Not guilty guys... My El Camino is not white...
As far as the garden cart is concerned, you will need to find out where the wheels are binding and space them accordingly. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Stephan Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 5:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Greasing the wheels or not Well, by way of background: I finally bought myself a light-duty table saw from the lads at Harbor Freight. It's light enough that I can move it around relatively easily, though I'm sure it's not the most accurate thing available. And, since I've done that, I needed to figure out how to get the lumber to cut with the saw. One of the folks on this list (I won't embarrase him), has this same problem of how to haul stuff, and while we were at convention, he pretty well convinced me that a large garden cart was a very necessary thing. My wife green-lighted both purchases, and I was able to scrounge a ride with a coworker with a really souped up, refrigerator white El Camino over to the local Home Depot, during a pretty wild thunderstorm, and picked up the cart, in a box of course. I opened the carton on Saturday and looked over what I had. I understood some of it, but not enough to put the thing together with even a prayer that it would be right. I scanned the instruction sheet/manual, which was really special because Spanish and English were commingled in the text. Still no dyse. So, I bribed the fellow who does our book keeping and is an occasional reader to come over on Sunday and spend about three hours in the blazing sun putting the thing together. Even with him looking at the diagram and reading the instructions, it was far far from intuitive, for me anyway. Maybe if I had seen one of these assembled I could have figured it out. The bottom line now though is that the front wheels, while they do turn, are not really what I'd call free. There don't seem to be bearings in the wheels, and they are affixed to the axel in front of a spacer and with a wassier and nut to hold the assembly together. I don't know whether to grind off the ends of the spacers a little bit, grease the whole set-up, or just wait and see if things get better with a little use. Any thoughts from some of you folks? If I should lubricate this, what would be a good product? BTW, it's a nice cart, measures 24 x 48 with foot-high sides that can be folded down. I even used it as a nice back-saving platform for grinding down the two dogs' nails today, so I think it was a wise investment, even if it isn't rolling so good right yet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Send any questions regarding list management to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To listen to the show archives go to link http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_p age&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 Or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 204651787) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=204651787&m=a846020efadf&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=204651787&m=a846020efadf&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=204651787&m=a846020efadf&c=f REMEMBER: Never give out your account information, password, or other personal information over e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
