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lutejones

lutejones

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For sharing with us, the younger, the *philosophy of getting by with what's available. Now I'll explain myself:
We are opening a new business in Madrid and making some construction to get it ready to work. Today, when the guys were were searching for the general water pipe, they found a PVC pipe joined to an old rotten lead pipe and with the first hit of the hammer on the wall, the rotten pipe broke...DISASTER!!!
We had to cut the water supply of the entire building and they tried to close the leak but they didn't achieve it.
So Suddenly I remembered one of jackknife stories in which his uncle and father did something like this with wax and a piece of cord. Took out my Barlow and got to work:
- this is what I used + a candle
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This is what I did:
- cut the PVC pipe straight
- wax the cord
- cut the rubber piramidic thing from an electric box
- the problem was one side of the joint so I put two turns of cord then the rubber then a piece of the balloon and for last the coin to get some of the pressure out of the rubber. Then we screw again the joint and....TARAAAAN FIXED.

This could never have been done without your help and your sharing of knowledge so THANK YOU AGAIN!!
 
Great story! I am constantly amazed how much I learn from this forum. There are a lot of things I have learned, that not only help my knife making, but also have been useful at work (I work in the biotech industry).

Ric
 
Glad it worked out for ya!

Sometimes you just have to use what's around. I know that those old depression era guys I grew up around came from some hard working but semi poor backgrounds. They couldn't afford to call a repair guy or throw out something when it broke. They had to learn to use what was available and figure out how to fix it. Sometimes that meant thinking outside the box. Didn't matter if it was a hard working waterman or a New Jersey factory worker. Money was tight, every penny counted, and it a repair was possible then it got repaired. Sometimes those repairs were a little inventive.

Now we live in a throw away society, and people are forgetting how to do things.

Carl.
 
jackknife said:
Now we live in a throw away society, and people are forgetting how to do things.

Carl.
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Sad, but true. I have learned valuable lessons from that generation, but have to continually fight against the tide (even in my own thinking) of the current preoccupation with ease and comfort that tends to trump resourcefulness and ingenuity.
 
Now we live in a throw away society, and people are forgetting how to do things.
Carl.
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completely agree.

for the life of me, i cant make out the barlow very well, but i like what i see, what is it exactly?
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It's a Boker Barlow, the tang says Boker Solingen Germany and the scales are something like grand canyon bone in deep blue almost black. The etching on the main clip said tree brand but now it's gone with the patina.
 
Great story, glad you got it fixed!

For years I trained and worked as an electronics technician, I loved troubleshooting all kinds of equipment, from televisions to radios to guitar amplifiers. From the time I started until now, there's pretty much nothing left to fix, everything is built to either be disposable or repaired by changing entire circuit boards. Component density is too high, surface mount chips are almost impossible to replace without really expensive reflow soldering equipment.

The days of the "TV guy" coming to your house to make a repair are gone. My father-in-law did it for ~50 years, all he gets now are board replacements.
 
lutejones said:
It's a Boker Barlow, the tang says Boker Solingen Germany and the scales are something like grand canyon bone in deep blue almost black. The etching on the main clip said tree brand but now it's gone with the patina.
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niiice, thanks
pretty knife too!
 
Great story!

My father has a ten acre farm. It is hard to keep after, but we are getting there. Well, on about an acre of it, it looks like Sanford and Son. Every time he gets more junk, or keeps more junk, or just plain old decides to keep something, I hum or whistle the theme from Sanford and Son. However, while I definitely will not keep the same amount of junk when I have my own property, I will probably have the family genes and get my own "junk pile" (my grandfather had one, my uncles have them too). To make do with what you have, you have to know how to work with it. When you are scraping to get by, you learn to make do and improvise.

Most of the time, when my father says "Hey, don't throw that out, I might need that", he is already thinking about his next project.
 
Initiative, being able (or at least giving it a shot) to fix/repair things are very important. They're creative in fact.

So much throwing away is I believe, disheartening and discouraging for people in the long-run, it makes for apathy and helplessness. Let's not forget that the planet cannot stand infinite waste and pollution. It will bite back, and has begun to.
 
Let's keep the focus positive, folks.

It's good to know how to make do.

There's nothing wrong with calling a plumber.
 
You're right Frank, there is nothing wrong in calling a plumber of course, the problem was that there is a couple more food places in the same building and when we cut the water of the whole building they couldn't even wash a dish.
That's why was so important the emergency fixing.
the plumber fixed in the afternoon about 6 hours later
Thank you very much for your opinions they are very similar of what I think, keep going please
 
Keep it positive and keep it knife focused. This is a KNIFE FORUM.
 
Sorry if it sound rough, Frank. Between English not being my home language and the writing where you cannot feel the entonation... Well you know.

I'm really happy with the Barlow pattern, even before Barlow month this Boker was almost always in my pocket, it's barely largest than a peanut but it feels like prepared for everything you can throw at it.
One of the workers cut himself with even being guys very used to handling all kinds of tools.
This solingen carbon steel is unbeatable razor sharp.
 
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