The "I just bought..." thread.

[sdifox]

What are the lamps for? They look delicate, and relatively expensive.

He wants to bring a little light to his rear exhaust port.

 

[gorobei]

He wants to bring a little light to his rear exhaust port.

the gerbil needs the light to read the map on how to escape.

 

[sdifox]

the gerbil needs the light to read the map on how to escape.

Indiana Jones and the Light at the end of the Tunnel.

 

[lxskllr]

 

[Chaotic42]

I was on the fence about getting one of these for a while, but just drilling the test hole has me completely sold. Need to do some fine adjustments to get it completely level, but I'm really happy. Only problem is that it's very tall and so is my table. I'm 6'3" and I build my tables to be comfortable for my height. The center of the chuck is at about eye level, so if this thing fails and flies apart, I'll never even know...

 

[lxskllr]

Drill presses are fantastic. Aside from chainsaws, I use almost 100% manual tools, but I like having a drill press available when I need one.

 

[Chaotic42]

Drill presses are fantastic. Aside from chainsaws, I use almost 100% manual tools, but I like having a drill press available when I need one.

Yeah, this will be a huge quality of life improvement, especially when it comes to aluminum. I don't love the clamp system, but that seems easy enough to replace.

 

[skyking]

backpack for the bus-ferry-bus shuffle between homes tomorrow.

padded laptop sleeve, good back support, big water bottle pocket.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

After about 6 years, I think my amp bit the bullet. Got power going to it, but it's not pushing any audio to my speakers. Ended up buying another one:


It's a 400w exact replacement.

 

[Red Squirrel]

A bunch of firewood, since I never got enough time to get my own this summer. It just went by too fast. Around $600ish delivered. I was going to pickup a bunch of small loads myself with my trailer but the one day I was off they did not have any available loose and was not sure when is the next time I can go since I really don't have much time off this schedule so decided to just pay for a single truck load.

More money than I wanted to spend, but still end up saving on gas so guess it's still a profit. This should last me the whole winter easy. Last year I had less so I was being more conservative with how often I made a fire but this year I can probably make way more.

 

[sdifox]

A week at Cancun for group of 7. I only grew up in a subtropical island and lived 15 min away from the beach

 

[sdifox]

A bunch of firewood, since I never got enough time to get my own this summer. It just went by too fast. Around $600ish delivered. I was going to pickup a bunch of small loads myself with my trailer but the one day I was off they did not have any available loose and was not sure when is the next time I can go since I really don't have much time off this schedule so decided to just pay for a single truck load.

More money than I wanted to spend, but still end up saving on gas so guess it's still a profit. This should last me the whole winter easy. Last year I had less so I was being more conservative with how often I made a fire but this year I can probably make way more.

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I don't know if you noticed. They missed the box.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

4 new tires - Goodyear Eagle Exhilarate. Ended up grabbing em on closeout - $515 installed.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow that's super cheap. When I got new tires for my truck they were that price... each. Came up to around $2,500 installed.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Wow that's super cheap. When I got new tires for my truck they were that price... each. Came up to around $2,500 installed.

Is that really today's weather in your Firewood post?

I can't imagine.

And you Canuck's are getting fleeced! (Dodge Ram truck standard size)

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah we just got hit with our first snow pretty much a day before that got delivered. That snow screwed me up so much too, because I had my trailer that I wanted to bring back to my property, and then this wood and was on night shift so couldn't really do anything meanwhile it kept accumulating. I stayed up after my last night just so I can try to move as much of the wood as I can while it's still accessible, and my parents offered to let me put my trailer in their yard as they have more space, so it saved me from going to my property in this snow.

That crap part though is all the wood is full of snow and ice so when I bring it inside I can only do it in small batches. I put it all around the wood stove since it's tiles there and let it melt with a fan then when it's dry enough to not damage the floor I move it and put more and repeat.

I managed to get tomorrow off so I can continue moving the wood to my back wood shed. Also need to finish building the wood rack in my basement, as that will let me store more. Last year I was just storing it free standing, but I didn't want to go too high with that in case the pile falls over.