a snow blower, a rototiller, a weed whacker, a chainsaw and more. And so does my next door neighbor and the guy across the street and the guy next to him. We should have just bought one set of equipment and shared it!" There used to be companies that did that as a business. You needed a jack-hammer for a couple of days to break up the driveway you could rent one, along with the air compressor to power it. Are those sort of places all gone now? They still exist, and I've used them, but for one-off rentals of things I would use only once. One example was a trenching machine for when I ran new downspout drains. Another was a huge electric chiseler when I had to cut a new opening into my chimney. The items I listed above are things that would be used much more often. I actually did what I said regarding a riding mower. Our elderly neighbors moved into assisted living and their son put the riding mower at the street with a low price tag. The really nice guy across the street complained endlessly about how hard he worked at mowing his lawn, so much so that he briefly tried to sell his house. I like him living there, so I told him about the mower and he said the price was still a lot of money for him. So we bought it together, which was almost entirely charity on my part. I'm now half owner of a machine I use only a couple times a year. See, I still don't like cutting grass. Besides, our lot is complicated by a huge number of trees, shrubs and other landscaping. So I pay the young guys next door to mow it. Good Lord! How much land does you neighbor have that mowing the lawn in a back breaking task? Granted I haven't mowed a lawn in years and years but I used to. Front and Back lawns, Sunday morning, rake and edge. Done long before Lunch. -- Cheers, John B. Do you set a minimum how much land one should have before one is allowed to call lawn mowing a back breaking task? One of your not so bright posts. Your own experience always goes back 50 or more years. Pff.. Lou, mowing laws is one of the most stupid garden tasks One assumes that defining something as "back breaking" is probably a matter of the amount of work rather than the distance traveled. As my experience, I haven't lived in a house with a lawn since I left the U.S. and yes it was 47 years ago. But if one doesn't want to be bothered with mowing a lawn, then why does one have a lawn? That makes me curious about your area. Are the houses separated, as they are in suburban America (as opposed to apartment buildings or row houses)? If so, what's the ground like between the houses? There isn't usually much land between houses here. Land is expensive and that is what you buy and own. Generally speaking taxes are levied on the land that you own, not the structure on the land - at least for the usual family housing. In the cities, particularly, houses will likely be built to about 1 meter from the boundary line on all sides and be surrounded by a 7 or 8 foot solid concrete fence. The place that we own is a bit different in that it is in a residential housing development, about a kilometer from the village and is built on a lot that is comprised of three normal housing lots so we have a lot of land around the house, but no lawn. Instead we've got trees, coconut trees, banana trees, longan, jackfruit, you name it, but no grass :-) In the rural areas, generally speaking, people live in villages and own agriculture land outside the village rather then living on a "farm" and in the villages houses are built, just as in the cities, close together. Of course there are Mansions, or at least "rich folks houses" that do have lawns but those places have people to mow their lawn for them :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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Remembering how to tie my shoes, going back for a do-rag
On 07/07/2020 00:53, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:05:38 -0500, AMuzi wrote: On 7/6/2020 11:37 AM, Lou Holtman wrote: On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 7:44:15 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:53:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/5/2020 6:47 PM, John B. wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:38:07 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/4/2020 10:42 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski wrote: On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 7:39:23 PM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 12:54:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/3/2020 10:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:21:57 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: For Jeff: The downside is I won't learn as much about glue and rubber technology. (But thanks for that technical content.) No problem. Looks like you've solved your shoe problem. You may not be learning much about glue and rubber: http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/hot-melt-glue/index.html Hmm. If I'd seen that a few weeks ago, I might have continued using the old cycling shoes! I thought that might get your attention. Good to know that I'm not the only person who repairs their own shoes: http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/drivel/index.html#shoes.jpg The reason for replacing my old shoes was a chunk of black sole rubber disappeared. It didn't affect their cycling utility, but it looked weird and seemed a harbinger of further trouble. Well, there's another tool you might find useful. It's called a hot air SMD (surface mount) desoldering station. It uses hot air to melt solder, but will work just as well on hot melt glue: https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+air+smd+desoldering+station&tbm=isch The problem it solves is re-melting the hot melt glue after you've applied it, and discovered that there are voids or areas that didn't "stick". You'll need a few nozzles to concentrate the heat. A hardware store heat gun might also work on low-temp hot melt glue. You'll also need the accessory nozzles to concentrate the heat. I've got a heat gun. If necessary, I'll try to cobble together a nozzle for that. I'm at the stage where I'm trying to minimize purchase of new special purpose tools I'll seldom use. It's sad, I know! But your photo interested me enough to go shopping. While sitting at my computer, of course (but wearing pants). I'm having Jeff B send me some black hot melt glue, which until your photo, I didn't know existed. I can also send you some of mine. Just one problem. I probably have 100 sticks of the black glue, but don't know who made it or the part number. No need to send it, thanks. Jeff Bezos just promised to have it here tomorrow. I'm hoping he'll deliver it personally. He and I go way back. But it is too bad some of us are as distant as we are. I can envision a colony of like-minded repair freaks trading tools, equipment and experience. Not to mention obsolete bike parts! One guy I knew, kind of well-to-do in a nice suburban home, said "Look at this. It's crazy. I've got thousands of bucks sunk into a riding mower, a snow blower, a rototiller, a weed whacker, a chainsaw and more. And so does my next door neighbor and the guy across the street and the guy next to him. We should have just bought one set of equipment and shared it!" There used to be companies that did that as a business. You needed a jack-hammer for a couple of days to break up the driveway you could rent one, along with the air compressor to power it. Are those sort of places all gone now? They still exist, and I've used them, but for one-off rentals of things I would use only once. One example was a trenching machine for when I ran new downspout drains. Another was a huge electric chiseler when I had to cut a new opening into my chimney. The items I listed above are things that would be used much more often. I actually did what I said regarding a riding mower. Our elderly neighbors moved into assisted living and their son put the riding mower at the street with a low price tag. The really nice guy across the street complained endlessly about how hard he worked at mowing his lawn, so much so that he briefly tried to sell his house. I like him living there, so I told him about the mower and he said the price was still a lot of money for him. So we bought it together, which was almost entirely charity on my part. I'm now half owner of a machine I use only a couple times a year. See, I still don't like cutting grass. Besides, our lot is complicated by a huge number of trees, shrubs and other landscaping. So I pay the young guys next door to mow it. Good Lord! How much land does you neighbor have that mowing the lawn in a back breaking task? Granted I haven't mowed a lawn in years and years but I used to. Front and Back lawns, Sunday morning, rake and edge. Done long before Lunch. -- Cheers, John B. Do you set a minimum how much land one should have before one is allowed to call lawn mowing a back breaking task? One of your not so bright posts. Your own experience always goes back 50 or more years. Pff.. Lou, mowing laws is one of the most stupid garden tasks I'm with you in principle but there are two not-obvious factors. One is the tick population which can be greatly reduced with shorter vegetation[1] Then there's regulatory punishment of the citizenry. First grass ticket of the year is $100, second $200 and so on. Neither may affect you but they have significance. [1]r Interesting. But I read that to become infected the louse has to remain attached for 36 to 48 hours... Not in my case, about 6 hours was enough for me to contract Lymes disease. |
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On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 07:32:28 +0200, Tosspot
wrote: On 07/07/2020 00:53, John B. wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:05:38 -0500, AMuzi wrote: On 7/6/2020 11:37 AM, Lou Holtman wrote: On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 7:44:15 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:53:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/5/2020 6:47 PM, John B. wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:38:07 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/4/2020 10:42 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski wrote: On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 7:39:23 PM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 12:54:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/3/2020 10:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:21:57 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: For Jeff: The downside is I won't learn as much about glue and rubber technology. (But thanks for that technical content.) No problem. Looks like you've solved your shoe problem. You may not be learning much about glue and rubber: http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/hot-melt-glue/index.html Hmm. If I'd seen that a few weeks ago, I might have continued using the old cycling shoes! I thought that might get your attention. Good to know that I'm not the only person who repairs their own shoes: http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/drivel/index.html#shoes.jpg The reason for replacing my old shoes was a chunk of black sole rubber disappeared. It didn't affect their cycling utility, but it looked weird and seemed a harbinger of further trouble. Well, there's another tool you might find useful. It's called a hot air SMD (surface mount) desoldering station. It uses hot air to melt solder, but will work just as well on hot melt glue: https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+air+smd+desoldering+station&tbm=isch The problem it solves is re-melting the hot melt glue after you've applied it, and discovered that there are voids or areas that didn't "stick". You'll need a few nozzles to concentrate the heat. A hardware store heat gun might also work on low-temp hot melt glue. You'll also need the accessory nozzles to concentrate the heat. I've got a heat gun. If necessary, I'll try to cobble together a nozzle for that. I'm at the stage where I'm trying to minimize purchase of new special purpose tools I'll seldom use. It's sad, I know! But your photo interested me enough to go shopping. While sitting at my computer, of course (but wearing pants). I'm having Jeff B send me some black hot melt glue, which until your photo, I didn't know existed. I can also send you some of mine. Just one problem. I probably have 100 sticks of the black glue, but don't know who made it or the part number. No need to send it, thanks. Jeff Bezos just promised to have it here tomorrow. I'm hoping he'll deliver it personally. He and I go way back. But it is too bad some of us are as distant as we are. I can envision a colony of like-minded repair freaks trading tools, equipment and experience. Not to mention obsolete bike parts! One guy I knew, kind of well-to-do in a nice suburban home, said "Look at this. It's crazy. I've got thousands of bucks sunk into a riding mower, a snow blower, a rototiller, a weed whacker, a chainsaw and more. And so does my next door neighbor and the guy across the street and the guy next to him. We should have just bought one set of equipment and shared it!" There used to be companies that did that as a business. You needed a jack-hammer for a couple of days to break up the driveway you could rent one, along with the air compressor to power it. Are those sort of places all gone now? They still exist, and I've used them, but for one-off rentals of things I would use only once. One example was a trenching machine for when I ran new downspout drains. Another was a huge electric chiseler when I had to cut a new opening into my chimney. The items I listed above are things that would be used much more often. I actually did what I said regarding a riding mower. Our elderly neighbors moved into assisted living and their son put the riding mower at the street with a low price tag. The really nice guy across the street complained endlessly about how hard he worked at mowing his lawn, so much so that he briefly tried to sell his house. I like him living there, so I told him about the mower and he said the price was still a lot of money for him. So we bought it together, which was almost entirely charity on my part. I'm now half owner of a machine I use only a couple times a year. See, I still don't like cutting grass. Besides, our lot is complicated by a huge number of trees, shrubs and other landscaping. So I pay the young guys next door to mow it. Good Lord! How much land does you neighbor have that mowing the lawn in a back breaking task? Granted I haven't mowed a lawn in years and years but I used to. Front and Back lawns, Sunday morning, rake and edge. Done long before Lunch. -- Cheers, John B. Do you set a minimum how much land one should have before one is allowed to call lawn mowing a back breaking task? One of your not so bright posts. Your own experience always goes back 50 or more years. Pff.. Lou, mowing laws is one of the most stupid garden tasks I'm with you in principle but there are two not-obvious factors. One is the tick population which can be greatly reduced with shorter vegetation[1] Then there's regulatory punishment of the citizenry. First grass ticket of the year is $100, second $200 and so on. Neither may affect you but they have significance. [1]r Interesting. But I read that to become infected the louse has to remain attached for 36 to 48 hours... Not in my case, about 6 hours was enough for me to contract Lymes disease. I don't know, but that is what I read. https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/index.html "Finally, blacklegged ticks need to be attached for at least 24 hours before they can transmit Lyme disease. This is why it’s so important to remove them promptly and to check your body daily for ticks if you live in an endemic area." -- Cheers, John B. |
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On 7/6/2020 11:31 PM, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:25:24 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/6/2020 6:41 PM, John B. wrote: But if one doesn't want to be bothered with mowing a lawn, then why does one have a lawn? That makes me curious about your area. Are the houses separated, as they are in suburban America (as opposed to apartment buildings or row houses)? If so, what's the ground like between the houses? There isn't usually much land between houses here. Land is expensive and that is what you buy and own. Generally speaking taxes are levied on the land that you own, not the structure on the land - at least for the usual family housing. In the cities, particularly, houses will likely be built to about 1 meter from the boundary line on all sides and be surrounded by a 7 or 8 foot solid concrete fence. That's interesting. Over the years, we've had quite a few visitors (mostly touring cyclists) from other countries, plus a week-long visit from from friends from Dublin, Ireland. Others have remarked on our large yard (it's about 0.6 Acres), but the Irish friends were most astonished by the spread-out nature of America. "You have so much ROOM!" The place that we own is a bit different in that it is in a residential housing development, about a kilometer from the village and is built on a lot that is comprised of three normal housing lots so we have a lot of land around the house, but no lawn. Instead we've got trees, coconut trees, banana trees, longan, jackfruit, you name it, but no grass :-) In the rural areas, generally speaking, people live in villages and own agriculture land outside the village rather then living on a "farm" and in the villages houses are built, just as in the cities, close together. Of course there are Mansions, or at least "rich folks houses" that do have lawns but those places have people to mow their lawn for them :-) Thanks, that was interesting. (And we, in this tiny house, are lucky to have the young men next door to mow our lawn for us!) -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On 07/07/2020 07:55, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 07:32:28 +0200, Tosspot wrote: On 07/07/2020 00:53, John B. wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:05:38 -0500, AMuzi wrote: snip Interesting. But I read that to become infected the louse has to remain attached for 36 to 48 hours... Not in my case, about 6 hours was enough for me to contract Lymes disease. I don't know, but that is what I read. https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/index.html "Finally, blacklegged ticks need to be attached for at least 24 hours before they can transmit Lyme disease. This is why it’s so important to remove them promptly and to check your body daily for ticks if you live in an endemic area." What can I say? I had a snooze after a BBQ, picked a tick off at about 07:00, 2 days later I'm on industrial strength antibiotics. Classic bulls eye welt as well. It wasn't the worlds most difficult diagnosis :-) |
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On 7/7/2020 1:56 PM, Tosspot wrote:
On 07/07/2020 07:55, John B. wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 07:32:28 +0200, Tosspot wrote: On 07/07/2020 00:53, John B. wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:05:38 -0500, AMuzi wrote: snip Interesting. But I read that to become infected the louse has to remain attached for 36 to 48 hours... Not in my case, about 6 hours was enough for me to contract Lymes disease. I don't know, but that is what I read. https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/index.html "Finally, blacklegged ticks need to be attached for at least 24 hours before they can transmit Lyme disease. This is why it’s so important to remove them promptly and to check your body daily for ticks if you live in an endemic area." What can I say? I had a snooze after a BBQ, picked a tick off at about 07:00, 2 days later I'm on industrial strength antibiotics. Classic bulls eye welt as well. It wasn't the worlds most difficult diagnosis :-) That's a typical report and I know several people who suffered various degrees of Lyme pain and suffering. The longest I know of was overnight, most within hours. The worst part of it is that first symptoms are often not diagnosed as Lyme- swollen joint (knee, jaw, wrist), lethargy, headache- such that a lab test isn't requested until the infection is well established. Even worse, it seems there are many more variants than were known just 20 years ago. That means one may be infected repeatedly despite prior exposure. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 12:18:08 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 7/6/2020 11:31 PM, John B. wrote: On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:25:24 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/6/2020 6:41 PM, John B. wrote: But if one doesn't want to be bothered with mowing a lawn, then why does one have a lawn? That makes me curious about your area. Are the houses separated, as they are in suburban America (as opposed to apartment buildings or row houses)? If so, what's the ground like between the houses? There isn't usually much land between houses here. Land is expensive and that is what you buy and own. Generally speaking taxes are levied on the land that you own, not the structure on the land - at least for the usual family housing. In the cities, particularly, houses will likely be built to about 1 meter from the boundary line on all sides and be surrounded by a 7 or 8 foot solid concrete fence. That's interesting. Over the years, we've had quite a few visitors (mostly touring cyclists) from other countries, plus a week-long visit from from friends from Dublin, Ireland. Others have remarked on our large yard (it's about 0.6 Acres), but the Irish friends were most astonished by the spread-out nature of America. "You have so much ROOM!" Wait a while. Remember, the oldest parts of the U.S. are only about 400 years old. The place that we own is a bit different in that it is in a residential housing development, about a kilometer from the village and is built on a lot that is comprised of three normal housing lots so we have a lot of land around the house, but no lawn. Instead we've got trees, coconut trees, banana trees, longan, jackfruit, you name it, but no grass :-) In the rural areas, generally speaking, people live in villages and own agriculture land outside the village rather then living on a "farm" and in the villages houses are built, just as in the cities, close together. Of course there are Mansions, or at least "rich folks houses" that do have lawns but those places have people to mow their lawn for them :-) Thanks, that was interesting. (And we, in this tiny house, are lucky to have the young men next door to mow our lawn for us!) Way back when I was in grade school mowing lawns was a very common "job" for boys during the summer. A good friend, who was "car crazy" saved enough money from mowing lawns that he was able to buy an old second hand junker when he turned 16. -- Cheers, John B. |
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On 7/7/2020 5:29 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 7/7/2020 1:56 PM, Tosspot wrote: On 07/07/2020 07:55, John B. wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 07:32:28 +0200, Tosspot wrote: On 07/07/2020 00:53, John B. wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:05:38 -0500, AMuzi wrote: snip Interesting. But I read that to become infected the louse has to remain attached for 36 to 48 hours... Not in my case, about 6 hours was enough for me to contract Lymes disease. I don't know, but that is what I read. https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/index.html "Finally, blacklegged ticks need to be attached for at least 24 hours before they can transmit Lyme disease. This is why it’s so important to remove them promptly and to check your body daily for ticks if you live in an endemic area." What can I say?* I had a snooze after a BBQ, picked a tick off at about 07:00, 2 days later I'm on industrial strength antibiotics.* Classic bulls eye welt as well.* It wasn't the worlds most difficult diagnosis :-) That's a typical report and I know several people who suffered various degrees of Lyme pain and suffering.* The longest I know of was overnight, most within hours.* The worst part of it is that first symptoms are often not diagnosed as Lyme- swollen joint (knee, jaw, wrist), lethargy, headache- such that a lab test isn't requested until the infection is well established. Even worse, it seems there are many more variants than were known just 20 years ago. That means one may be infected repeatedly despite prior exposure. WE just recently watched a TV show on the Appalachian Trail. They talked about the value of snakes, like rattlesnakes, in reducing Lyme disease. They claimed rodents were the original source of the bacterium, and that ticks later transferred it to the humans who get infected. This year my wife wanted to practice "live and let live" with the chipmunks. I think I'm going to revise my strategy. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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