Monday, Better luck this week

Re: Monday, Better luck this week

I assume you're not talking about a wax toilet ring, since even average homes have these.

John

Not wax. Nor circle

Hints

1. If not a tool then an essential tool accessory. Without this item (or something performing the same function) other tools would not do their work efficiently. If maintained, (like a DC3) should last several work lifetimes but without replacement of any kind. Some are much, much better than others. There are exceptions, but older ones are usually larger, and many users consider the old to work better than new ones.

2. This is something planned as part of the home not a stand alone item. you don't take this with you when you leave. It could be considered sensuous, as it requires a high order of craftmanship, and should be used by all in the house for their well being. It is easily not noticed but if you are looking for it, it is a good sign of quality. When you use it it feels different and even newbys notice it right away.

So easy!!

The first one is Tupperware. I always make sure I burp it when storing screws etc. to keep them fresh.

The second one is soap on a rope.

Let me know when I can expect my prize. Thanks

T.

Re: Hints

1. My Lee Valley Stainless coffee mug. None of my tools function well without it.

2. A comfy toilet seat - preferrably heated for those cold New England winters.

I must concede....

....Bill's answers are far more logical than mine. ;-)

Tommy

I dunno ;)

Why would you put a stainless shop mug in a dishwasher? Doesn't stainless mean it's never dirty?

Re: Monday answer

1. I find them indispensable so I count them as a tool and not a tool accessory. No matter. For those of you that use them, the answer is bench sharpening stones both water and ceramic sharpening stones. If I find a good one I also put oil stones in the dishwasher�air dry. Many people don�t have a clue of how to prepare and take care of a stone (present company excepted), and many older folks around here bought what are today expensive ones. So, I occasionally find, for about $2 (the original 1950�s price), almost pristine white and black Arkansas stones with a glazed top in a grimy container at garage sales. (You need be careful though, as there are far more silica carbide (carborundum), and aluminum oxide (corundum) stones than the harder, smoother, Washita, Arkansas variety.) An initial brush scrub with a hard brush (nail brush) and grease cutter, then soap and water, followed by a month of washings in the dishwasher turns them into as good as new, now exclusively water lubricated stones of considerably higher value. The dishwasher works for diamond stones with plastic bases too, but remember to air dry immediately and not allow them to stay in the dishwasher as the base can warp from the heat. And don�t be surprised when minute filings in the diamond plate rust immediately. CAUTION!!!! Keeping bench/sharpening stones in the dishwasher when your better half views these �rocks� in the silverware basket is another matter, so be prepared for that battle. (Experience note: Pointing out that cleaning your bench stones in the dishwasher is little different than that last fiasco where the pot had burnt on, caked on, gorilla/epoxy pasta will NOT help your cause for keeping your sharpening stones in the dishwasher.) That is a stone, as they say, best left unturned. If you have the room in your shop, water feed, and drain, consider a used dishwasher next to the beer fridge. Aside from bench stone cleaning you can use it for containers, filter cleaning, washing shop rags, and you can use it to steam small wood parts too. Tommy�s Tupperware gets peachy keen.

2. A wreath is the section of a wood banister rail that twists as it makes a turn and rises or drops at the same time. A wreathed banister rail looks like a banked turn on a NASCAR track, or roller coaster and it allows the hand to follow the rail in one position instead of twisting the wrist as would be necessary in a flat turn. It�s very tactile as well as visual. The wreathed section(s) make the rail flow seamlessly into the volute or newel. Most new houses don�t even consider wreathed rails as they mostly have straight stairs and therefore place the railing in straight runs to newel posts. In many newer homes hand rail turns are made by connecting in right angles into the newel. Some handrails have curves and drops, but they don�t twist or rotate matching the stair. Some stair rails use round cross section stock to make a wreathed section without all the work. In more elegant staircases the shaped hand rail follows the curve of the wall/stair in one continuous �gliding� run. All that figgurin� don� come cheap. Wreath sections cost about six times as much as a straight section with a matching cross section. Typing �Stairplan, wreath�, on Google will get you to examples. So will �Tod Stairs� from Australia.

I think I googled what you're looking for

Would the two of them have had an "excellent adventure"?

Steve