Remembering how to tie my shoes, going back for a do-rag

On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:23:51 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/6/2020 2:05 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Monday, 6 July 2020 13:05:44 UTC-4, AMuzi wrote:
On 7/6/2020 11:37 AM, Lou Holtman wrote:
On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 7:44:15 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:53:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/5/2020 6:47 PM, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:38:07 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/4/2020 10:42 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 7:39:23 PM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 12:54:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 7/3/2020 10:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:21:57 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:
For Jeff: The downside is I won't learn as much about glue and rubber
technology. (But thanks for that technical content.)

No problem. Looks like you've solved your shoe problem. You may not
be learning much about glue and rubber:
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/hot-melt-glue/index.html

Hmm. If I'd seen that a few weeks ago, I might have continued using the
old cycling shoes!

I thought that might get your attention. Good to know that I'm not
the only person who repairs their own shoes:
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/drivel/index.html#shoes.jpg

The reason for replacing my old shoes was a chunk of black sole rubber
disappeared. It didn't affect their cycling utility, but it looked
weird and seemed a harbinger of further trouble.

Well, there's another tool you might find useful. It's called a hot
air SMD (surface mount) desoldering station. It uses hot air to melt
solder, but will work just as well on hot melt glue:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+air+smd+desoldering+station&tbm=isch
The problem it solves is re-melting the hot melt glue after you've
applied it, and discovered that there are voids or areas that didn't
"stick". You'll need a few nozzles to concentrate the heat. A
hardware store heat gun might also work on low-temp hot melt glue.
You'll also need the accessory nozzles to concentrate the heat.

I've got a heat gun. If necessary, I'll try to cobble together a nozzle
for that. I'm at the stage where I'm trying to minimize purchase of new
special purpose tools I'll seldom use. It's sad, I know!

But your photo interested me enough to go shopping. While sitting at
my computer, of course (but wearing pants). I'm having Jeff B send me
some black hot melt glue, which until your photo, I didn't know existed.

I can also send you some of mine. Just one problem. I probably have
100 sticks of the black glue, but don't know who made it or the part
number.

No need to send it, thanks. Jeff Bezos just promised to have it here
tomorrow. I'm hoping he'll deliver it personally. He and I go way back.

But it is too bad some of us are as distant as we are. I can envision a
colony of like-minded repair freaks trading tools, equipment and
experience. Not to mention obsolete bike parts!

One guy I knew, kind of well-to-do in a nice suburban home, said "Look
at this. It's crazy. I've got thousands of bucks sunk into a riding
mower, a snow blower, a rototiller, a weed whacker, a chainsaw and more.
And so does my next door neighbor and the guy across the street and the
guy next to him. We should have just bought one set of equipment and
shared it!"


There used to be companies that did that as a business. You needed a
jack-hammer for a couple of days to break up the driveway you could
rent one, along with the air compressor to power it. Are those sort of
places all gone now?

They still exist, and I've used them, but for one-off rentals of things
I would use only once. One example was a trenching machine for when I
ran new downspout drains. Another was a huge electric chiseler when I
had to cut a new opening into my chimney. The items I listed above are
things that would be used much more often.

I actually did what I said regarding a riding mower. Our elderly
neighbors moved into assisted living and their son put the riding mower
at the street with a low price tag. The really nice guy across the
street complained endlessly about how hard he worked at mowing his lawn,
so much so that he briefly tried to sell his house. I like him living
there, so I told him about the mower and he said the price was still a
lot of money for him. So we bought it together, which was almost
entirely charity on my part. I'm now half owner of a machine I use only
a couple times a year.

See, I still don't like cutting grass. Besides, our lot is complicated
by a huge number of trees, shrubs and other landscaping. So I pay the
young guys next door to mow it.

Good Lord! How much land does you neighbor have that mowing the lawn
in a back breaking task?

Granted I haven't mowed a lawn in years and years but I used to. Front
and Back lawns, Sunday morning, rake and edge. Done long before Lunch.
--
Cheers,

John B.


Do you set a minimum how much land one should have before one is allowed to call lawn mowing a back breaking task? One of your not so bright posts. Your own experience always goes back 50 or more years. Pff..

Lou, mowing laws is one of the most stupid garden tasks


I'm with you in principle but there are two not-obvious
factors. One is the tick population which can be greatly
reduced with shorter vegetation[1]

Then there's regulatory punishment of the citizenry. First
grass ticket of the year is $100, second $200 and so on.

Neither may affect you but they have significance.

[1]https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/tick/lyme-data.htm

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

People need to modify their push lawn mowers into bicycle powered lawn mowers. It's a great use for a lot of theose BSO things.

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=is...Zw&sclient=img

When Bike Nashbar had its headquarters here, they briefly sold something
like that. I talked to a couple of their employees (my friends) who
tried it. Nobody claimed it was any good.

Well, that is because of the pitiful weak power supply. Fit something
like a B&S 1.5 h.p. gasoline motor and you'll be racing around the
lawn :-)
--
Cheers,

John B.

John B. wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:23:51 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/6/2020 2:05 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Monday, 6 July 2020 13:05:44 UTC-4, AMuzi wrote:
On 7/6/2020 11:37 AM, Lou Holtman wrote:
On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 7:44:15 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:53:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/5/2020 6:47 PM, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:38:07 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/4/2020 10:42 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 7:39:23 PM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 12:54:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 7/3/2020 10:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:21:57 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:
For Jeff: The downside is I won't learn as much about glue and rubber
technology. (But thanks for that technical content.)

No problem. Looks like you've solved your shoe problem. You may not
be learning much about glue and rubber:
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/hot-melt-glue/index.html

Hmm. If I'd seen that a few weeks ago, I might have continued using the
old cycling shoes!

I thought that might get your attention. Good to know that I'm not
the only person who repairs their own shoes:
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/drivel/index.html#shoes.jpg

The reason for replacing my old shoes was a chunk of black sole rubber
disappeared. It didn't affect their cycling utility, but it looked
weird and seemed a harbinger of further trouble.

Well, there's another tool you might find useful. It's called a hot
air SMD (surface mount) desoldering station. It uses hot air to melt
solder, but will work just as well on hot melt glue:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+air+smd+desoldering+station&tbm=isch
The problem it solves is re-melting the hot melt glue after you've
applied it, and discovered that there are voids or areas that didn't
"stick". You'll need a few nozzles to concentrate the heat. A
hardware store heat gun might also work on low-temp hot melt glue.
You'll also need the accessory nozzles to concentrate the heat.

I've got a heat gun. If necessary, I'll try to cobble together a nozzle
for that. I'm at the stage where I'm trying to minimize purchase of new
special purpose tools I'll seldom use. It's sad, I know!

But your photo interested me enough to go shopping. While sitting at
my computer, of course (but wearing pants). I'm having Jeff B send me
some black hot melt glue, which until your photo, I didn't know existed.

I can also send you some of mine. Just one problem. I probably have
100 sticks of the black glue, but don't know who made it or the part
number.

No need to send it, thanks. Jeff Bezos just promised to have it here
tomorrow. I'm hoping he'll deliver it personally. He and I go way back.

But it is too bad some of us are as distant as we are. I can envision a
colony of like-minded repair freaks trading tools, equipment and
experience. Not to mention obsolete bike parts!

One guy I knew, kind of well-to-do in a nice suburban home, said "Look
at this. It's crazy. I've got thousands of bucks sunk into a riding
mower, a snow blower, a rototiller, a weed whacker, a chainsaw and more.
And so does my next door neighbor and the guy across the street and the
guy next to him. We should have just bought one set of equipment and
shared it!"


There used to be companies that did that as a business. You needed a
jack-hammer for a couple of days to break up the driveway you could
rent one, along with the air compressor to power it. Are those sort of
places all gone now?

They still exist, and I've used them, but for one-off rentals of things
I would use only once. One example was a trenching machine for when I
ran new downspout drains. Another was a huge electric chiseler when I
had to cut a new opening into my chimney. The items I listed above are
things that would be used much more often.

I actually did what I said regarding a riding mower. Our elderly
neighbors moved into assisted living and their son put the riding mower
at the street with a low price tag. The really nice guy across the
street complained endlessly about how hard he worked at mowing his lawn,
so much so that he briefly tried to sell his house. I like him living
there, so I told him about the mower and he said the price was still a
lot of money for him. So we bought it together, which was almost
entirely charity on my part. I'm now half owner of a machine I use only
a couple times a year.

See, I still don't like cutting grass. Besides, our lot is complicated
by a huge number of trees, shrubs and other landscaping. So I pay the
young guys next door to mow it.

Good Lord! How much land does you neighbor have that mowing the lawn
in a back breaking task?

Granted I haven't mowed a lawn in years and years but I used to. Front
and Back lawns, Sunday morning, rake and edge. Done long before Lunch.
--
Cheers,

John B.


Do you set a minimum how much land one should have before one is
allowed to call lawn mowing a back breaking task? One of your not so
bright posts. Your own experience always goes back 50 or more years. Pff..

Lou, mowing laws is one of the most stupid garden tasks


I'm with you in principle but there are two not-obvious
factors. One is the tick population which can be greatly
reduced with shorter vegetation[1]

Then there's regulatory punishment of the citizenry. First
grass ticket of the year is $100, second $200 and so on.

Neither may affect you but they have significance.

[1]https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/tick/lyme-data.htm

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

People need to modify their push lawn mowers into bicycle powered lawn
mowers. It's a great use for a lot of theose BSO things.

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=is...Zw&sclient=img

When Bike Nashbar had its headquarters here, they briefly sold something
like that. I talked to a couple of their employees (my friends) who
tried it. Nobody claimed it was any good.

Well, that is because of the pitiful weak power supply. Fit something
like a B&S 1.5 h.p. gasoline motor and you'll be racing around the
lawn :-)
--
Cheers,

John B.



Too many corners on your average lawn and not enough straightaways.

On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:25:24 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/6/2020 6:41 PM, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 09:37:10 -0700 (PDT), Lou Holtman
wrote:

On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 7:44:15 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:53:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/5/2020 6:47 PM, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:38:07 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/4/2020 10:42 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 7:39:23 PM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 12:54:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 7/3/2020 10:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:21:57 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:
For Jeff: The downside is I won't learn as much about glue and rubber
technology. (But thanks for that technical content.)

No problem. Looks like you've solved your shoe problem. You may not
be learning much about glue and rubber:
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/hot-melt-glue/index.html

Hmm. If I'd seen that a few weeks ago, I might have continued using the
old cycling shoes!

I thought that might get your attention. Good to know that I'm not
the only person who repairs their own shoes:
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/drivel/index.html#shoes.jpg

The reason for replacing my old shoes was a chunk of black sole rubber
disappeared. It didn't affect their cycling utility, but it looked
weird and seemed a harbinger of further trouble.

Well, there's another tool you might find useful. It's called a hot
air SMD (surface mount) desoldering station. It uses hot air to melt
solder, but will work just as well on hot melt glue:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+air+smd+desoldering+station&tbm=isch
The problem it solves is re-melting the hot melt glue after you've
applied it, and discovered that there are voids or areas that didn't
"stick". You'll need a few nozzles to concentrate the heat. A
hardware store heat gun might also work on low-temp hot melt glue.
You'll also need the accessory nozzles to concentrate the heat.

I've got a heat gun. If necessary, I'll try to cobble together a nozzle
for that. I'm at the stage where I'm trying to minimize purchase of new
special purpose tools I'll seldom use. It's sad, I know!

But your photo interested me enough to go shopping. While sitting at
my computer, of course (but wearing pants). I'm having Jeff B send me
some black hot melt glue, which until your photo, I didn't know existed.

I can also send you some of mine. Just one problem. I probably have
100 sticks of the black glue, but don't know who made it or the part
number.

No need to send it, thanks. Jeff Bezos just promised to have it here
tomorrow. I'm hoping he'll deliver it personally. He and I go way back.

But it is too bad some of us are as distant as we are. I can envision a
colony of like-minded repair freaks trading tools, equipment and
experience. Not to mention obsolete bike parts!

One guy I knew, kind of well-to-do in a nice suburban home, said "Look
at this. It's crazy. I've got thousands of bucks sunk into a riding
mower, a snow blower, a rototiller, a weed whacker, a chainsaw and more.
And so does my next door neighbor and the guy across the street and the
guy next to him. We should have just bought one set of equipment and
shared it!"


There used to be companies that did that as a business. You needed a
jack-hammer for a couple of days to break up the driveway you could
rent one, along with the air compressor to power it. Are those sort of
places all gone now?

They still exist, and I've used them, but for one-off rentals of things
I would use only once. One example was a trenching machine for when I
ran new downspout drains. Another was a huge electric chiseler when I
had to cut a new opening into my chimney. The items I listed above are
things that would be used much more often.

I actually did what I said regarding a riding mower. Our elderly
neighbors moved into assisted living and their son put the riding mower
at the street with a low price tag. The really nice guy across the
street complained endlessly about how hard he worked at mowing his lawn,
so much so that he briefly tried to sell his house. I like him living
there, so I told him about the mower and he said the price was still a
lot of money for him. So we bought it together, which was almost
entirely charity on my part. I'm now half owner of a machine I use only
a couple times a year.

See, I still don't like cutting grass. Besides, our lot is complicated
by a huge number of trees, shrubs and other landscaping. So I pay the
young guys next door to mow it.

Good Lord! How much land does you neighbor have that mowing the lawn
in a back breaking task?

Granted I haven't mowed a lawn in years and years but I used to. Front
and Back lawns, Sunday morning, rake and edge. Done long before Lunch.
--
Cheers,

John B.


Do you set a minimum how much land one should have before one is allowed to call lawn mowing a back breaking task? One of your not so bright posts. Your own experience always goes back 50 or more years. Pff..

Lou, mowing laws is one of the most stupid garden tasks

One assumes that defining something as "back breaking" is probably a
matter of the amount of work rather than the distance traveled.

As my experience, I haven't lived in a house with a lawn since I left
the U.S. and yes it was 47 years ago.

But if one doesn't want to be bothered with mowing a lawn, then why
does one have a lawn?

That makes me curious about your area. Are the houses separated, as they
are in suburban America (as opposed to apartment buildings or row houses)?

If so, what's the ground like between the houses?

There isn't usually much land between houses here. Land is expensive
and that is what you buy and own. Generally speaking taxes are levied
on the land that you own, not the structure on the land - at least for
the usual family housing. In the cities, particularly, houses will
likely be built to about 1 meter from the boundary line on all sides
and be surrounded by a 7 or 8 foot solid concrete fence.

The place that we own is a bit different in that it is in a
residential housing development, about a kilometer from the village
and is built on a lot that is comprised of three normal housing lots
so we have a lot of land around the house, but no lawn. Instead we've
got trees, coconut trees, banana trees, longan, jackfruit, you name
it, but no grass :-)

In the rural areas, generally speaking, people live in villages and
own agriculture land outside the village rather then living on a
"farm" and in the villages houses are built, just as in the cities,
close together.

Of course there are Mansions, or at least "rich folks houses" that do
have lawns but those places have people to mow their lawn for them :-)

--
Cheers,

John B.

On 07/07/2020 00:53, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:05:38 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

On 7/6/2020 11:37 AM, Lou Holtman wrote:
On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 7:44:15 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:53:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/5/2020 6:47 PM, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:38:07 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/4/2020 10:42 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 7:39:23 PM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 12:54:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 7/3/2020 10:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:21:57 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:
For Jeff: The downside is I won't learn as much about glue and rubber
technology. (But thanks for that technical content.)

No problem. Looks like you've solved your shoe problem. You may not
be learning much about glue and rubber:
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/hot-melt-glue/index.html

Hmm. If I'd seen that a few weeks ago, I might have continued using the
old cycling shoes!

I thought that might get your attention. Good to know that I'm not
the only person who repairs their own shoes:
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/drivel/index.html#shoes.jpg

The reason for replacing my old shoes was a chunk of black sole rubber
disappeared. It didn't affect their cycling utility, but it looked
weird and seemed a harbinger of further trouble.

Well, there's another tool you might find useful. It's called a hot
air SMD (surface mount) desoldering station. It uses hot air to melt
solder, but will work just as well on hot melt glue:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+air+smd+desoldering+station&tbm=isch
The problem it solves is re-melting the hot melt glue after you've
applied it, and discovered that there are voids or areas that didn't
"stick". You'll need a few nozzles to concentrate the heat. A
hardware store heat gun might also work on low-temp hot melt glue.
You'll also need the accessory nozzles to concentrate the heat.

I've got a heat gun. If necessary, I'll try to cobble together a nozzle
for that. I'm at the stage where I'm trying to minimize purchase of new
special purpose tools I'll seldom use. It's sad, I know!

But your photo interested me enough to go shopping. While sitting at
my computer, of course (but wearing pants). I'm having Jeff B send me
some black hot melt glue, which until your photo, I didn't know existed.

I can also send you some of mine. Just one problem. I probably have
100 sticks of the black glue, but don't know who made it or the part
number.

No need to send it, thanks. Jeff Bezos just promised to have it here
tomorrow. I'm hoping he'll deliver it personally. He and I go way back.

But it is too bad some of us are as distant as we are. I can envision a
colony of like-minded repair freaks trading tools, equipment and
experience. Not to mention obsolete bike parts!

One guy I knew, kind of well-to-do in a nice suburban home, said "Look
at this. It's crazy. I've got thousands of bucks sunk into a riding
mower, a snow blower, a rototiller, a weed whacker, a chainsaw and more.
And so does my next door neighbor and the guy across the street and the
guy next to him. We should have just bought one set of equipment and
shared it!"


There used to be companies that did that as a business. You needed a
jack-hammer for a couple of days to break up the driveway you could
rent one, along with the air compressor to power it. Are those sort of
places all gone now?

They still exist, and I've used them, but for one-off rentals of things
I would use only once. One example was a trenching machine for when I
ran new downspout drains. Another was a huge electric chiseler when I
had to cut a new opening into my chimney. The items I listed above are
things that would be used much more often.

I actually did what I said regarding a riding mower. Our elderly
neighbors moved into assisted living and their son put the riding mower
at the street with a low price tag. The really nice guy across the
street complained endlessly about how hard he worked at mowing his lawn,
so much so that he briefly tried to sell his house. I like him living
there, so I told him about the mower and he said the price was still a
lot of money for him. So we bought it together, which was almost
entirely charity on my part. I'm now half owner of a machine I use only
a couple times a year.

See, I still don't like cutting grass. Besides, our lot is complicated
by a huge number of trees, shrubs and other landscaping. So I pay the
young guys next door to mow it.

Good Lord! How much land does you neighbor have that mowing the lawn
in a back breaking task?

Granted I haven't mowed a lawn in years and years but I used to. Front
and Back lawns, Sunday morning, rake and edge. Done long before Lunch.
--
Cheers,

John B.


Do you set a minimum how much land one should have before one is allowed to call lawn mowing a back breaking task? One of your not so bright posts. Your own experience always goes back 50 or more years. Pff..

Lou, mowing laws is one of the most stupid garden tasks


I'm with you in principle but there are two not-obvious
factors. One is the tick population which can be greatly
reduced with shorter vegetation[1]

Then there's regulatory punishment of the citizenry. First
grass ticket of the year is $100, second $200 and so on.

Neither may affect you but they have significance.

[1]r


Interesting. But I read that to become infected the louse has to
remain attached for 36 to 48 hours...

Not in my case, about 6 hours was enough for me to contract Lymes disease.

On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 07:32:28 +0200, Tosspot
wrote:

On 07/07/2020 00:53, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:05:38 -0500, AMuzi wrote:

On 7/6/2020 11:37 AM, Lou Holtman wrote:
On Monday, July 6, 2020 at 7:44:15 AM UTC+2, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 22:53:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/5/2020 6:47 PM, John B. wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 12:38:07 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/4/2020 10:42 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:10:54 -0700 (PDT), Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 7:39:23 PM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 12:54:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 7/3/2020 10:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 12:21:57 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:
For Jeff: The downside is I won't learn as much about glue and rubber
technology. (But thanks for that technical content.)

No problem. Looks like you've solved your shoe problem. You may not
be learning much about glue and rubber:
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/hot-melt-glue/index.html

Hmm. If I'd seen that a few weeks ago, I might have continued using the
old cycling shoes!

I thought that might get your attention. Good to know that I'm not
the only person who repairs their own shoes:
http://www.learnbydestroying.com/jeffl/pics/drivel/index.html#shoes.jpg

The reason for replacing my old shoes was a chunk of black sole rubber
disappeared. It didn't affect their cycling utility, but it looked
weird and seemed a harbinger of further trouble.

Well, there's another tool you might find useful. It's called a hot
air SMD (surface mount) desoldering station. It uses hot air to melt
solder, but will work just as well on hot melt glue:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+air+smd+desoldering+station&tbm=isch
The problem it solves is re-melting the hot melt glue after you've
applied it, and discovered that there are voids or areas that didn't
"stick". You'll need a few nozzles to concentrate the heat. A
hardware store heat gun might also work on low-temp hot melt glue.
You'll also need the accessory nozzles to concentrate the heat.

I've got a heat gun. If necessary, I'll try to cobble together a nozzle
for that. I'm at the stage where I'm trying to minimize purchase of new
special purpose tools I'll seldom use. It's sad, I know!

But your photo interested me enough to go shopping. While sitting at
my computer, of course (but wearing pants). I'm having Jeff B send me
some black hot melt glue, which until your photo, I didn't know existed.

I can also send you some of mine. Just one problem. I probably have
100 sticks of the black glue, but don't know who made it or the part
number.

No need to send it, thanks. Jeff Bezos just promised to have it here
tomorrow. I'm hoping he'll deliver it personally. He and I go way back.

But it is too bad some of us are as distant as we are. I can envision a
colony of like-minded repair freaks trading tools, equipment and
experience. Not to mention obsolete bike parts!

One guy I knew, kind of well-to-do in a nice suburban home, said "Look
at this. It's crazy. I've got thousands of bucks sunk into a riding
mower, a snow blower, a rototiller, a weed whacker, a chainsaw and more.
And so does my next door neighbor and the guy across the street and the
guy next to him. We should have just bought one set of equipment and
shared it!"


There used to be companies that did that as a business. You needed a
jack-hammer for a couple of days to break up the driveway you could
rent one, along with the air compressor to power it. Are those sort of
places all gone now?

They still exist, and I've used them, but for one-off rentals of things
I would use only once. One example was a trenching machine for when I
ran new downspout drains. Another was a huge electric chiseler when I
had to cut a new opening into my chimney. The items I listed above are
things that would be used much more often.

I actually did what I said regarding a riding mower. Our elderly
neighbors moved into assisted living and their son put the riding mower
at the street with a low price tag. The really nice guy across the
street complained endlessly about how hard he worked at mowing his lawn,
so much so that he briefly tried to sell his house. I like him living
there, so I told him about the mower and he said the price was still a
lot of money for him. So we bought it together, which was almost
entirely charity on my part. I'm now half owner of a machine I use only
a couple times a year.

See, I still don't like cutting grass. Besides, our lot is complicated
by a huge number of trees, shrubs and other landscaping. So I pay the
young guys next door to mow it.

Good Lord! How much land does you neighbor have that mowing the lawn
in a back breaking task?

Granted I haven't mowed a lawn in years and years but I used to. Front
and Back lawns, Sunday morning, rake and edge. Done long before Lunch.
--
Cheers,

John B.


Do you set a minimum how much land one should have before one is allowed to call lawn mowing a back breaking task? One of your not so bright posts. Your own experience always goes back 50 or more years. Pff..

Lou, mowing laws is one of the most stupid garden tasks


I'm with you in principle but there are two not-obvious
factors. One is the tick population which can be greatly
reduced with shorter vegetation[1]

Then there's regulatory punishment of the citizenry. First
grass ticket of the year is $100, second $200 and so on.

Neither may affect you but they have significance.

[1]r


Interesting. But I read that to become infected the louse has to
remain attached for 36 to 48 hours...

Not in my case, about 6 hours was enough for me to contract Lymes disease.

I don't know, but that is what I read.
https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/index.html
"Finally, blacklegged ticks need to be attached for at least 24 hours
before they can transmit Lyme disease. This is why it’s so important
to remove them promptly and to check your body daily for ticks if you
live in an endemic area."
--
Cheers,

John B.

On 7/6/2020 11:31 PM, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:25:24 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 7/6/2020 6:41 PM, John B. wrote:


But if one doesn't want to be bothered with mowing a lawn, then why
does one have a lawn?

That makes me curious about your area. Are the houses separated, as they
are in suburban America (as opposed to apartment buildings or row houses)?

If so, what's the ground like between the houses?

There isn't usually much land between houses here. Land is expensive
and that is what you buy and own. Generally speaking taxes are levied
on the land that you own, not the structure on the land - at least for
the usual family housing. In the cities, particularly, houses will
likely be built to about 1 meter from the boundary line on all sides
and be surrounded by a 7 or 8 foot solid concrete fence.

That's interesting. Over the years, we've had quite a few visitors
(mostly touring cyclists) from other countries, plus a week-long visit
from from friends from Dublin, Ireland.

Others have remarked on our large yard (it's about 0.6 Acres), but the
Irish friends were most astonished by the spread-out nature of America.
"You have so much ROOM!"


The place that we own is a bit different in that it is in a
residential housing development, about a kilometer from the village
and is built on a lot that is comprised of three normal housing lots
so we have a lot of land around the house, but no lawn. Instead we've
got trees, coconut trees, banana trees, longan, jackfruit, you name
it, but no grass :-)

In the rural areas, generally speaking, people live in villages and
own agriculture land outside the village rather then living on a
"farm" and in the villages houses are built, just as in the cities,
close together.

Of course there are Mansions, or at least "rich folks houses" that do
have lawns but those places have people to mow their lawn for them :-)

Thanks, that was interesting.

(And we, in this tiny house, are lucky to have the young men next door
to mow our lawn for us!)

--
- Frank Krygowski

On 07/07/2020 07:55, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 07:32:28 +0200, Tosspot
wrote:

On 07/07/2020 00:53, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:05:38 -0500, AMuzi wrote:


snip

Interesting. But I read that to become infected the louse has to
remain attached for 36 to 48 hours...

Not in my case, about 6 hours was enough for me to contract Lymes disease.

I don't know, but that is what I read.
https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/index.html
"Finally, blacklegged ticks need to be attached for at least 24 hours
before they can transmit Lyme disease. This is why it’s so important
to remove them promptly and to check your body daily for ticks if you
live in an endemic area."

What can I say? I had a snooze after a BBQ, picked a tick off at about
07:00, 2 days later I'm on industrial strength antibiotics. Classic
bulls eye welt as well. It wasn't the worlds most difficult diagnosis :-)

On 7/7/2020 1:56 PM, Tosspot wrote:
On 07/07/2020 07:55, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 07:32:28 +0200, Tosspot

wrote:

On 07/07/2020 00:53, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:05:38 -0500, AMuzi
wrote:


snip

Interesting. But I read that to become infected the
louse has to
remain attached for 36 to 48 hours...

Not in my case, about 6 hours was enough for me to
contract Lymes disease.

I don't know, but that is what I read.
https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/index.html
"Finally, blacklegged ticks need to be attached for at
least 24 hours
before they can transmit Lyme disease. This is why it’s
so important
to remove them promptly and to check your body daily for
ticks if you
live in an endemic area."

What can I say? I had a snooze after a BBQ, picked a tick
off at about 07:00, 2 days later I'm on industrial strength
antibiotics. Classic bulls eye welt as well. It wasn't the
worlds most difficult diagnosis :-)



That's a typical report and I know several people who
suffered various degrees of Lyme pain and suffering. The
longest I know of was overnight, most within hours. The
worst part of it is that first symptoms are often not
diagnosed as Lyme- swollen joint (knee, jaw, wrist),
lethargy, headache- such that a lab test isn't requested
until the infection is well established. Even worse, it
seems there are many more variants than were known just 20
years ago. That means one may be infected repeatedly despite
prior exposure.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 12:18:08 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:

On 7/6/2020 11:31 PM, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:25:24 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 7/6/2020 6:41 PM, John B. wrote:


But if one doesn't want to be bothered with mowing a lawn, then why
does one have a lawn?

That makes me curious about your area. Are the houses separated, as they
are in suburban America (as opposed to apartment buildings or row houses)?

If so, what's the ground like between the houses?

There isn't usually much land between houses here. Land is expensive
and that is what you buy and own. Generally speaking taxes are levied
on the land that you own, not the structure on the land - at least for
the usual family housing. In the cities, particularly, houses will
likely be built to about 1 meter from the boundary line on all sides
and be surrounded by a 7 or 8 foot solid concrete fence.

That's interesting. Over the years, we've had quite a few visitors
(mostly touring cyclists) from other countries, plus a week-long visit
from from friends from Dublin, Ireland.

Others have remarked on our large yard (it's about 0.6 Acres), but the
Irish friends were most astonished by the spread-out nature of America.
"You have so much ROOM!"

Wait a while. Remember, the oldest parts of the U.S. are only about
400 years old.



The place that we own is a bit different in that it is in a
residential housing development, about a kilometer from the village
and is built on a lot that is comprised of three normal housing lots
so we have a lot of land around the house, but no lawn. Instead we've
got trees, coconut trees, banana trees, longan, jackfruit, you name
it, but no grass :-)

In the rural areas, generally speaking, people live in villages and
own agriculture land outside the village rather then living on a
"farm" and in the villages houses are built, just as in the cities,
close together.

Of course there are Mansions, or at least "rich folks houses" that do
have lawns but those places have people to mow their lawn for them :-)

Thanks, that was interesting.

(And we, in this tiny house, are lucky to have the young men next door
to mow our lawn for us!)

Way back when I was in grade school mowing lawns was a very common
"job" for boys during the summer. A good friend, who was "car crazy"
saved enough money from mowing lawns that he was able to buy an old
second hand junker when he turned 16.
--
Cheers,

John B.

On 7/7/2020 5:29 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 7/7/2020 1:56 PM, Tosspot wrote:
On 07/07/2020 07:55, John B. wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 07:32:28 +0200, Tosspot

wrote:

On 07/07/2020 00:53, John B. wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:05:38 -0500, AMuzi
wrote:


snip

Interesting. But I read that to become infected the
louse has to
remain attached for 36 to 48 hours...

Not in my case, about 6 hours was enough for me to
contract Lymes disease.

I don't know, but that is what I read.
https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/index.html
"Finally, blacklegged ticks need to be attached for at
least 24 hours
before they can transmit Lyme disease. This is why it’s
so important
to remove them promptly and to check your body daily for
ticks if you
live in an endemic area."

What can I say?* I had a snooze after a BBQ, picked a tick
off at about 07:00, 2 days later I'm on industrial strength
antibiotics.* Classic bulls eye welt as well.* It wasn't the
worlds most difficult diagnosis :-)



That's a typical report and I know several people who suffered various
degrees of Lyme pain and suffering.* The longest I know of was
overnight, most within hours.* The worst part of it is that first
symptoms are often not diagnosed as Lyme- swollen joint (knee, jaw,
wrist), lethargy, headache- such that a lab test isn't requested until
the infection is well established. Even worse, it seems there are many
more variants than were known just 20 years ago. That means one may be
infected repeatedly despite prior exposure.

WE just recently watched a TV show on the Appalachian Trail. They talked
about the value of snakes, like rattlesnakes, in reducing Lyme disease.
They claimed rodents were the original source of the bacterium, and that
ticks later transferred it to the humans who get infected.

This year my wife wanted to practice "live and let live" with the
chipmunks. I think I'm going to revise my strategy.


--
- Frank Krygowski