Today, I fixed a 1/4″ Bostich stapler. I’ve had it for 6 years, no problems. The trigger thingy goes out, 30 bucks, 15 mins, it’s back bangin’
Last week Senco SFN40 stops setting nails. Had it for 7 tears and have used it daily. Driver’s busted off a little short…35 beans, 10 mins, wham bam nail up some more base Sam…
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General 350-T50-M25 Cabinet Saw. 5HP right tilting beast with extension table, and 50" T-fence. If only the electrician would put in my subpanel so I could use it......
Drills.
Drywall, Holeshooters, Sears, Makita, I can't tell you how many of those Variable speed reversible triggers I have replaced. It seems I get 3 years out of it then it is either full speed or none. I call up the repair center and buy a new trigger assembly, always UPS delivery as none are in stock.
15 to 25 bucks later I open Pandora's box. The 2 halves of the drill must be put together in zero gravity. I always do the repair in the kitchen as I know I'll be crawling on my hands and knees looking for a screw or spring.
Then I get another 3 years of remarkable service. Worse problem is that sometimes the reversing switch is reversed. I get used to it.
Here is another topic... Cell phones and water. I killed the last two phones in the water. One lost to a puddle when I had to make a choice between end of the day beer bottles in one hand, job notes in the other, and a slipping cell phone. The other slipped out of the truck ashtray and fell into an open cup of coffee. Don't they make these any of those things waterproof? I don't need to swim with it, I just need to have it survive the 10 second oops.
I've cracked them open with the T7.5 torx (with the hole in the center) and cleaned them with contact cleaner. Reassembled and they are DEAD. Come-on, these could be saved by 5 cents worth of conformal coating in the manufacturing stage. I smell a marketing conspiracy.
"Cell phones and water. I killed the last two phones in the water. . . . I smell a marketing conspiracy."
I hear ya, man. My cell phone provider made me buy insurance for the cell phone when he found out I was a contractor. $3.50 a month.
Maybe I shouldn't have told him I backfilled my last one.
DRC
When you call that foundation what does it say?
the average run around, nothing concreteHalf of good living is staying out of bad situations.
Forget the primal scream, just Roar!
I got my fill from that too.
You were digging deep to get that one.Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
Forget the primal scream, just Roar!
This brings up a very interesting topic, and maybe it should be a seperate thread BUT, I go through a cell phone every 4-5 months. I take them back, they see it, call it abuse and make me buy a new one for a couple hundred. Then I have to reprogram all my numbers(I never get the same model phone)
Why don't they make a contractor grade phone? They won't even sell me the insuranmce anymore, and I refuse to keep the thing in some foam lined, sterile environment. I only occasionally throw it, it has been in water(okay it was toilet water, but just prior to me whizzing)and has been filled with the occasional dirt, saw dust, drywall dust, doughnut dust...blah, blah, blah.
They all crack the case, look inside and say" what do you do with this thing?" To which I reply " I'm a builder, I'm not some skirt out shopping all day and calling my friends" Then I hand them the company Visa...cha ching. New phone. Pricks.... I HATE YOU SPRINT.
find a new provider. If they arent willing to meet your needs, someone else will.
"I HATE YOU SPRINT"
I agree.Jon Blakemore
It's the phones.
Little weenie toys that cause a cramp if you try to dial one handed. Shiny and pretty with teensie buttons and fragile guards. Water is death, morning dew is death, and even the sweat from an ice cold Pepsi is death to these overbred under protected chirping spawn of gameboy.
The "Provider" (what marketing group thought that name up, It sounds almost benevolent) is actually not the problem. The problem is the pansy Norwegian & Japanese manufacturers of the phones that can't realize the wasted time and labor in their single purpose product. (it takes 4 keystrokes to activate the calculator which is really minimally functional)
(Hey Nokia, Panasonic, Motorola, & whomever this is a marketing niche!)
Time will tell. Someone will respond.
A plumber buddy got a heavyduty contractor phone. Paid a little extra for it. Sorry can't give pertinent data but there are contractor grade phones available.Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
Forget the primal scream, just Roar!
Do they float???An adventure is an unplanned journey!
ziplock bags are a marvelous invention.Half of good living is staying out of bad situations.
Forget the primal scream, just Roar!
I tried zip locks, and the only thing that I had trouble with is that I get a call and by the time I get the bag open the message service has picked the call up. Also they don't float any better than without. Right now I am using a eye glass holder, you know, the ones that you tie too the frames of your reading glasses so that you can hang them around your neck. Been using that for about 3 months now and is still working. I got a handheld VHF that is water proof and I've droped it in the water about 3 or 4 times and it still works fine. Supposed to be water proof to 100 ft. So I don't see why they don't make a cell phone that is water proof also.
An adventure is an unplanned journey!
When I got my first cell phone the first Q I had for the rep was whether dust would hurt it because of my occupation. He said that he had several fishermen come in for replacement because of dropping it in water but had never had anyone come in to complain because of dust.
Six weeks later, I was in his office wanting to know why it wouldn't work. He opened it up and said, "Well Paul, you've got to clean these things every now and then."
It was an old analog Motorola Startac. I once dropped it from a ladder about thirty feet up onto a grass lawwn. As I watched it tumble I (well, you know what I was thinking.) But it came right back up working fine. I'm sure that a concrete stop would've been different though.
My stepson lost his fishing the other day. I can just picture the finned creatures wondering what that noise is when it plays the lone ranger theme, dadalot, dadalot, dadalotdot dot, dadalaaaaa, dadalot dot dot..
Excellence is its own reward!
I was pretty dumb when I got my first cell phone and didn't check into the area coverage. And, if there were any dead spots, as it turned out there wasn't to many places that I could use the thing. If I was in town then it worked, if I was 2 miles south of town it was considered roaming ( something to do with the repeater??), if I was north of town 11 miles then it didn't work at all. Well I spend most of my time in boat harbours,yards and boat ramps. There are 5 ramps in the area and 14 harbours and 4 yards and I work in most of them during the year. My phone worked in 1 yard 2harbours and 1 ramp. And when I needed the dang thing most times I still had to use a pay phone. Course that was before they had all the plans they got now, then I had 60 free minutesand now its 2000 minutes per month, and the phones have improved a lot. We still have some dead spots on the north end but with the digital phones I am not effected to much. There is only 1 ramp and 3 harbours that are dead spots and unles they put in another repeater on that end it will remain a dead spot. still wish they would make one that floats. well guess if they did I would have to find something else to complain about.An adventure is an unplanned journey!
That digital thing used to impress me til I heard a professor at the local college explain why your words get clipped. The clipping is due to the cell tower only transmitting part of the word. For example take any word and separate it into 10 segments. That is how the cell tower interprets the signal you send. Each "packet" is 1/ 10 of that word. If you drop 5 packets your ear may still be able to discern the word. That is the reason the cell companies use in that digital system. In the above case they take the 5 packets you "lost" and use that bandwidth to allow someone else to transmit 5 packets. In this case 1/2 of your minutes are used to let someone else talk.
Frankly I don't care on sharing of bandwidth, as the market takes care of the price and you really pay for what you get. The issue is the level the phone call can degrade to unintelligible before you finally decide to hang up.
You'll always have problems, Woody, with Harbor phone service. By definition the water level is the lowest point and the cell towers are line of sight. You'll always be behind a ridge or something unless you are in Nebraska. Go out on the water and you'll pick up a signal. I often get the Roam signal when I'm at the waters edge here in Wisconsin. I pickup Muskegon Michigan cell towers (80 miles away)when shielded from the local ones by a bluff.
I'm sure that part of the problem is that we are surrounded by mountains and although the repeaters or antennas (whatever) are on the highest mountain around when used to go to the south end of the island the closest line of sight repeater was in canada (about 60 miles away) and the one located here was behind a mountain. They have installed another one on the south end so the problem is not there now only when it goes out or shuts down or whatever. In so far as the water being the lowest point around here its the only point. this town sets on the waters edge and is about a mile wide at its widest point and 5 miles long. so unless they put in another couple of repeaters on the peaks around here the reception will not change. An adventure is an unplanned journey!
The curvature of the earth is 15 miles at 6 foot. You'd have to be 24 foot off the water to pick up the canadian cell. If, of course, the weak sister phone could send & recieve that far.
Sounds like a pretty spot. Congrats' on finding a corner of beauty to toil in
I had to fix my kerosene heater I use to keep my shack warm. The wick got carboned up and stuck in the lowered position. I put a new one in and put the whole thing back together, but the part to raise and lower the wick was upside down, so the wick went down instead of up and vice versa. Then if the tilt mechanism got bumped it raised the wick all the way up at high speed. That was kinda cool, but unacceptable, so another half hour later it's back together.
Booch,
Could you back up your math? I find that at 15 miles the drop (assuming the measurement from a tangent line at the point of origin to the perimeter of the circle) is 149'. A 6' drop would be closer to a run out of 3 miles.
Anyone please feel free to critique the findings.
Jon Blakemore
Don't really know. I just went with that dimension cause my dad said that for years. Historical fiction. I'll check as soon as I figure out how.
I ran an autocad drawing and with a radius of 13000 miles the run of 15 miles in a tangent gives a distance from the horizon of 0.0087miles (45.9 feet)
If my drawing logic is correct, the 6 foot to 15 miles is all washed up. I thought of linking the Autocad drawing to this but I really don't have a place to paste the file.
Next you'll be telling me my father wasn't the greatest guy in the world.
If you figure out something more mathematically correct let me know.
> radius of 13000 miles
Maybe you took half the circumference instead of half the diameter. The radius of the earth is more like only 4000 miles. It's a small world, after all..... ;-)
As for RF propagation over water, there are all kinds of strange ducting effects that can happen at times, depending on the wave patterns of the water. England and Ireland can pick up each others' TV sometimes, but often not. Temporarily sandwiching the new digital TV system in with the existing analog one is producing all kinds of interference problems, some due to water ducting.
-- J.S.
Yep half the circumfrence. I was doing something else. glad I'm not a brain surgeon.
Booch,
Here's how I got my numbers.
The pocket reference by Glover (http://www.sequoiapublishing.com/nav_whats_new.htm) says the mean radius of the earth is 3963 miles, which is 20924640 feet.
The formula=radius-((sq. rt. rsdius squared)-(horizontal run squared))
Just for kicks, I set up a XLS spreadsheet (yeah, I know- too much time)
Your AutoCAD is correct (assuming a 13,000 mile radius).
Jon Blakemore
Edited 10/17/2002 4:05:23 PM ET by Jon Blakemore
A guy I work with was leaving home and realized he didn't have his phone in the truck, although he had it when he left the house. He ran over it when he backed up his driveway.
A week later he trashed another when he walked past a lawn facet and the faucet handle cought on his tool belt filling the pouch that contained his phone. It all happened in a split second.
sounds like some of the things that I doAn adventure is an unplanned journey!
It was the Makita 1211 slider today. I love that saw, but I keep forgetting to blow the dust out from under the table, and the sucker'll just lock up...gotta take it all apart, weird design too. Aluminum table turns on steel plates, and has a steel ball going into aluminum detants. Gotta be part of why it locks up, but has no effect on accuracy!? It's okay, I can fix it!
over the years i have learned to do minor repairs to all my tools such as new cords, replacing switches etc etc
best thing to do is carry a few indispensible parts and repaair on the spot
always carry a couple of spare cords and some small wirenuts
and after a while you develope a feel for what to carry. for really indispensible tools carry a spare even if its the old one you replaced years ago. if nothing else you can finish the job and save going back later because you couldnt quite finish
when i break a tool and replace it i always get the old one fixed anyway and it's a spare just incase
also if i liked a tool, but just worn out(they do) i tend to buy the same one again, then i always have spare parts for emergencies
for example i have three 14.4 makita drill of verious ages, thus i have 6 batteries, 3 chargers and a wealth of spare parts
one has had a new gearbox two have had f/r switches and so on, but never will i be in a situation where i cant finish a job because of them
Well, I tried to fix a randon orbit sander. I dropped it on the switch a couple of years ago, cost 50 beans for a switch. Employee dropped it off an 8' step ladder 3 months ago, stopped working (the sander not the trimmer!) Got a new non variable, took the old one apart fot 3rd time, it started working!
Got a new guy last week, told him to put all the tools on the floor, 'cause that's where they always end up, especially the sanders. Geez, he sits the thing on the bench, cord is wrapped around his leg and he takes a walk...dagnabit!
And now, I gotta go fix the starter gear on the lawn mower... EliphIno!
my tip. banged it straight. have you checked your tip today?
I feel for you man. Spent a rainy Sunday fixing the cord on my Hitatchi recip, two palm nailers, an old Porter Cable framer and put a new switch and cord in one of my Milwaukee sidewinders.....someone cut the cord by noon time...no kidding! Sometimes I feel like saying skrew it...I'll leave a pigtail on it, but then I have visions of them cutting my 12ga cords instead.
Spent time aligning the motor on my TS and lubed the sliding table for my RT
Darkworks: No Guns No Butter squilla and the bling bling.
Put new blades in the jointer... what a pain, but it was time, boards were bouncing through!
And, after 25 years, I came up with an almost anti snipe lock for the Belsaw planer...I share the shop with some older ladies, they have to put instructions on everything<G> EliphIno!
Admit it... It's you and CRS. Now go hang a new door and this time make sure it's not a HC luan. LOL.
Should it swing clockwise or counterclockwise? I hope there's labels<G> EliphIno!
another highly technical repair to and to the list!!!!!
fixed the switch on my pc plunge router the other day after 2 years finally got fed up of the pesky thing not locking onto full speed.
10 mins and a couple of bits of plastic to shim it out hey presto!! job done
aleks
Hey thats a great looking shop you have there...
ToolDoc
Wait'll I post a pic of the old gals in their turning outfits with that big honking lathe in the back corner humming LOL EliphIno!
some mighty fine invisible babes you got there billy.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
I prefer will o' the wispy...Wednesday is the club meeting... EliphIno!
My Hitachi roofing gun (8 yrs old) needs the annual $10 worth of service, and I gave up on tieing the coil holster closed so I sent it in. I also bought a new 10" Rigid mitre saw (because it was cheap) instead of buying a new 80 tooth blade and replacing the brushes in my Dewalt 12", (I'll handle that stuff next week).
typical mid week afternoon, finished a job early, start the next tomorrow, so now what?
pick up newly sharpened blades($200)
go some where else for shapened routerbits($150)
align tablesaws' fences (again) on three table saws
replace cords on three or four power tools
sort out dull vs sharp blades and bits
clean the shop vac
have a nice cold beer
oh i love hot wednesday afternoons!!caulking is not a piece of trim
how many blades can you get sharpened for $200????
you must have about 10 in the shop at one time.!!!
oooooohhhhh i wish i had the luxury of having 10 spare blades for my table saw!!!
aleks
lots, i have rip, crosscut and laminate blades in three different sizes 10, 8 1/2 and 6 1/2 for the table saws and circ saws
plus many spares
then 12 inch for my big chopsaw etc etc
hardly ever run out of sharp bladescaulking is not a piece of trim
Went to work for Hinkley Yachts years ago got there early and waited and waited and waited finally I saw the yard foreman and asked "I thought you started at 7:00 it's 7:30 where is everyone?" he said "They're all in the shape up room sharpening their tools, a carpenter is only as good as his tools are sharp."
yeah i got a small wetstone grinder to strick in the van last week as i was soooo fed up off everything going blunt just when you need it most.
aleks
At .25$ a tooth.. A lot. I can drop 300$ at a time. 7" thru 16". Own maybe 50 or 60 blades.
Did new cords on a few more tools. Get a bunch of 15' and 25' extension cords in obnoxios colors. Use them as replacements. Cheap way to go, cord and cord cap all in one for 5 or 6 bucks. #12' x 25' are about 10$. Any 2 or 3 wire configuration can be had.
I up size from the OEM cord and the longer cord is a hassle saver. The odd ball colors are another way to identify my tools
everytime i take my delta 10" table saw out of van and hook up motor i say i can get that aligned better. but then i say tomorrow, i got work to do
I'm curious if the gears in the Makita are plastic/nylon or metal. I've got a 14.4 and have been pleased with it so far.
dont know really, they must be metal cos i got 3 of those things and the oldest is nearly 6 years old and still works great
batteries and f/r swiches are the only problem i've had
No. 1 son jammed the magazine on the Senco SLP20 pinner, had to fix it twice before I could get it right.
Cutting a houseful of shoe in the garage, it's hot and humid here, dang if the fan didn't quit, well yeah I had to fix that, too! EliphIno!
Had to put new guages on my twin stack Emglo compressor. My one carp dropped it.
Also put new head gasket on my Cub Cadet 125 garden tractor.Greg
tore my 4'x8' workbech apart going to downsize it to give me more room in the shop. Building a 3x6 one now shop is in disarray now but I can already see where Im going to be saving space after I rearrange everything.
Darkworks: No Guns No Butter squilla and the bling bling.
Picked up my Senco SFN40 and the trigger fell out!. Dang, it was fine yesterday<G> I had a vague recollection of stepping on it...hmmmm. Check it out, and yeah, I musta pushed the trigger holding pin thingy out. Probably had a rubber o ring holding it in place, guess I need keep a few around...stuck the pin back in and wrapped an 18 gauge brad around it...I'm gonna open up a repair biz... LOL EliphIno!
Took my milwaukee sawlzall to milwaukee to get it fixed. They had it for about 3 months till I got it back. It sat on the shelf for a while till I needed it again then after about 10 minutes of using it it died so I took it to a local place to get repaired again and here I patiently sit waiting..tick..tick..tick..I would of canned it and bought another one but It was given to me by a good friend and mentor who passed last year (it was broke when he gave it to me)
Darkworksite4:
Estamos ganando detrás el estado de Calif. Derrotando a un #### a la vez. DESEA VIVO LA REVOLUCIÓN
Sometimes sentimentality and tools don't mix, seems more like semi-mentality LOL.
You've gotta be a tough one on tools, never knew anyone who used a sawzall, of any kind, enough times to kill one. Greatest tool on the face of the earth when you need it. Every time I pull mine out( the sawzall, dude) it makes me money, cause it's fixing something somebody else screwed up.
I should lend you my DeWalt, I'd love it to die so I could get the Super Sawzall<G> EliphIno!
Booch,
Just a follow up on your desire for waterproof cell phones.
I carry my cell phone in the leg pocket of my carharts and on one occasion was so beat at the end of the day I tossed my pants in the washer without remembering to remove the phone. The thumping in the dryer tipped me off to my oversight.
The battery never accepted another charge but the phone worked fine with a new battery and all the speed dial numbers stayed in its memory!
At the time I was using a sony cm 1300 which is now somewhat of a dinosaur but it was a great phone.
Karl
heat, a battery's worst enemy. It's a big concern with solar installations and such.
I've seen a few 'contractor grade' nextel phones, but they all look pretty abused when I see them. I just change phones and jackals, er uh, providers each year. Had one of the little Nokia 8260's and thought it was great. worst that happened to it was my son thought it a teething toy and slobbered it all up. Took it apart and ended up having to remove the little motor and weight that makes it vibrate. Miss it too. It was AT&T and this year we're doin' Alltel. They suck too, but not as bad. (I know, I know, the phone number changes..)
Never had a sony. Panasonic, Motorolla, Nokia -many of those. Maybe Sony is different. It isn't because I shirk the additional expense either. Thanks
Regarding cell phones and water:
I used to work for a company in Seattle that wholesaled shellfish. Oyster farmers would drive their trucks out on the beach, load them up with oysters in plastic mesh bags and bring them straight to our facility. One of our suppliers came in one day driving his wife's car instead of his jacked-up redneck-special truck. Turns out he drove out on the flats too far the previous night and parked on a high spot a couple hundred feet from shore. The tide came in and stranded his truck before he realized what was going on. All he could find to complain about, though, was the fact that his brand new cell phone was now submerged because he forgot to grab it when he waded out to the truck to grab stuff.
I guess when the problem is big, it's sometimes easiest just to look at the little stuff.
Another $#@! DeWalt 18v cordless drill switch.
We're getting closer to the 19.2v P-C every day.
DRC
dont limit to the P-C 19.2, check out bosch and milwakuee and makitas.
It is all about wattage of the switch. The difference is a few cents in a good switch and a cruddy one. "Perceived customer value" only matters in the purchasing stage. HP, Chuck size & type, heft, color & who knows what else goes into the marketing decision as to what we get to buy. If they hit your hot button you buy it and suffer with the consequences
billy- have the same senco for 4 yrs. and love it. are they as maintenance friendly as they proclaim, i'm shooting teak today and for the rest of the week for that matter . and was wondering if there's a breakdown, do i get some down time. thanks bear
Those old motorola bag phones seem to be indestructible, judging from how many of them are still in use. Higher wattage, too.
How do we find them? Are they still commercially available?
DRC
Pawn shops? (heheh) Seriously, I don't know if you can get them new due to regulations lowering the wattage of cell phones. This may be only for handhelds w/ integral antennas, too.
So.
I don't know.
PS I was a fishing guide for 5 years - lost two phones overboard.
Edited 10/3/2002 7:47:15 PM ET by ALANROBERSON
I haven't read the whole thread, so this may be redundant.
You should be able to buy a good used Motorola bag phone for $5 off ebay or some such. I think we've gotten a couple for free from our company's service provider.
Yesterday the tip wore off a 2 month old Bostich pinner (Model 2000, I think), made up a hot glue cushion, seems a bit sketchy...
Went to Woodworker's Supply this morning, big Bosch truck in the parking lot promoting a bunch of dark blue tools. They were giving 40 bucks trade-in for any drill working or not...and they'll be delivering an 18V drill and skil saw this week...40 bucks for a crapped out dewalt! one less thing I have to think about fixin' someday... It's okay, I can fix it!
Oh, so that's why you left the milwalkee drill that did you right for 2.5 years. Let the thunder crack and the waves roar.
We're going on.
no, no, never the Milwaukee!...
the great thing about this Bosch trade-in is, it's the perfect excuse for not having to clean out the basement and chucking my tool graveyard :-) It's okay, I can fix it!
Snort. Wed. my newer 12 v. Milwaukee started to smell during use. Armature I'm thinking. So, took my older 12 v. (bad pinion gear, sounded like a coffee grinder but motor still ran) and the stinky one to my tool supplier. Make one outta two. Would have done it myself, but you know how it goes when you open the case over that pile of sawdust and springs and #### pop out. He tells me to stop back sat.
Sat. comes, I walk in and ask if he was successful. He responds, "sort of". When he comes out of the shop, he's carrying both guns. Pulls one trigger, sounds good. Pulls the other, doesn't sound as good, but it's running too. I am elated. Took two crapped out drills in and walked out with two running. He had salvaged outta his own boneyard.
How much? nuthin he says.
Tuckpointed his mothers house a couple weeks ago and for the guys family that has kept my tools running for 30 years, I tell her N/C. I'm thinking that I have given back for the deals and service they have provided over the years. What goes around, comes back quick.
Hope you and mrs snort are doing well.
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Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
Hey Cal, It's nice, isn't it, that good things happen when they're least expected...dang, now that I think about it, that's about the only time they happen to me<G>
'n Mrs. 'Snort sends her regards ... It's okay, I can fix it!
I bought this router table at a woodshow about 4 years ago, cool router table,cast iron top with a large sliding aluminum table on it (MLCS sells it now under the name rock hard) anyway the fence that came with it absolutely sucks. So im on my 4th revision of the fence. I think this one is a keeper(Unless I come up with another idea).
At Darkworks cut to size made to burn......Putty isnt a option
Dang, "fixed" the Makita 1211 again. Jams up so the table won't turn without a sledgehammer. Ordered some new springs and balls (more info in the adults only thread)...do I have to get the DeWalt? It's okay, I can fix it!
Took my big 3 1/4 hp pc router into the shop to get the bearings replaced along w/ the bushings...79 bucks... well its cheaper then buying a new one and i got my moneys worth outta it
At Darkworks cut to size made to burn......Putty isnt a option
Just got the guide bearing kit for a 4200 Bosch jig saw (anybody ever hear of one with that model #?)...I haven't fixed the thing, looks like I've got to take off the front cover, all kinds of stuff could fall out! EliphIno!
Had one, Eventually the summer heat messed up the display in the handset. fine if you like that kind of tether to the vehicle. When the world has 12 dollar submersible throw away cameras you'd think we could develop a 300 dollar tough as nails phone.
I've always had Senco guns and recently bought a 602 because in CA we have to shoot FRH nails. I'm hoping that it was just this gun because I like Senco but this one was a piece of junk. I changed the trigger to the resticive one because is was constantly double firing, (when it would fire a nail at all). Anyhow, I took it back and traded it with an extra 100.00 bucks for a Hitachi 83A. The Hitachi is beautiful. Two days with it and I alreadly like it as well as if not better than any of my Senco's.
As for cell phones, I once dropped one in a toilet. When I explained to the guy at the repair center what had happened he dropped it instantly, screamed a few choice words at me and told me to get it out of his store. I could hardly believe it... Shoot it happened after I flushed not before. Heck my dog drinks that water.
Sorry man, no down time fixin' the Sencos, unless, of course, you get a little lost on the way to the parts place and accidentaly wander into one of those boobie bars, which, of course, I would know nothing about...I mean, gun parts , body parts...is there a difference? It's okay, I can fix it!
give it a double toot for double hoots, with a trail of crumbled dollar bills from the parts store........
I tried to tell ya , I don't know nothing 'bout that stuff...but if you're offering some kind of class, I think I can work out a corporate write off...I mean, I hire boobs, why shouldn't I check 'em out at a business luncheon? It's okay, I can fix it!
I love my DeWalt phone. Plugs into my DW radio to charge and has a cage all around it cause they figure it may fall off a ladder or roof. It even has a little FM radio attachment with an earplug. Has a tool belt hook that works primo. Its 100% waterproof and to boot it has a stud finder in it. Cool huh? Video games and a rafter calculator. I've had it over fifteen years with no problem.
Be well
Namaste'
Andy
It's not who's right, it's who's left ~ http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
hey andy you doing a deck thing on goosehill last week?? thought i recognized a flailing hand or two.............. bear
Bear
Wasnt me. Not moving in for a couple of weeks. Mabe it was my archs people. They were there measuring.
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