Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome
Aug 17th 2007, 1:17 am
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Aug 17th 2007, 1:17 am
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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome
Aug 17th 2007, 1:21 am
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Aug 17th 2007, 1:34 am
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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome
My wife's is a bunch of tiny stones, little diamonds and emeralds mixed up in a white gold ring as she doesn't like yellow gold. I couldn't afford much, I was 22 years old and working as a janitor when we married. The stones kept falling out and we kept having them replaced. Eventually there was so much solder on the prongs holding the tiny stones in that you can now see more solder than stone. Last year I asked her if she would like a new one as I can afford a (slightly!) better one now, maybe a single stone that's big enough to see anyway. She said even as it is, the ring means more to her than any other ever could and she didn't want another one.
So I used the money to buy a cutting torch instead.
So I used the money to buy a cutting torch instead.
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Aug 17th 2007, 1:36 am
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who turned out the light?
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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome
Aug 17th 2007, 1:38 am
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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome
The last thing I used it for was to cut out a 5"x5"x1/4" thick steel plate to weld a trailer tongue jack mount to so that (after I drilled holes in the 4 corners of the plate) the whole assembly could be bolted
Oh, wait a second, I'll take a pic.
Aug 17th 2007, 1:46 am
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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome
My German pals, said they saw a few go by. Knew they were yours, they said Jersey Girl on the side
Aug 17th 2007, 1:53 am
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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome
I used the torch to cut the square piece out of a bigger sheet of steel, then I drilled the holes and welded the tube to it. The square piece will be bolted to a trailer tongue and the jack will mount on the tube with a pin. The tube was supposed to be welded directly to the trailer per the instructions but my neighbor wanted it to be removeable. So now the plate can be unbolted and the whole assembly removed.
Glad you asked, I bet!
Glad you asked, I bet!
Aug 17th 2007, 2:08 am
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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome
My OH is a sheet metal worker...it's a long story. He wanted to be a guitarist and his mother wasn't in agreement and so she insisted he did an apprenticeship instead. He ended up doing sheet metal work and playing the guitar in local bands in the evenings.
Aug 17th 2007, 2:12 am
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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome
Nottingham was famous for the worlds best lace... and Robin Hood, the worlds best person who stole from the rich and gave to the poor.
Aug 17th 2007, 2:16 am
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Re: Homesickness "grass is greener" syndrome
Sorry to butt in but I've just spent the last hour reading the thread (all 41 pages) and had to say that its the bestest biggest most superior thread and my laugh was the biggest and longest in the whole universe...