HYDRAULIC PRESS AND SLEDGEHAMMERS, MODERN AND ANTIQUE

Yeah it's like those fucking plastic storage boxes - a good smack with a teaspoon and they crack and shatter - yet these fucking companies, keep right on importing them and selling them and everyone is basically fed up with all this shit..... I am not virulently opposed to stuff made in China or India, but starting with left and right handed sets of salt and pepper shakers - hurry on special now, on sale only this week as Aldi = Yeah fuck off.

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: throw away society…Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, the death of competency and quality…lol

@James1225: Do you know what? A real set of issues, and not much money to go with it = MAKING MY SELF LEARN how to make it or do it or how it's done etc... = competence. Greatest blessing ever. Can't afford a set of ball bearings and cups for a vintage Harley? But I can machine a set of PLAIN tapered race steel bearings, that are self aligning, HUGE amounts of surface contact areas, and running very thick powdered metal anti seize grease = no bearing to bearing contact, high viscosity = self dampening vibraton and oscillation and an almost eternal bearing life span...... AND there is a fairly fine adjustment between a locked up or restrictive bearing, a nicely running bearing, and a loose bearing = virtually no preload.... Fantastic.... Plain head stem bearings in a motorcycle - with an antiseize lubricant = Who knew? I did, because I designed them and made them work and found out all about them. You do not actually need ball or anti-friction bearings in a head stem....

@James1225: And you get all these useless cunts who never have to think, or do or make themselves succeed - figuring out that getting retard titles like "Muh Pronouns!" and manipulating other people into using them by forcing them, tantrums, "I'll tell on you if you don't" = DEI fucking bullshit..... Well that is a major achievement isn't it. Did you see the video I posted recently on restoring a 1906 automatic pencil sharpener? Or restoring a vintage watch makers lathe...... These dickless divas coming out of Home Retard and DEI Schools, don't know the difference between a nasty thin stainless steel frying pan and a frying pan with a THICK preferably copper base... "Do you have any HEAVY frying pans in the store?" "Ummm we have some stainless steel ones for $5.99......" Yeah everything over the heat source burns and sticks and the rest remains uncooked... Morons.

@James1225: Had the power go out for two weeks after some HUGE floods.... had a copper soddering iron made up and a stainless steel shaft and wooden file handle.... Busy doing wiring over a small metho burner to heat the soddering iron... Powers out = Meh So What.

And getting rid of MANY of the trade and technical schools in Australia = Fucking retards in the education dept....

@James1225: 1000 years of feminisim, and despite all the feminist friendly single mother families and feminist friendly schools learning their pronouns and victimhood - 99% of women are SO fucking stupid, they cannot change a flat tyre..... that and or they are so lazy and manipulative, they won't even try....

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: they can't even change a flat tire in america as well. i wonder what is more difficult. changing a flat tyre or changing a flat tyre ? Shane do you have any further information on this subject ?

or changinf an america flat tire ?

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: if only we had mental hospitals again. we would know where to put people with mental disorders and tantrums .

@Leader_Desslok: I dunno... a bucket of head meds, 3 meals a day, a nice bed and gardens to lay around in reading books - for months if you play your cards right..... Great if you like that sort of thing...... I forget the name of the experiment, but a whole heap of "normal people" faked a diagnosis to get into some psych hospitals.... and the psychs could not tell them apart from the mentally ill people... BUT the mentally ill people could.... "Your not like us.... your different" - they would say to the fake mentally ill people....

Nothing is really good or bad... it just is.... like why go to a high alloy, through hardened BIG hammer head, when you can use a plainer, softer, cheaper, and easier to grind alloy, that can be heat treated by flame hardening to a depth of say 1 cm, and it will continue to work harden into the face, as the surface wears away.... I mean just because it's softer in the middle.... it will never shatter or crack or spit off high velocity bullet speed chips etc.. AND to be fair, of all the billions of hammers ever made, I cannot ever recall even one of them having been worn down through heavy useage in the life of a single man...... So maybe there might be other ways of looking at being able to get a really good hammer, that is quite cheap in materials and to manufacture, and buy, and lasts a long time too... AND who in the fuck throws their hammers under presses and says, "This did not squash, it's a good hammer. This was soft and squased a lot in the middle, so there for it's a bad hammer..... So if your making 200,000 hammers a year, and your brand costs $50 retail, and gives good service for the life time of the man and way longer, and the highly prized hammer, that is very tough through out the entire head, where ALMOST ALL of the toughness is NOT needed, costs $250 ..... Sometimes there is a LOT more going on than simple issues..... Like I cannot afford a $250 hammer, but the $50 works just great, the head has never come off, the handle has never splintered and the wear rate on the faces is still very low.... Busted up 100,000 bricks and two millimeters has worn off each face..... You know...