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Knife metal vs' what? What's the worst?
- Thread starter SweptEdge
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About a month ago i dropped something on the plastic water spicket on the front of the water heater. Well after gallons of water on the floor instantly, i shut the water off releaving the pressure and put a bucket under it. Was a 2 gallon bucket and 50 or so gallons later it was empty! All of this was right after i'd been under the house fixing two leaks from the recently installed and higher pressure city water. To say i wasn't in the mood would be an under statement.
But the plastic threads from the spicket was still threaded into the water heater. I took my cheap browning fixed blade that an ex had got for a birthday and dug it deep into it and started screwing. This was after trying some other stuff. Chipped a good half inch outta the blade and ended up without water for a night and just bought a new water heater!
But the plastic threads from the spicket was still threaded into the water heater. I took my cheap browning fixed blade that an ex had got for a birthday and dug it deep into it and started screwing. This was after trying some other stuff. Chipped a good half inch outta the blade and ended up without water for a night and just bought a new water heater!
i got into the habit a long time ago of asking people the second they asked to borrow a tool what they were going to do with it. it doesn't matter what type of tool it is because anything can be used inappropriately.
i spent the first part of my professional life in construction but now i do tree work (i climb mostly) for a living and you learn who you can lend things to, but sometimes there's no choice and you have to let somebody use YOUR knife to cut something undesirable.
the chippers all have winches with 'amsteel' winch line. it's soft to the touch but under tension feels exactly like steel. this stuff is awful mean on knives. with a good knife properly sharpened you'll cut through it without trouble but you'll see immediately that your knife is no longer the same. if you find yourself needing to cut the line more than once you're going to find your knife no longer will cut anything afterwards. if you're one of those people with what i call a junk throw away knife and you try to cut that winch line you're more than likely going to roll the edge on your blade and not cut the line at all.
there's only two people at work i'll hand one of my knives to without asking what they intend to cut.
there's only one person i'll let use one of my chainsaws.
i spent the first part of my professional life in construction but now i do tree work (i climb mostly) for a living and you learn who you can lend things to, but sometimes there's no choice and you have to let somebody use YOUR knife to cut something undesirable.
the chippers all have winches with 'amsteel' winch line. it's soft to the touch but under tension feels exactly like steel. this stuff is awful mean on knives. with a good knife properly sharpened you'll cut through it without trouble but you'll see immediately that your knife is no longer the same. if you find yourself needing to cut the line more than once you're going to find your knife no longer will cut anything afterwards. if you're one of those people with what i call a junk throw away knife and you try to cut that winch line you're more than likely going to roll the edge on your blade and not cut the line at all.
there's only two people at work i'll hand one of my knives to without asking what they intend to cut.
there's only one person i'll let use one of my chainsaws.