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Gear that annoys you
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I do my best to keep Group trips electronic free, SPOT and a Camera. It's in the groups packing list "Leave the electronics in the car"
So-called "multi-function" products. One function MAY work somewhat, the other function(s) seldom do. For example, match cases with compass, whistle, mirror, etc.
Saw/hatchet?
Saw/hatchet?
I had squeaky shoes on one trip years ago. They drove me nuts! I dropped them in the trash can at the take-out parking lot. AHHHHH, that felt good!
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The squeaker sneakers I bought were name brand Goretex trail runners. There was probably a reason they were discounted on REI outlet.
It might have been better if both shoes squeaked. Only one did, but it was distinctly audible with every step, reminiscent of sound squeaky toys make and almost as loud.
I didn’t throw them away, I brought them home of one son to try, thinking his size, weight and narrower foot dimensions night alleviate the squeak. Nope.
So my wife took them to her sibling reunion and offered them to her brothers. The most frugal of them snatched them up, right size and everything.
I got an e-mail from him a week later. He had thrown his only other tattered shoes away and proudly wore his cool new Goretex trail runners into work before really noticing the obnoxious squeak.
He is a librarian. He said his colleagues were ready to kill him by the end of the squeak, pause, squeak, pause day.
SPORKS!
need another thread..
It stands to reason that we all try out new gear and ideas, accept and adopt what works, reject and toss what doesn't. Or at least that's the general idea, some of us are still wrestling with the application. With regards to the simplest of all inventions - cutlery, I'm still tormenting myself with a fork/knife/spoon set I've had for years. It had a biner that was supposed to "keep it all together when not on use", and was frustratingly useless. Hard to open, hard to close, snagging on everything at inopportune times. Oh f-it! I pitched the biner, but not the too too small cutlery set. Using it is like playing dolls with my grand-daughters. Please pass the pretend sumptuous sandwiches on pretend luncheon plates while I mince away with my pretend fork and knife. This coming season I may finally reject and toss these two cutlery sets (Yes. I said two sets. There's no use me suffering alone with this, might as well torture my wife with them too.) to replace them with...?
...replace them with Lexan? Titanium? Carve my own? Or maybe just old forks and spoons from the kitchen odd junk drawer.
...replace them with Lexan? Titanium? Carve my own? Or maybe just old forks and spoons from the kitchen odd junk drawer.
I have kitchen cup sets and measuring sets carabinered together... Completely clumsy to use.. For some reason I do have what seems to be forty thousand lexan spoons forks and knives. Why I don't know. Maybe long ago Algonquin Outfitters had a penny sale. Or I forgot all cutlery on repeated trips( quite likely)
Or they are like coathangers. Under the darkness of the paddle shed they mate over and over in an orgy of excess. That they share the shed with PVC bottles and lids leads me to think that sex is happening there but its very distasteful to all the bottle caps.. They for the most part ran away..
Probably to mate with socks that ran away from their other half pair in the dryer
Or they are like coathangers. Under the darkness of the paddle shed they mate over and over in an orgy of excess. That they share the shed with PVC bottles and lids leads me to think that sex is happening there but its very distasteful to all the bottle caps.. They for the most part ran away..
Probably to mate with socks that ran away from their other half pair in the dryer
I use Lexan for eating tools, but metal for cooking. I don't like the flex of the larger lexan tools.
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I'm with you Doc. and GP....
It annoyed me that GP had a far superior chair then I did.
Situation Corrected!
Situation Corrected!
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Not very often that someone prefers my gear, I'm usually the one doing the coveting.
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Test report: Silicon spray in the window seal gasket worked. At least a little, maybe a lot. Time will tell.
It rained for a couple of days and then last night the temps went down to 25F. The driver’s window was still frozen in place but it snapped free on the second button push without heating up the cab.
The rain however brought up another possible solution to a Taco problem. The turnaround area in my driveway is flanked by two maples and requires a specific angle and turn to back the truck in. The truck cap makes this turn problematic in the rain. I am trying to look through three raindropped windows; the back cab window and the front cap window, which are separated by 1 inch of space, and the side or back windows of the cap.
I keep a little squeegee in the truck for the latter two windows, but the cab/cap windows would be awkward to near impossible to squeegee, and one clear window out three doesn’t help much.
I had never used a RainX product, but the last gallon of windshield washer fluid I picked up was RainX 2-in-1, advertised to help remove light snow and ice and repel road spray.
I cannot (yet) attest to all that hype, but the windshield was raindrop free while the other truck windows were droplet occluded.
What the heck, I’m gonna wipe the front sliders and cap windows down with that stuff.
http://mechanics.stackexchange.com/...ent-my-doors-from-freezing-shut-in-the-winter
Silicon spray gets the vote but cooking oil might do too..
Silicon spray gets the vote but cooking oil might do too..
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I did a kinda halfassed job with the original application of silicon spray, so I just resprayed the window gaskets making sure to spray/wipe thoroughly inside the full gasket, including the bottom which I may have omitted last time.
For Taco experiment #2 I decanted some of the RainX windshield fluid into a spray bottle and cleaned the exposed truck windows with it. Mirrors too.
Well, not all of the exposed windows; I left a couple untreated as controls. I need to label the spray bottle of RainX washer fluid, it is a fugly orange hazardous waste color.
Cleaned out those emptied Windex/etc spray bottles are handy in the shop. I always have one filled with clean water for Gorilla Glue use and small clean ups.
Bleach solution in those spray bottles works well for decontamination work, but only once. Even 10% bleach solution eats the pump mechanism if left to sit too long.
Hmmm, I wonder if alcohol would eat that used spray bottle seal?
I use a lot of alcohol in the shop (stop snickering Doug), and it would be really convenient to have a spray bottle of alcohol handy instead of wetting down a paper towel (arrgghh, too much) and misplacing the bottle cap (little white cap. . . . yeah, it is dang near invisible when left on the white benchtop).
I feel another experiment coming on.
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Rain gear and coats without hoods not only annoy me, they make me feel colder and wetter than I probably am. I even have gone as far as sewing up a wind proof fleece hood with button holes to button onto my wool shirts and jackets. Nothing beats a hood for sitting around a fire on a cold windy night. One of the first rain coats I had did not have a hood, had to buy a separate South West'er Hat with tie down ear flaps. Ya I looked like I was out hunting Moby Dick but, when I didn't have it tie on properly it blew out of the back of the boat never to be seen again.
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