Thread: Why-O-Why?

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I always cut things off three times and it's still to short :-) so I don't cut wood anymore hard to weld it back. wife say's call somebody when it comes to woodwork I'm not allowed anymore.

I am also guilty of making a pattern and forgetting what side goes out. I like the term I read above practice, that fits.

Had a door in the house that had sagged a bit and scuffed the carpet when it was opened.
So I drove the hinge pins out, took it outside and planed a bit off the bottom.
Put it back in...and it still scuffed.
Drove the pins out again, took it ouside again, and planed some more off.
And it still scuffed.
So I went through it all again.
And it still scuffed!

Stood back, getting a 'little' bit irritated by now...looked hard at the damned thing...oops!

I'd been planing the top.

It was about here that She Who Must Be Obeyed passed some comment about my Irish ancestry.

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Have done that with bending brake lines. You know where you are bending and you know which way to bend. So you put the line in the bender and do it. Only to find out it's the wrong way............it's part of building a car.

I made a custom metal base that followed the contours of the floor boards in my truck to mount my shifter to. I traced out the patterns on a piece of cardboard. Cut those out for fit, everything looked exact. Cut the metal, tried those for fit worked well. Got all the pieces assembled with angle magnets, tack welded in place went to test fit, and found I welded the left side to the right form, etc...Cut it apart and started again! Yep I've been there! Funniest thing, a year now later, I've decided to go with a completely different shifter that mounts to the tranny, and doesn't require a base!

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All this reminds me of the time my wife and I selected some beautiful white marble-look vinyl floor for our master bath.

I decided I was smart enough to cut it to fit.

I wasn't.

Then there was the time I drained the radiator in my truck and poured in a gallon of nice fresh new anti freeze ....... without closing the drain tap.

Jim

Huh!?!?? That's just plain scary, Pro, I read that without even a twitch.

Thinkin' on all of the different stuff we all cut and fit: wood, metal, plastic, tile, concrete, I've worked in all of them, and think I have done something backwards, or too short too many times to remember. I built the shifter mount for my '59 Chevy twice before I got it right; I truly do not like trimming out a room because I always make a boneheaded mistake, sometimes more than once - I believe crown molding has a vendetta against me; fitting tile along a wall or an edge is a real brain killer to me. Just the nature of the things we do, methinks.

Just so that you guys know, i did prevail. The panel that ties the seat bottom and driveshaft tunnel is the bugger that started the whole thread!

Look at it this way, you're one panel ahead on the next one you build just like it!!!!!!!!!

BTW, I have one extra wheel tub for the left side of a '57 Chevy!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Look at it this way, you're one panel ahead on the next one you build just like it!!!!!!!!!

BTW, I have one extra wheel tub for the left side of a '57 Chevy!!!!!

Front or rear? HarHarHar!

rear---just please don't ask how I ended up with an extra left!!!!!!

I thought I was the only one that cut molding wrong. I finally made a set of templates that I can use - but unfortunately, had misplaced them the last time I needed to cut some pieces - and of course, cut them wrong.

And that $50 an 8 foot length of extruded aluminum I used in my freshly tiled bathroom .............cut the wrong angle direction, but thankfully the piece was a bit long for the counter so all is well, just barely - phew - thank goodness for a bit bigger grout line on the ends

My usual worst is vertical ranch or colonial door and window molding - just counted those that have a 2-1/2" filler piece on the bottom - I just made it up to 6 - and have done every door and window in this house - and there are lots.

Car screw ups are well documented in various posts here tho there really weren't too many except for a changes of direction (maybe that's why it took me almost 9 years to build it )

I do that all the time. Recently I was building the frame for my tow behind ( garden tractor ) gas powered compressor. I cut the triangulated drawbar support arms, cut the wrong angle on them. Cut a new set and did the exact thing, I got it right for the 3rd try.

About 20 years ago, I mis-measured a rear axle for a narrowed rear end and wound up with a beautiful Mark Williams boat anchor. I didn't tell the wife about that one.