I got tasked with changing out an old, beat to death 6 inch vise at work.

I went up front, collected the new one, went back to the shop and gathered up what tools I figured I would need, some bolts and a drill with a couple bits.

I have found it to be rare that you get one with the exact same footprint.

I throw all that in the back of the electric golf cart we use and went across 4 Bays to get going.

I backed up as near as I could, grabbed a couple wrenches and walked over to start unbolting the old one, only to run into this…

And immediately wanted to slap the taste out of someone’s mouth.

Unbelievable.

Back to the shop to get a cordless angle grinder, some cut off wheels and a Flap Disc.

It took me a good half hour to cut all those welds enough to pry the vise off.

I moved it and then used the Flap Disc to smooth out the tiop of the table. Then I took the base off the new vise, got it set on the table so I had room to drill 4 holes and making sure there was room for bolts and washers underneath. I used a paint pen to mark the spots and then center punched in the middle of the paint marks.

Drilled the holes, put the vise back together and bolted it down.

Much Better.

Just a taste of the kind of crap I get to deal with on a daily basis.

My 61 Ford SW Unibody 1/2 ton truck was like that.

It had a 72 351 Windsor mated to an 88 C6 transmission and I don’t even know what year rear end because I swapped it out 3 times.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention. If it works, it works.

How freaking old is she, 12?

Honey 

“9 for me!!! I feel confident nobody Has all 20”

PuhLease!

Hold my beer youngin’.

OK, let’s have it you geezers,

I hit all of them.

Somebody just filmed a freaking TANK going down 82nd Avenue.

Image courtesy of Zero Hedge.

@Rothmus

This is bad, right?

Zero hedge has an article up saying the Secretary of Transportation is thinking about suspenfing the Federal gas Tax.

Which sounds good on the surface but won’t really affect the price of gas that much in some states like California, Washington and Illinois.

All of which add taxes over fifty cents a gallon.

Also, I don’t know when that snapshot of gas prices was taken but there are places in California where gas is over $8 a gallon and I have seen Diesel prices over $7 a gallon here in Washington state up around Seattle within the last couple of weeks.

I personally paid $6.49 a gallon here in Vancouverstan Washington, putting some Diesel on my Brother’s 97 F-250 Super Duty that I had to borrow for a few days two weeks ago while I had my truck in the shop.

It’s cute as hell and is an actual running gas engine, that isn’t a whole lot bigger than your hand.

I saw this yesterday and when I looked, I saw prices anywhere from $450 to $700.

When I looked again today, the cheapest I saw was $550.

It’s obviously a very cool toy but you could actually use it to pump water with or power up some LED lights when you went camping and such as a novelty.

You would certainly be the only one around who had such a thing.

This guy has a very cool set up powering some lights and a tiny Jeweler’s Lathe with it in his shop.

Somebody would be eating a 1/2 inch breaker bar if I caught them pulling this shit.

Bet he doesn’t try that again.

I don’t know who this Thomas is but he needs to have his fingers duct taped together.

I sent this to my boy who is a journeyman electrician and he said it was a fire waiting to happen.

It looks to me like there is enough extra wire and junction boxes there to wire a two bedroom house.

When I stopped the video and started counting, I see at least 16 freaking junction boxes!

Fuck every bit of this, I would be homeless again first.