On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:04:20 +0000, LRod
wrote:

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:37:12 GMT, "Chuck Hoffman"
wrote:

Not aimed directly at the last poster but just a general observation:

It's amazing how many of us hold onto stuff we'll never (again) use. Many
times, the plaintive cry is, "But it's worth more than I can get out of it."
Wrong. It's worth exactly NOTHING sitting unused on your shelf. If you
sold it to someone, that would accomplish two things: 1) give a disused
piece of equipment new life, and 2) put a few bucks in your pocket which you
could use to buy wood for a new project.

3) **** off the guy you sold it to.


Funny thing is, that doesn't always happen. I had one of those Wagner
paint drip squirters a number of years ago. I got it to paint the house
trim -- the house was mostly brick with a bit of trim and some siding on
the chimney and roof eaves. After I figured out that this beast was next
to useless -- it either spit paint runs or one had to thin the paint to the
consistency of water, but it was noisy -- I decided to get an air
compressor and a real paint sprayer. One of my wife's co-workers heard
about all the problems I had with this thing and offered to buy it; he was
absolutel sure I just didn't know how to use it and that *he* could make it
work properly. Not one to shrink away from recovering some of my shrunk
costs, especially from an arrogant so-and-so, I jumped at the chance to
unload this piece of crap. A while later my wife asked him whether he had
a chance to use it yet; he replied, "oh yeah, it works great!" uh-huh.


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LRod

Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite

Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

http://www.woodbutcher.net



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Now we'll just use some glue to hold things in place until the brads dry

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