You have seen the pictures! CLICK LINK HERE
Now watch the video in living color!
The Southeast Threshers Reunion- a glimpse into the life of the original Handymen-American Farmers!
If you could not make it , work it or fix it you just did without.
For the Southeast Threshers Reunion Homepage CLICK LINK HERE
As a revival Handyman in the 1970′s;80′s and 90′s one of my great treats was to have people ask me to do just about anything.
Naturally, many job requests were referred to specialty trades, but some trades simply did not exist in Raleigh back in the Pleistocene.
One was Chimney Caps.
Job shops would make them, but no one really wanted to climb up and install them.
So, for good customers I filled the gap and ordered and installed specialty chimney caps.
Before the Internet it was not uncommon to go to the library and find some musty book with specifications and details on the care and feeding of chimney caps.
Many of my chimney caps are still in place today quietly doing the work they were designed to do.
Copper chimney caps-in Raleigh-before copper was cool!
True story.
Somehow I wangled a video camcorder way back in the dark ages of 1994-ish.
I may have actually rented it from some now defunct upstart video rental place.
Without benefit of video playback (primitive beast that it was!) I taped about an hour and a half of glazing video.
From that raw stock I was able to glean this three minute montage of the multiple steps involved in the process of putty replacement for the classic single pane window.
All the footage was made on an actual job with no staged preparation or artificial techniques.
These are real windows on a real house with real putty removed and replaced.
Labor and time intensive, this is the way life was before vinyl replacement windows!
Remember, these windows must still be primed and painted, preferably with an oil based exterior gloss enamel!
Enjoy!
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For two other examples of window glazing from around the country CLICK HERE or HERE
Corner Bar In Fiberglass Shower Stall
Grab Bar Installed With No Tile Damage
From the custom job files……….
Job Shop fabricated stainless steel grab bars for a fiberglass shower stall and fully tiled bathtub.
The challenge was to install completely functional safety bars without damage to the existing tile or fiberglass.
The solution was to weld the custom shaped handlebars to a wall-plate which was drilled in place with attachment holes to bolt the entire assembly directly to the wall studs.
The completed bars easily supported the full weight of a 300 lb male engaged in strenuous push-ups and other suspension exercises.
Apparently there is a worldwide shortage of long arm, long throat, long reach paper hole punch gizmos for the paper crafts industry.
So the research department here at the International Handyman Headquarters developed a couple of prototypes in the shop just to see what it would take to make a workable device.
After some fits and starts and a little by-guess and by-golly I came up with two models made from wood scraps and commonly available hardware store parts.
Steel Buildings have been part of the Military Environment for at least 50 years now.
In my time as an old Seabee I had my encounters with the Butler Building style of assembly after the legendary Quonset hut retired.
But the first I learned of the Butler Building’s successor—the modern Steel Building–was this Quonset style hut built from a completely different design.
This 30×60 open span building is assembled from pieces-Erector Set Style- all of which fit on a pallet small enough to be transported on a flat bed truck.
Each arch in the video was assembled in five sections with nothing more than ordinary bolts and a wrench.
My primary task on this job was to ensure the base plates were laid out perfectly square so the precision pieces would fit as designed.
On that score I am pleased to say the building fit together well.
If you need an inexpensive farm building that assembles with minimum skill and can be erected fairly quickly, the Erector Set Style building may be for you.
Tell the truth, you have always wanted to know how to punch a hole through a thick metal railroad track with no burrs, metal chips or messy drills.
Me too. And now we know. ( Is it me or have I become obsessed with hole punch equipment?)
