So I’m snapping my layout lines for a tile floor layout while the thinset slakes. I’ve made all my marks…checked all for square….reworked the layout several times to have fewest, most discreet cuts….stretch the line….and ping! Line snaps. Annoying enough…but when I go to pull some fresh string out and try again, it don’t come. Ugh. Open the box. String is tangled beyond belief.
Ever notice how this never happens when you’ve got a spare sitting nearby all loaded with chalk?
I guess I shouldn’t complain. I’m usually three stories up on a roof when it happens.
Murphys Law nail you lately?
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
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Oh yeah. Just FRI, I was installing the circles for 1/2 round gutter...only 4 tiers up on the scaffold. I damm insert bit habitually will stay in the screw, until right before you can grab it, then commit suicide down to the mud below. I went throug 3 in a half hour.
The impact driver seems to wear out the sleeve type holders real fast.
The impact driver seems to wear out the sleeve type holders real fast.
Ya know...I think yer right. I used to swear by those things. Haven't bothered to pick one up lately. Seemed they jess weren't holdin' up anymore.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
Chalk boxes are horrible tools in terms of reliability. That's why I have about 7 of them... one day I went on a hissy fit in the hardware store and stocked up. Also have several dozen mechanical pencils laced throughout my various toolboxes, not less than 10 tape measures, and almost that many Stanley #199 knives (the knives last, but the blades always seem to be dull). Oh, and if you have more than one you don't have to remember so much where they are.
While this one has finally died its last death...it actually hung on pretty damned long as far as chalkboxes go.
Prolly about ten years.
Not that it hasn't snapped on me more than a few times in those years.....but, this was the biggie. I know I've got at least two others....jess gotta dig em outta lawd knows where.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
What are you going to do when the toolbox breaks?
Murphys Law nail you lately? ...
A couple of years ago (okay, more like 15, man time flies) one of our framers was snapping a line, nail holding the free end popped out, embeded in his eye!!!
Two years ago I had one last piece of drip edge to be all finished with some ladders I wanted to put away. It was real muddy but looked not too bad. I had my 16 year old son standing at the bottom of a fully extended 40 ft ladder as my safety. The dog came up to check progress and he moved his feet to turn around and pet it. Got me my first ambulance ride and a broken shoulder. The kid sure has been helpfull ever since and even pays attention which for a now 17 year old who thought he knew all there was to learn is a sign of progress.