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Happy accident
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:33 am
by STB
My shop dustpan handle had a failure. I am not sure how it happened but I think it was caused by my
Shop Ghost 
(anyway that's my story). I tried using the dustpan but I think the length of my arms may be shrinking. At one time I could bend down and put my hands flat on the floor. Now when I bend down my fingertips are about 6 in short of touching the floor. I was about to throw the dustpan in the dust bin when the light bulb lit. Why not repair the handle but extend it 7 in higher to compensate for my shrinking arms?
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Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 1:28 pm
by nuhobby
Well done! I love that sort of fix + improvement. Keeps the brain-cells ticking.
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:03 pm
by judaspre1982
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Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:44 pm
by dusty
I used a leaf blower until it gave up the ghost.
A tour through my shop provides evidence that I need to go buy a leaf blower.
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:58 pm
by db5
I do things like that. Spend hours on the SS making something that I could buy for $1 at Dollar Tree - e.g., a dustpan with an handle and a broom. But what does that save. Well a dollar. My time's no longer worth that.
I'm with Dusty
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:59 pm
by forrestb
I find that using my leaf blower to clean the dust out of my shop (aka garage) is a neat way to de-dust everything. On low I can even point to the shelves from a distance without disturbing more than dust.
Also I then dust off the driveway with it instead of using water - of which, we are scarce down here in SoCal.
Forrest
Hmm, I haven't tried to touch the floor in so long I don't know if I could even come within 6 inches, Glen
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 12:18 pm
by db5
Another use for a leaf blower - but to be done when your wife is gone for half a day. Blow out the dust bunnies that collect under the refrigerator. If she is there when you do it she will emotionally hemorrhage and your hemorrhaging will be elsewhere.
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 3:05 pm
by JPG
db5 wrote:Another use for a leaf blower - but to be done when your wife is gone for half a day. Blow out the dust bunnies that collect under the refrigerator. If she is there when you do it she will emotionally hemorrhage and your hemorrhaging will be elsewhere.
Geez! You are a gluten for creating emotional distress!:D