Gee, Andy lighten up! Life would be kinda dull if we only had what we REALLY
needed.
GJB
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Banta <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Phil Ethier <pethier@isd.net>
Cc: Jeff Guilford <jagcret@knoxnews.infi.net>; shop-talk@autox.team.net
<shop-talk@autox.team.net>; Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM <Andy.Banta@Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: Monday, March 23, 1998 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: Garage Door Balance
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>>> One final note: I've had my eye on a drill press for awhile. Anyone
have
>>> any good ideas on how to convince my wife that I can't install the
garage
>>> door opener without benefit of this indispensable tool? ;^)
>
>>Better you should find something else she wants done, then go out and get
>>the drill press and start right in on her project.
>
>With all due respect to the serious nature of the garage door
>question, this type of tool-purchase question galls me. Do you have a
>legitimate (not contrived) use for a drill press? If so, go get one.
>If not, what's the purpose in getting one? Because it's a neat tool?
>
>Neat tools are most neat when they can be put to work doing useful
>stuff. When they end up being used as an extention of the work bench
>or a convenient item to take up space in the cornet of the garage,
>they don't seem quite as neat.
>
>Tool manufacturers probably love this mindset. They probably sell a
>sizable number of tools to people who will use them exactly 2.37 times
>in their lives. 1.73 of these times could've been accomplished with
>tools existing in the garage and another .42 of these times will be
>blatant misuse of the tool in question ("Let's see if we can press
>that bearing in using the chuck on the drill press.")
>
>One time, while out buying a 5/8" masonry bit on a goof (or maybe
>not), I overheard a pair of Bob-n-Ralph wannabes talking about how
>cool it would be to have a holesaw. I was floored. Why would anyone
>want to buy a holesaw if they didn't have an immediate task in mind
>for it?
>
>That's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
>
>andy
>banta@abingdon.sun.com
>
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