So it's been kind of quiet lately ... tool semi review

[J. Clarke]

It does but it's high maintenance. And heavy.

[pyotr filipivich]

We are considering a projector with screen which can be rolled up when not in use.

[pyotr filipivich]

Puckdropper [e-mail] on Tue, 08 Dec 2020 08:26:21 GMT typed in rec.woodworking the following:

I didn't watch a lot of TV "in the old days" and then when it went all digital, saw no reason to replace TV sets I was not watching anyway.

Now the question is: "what else can they be used for?"

[Leon]

I can get a 70 or 75 for <$600.

Viewing data... Or competition and a way to manufacture cheaper.

I bought a 4/5 18" NEC monitor in 2000. $850.00

Now I have a 28" UHD Samsung monitor. <$300. No viewing data.

I love this monitor. Lines, in Sketchup, that are not vertical or horizontal, but are at some angle, are no longer made up of that big zig zag pixel pattern. They are straight and narrow, at least to me. ;~) I know, they are still sig zag but you have to get up real close to notice.

[Leon]

In June we had to retire all of our nonferrous pots and pans that we use on the cook top.

The gas is GONE.!!! Along with all the nasty emissions.

We bought a new GE Profile induction/convection oven range.

My wife, the main cook, liked gas over our old electric flat glass top range. Faster and easier to control the heat.

But her request was to get rid of the messy gas range and go with the induction.

Facts. Induction heats the pot or pan 2-3 times faster than gas. Spill overs can be immediately wiped up, while cooking, and do not bake on. There are no control knobs on our model. All functions are via touch screen. Clean up is shockingly easy and fast and can be done the instant the cooking is done. There is nothing to remove. Induction cooks more evenly under the entire bottom of the pot or pan, not just at the ring of fire. You have more temperature choices.

[J. Clarke]

Mine's a 49" 4K computer monitor. I _could_ hook an antenna to it or get a cable box, but why bother?

[krw]

I will be in a few months (panned to the end of this year). I told my boss that I'd finish up the project I'm on before retiring. He wants to bring me back as a contractor a couple of days a week or maybe when needed. It would work out for both of us but management gets weirded out by anything out of the norm. I'd have to make sure I don't screw myself tax-wise. There is no state income tax on retirement income below some (rather high) limit. Which side of non-retirement income go on, top or bottom?

With covid, working is easy. We work mostly from home (most are completely remote) and when I do go in, there are so few people around that it's easy. There are no "work hours" and in-person meetings are banned. If I had more time to play I probably would never retire. ;-)

[krw]

These are stainless with a copper core so food touches the stainless but yes, sorta, things don't require as much stirring anyway. They heat much more evenly.

SWMBO loves hers. I don't know about a tea kettle bi she wouldn't have anything else for cooking. The fact that she hasn't replaced them in a decade says something.

[krw]

It does but do you want to use cast iron for spaghetti? vegetables? Mac-n-cheese?

[krw]

She demanded gas, so we put a bottle in the back yard and bought a dual fuel Kitchenaid.

And I'd be banned from the kitchen completely!

[Clare Snyder]

But there is no need to buy WAY more "quality" than you need. For the average handyman a skill or milwaukee is just as good as a festool for

1/4 the price - and there are lots of reasonably priced quality machine tools and measurement tools too. When I started as an apprentice mechanic I couldn't afford "snappies"

- so I bought craftsman, and added Herbrand and SK - many of which I still own over 40 years later. I am guilty of having bought a "cheap" set of sockets to keep in the car and confess to throwing them away after skinning my knuckles ONE too many times!!!! I now have craftsman and mastercraft kits to carry in the vehicles. (both are lifetime warranty tools -with Mastercraft easier to get replaced than craftsman since the demise of Sears)

[krw]

Well, since I'm at the other end of that transaction I'd "officially" have a different take on this. I like people spending money on audio but "Intelligent" statements like this are said with straight faces:

"Pulling harmonics together from a jumbled auditory stream to form a coherent harmonic envelope."

Or perhaps:

"Harmonic textures ebbed and flowed with startling dynamic nuances and the sort of liquidity and purity one only comes to associate with world-class audio products."

That's what they sound like to me, anyway. I can't hear anything they're talking about but just nod and smile. Sure, their setup sounds good but my ear buds are good enough for podcasts. ;-)

[krw]

A guy I worked with was enamored with electrostatics. For the application, they got too complicated and *expensive*. The economics would never work out.

[krw]

There is a difference in what you can see vs. what you can't hear. ;-)

Hi-def is needed because the screens are 100x larger than they were. With '60s resolution, individual pixels would be the size of your fist. ;-)

[krw]

Our 65" was $3K four years or so ago. I can get something similar with OLED vs. LCD now for something like $2K. OLEDs at the time were North of $10K.

Technology has nothing to do with it, right?

[krw]

With proper aliasing, the zaggies are even less pronounced.

[Leon]

Ace Hardware and Lowes carry Craftsman mechanics tools.

[krw]

Projectors have never done it for me. I don't like the image and they're unreliable. Wide screens are so flat now that if you're worried about it just in thumb drive with a JPEG of the Mona Lisa and pretend it's high art.

[Leon]

If she ever cooked with one, electric induction, you would be buying a new one. LOL

[krw]

I'm not allowed anywhere near one. They're about the only thing that's found around the home that can drive pacemakers nuts. I'm dependent (if it don't work, I don't work) on mine so it's a double no-no.

Welders above 60A, I think, are a problem too. My doctor ordered me off riding lawn mowers, as well so I'm "forced" to pay someone to do the lawn. ;-)