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Ed in Tampa wrote:You do know sandpaper will go bad. The new stuff uses a glue that will break down and life of the paper will be shortened. Also those nasty critters silverfish love the paper and glue.

I stocked up on Shopsmith sanding disks for the disk sander about 25 years ago. Almost every sheet I haven't already used is about useless.

The backing of all this paper is dry. Or without glue. Yes there is adhesive that fastens the abrasive to the paper, but I am using it successfully, so something must be working ok! Plus it isn't 25 years old.

JPG40504 wrote:
You must be too lazy to look for stuff!:D

I am in the process of finishing off part of my shop so that I can heat it and put in a paint booth.

I purchased some insulation last week. As I was walking out of the store, my head goes, "do you know where your stapler and staples are?" In the past I probably would have just gone in and purchased some, but I told myself, I know I have them.

So, today came time to find the stapler and staples. Not in the tool box. Darn, but I was sure they weren't. LOL. The tool box is for tools, not household crap.......

There are two boxes of household crap that I have kept ignoring and pretending they aren't there for a few years. A while back I had a couple of high schoolers help me do some clean up and that was their answer for stuff that they didn't know what to do with. LOL I have chosen to pretend I didn't see these two boxes since that time.

So, I dig into the first box. In the bottom I find some missing sockets, a bunch of jig saw blades, hardware, and some junk. Junk goes in the trash, sockets get put away, along with the jig saw blades and hardware. No stapler or staples.

I look in a bunch of other places because I really don't want to tackle this 2nd box. It is FULL and large. But, alas lets do it.

Home painting supplies. More than Menards. Rollers, roller handles, small rollers, scrapers, etc. You get the picture. BUT, there is also 2 rolls of electrical wire. (I will be needing this). More jig saw blades. (does anyone want to stock a store, I can supply them), more hardware. Alas, a stapler! Yeehaw, one part. Dig further. Staples! Shoot, wrong ones...... I am about done with this box, not much left. It's not looking good for the home team. More paint stuff, hardware, alas! Staples. the ones I needed.

So, after a hour, I have my stapler, staples and have put away or thrown, two boxes of crap, er I mean quality stuff.

Next time, I'll just buy what I need. LOL

OH, and I found 3 small squares. I had been wondering where they were and needing them. I ordered one last night.... with some other stuff that I needed.

Ed in Tampa wrote:I never let a hard drive out of my possession until it is completely smashed.

Ed, I usually just pull the magnets out of them STRONG little buggers. They'll almost stick to aluminum.

I also wipe the platters with those magnets, if I'm worried.

steve

dusty wrote:Does this concern not depend on what sort of information one puts on the hard drive. I don't have anything on my hard drives that would cause me any concern.

The only thing there that I don't put on the forum is family photographs and monthly budget. No account numbers, no periodic statements, no emails from.....well from anyone other than forum members and I don't know anyone at FEC or IRS or CIA or FBI or.........

Dusty
I learned a lesson about 15 years ago. My father passed away and I was one given the task of handling his affairs. To make things simply a kept an accounting sheet of all monies involved, and since I had to disperse the money I need Social Security numbers for everyone involved. Most gave me bank accounts to transfer money into and of course I had their names and addresses.

Think about it that is everything a thief needs to steal an identity. I had also done my income tax and had quicken keeping my check book on it.

Then that computer broke and not thinking I took it to the friendly neighborhood repair guy not thinking of any of this. When I got it back I noticed a few of the tax files had been opened and on further investigation so were my spread sheets. I was sick!

I immediately called my friendly neighborhood computer guy and told him. (actually I accused him). After he got me calmed down he explained that he personally had ghosted my harddrive to his shop drive and wiped my hardrive of everything but the operating system. Then he handed it over to his techies to work on. When they finish he ghosts everything back to the harddrive and that is why it looked like the files had been opened. He does this to protect his customers. He said if my identity got stolen it would have to be by him and I knew where he lived.

That is when he told me how simple it was for him to get info we didn't think was stored about us on the harddrive. He also told me the only way to insure the data was gone was to physically destroy the drive.
I now keep all tax/money/personal info on thumb drives.