It’s coming.
I could feel it in my gut years ago.
This supply chain crash is eventually going to fuck a lot of people.
All those battery operated toys are going to need new batteries eventually.
I was watching an interview with Kurt Denninger the day before yesterday and he mentioned that some bearings took a shit in his lawnmower and it’s out of commission. He ordered them last spring for about twenty bucks.
He got an update on the status the other day and they are expected to be delivered in December some time. https://youtu.be/Q24p-yJfZPU
Parts houses are already having trouble getting parts.
Guys like you and me are going to be the lucky ones.
We drive older Chevy’s that don’t have a shit ton of electronic crap on them like this newer shit and they built millions of them.
I can fix mine if I have to.
Most people don’t have that option.
There is a Great Depression coming that is going to make the first one look like a Sunday Picnic.
All these old tools and machines I have been collecting already have a proven track record and have already outlasted at least one generation of previous owners, sometimes two and even three.
People are going to relearn the hard way the old saying of use it up, make do or do without.
I can see a great demand for people with repair skills coming in the very near future.
The simpler the tools are that you are going to be using, the better.
About the Chevys, can’t find a 350? a stove bolt 6cyl, V6 or a 305 (not Pontiac), 283, 327, 454/5 will slip right in slick as please and bolt up and wire up.
Good thing my Motor home has the older 427 ignition system! Solid.
Well said Phil. I agree with you 100%.
Yep, my first thought was that I wished that was my garage.
Your dentist or surgeon, back in the day. No thanks!
You were a lot healthier and robust in those days.
Heh. I was thinking about that recently. Some of the medical stuff we can do these days is amazing. But it’s incredibly dependent on technology and long, complex supply chains. Plus that shit’s crazy expensive. Go to a grid-down situation and all that “next thing to magic” medical care goes away.
In other “old tech” news, I bought a hand loom recently. Not that I plan to make cloth post-apocalypse. The thing caught my eye at an estate sale: wholly mechanical and made in Finland from birch. What’s not to like? Plus the heirs were going to donate or trash everything that didn’t sell that day. With 20 minutes to go it looked like the loom was headed to Goodwill or the dumpster. “What do you want for the loom?” The woman screwed up her face in thought and finally said, “Is $25 too much?”
So it went into the back of the wagon. Later I looked it up. $1800 new! Who knew? Now I need to make space for it 😓
Mike_C, Hand Loom Whisperer… Yeah, besides lancing boils and pulling rotten teeth, mixing up some elixir from wild ‘shrooms and tadpoles to relieve someone’s constipation you will be indeed looming cloth and other sundry accouterments…
That picture reminds me of my Grandfather Davis’s workbench. The one in the blacksmith shop. Both my Grandparents were at one point almost totally sufficient. Made their own shoes, butter, clothes, etc. Traded for what they couldn’t raise or make themselves. The other Grandad had 80 acres of hogs. Best times of my life were spent with them.
Throw in a nudie calendar and that looks like home. I am with Phil, I can repair most of what I have. If I can’t I do without. My daughter has an old treadle sewing machine and she and I are going to try and get it runnable. Appears to be out of time on the needle.
That’s too neat for you.
Cat, that would be my tool bench and tools… my OCD would kick in high gear. Phil’s would drive me crazy.
I’m just wondering where the ‘scope, Voltmeter, and Power Supplies are at. Under the bench??
It’s coming.
I could feel it in my gut years ago.
This supply chain crash is eventually going to fuck a lot of people.
All those battery operated toys are going to need new batteries eventually.
I was watching an interview with Kurt Denninger the day before yesterday and he mentioned that some bearings took a shit in his lawnmower and it’s out of commission. He ordered them last spring for about twenty bucks.
He got an update on the status the other day and they are expected to be delivered in December some time.
https://youtu.be/Q24p-yJfZPU
Parts houses are already having trouble getting parts.
Guys like you and me are going to be the lucky ones.
We drive older Chevy’s that don’t have a shit ton of electronic crap on them like this newer shit and they built millions of them.
I can fix mine if I have to.
Most people don’t have that option.
There is a Great Depression coming that is going to make the first one look like a Sunday Picnic.
All these old tools and machines I have been collecting already have a proven track record and have already outlasted at least one generation of previous owners, sometimes two and even three.
People are going to relearn the hard way the old saying of use it up, make do or do without.
I can see a great demand for people with repair skills coming in the very near future.
The simpler the tools are that you are going to be using, the better.
About the Chevys, can’t find a 350? a stove bolt 6cyl, V6 or a 305 (not Pontiac), 283, 327, 454/5 will slip right in slick as please and bolt up and wire up.
Good thing my Motor home has the older 427 ignition system! Solid.
Well said Phil. I agree with you 100%.
Yep, my first thought was that I wished that was my garage.
Your dentist or surgeon, back in the day. No thanks!
You were a lot healthier and robust in those days.
Heh. I was thinking about that recently. Some of the medical stuff we can do these days is amazing. But it’s incredibly dependent on technology and long, complex supply chains. Plus that shit’s crazy expensive. Go to a grid-down situation and all that “next thing to magic” medical care goes away.
In other “old tech” news, I bought a hand loom recently. Not that I plan to make cloth post-apocalypse. The thing caught my eye at an estate sale: wholly mechanical and made in Finland from birch. What’s not to like? Plus the heirs were going to donate or trash everything that didn’t sell that day. With 20 minutes to go it looked like the loom was headed to Goodwill or the dumpster. “What do you want for the loom?” The woman screwed up her face in thought and finally said, “Is $25 too much?”
So it went into the back of the wagon. Later I looked it up. $1800 new! Who knew? Now I need to make space for it 😓
Mike_C, Hand Loom Whisperer… Yeah, besides lancing boils and pulling rotten teeth, mixing up some elixir from wild ‘shrooms and tadpoles to relieve someone’s constipation you will be indeed looming cloth and other sundry accouterments…
That picture reminds me of my Grandfather Davis’s workbench. The one in the blacksmith shop. Both my Grandparents were at one point almost totally sufficient. Made their own shoes, butter, clothes, etc. Traded for what they couldn’t raise or make themselves. The other Grandad had 80 acres of hogs. Best times of my life were spent with them.
Throw in a nudie calendar and that looks like home. I am with Phil, I can repair most of what I have. If I can’t I do without. My daughter has an old treadle sewing machine and she and I are going to try and get it runnable. Appears to be out of time on the needle.
That’s too neat for you.
Cat, that would be my tool bench and tools… my OCD would kick in high gear. Phil’s would drive me crazy.
I’m just wondering where the ‘scope, Voltmeter, and Power Supplies are at. Under the bench??