Interesting - thanks. Yeah, it's as you surmised. I usually just build a ledger for it since many times, I don't want to remove the center face frame for the doors and have to halve the bottom pieces anyway.

I'm a so-called "handy man" for a relator company. You'd be surprised at the level of ..uhm...incompetence(?) that you'd find all across various construction projects. Not square? No (real) problem. You figure it out, get it done (even at huge cost) and surprise, surprise, that ability translates to other aspects…

We just rebuilt a kitchen and downstairs closet due to Polybutylene piping, a predecessor to PEX. From a personal perspective, I love the control of PEX from the manifold but hate the fact that I don't have 100 years of experience to know when it'll fail.

Zero me in, here. You seem like you've got some experience.]

There is the "if it ain't broke" option, but I just want to point out - it's gonna break sometime [maybe soon]: want to deal on its schedule or your schedule? I change my timing belt every 60K. It's not broke, I don't need to fix it, but...I change it.

I'm assuming good wood. You want nothing that will change the chemistry/finish of the wood and be removable.

The top beam on the i-beam is nice, but I don't think it's necessary. All of the ones we used were built exactly to this spec, but without the top beam. We just nippered off the top of the legs to be even with the tops. Did fine. And I didn't have to worry about cuts going into the horses, because there were no…

Hrm. I have some sawhorses we built when doing the house. They are 17 years old, made of treated Doug Fir, and were put together with stainless 316 3.5" ring shank nails. Still strong, except for the dry rot on the leg bottoms. Now they are a little shorter.

I've been known, in extreme circumstances, to pound in 1" conduit piece into the ground and lash the ladder to them. I also use my Little Giant ladder to handle uneven surfaces (and now Werner makes a 6 foot version vs. 4 foot Little Giant that extends like a Little Giant. And it's not that heavy [like the Little…

When I had my shop, *every* project was about the jigs and guides to get to the work and not about the work itself. I had a a whole wall of jigs/guides at the end of 14 years in that place. Probably only used 3 of them twice in that time.

Dang. Never thought to use the witch hazel afterwards with my normal stuff. Thinking aftershave, but didn't want the stink that usually comes with it. Thanks.

Dang. Never thought to use the witch hazel afterwards with my normal stuff. Thinking aftershave, but didn't want…

That's a good point. If it "knows" the track already, that's one thing. I wonder if there are driving algorithms that are using that data to manage when to accelerate / decelerate also as opposed to "seeing ahead" and using the in the moment data learned to determine behavior. Hmm.

Oh god, oh god... all y'all aren't old enough to remember the Sgt. York project, but this Saab shit is what it needed. It's like reading about iPad's when Newton came out. Good idea, wrong timeframe.

I was on the phone (pre data recovery days) with an older gentlemen who had done this. By the time I got done explaining (very politely and very compassionately I thought) that he was totally screwed because he didn't back up, he started crying on the phone, eventually getting to sobbing. I felt so bad.. my Male…

I'm in my middle 50's and I don't think there's any way I could relate the intimate horror of your story to younger generations since the same types of things happened to me all the time. It comes down to the "I used to walk to school 2 miles, in a blizzard, *up* hill (both ways) in my day" type of representation for…

Oh shit, thanks. I lived through the USSR thing, and finally decoded the Soviets vs. the Russians. I lived through my own country from the 60's to now, and finally got that the leadership wasn't the people. And now I'm getting schooled again in the Israel / Palestinian thing. (Though I have to admit, the Christian…

Hmmm.. yeah. Watch as they stand on the neck of their declared enemies and *whine* like little girls when those enemies get loose for a second and want to hurt them to their full ability (this is not a judgement, simply an observation.) It's a phenomenal study in tactics and strategy...my prediction is that Israel…

Dude - where you hanging out?

I'll leave the cell phone thing for now (and thanks for some of the writeup, though I note a tone that leaves no possibility for any reality except your own as you see it.) I think (my opinion) that in the end, the ever increasing EM environment we've all been exposed to over the last 50 years will have some effect,…

A little bit of simile, some analogy and otherwise dismissal. Most of his comments are hogwash in my opinion, focused on a very narrow perceived (by him assuming Joel male) that safety of food stuffs is the issue. And it's that way for some, but for others, like me, it's not. Especially when "right to know" is…