Jim Warman

So, last week, I decided to splurge and bought a new saw. I already had a scroll saw but it is/was cheap and the blade holders will no longer hold blades for more than a couple of strokes. I purchased a DeWalt DW78820" scroll saw and a nice shin new foot switch - this is the saw I should have purchased when I bought the saw it is replacing. With weddings coming up, the opportunities for scroll art and fretwork gifts will both keep me occupied and hopefully offset some of the costs. He who dies with the most toys wins

From 3/16ths smaller, I don't see my drill index looking much different from anyone else's. (Read that as mostly empty holes. Now that I I am concentrating on only one, I chose the #54-3692-6 230 pice titanium coated kit from Cambodian Tire. The smaller bits offer multiples (sizes from 1/16th up to half. Regular price is $130 but they come on sale for about 40 buck a few times a year. Canadian Tire.ca and type the part number in the search field for pics. If I get in a bind, I sharpen mine freehand...... it's not like the bit has to be craftsman perfect just to drill a hole quickly. As long as the cutting edges are equal so the hole is close to round Bob will still be your uncle.

Matt, imagine your trim carpenter finishing your new kitchen cabinets. "Looks like shit" comes to mind..... and if it looks like shit, then just maybe.... It all comes back to appearing professional. Even if it balanced out true, I'd be ashamed to release that simply for esthetics.

Me too.! I would be in my glory to be "back in the saddle", as it were. Chatting with my family doctor on Friday, we touched on my black-out and subsequent disqualification from driving, , He was quite candid about my chances for recovering my driving privileges.. <SIGH> simply getting on the road and driving for the sake of driving was always a source of joy, for me. Now I am "passenger". No more scooter in my future. Life is sometimes cruel and having such a basic freedom snatched from you is rude, indeed.. Can't slip out for a gallon of milk or a cone. One almost feels like a child wishing he could run away from home except he's not allowed to cross the street.. Dennis' cars (the 69 Charger, the Vette, the Viper.). My buddy Gregs Shelby... All of them - gone from my hands.....Ahhhhhh , crap.

Is "torque steer" really an accurate description here? Usually affects front wheel drives with different front axle lengths (you don't mention if this is 4WD etc. ). As BigWalt suggests, check the rear suspension - broken leafs, U-bolts out of position, "splayed/loose" broken centerbolts? Is this a twin I beam truck or a solid front? Whoops - just noticed the ref to radius arms. Does this have real tie rod ends or those fakealoo rubber bushed abortions? Improper installation will result in induced memory steer - and that statement is somewhat inaccurate. Whenever you adjust a steering gear looser, use a bar on the end of the sector shaft to physically neutralize the relationship between the ball nut and the sector. Swap your front tires side for each to see if that makes a difference.. Good luck!

OK!!!! I travel to Edmonton on August 8th for a CT scan and MRI. This will base-line my problem sreas and they will slip me into the drug trial. I just wish that I could be guarrnteed a spot in the actual drug rather than the control group. On a lighter note, I spent $500 that I really shouldn't have. My new toy is a DeWalt 20 inch scroll saw. This is the saw I should have bought when I bought the saw I'm scrapping now. Perhaps I can convert some wasted time into beverage money

I have seen it where collapsing the caliper without opening the bleeder screw can drive crap back into the HCU. I prefer to collect the old fluid and top off the master cylinder with fresh from a sealed container.( thereby "almost" performing a fluid swap ). As Buddy mentions, inadvertently mispositioning the calipers will also cause such grief and something like that is only one brain fart away. Another consideration would be accidentally stroking the brake pedal all the way to the end and having the piston jam in the bottom of the bore.

Greg, we're at $4.83 per US gallon ( and the market is volatile as hell ) and I live over top of the shit. All that new stuff going on in the middle east isn't helping. I'm "bringing" home" a third of what I used to and I've made more trips to Edmonton in the last year than I have in the previous 15 - at what is now over $200/trip without the obligatory stop at Costco.

I've said it before - I'll say it again ..... nunc est bibendum

So my loving bride made it safely to Edmonton, albeit with a huge crack in the windshield of this borrowed car - still no word on when my truck will be ready.. 8 AM for my last radiation treatment..... the top of my head is just burnin'. Then Lee Valley tools => Costco => home for a stiff whiskey and play with doggy. They have me on a steroid ( I change to a different one tomorrow ) that has me eating everything in sight. A big bowl of cold cereal at 4ish, another at 6:30ish, soup and toast by 10, sandwich at noon. Afternoons are spent returning to the fridge and pantry

I wanted to weigh in on this for the Alberta perspective which also includes the Canada perspective. I answered the poll questions as if I was still a line mechanic. Canada and Alberta labour laws are pretty succinct about what is and isn't legal. For dealerships, flat rate is the norm without a guarranty in my experience. Paid sick days is an employer choice. It'd be nice but I think it encourages a certain amount of abuse. Paid vacations are government mandated - length and remuneration determined by provincial governments. The rates and times can be viewed here http://www.payworks.ca/payroll-legislation/VacationPay.asp

Finally!!!! A simple version to work across all platforms!!

Boss gave my wife a new 2013 Taurus to drive while my truck is in the shop. Nice car. She uses almost none of the toys.

IIRC there is a spec for allowable "loss of lift". Sadly , every popping under the hood complaint I ever got involved camshafts

So....... My last treatment for this session is the 9th - thankfully it's 1st thing in the AM. We can launch straight away from the Cancer institue, dash by Lee Valley Tools (this is a candy store for woodworkers) and zip home. Hopfully with enough spare change to get somewhat shit faced. Did I mention that I am NOT citified? This is going to be mega boring. I'm staying about a half hour from the WW Cross cancer institute and the 6 remaing treatments take less than 5 minutes each ( closer to 2 if I don't fidget ). Using a net mask custom molded to this handsome physique, my head gets clamped to a moveable table, the table adjusted to my coordinates and PFFFFT! - " Was it good for you?". The rest of the time I am staring abjectly at YouTube videos ( wondering about their veracity), visiting the Walmart 5 buck movie bin, and simply annoying the piss out of everybody. So, with about one hour and two minutes of each day accounted for, there is a wee surplus of time on an old mans hands.

Never fails to amaze me how many people feel good about cheating a system or breaking rules meant for a common good.

I've been off the floor for far too long to be much in the way of any real help but, all things considered, I'd want to be sure that this isn't a situation that is being commanded. I assume hotline is coming up blank? Everything is nominal at KOEO and no sensors are making shit up? Good luck with this one, Matt.

Thanks guys. I go back Monday. 6 more treatments over 8 days...... I'm gonna glow in the friggin dark at this rate

Additional thoughts from fuzzy old brain..... What happens when they dip your tank and see red stuff with no farm plate? Disability doesn't pay near enough but I still pay the road tax on my gasoline. What about any shit falling out of your tailpipe? Any reason everyone else deserves to enjoy your new found economy? It isn't about what is ( in the very short run ) " cheap". At some point in time it has to become about what is RIGHT. As ever, we DO NOT own this planet - we are borrowing it .... from our grandchildren and that includes mine, Kieths, Larry's, Brads (and on and on and on). Sorry, guys, you can see there are things I am passionate about and my inner workin's just wont allow me to relent

I tend to think like, though I do get more intense and verbose( Let me reiterate that - as the professionals we insist we are - we have become caretakers of the public trust. Citizenry is depending on us to have the integrity to remain within the constraints of the law and common decency.( Imagine if doctors and lawyers operated with some of these cavalier attitudes). If a carpenter builds a house and the electrician and plumber install services, do we not expect this stuff to meet building codes?

With more than a little irony, it was Friday 13th and I was running some errands when I blacked out and hit a parked car Whilst driving my F150. Thankfully, I had slowed t a crawl snd there were no injuries - other than my pride. In retrospect, it was quite evident that I shouldn't be driving at all as both my balance and coordination were steadily getting poorer and poorer over over the previous couple of weeks. After a night in the hospital with no clues as to what happened, I was sent home. It soon became apparent that I could no longer get out of bed or chair unassisted. As luck would have it, I was already scheduled for an MRI and CT scan on Monday in preparation for my entry into an experimental drug trial program. The MRI revealed a new tumor pushing on yhe parts that are s'posed to be busy thinking I underline the word new since this let's them do some radiation therapy with less worry about cooking my brain around old tumours previously irradiated last year. The oncologist gave me some steroids to reduce swelling in my brain. I can now do most everything with little or no assistance - other than being disqualified from driving. I start radiation ( my hair was growing back nicely, thank you ) at months end- after that we can revisit the drug trial idea.. My truck? One of the things it needs is a steering knuckle - if I insist on a new one , it'll turn the truck into a write - off ( 2002 with less than 60 K miles). I can't help but think of a old friend I worked with in the .80s. One sorry winter day, with a loaded propane truck lying on it's side in a ditch, a broken down 5 axle loaded with diesel fuel 150 miles away blocking an oil patch road 3 drilling rigs and two rig camps running out of propane and fuelJ looked across my desk and calmly uttered " Cheer up, Jimmy - things are never so bad that they can't get worse". I miss that old fart. Stay safe guys...

Carbon black is a conductor used in the manufacture of electronics. It is also used in rubber goods as a pigment giving that nice even black colour. The reason you don't move your car if you are involved with a down powerline is because you shouldn't be moving in the car and around touching stuff. You guys involved in emergency services should be aware of "step potential" and "touch potential". Lightning can and will strike an automobile though I would expect an obvious witness mark on the outside of the car Stay safe, guys

Kenny, we were complaining about the condition of the track back when I was still on the FD. As I recall, they didn't even reduce the speed limit on that stretch. The anhydrous ammonia I mentioned is stored under pressure much like propane. It boils at -28 F and is highly corrosive have no idea what it smells like because it will kill you if you breathe it. It is applied as fertilizer to crops. Quite bit passes through town during growing season.

What Keith (Fordracer) said for the back up lights. Did he remember to plug the TRP sensor back in or possibly miss a loose pin inthe TRP connector? It would be nice if he could check his MLP PID.

Neither me nor Tyler is sure if we are related or not - but it might be a reasonable assumption since we're both from disfunctional families. He is also the manager of the Boston Pizza here in town. My son worked there before he graduated high school and he had fun with the names very chance he got. Kieth, I have no coins to put on the tracks until after I go to the bottle depot .