"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
12/27/2019 at 14:37 • Filed to: Random
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"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
12/27/2019 at 14:37 • Filed to: Random | 4
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Does anyone else have this habit of learning to live with a squeak or stubborn sliding cover even though you know it will only take a single shot of WD-40 to fix it?
Maybe you rationalize that squeak, squeal, or sticking point as a security feature until one day, you finally grab the can and take the shot like Kobe in the clutch. It works like a single mother and now you feel like a superhero! *Da- dadadaahhh* Handyman, is here! Plus ultra.
You then spend the rest of the hour on patrol interrogating every object with a moving part. If it swings or slides it’s now suspect in your eyes until proven proper. You comb through your home like a school nurse doing lice checks and eventually you end up outside fiddling with the cars and shed. Then your neighbors come outside, announced by the screaming hinges of their storm door whining out the unlubricated cry of a 1st generation Nidoking. “Eh Stanuel! Let me to hit those hinges for ya!”
Thank goodness there aren’t any retirement homes nearby or I’d be hitting doors, chairs, walkers, and hips all weekend.
The only other thing I do that comes close to this is, if I tightened something with a flat screwdriver, I start checking all the socket and light switch surrounds, m aking certain that they are all tightened to vertical. Like Barbara Bush said, “You’re always right when nothing else is left, so get it done, George!”
The Ghost of Oppo
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 14:47 |
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I highly recommend the cans with the bendable nozzle. They are great for reaching tight spaces
atfsgeoff
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 14:49 |
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Ahh WD40, is there anything it can’t do?
jimz
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 14:57 |
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I’m the same way with chainsaws.
“Fixed the newel post!”
ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 15:04 |
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I was used to living with the drivers side door being squeaky on the Mini, then I pointed a grease gun at the hinges and emptied a lot of it. no more squaky :)
Matthew Keyser
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 15:05 |
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I bathe in WD40 at least once a week to lubricate my bum knee.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 15:08 |
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I recommend one of the greases to better lubricate the metal to metal
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 15:33 |
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I do that but with lithium grease. I almost brought the can to work once when I ran out of things at home to spray .
M.T. Blake
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 15:51 |
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ADD is a terrible disease.
I’ve got it too. Doors auto open due to their greasy hinges.
fintail
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 15:59 |
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Something I learned in my “take it apart to repair it and improve it” phase when I was a kid - WD40 is bad for clocks.
benn454
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 16:23 |
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You may possibly perhaps maybe have OCD.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 16:37 |
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Doofus: t hat hole’s for holding your coffee ...
ClassicDatsunDebate
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 16:59 |
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One weird trick your local handyman doesn’t want you to know.
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jimz
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 17:10 |
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TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 17:22 |
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Wd40 isnt good enough. I use chain lube. It sticks to the metal better
facw
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 19:22 |
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My bedroom door doesn’t (and didn’t) squeak, but I had it off so I might as well grease the pins before putting it back up. They were just the right size to feed into my tube of T eflon bicycle grease (very satisfying), and it moves so smoothly now. I do have to hit the swing mechanisms on my skylights a couple times a year with WD40 or they’ll lock up, so I’ve got a can around for that.
MM54
> Wobbles the Mind
12/27/2019 at 23:09 |
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If you’re impressed with WD-40, just wait until you discover actual lubricants and/or penetrating oils.