Salvaging a Garage door torsion-spring

[dadiOH]

Make that $0.01 per pound

[Father Haskell]

Heat it with a torch and stretch it out. Make it into small scribes, detail knives, etc. The only difference between spring steel and tool steel is the temper (purple vs. straw).

Need a whole lot of cheap miter clamps? Cut the thing down the side with a slitting wheel. Sharpen the cut ends so they'll bite into wood.

[Bill]

That's the kind of encouragement (and information) I was after! Thank you.

Bill

[HeyBub]

I do that in 2011. Here it's called "Heavy Trash" day (sometimes "Yard Waste" day).

And I call my excursion "foraging."

[krw]

We call it Wednesday. ;-)

[krw]

When I lived in VT, they'd mix it all together and sell it as a "custom" color (usually an ultra-drab brown muck). ;-)

[Larry Jaques]

I don't have any cats and I have never done that.

But recently, I've noticed that lovely smell of cat urine in my driveway once again. Some male is pissin' on my hedge again. Grrrrrrr! So, I'm thinking about it. ;)

-- From the Book of Aussie Bush Etiquette:

Never tow another car using pantyhose and duct tape.

[Larry Jaques]

It's better to take it to the recycling center for use. The downtowns use it for painting over grafitti, a VERY worth cause.

-- From the Book of Aussie Bush Etiquette:

Never tow another car using pantyhose and duct tape.

[Larry Jaques]

Hell, Bill, stretch it out, make it thinner, then make your own nails!

-- From the Book of Aussie Bush Etiquette:

Never tow another car using pantyhose and duct tape.

[Larry Jaques]

I cruised the trashcans as a kid on the Air Force base. The AF gave the families a weight limit and they tossed all sorts of good stuff into the trash when they moved.

My sole problem with it was that time the yellow jacket crawled into the little teapot I got for my sister. I put it in my pocket and a minute later, it had stung me 4 times on the inside of my upper arm and 5 times on the ribs. Mom rushed me to the hospital in case I was allergic and some brilliant asshole intern dunked me in a tub of ice water. When the doctor came in he screamed "Get that kid out of the ice RIGHT NOW! If he'd been allergic, he'd have been dead before he got here."

-- From the Book of Aussie Bush Etiquette:

Never tow another car using pantyhose and duct tape.

[Larry Jaques]

I wonder if that idiot in the Suburban gets to keep the 100' of railing which his vehicle processed while he was texting on the freeway...

Shit, Batman! There was more than one accident. ;)

-- From the Book of Aussie Bush Etiquette:

Never tow another car using pantyhose and duct tape.

[Bill]

You say that like you think I wouldn't ever do something like that... I Can make my own fishing flies (much better than the imported ones)..I expect my nails would be better too! They would be forged--and formaldehyde free! ; )

[Bill]

You need a "body bag"? (lol)

[Bill]

Pssst.. Just between you and me, I think maybe "custom nails" is where the untapped market is... Ever hammered a custom nail? :P

That ought to leave the punsters something to nail... lol.

Bill

[Lobby Dosser]

I was in the USAF and was a medic ...

[Lobby Dosser]

Seems to recall a texting rail accident around LA.

Yeah:

[Lobby Dosser]

If you ever leave a vehicle in your driveway it is most likely Marking all the tires. Oh, and all its friends ...

[Lobby Dosser]

Don't look, you'll just encourage him! LOL!!!

[Lobby Dosser]

Yes. Still have some. IIRC, I got them from Lee Valley

Why, looky here:

OMG here:

> That ought to leave the punsters something to nail... lol.

[Bill]

Hah! Those are cut from round stock!!! (LOL) : )

Bill