On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:41 AM, James Morris <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have been :-) that's the way. > It's just a bit of a pain to keep swapping the drill > bit for a counter sunk. To be fair (to myself) I've wanted to buy a > power drill for a while rather than borrow my Dads, and the current > project was just an excuse. I'm sure it will come in useful though. > I'll collect the new one tomorrow. It's not the cordless type (so no > drilling into a mo**** > *****ers head, willy-nilly) so the manual will still come in useful > for small jobs, aswell as for counter sinking. > yep, it should. > > I just half wished I was still ignorant about the power drill's > breakage design. Were things always made that way? nope - my best [manual use] tools are old, rusted, worn thru the passage of many hands + many eras [hand-me-downs or reclaimed or bought 2nd-hand].contrast that 2 mobile phone built-in obsolescence/shelf life! was talking to some old timers [2 80+ guys] the other day [1 way of perpetuating distinctly DIY/instructive info-patterns that allow 4 tinker-like perpetuation>curiosity>reuse>repair rather than encouraging a throwaway mentality] about how 2 refit an axehead + then they showed me how to do it [had a rough idea before was wasn't sure bout the best way 2 burn out the old handle, tempering etc]. [+ for those of u NetB'ers who think this discussion isn't relevant, think again. all u Apple-o-philes need to kno that u're actively discouraged 2 not crack open an iPad>iPhone>iWotever and fix it>tinker with it>reverse engineer it *just for the hellovit*. think: proprietary vs open + how by ur consumer choices/actions u promote either system of knowledge perpetuation = how this totally fxs our culture stamp/information>education hierarchy.</rant>] But for us to do it > now, despite knowing the limited nature of the worlds resources. > > *nods*. > Maybe the business model is designed to break. That's what we're > experiencing... And then, in a few years time, we'll go out and buy a > new one... Designed to break... Again and again. > > not all of us will.some of us live by those Tinkers Rules. best, mez -- Reality Engineer> Synthetic Environment Strategist> Game[r + ] Theorist. ::http://unhub.com/netwurker ::
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