100 Skills Every Man Should Know

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MagnusTheBrewer

IN MEMORIAM
Jun 19, 2004
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No it's not really "more than that". It's the fact that many of us have grown up in the FWD era of cars with transverse mounted V6 shoehorned into a miserably compact engine bay that's almost intentionally difficult to self repair by the manufacturer. Today's Impala is not the same Impala of 1972 in terms of easy wrenching.

Shit...even changing the freaking headlights in my Malibu requires you to remove the battery and contort your hand into some freakish positions to get into the assembly.

True. True. I just seized the example given and used it as a general principle.
 

DrPizza

Administrator Elite Member Goat Whisperer
Mar 5, 2001
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No it's not really "more than that". It's the fact that many of us have grown up in the FWD era of cars with transverse mounted V6 shoehorned into a miserably compact engine bay that's almost intentionally difficult to self repair by the manufacturer. Today's Impala is not the same Impala of 1972 in terms of easy wrenching.

Shit...even changing the freaking headlights in my Malibu requires you to remove the battery and contort your hand into some freakish positions to get into the assembly.

That's true. When I changed an idler pulley on a Mazda I had - what a bitch to get in there with a wrench; you had to have one of the box wrenches with a bend at the end. A socket wouldn't work either; not enough room.

Regardless though, the basic principles for changing a belt haven't changed. Ditto changing the headlight. It's a pain in the ass, but something you're apparently capable of. Today's generation says, "too hard. I don't know how to do it" and gives up immediately.
 

Howard

Lifer
Oct 14, 1999
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What I cannot do:
Courtsey of Popular Mechanics..

Automotive
1. Handle a blowout
3. Check trouble codes
4. Replace fan belt
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle
7. Use a stick welder

Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR
13. Escape a sinking car

Home
22. Shovel the right way (WTF?)
24. Tape drywall (I think I can figure it out quickly, never had to tape it though)
25. Split firewood
29. Use a French knife (WTF is a French knife)
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
39. Change a diaper
42. Fold a flag

Medical Myths
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick

Military Know-How
49. Make a drum-tight bed

Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe
52. Hang food in the wild
53. Skipper a boat
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
56. Escape a rip current

Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter
59. Find potable water

Surviving Extremes
60. Floods
61. Tornados
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning

Teach Your Kids
65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
71. Parallel park
72. Tie a bowline
74. Whittle

Technology
80. Ditch your hard drive (?)

Master Key Workshop Tools
83. Coolant hydrometer
85. Test light (?)
91. Sledge hammer
96. Sand blaster
97. Crosscut saw (if this is a miter saw, I can use it)
Wow, I suck at this.
 

guyver01

Lifer
Sep 25, 2000
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29. Use a French knife (WTF is a French knife)


had to look that up too
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A chef's knife, also known as a French knife or a cook's knife, is a cutting tool used in food preparation. The chef's knife was originally designed primarily to slice and disjoint large cuts of beef. Today it is the primary general-utility knife for most Western cooks.


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Most cooks prefer to grip the handle, with all four fingers and the thumb gathered underneath. For more precise control, some adopt a grip on the blade itself, with the thumb and the index finger grasping the blade just to the front of the finger guard and the middle finger placed just opposite, on the handle side of the finger guard below the bolster.

For fine slicing the handle is raised up and down with the tip remains in contact with the cutting board and the cut object is pushed under the blade.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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Well, I guess I can use a French knife, but I'd have been fucked yesterday if you told me to get the French knife out of the box of knives :^D I always called that a chef's knife.
 

Zargon

Lifer
Nov 3, 2009
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Courtsey of Popular Mechanics..

Automotive
7. Use a stick welder- want to learn.....

Handling Emergencies
11. Reverse hypothermia

Home
34. Fell a tree
39. Change a diaper - dont want to thanks!
41. Sew a button on a shirt

Medical Myths
43. Treat frostbite
46. Treat a snakebite

Military Know-How
49. Make a drum-tight bed

Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe
53. Skipper a boat

Surviving Extremes
60. Floods

Teach Your Kids
65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
69. Fly a stunt kite
72. Tie a bowline

Technology
77. Take the perfect portrait

Master Key Workshop Tools
82. Grease gun - man I need one of these
85. Test light
86. Brick trowel - will this spring
91. Sledge hammer
95. Infrared thermometer
96. Sand blaster
98. Hand plane

77/100 ain't bad....