Tip of The Day

Thereminator · Post by **Thereminator** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:30 pm

For an inexpencive(and reuseable) way too clamp Vacume hose's buy a box of the little black paper~spring clips at your local office supply store.There about $1.50 for a box of 10 and th'ell last FOREVER!!!

takza · Post by **takza** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:50 am

Best bet is to just not get out of bed in the morning....then you'll have a whole lot of time saved up.....eventually. But then you gotta figure out what to do with it all.

Which brings me to the meaning of life:

<span style='color:blue'>Why did the chicken cross the road?

To get to the other side. </span>

This is one of the main precepts that those of us who believe in the Great Pumpkin live by.

Thereminator · Post by **Thereminator** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:34 pm

When your removing an inner door-panel,take the top window chanel~guide off first(horizonta metal strip on top of the door).This will allow you to slightly push the panel "inward" and gain alittle more clearance when you remove the clip to the regulator handle.

takza · Post by **takza** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:11 pm

Not sure this will save much time...but if you put the heater control lever between defrost and heat...you get BOTH!

Thought you MIGHT wanna know..........

Thereminator · Post by **Thereminator** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:40 pm

Good one Takza!

...I'll give it a try!

Adelard of Bath · Post by **Adelard of Bath** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:43 am

When you're faced with (as we often are on small engines) putting nuts on bolts that are way down in a hole....for instance, when I was putting my carb back on my 3ac in the zero degree garage...I took a piece of masking tape about an inch long or so, and put it across the nut, then crammed my socket (and long extension) onto it. The tape folds down over the nut so two sides of the nut have tape around it: makes the socket nice and tight on the nut, then after you have the nut started and/or tightened, you can wiggle the socket and it will all come apart...and the tape probably won't stick to the nut, cuz there is probably grease on it. And no tape sticks in my zero degree garage hee hee

Does not apply for those of you with those little magnets in your sockets.

Adelard of Bath · Post by **Adelard of Bath** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:49 am

How bout this! Best thing I ever did for my socket set collection...
Sears 1/4" sockets have extra little "tabs" or something in the sockets, and if you buy the 1/4" locking extensions, you slide the little lever on the extension and the socket doesn't fall off....now when I am using the nice long 12" extension, I never have the problem of the 10mm socket or whatever staying on the nut down in the bottom of the engine bay.
I suppose other brands have this also, but I used to use the normal "spring-ball" socket extensions and they didn't hold on there

Saved me many times!

Oh and when you are trying on shoes at the store, pocket as many of those little packets of crystals as you can and fill up your drawers on your toolchest, to help keep rust at bay....wee! Just don't let the store catch you on camera putting stuff in your pockets in the store, it is generally frowned upon. Alternately, if you have a sister or something in your house, perhaps she has a WHOLE CLOSET of shoeboxes? hee hee! nudge nudge wink wink
Just don't let her catch you on camera in her closet putting stuff in your pockets, knowwhatimean say no more!