OT Question

[Leon]

Exactly! LOL

[Leon]

In a nutshell, it's what the market will bare.

[Leon]

I am on the board of directors for our local MUD. We have been planning on building a new waste water facility and water treatment for many years now.

Our engineers and our attorneys advised us to be ready to spend up to $XM for the WWP. Steel prices were way up in early 2019. Fortunately the bid came in $4M less and is 99% complete.

[DerbyDad03]

See...you do understand it! ;-)

What I don't understand is why one green tool cost so much more than another. For example,

This...

vs this...

I mean, green is green, right? ;-)

[Clare Snyder]

When I need big-assed clamps I use pipe clamps - I can make them any length I need them. They aren't as fancy as Bessy clamps but they do the job

[Clare Snyder]

I think you mean BEAR

[Clare Snyder]

I needed a cpoule 1/4 inch NPT nipples a few months ago - black pipe would have been fine - but stainless was less than half the price, if you can imagine!!!

[Clare Snyder]

My ball points usually "dry out" before they "run out". The balls just stop turning. Sometimes soaking the tip in OPA dixes them for a while - or heating the tip of brass ones (you DO remember those, right?) with a match or lighter.

It HAS been years though since I had one spring a leak in my shirt pocket - or since I wore a "pocket protector" (Yes, I was a "nerd")

[krw]

I'd argue that few of these "non-serious" woodworkers have parallel jaw clamps or even know what they're used for, if they know what they are.

The couplings work well too but they're priced accordingly.

[krw]

About 20 years ago, a barmaid was telling us that that weekend she was going, with her boyfriend, hunting bear. I said that I wanted to see that. She got huffy and got her feminist dander up. "What, don't you think I can hunt bear?" I replied, that I just wanted to see her hunting bare. She got pissed. About ten minutes later, after everyone had fallen off their barstools a few times, I told her that there was more than one way to spell "bare/bear". She wasn't amused, at least for a few seconds until she realized that she'd been had.

[krw]

I don't like pipe clamps at all. Pipe isn't nearly rigid enough and bows, making the jaws angle outward.

[krw]

When I was in college, a slipstick hanging from the belt labeled you as a nerd (though perhaps a nerd with money making potential). Then when calculators came out, wearing one on the hip labeled you as a rich-kid nerd. My wife and I were working putting me through school so I certainly wasn't a rich-kid but let them think that. Now, if you aren't carrying a cell phone you're something less than human.

[John Grossbohlin]

I've got a couple 55" clamps too... bought them on clearance for about half the regular price as I recall. Sometimes they still aren't long enough though! As such I've still got pipe clamps with couplings for those really long jobs!

[John Grossbohlin]

I didn't find that in a house though... found it laying on the side of the road while riding my bicycle from FL to NY. $450... helped finance the trip!

[Leon]

Really, What the market will "animal" not bare, expose?

[Leon]

FWIW there is nothing Fancy about a clamp that IMHO is 3rd rate. No shame!

[Leon]

Wow! the most I have found laying on the ground is $5.

[invalid unparseable]

Quoth the bear: You're not here for the hunting, are you?

Elijah

------ wait, that's a different bear hunt joke

[DerbyDad03]

My best was a $100 bill lying on the grass at a flea market. Hundreds of people walking around. I just looked down and there it was, right in the middle of a main walkway.

[krw]

I've found a couple of $20s (at different times).

I always try to find its owner. If they can tell me the serial number, it's theirs. ;-)