What have you done in your shop lately?

[jdedmon91]

I did this job for a local street stock race car. Here is the video.

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[nnam]

I did this job for a local street stock race car. Here is the video.

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Not sure why you had to go extra steps saying people should not cut the rotor at home. I know some safety troll would say things, but servicing a brake at home can also cause accident if done wrong. Not picking at you, just wonder if it's standard disclaimer thing or there is a real good reason for that.

 

[Latinrascalrg1]

Not sure why you had to go extra steps saying people should not cut the rotor at home. I know some safety troll would say things, but servicing a brake at home can also cause accident if done wrong. Not picking at you, just wonder if it's standard disclaimer thing or there is a real good reason for that.

In America people have a tendency to blame someone else for a problem they themselves created. For example they "watched a video and the Guy who made the video did a dangerous thing without proper equipment safetly but when I tried I got hurt by following HIS Directions but if he didn't make that video or maybe warned people not to try it cause it might be dangerous then I would not have done what I Did so therefore its HIS Fault and I should be able to Sue him for Everything he has!" This is why people go through that Extra Step to warn people "Not to do this at home." Does it make a difference or mean anything in the court of law? I dont know but people believe it protects them to post a disclaimer.

 

[Winegrower]

In a flash of insight, after picking out the wrong size parallels too many times, I labeled the box with the spacing between the top of the parallel and the top of the vise. Yeah, it helps.

Disclaimer: Don't try this without proper safety equipment. And check your spelling.

 

[Janderso]

Good idea.
Speaking of safety.
I tried to order some lighting for the shop today. You know, florescent T-8 tubes.
Grainger, won't ship them from Sacramento (about 65 miles). They contain a substance known in the State of California, to cause erectile dysfunction, skin cancer in lab rats, birth defects if you put the powder in your soup and mood swings.
I wonder how Grainger got them?
I hope I did not break any Forum rules.

 

[matthewsx]

Good idea.
Speaking of safety.
I tried to order some lighting for the shop today. You know, florescent T-8 tubes.
Grainger, won't ship them from Sacramento (about 65 miles). They contain a substance known in the State of California, to cause erectile dysfunction, skin cancer in lab rats, birth defects if you put the powder in your soup and mood swings.
I wonder how Grainger got them?
I hope I did not break any Forum rules.

Mercury, very hard to machine....

Can't you just get those at Home Depot though?

 

[Janderso]

How did they get to Home Depot? A truck!!
Yeah, I can go to Home depot. Running a business requires the act of acquisition of supplies.
It's frustrating.

 

[homebrewed]

Mercury, very hard to machine....

All you have to do is keep your shop at -38F or lower so the mercury freezes. Piece of cake . Oops, that would freeze too...

 

[matthewsx]

How did they get to Home Depot? A truck!!
Yeah, I can go to Home depot. Running a business requires the act of acquisition of supplies.
It's frustrating.

I understand your frustration. I suspect however that Grainger doesn't want to ship them because they are too easy to break, not because of the mercury.

I'm sure you can find a good local supplier that caters to businesses and will deliver them, have you tried your local lighting supply?

John

 

[hman]

Janderso - My SWAG is that there's some kind of paperwork involved in shipping fluorescent tubes in California. They can easily afford to do paperwork for a bulk shipment - cost per item would be miniscule. But having to fill out the paperwork for every onsie-twosie shipment to a customer would get burdensome. So they just institute a blanket policy for all fluorescent tube shipments to customers. Don't know how large your order would have been, but you got stuck on the "one size fits all" shipping policy. I suppose if you were ordering a multiple case lot, they might have made an exception ... but it would take dealing (pleading) directly with a human being. The automated system would be of no help at all.
-end of rant-
PS - A possible alternative - LED lamps. IIRC, the 4 foot lengths are direct plug-in replacements. For 8 foot lengths, you need to remove and wire across the ballast. It's easy to do. I've replaced the lamps on several of the ceiling fixtures in my shop (the ones that had started to buzz or flicker) and have a supply of tubes ready for replacing the others when needed.