Removing Rust From Automotive Tools

Jan 14, 2017 27 Replies

Well now you are, unless whoever buys Craftsman doesn't.

Where I grew up Montgomery Ward's was the major player with a distribution center about 10 miles away. Their Powr-Kraft tools had a similar guarantee. When a shade tree project went wrong, they replaced the tool with no question. "This 1/2" ratchet just spins (after I put 6' of pipe on the handle trying to break that axle nut loose. Goddam Chrysler and their left handed nuts)".

Catalog ordering was fun too. You phoned the order in and then drove over to see what you won. I ordered a small selection of wheel weights and when the clerk staggered out from the back I realized they had mistakenly substituted the 25 pound garage selection. Shut up, sign the papers, and get a life time supply for $3.95.

On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 11:16:19 -0800, Oren wrote in

LOL! All good possibilities.

And I appreciated the offer!

I've been dealing with landslides

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drinking from waterfalls
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hiking with the grandkids
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wiring male-male German-color-scheme cables for repairing generators
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cleaning up mudslides
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lending people gasoline for generators
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adding propane monitoring dials
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(power out for 3 days), waiting in traffic (every road on this mountain was closed), unclogging drains
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cleaning filters
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dealing with trespassers
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and, oh, did I mention anything about mudslides?
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But, other than that this week ....

Yup. Got me a waterproof leather pair of boots at Costco for something like twenty five bucks. And, I found those STRETCHY jeans, which I don't tear the backsides out of anymore (they must not be making Lees and Levis right anymore 'cuz they tear and rip before I can even start to get 'em covered in poison oak which I chainsaw through all the time).

I'm ready to murder her, but her kids are a charm, so, they defuse me. She is definitely a Myers-Briggs highly Judgmental person, that's for sure!

Well, I never did figure out what was wrong with the relatively young refrigerator, but with the new one, I can feed them anything that Costco sells! :)

PS: They don't sell huckleberries at Costco yet! :(

snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca posted for all of us...

+1 on that. The latest marvel.

Also Crapsman was sold to Stanley. So that means we have how many toolmakers in the country? I never liked Stanley tool that much, especially their screwdrivers. But that's just me.

Maybe I can bury her under this local mud slide yesterday?

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Do you think they'd find her?

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Yup. Everywhere I go, there are landslides blocking the path.

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If those stupid politicians still put up the road-side warning signs to "conserver water" now, I'm gonna go off the deep end on them.

a. The 700 electronic signs are for "safety" issues (not political agendas) b. What are we going to do about conserving water while driving anyway? c. Drivers (homeowners) aren't who uses up almost all the water anyway!

So, the best thing about the pineapple express is that I hope the politicians finally stop bombarding our 700 traffic and safety electronic signs with their political agendas.

The good news is that all the waterfalls are flowing beautifully!

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