#149865 - 23/03/2003 09:37
I see that...
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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a new batch of people have turned green. I wonder if what they say about how easy it is to be green is true...
I guess I'll find out, since I'm in no danger of turning red (not easily embarassed) nor blue (can't hold my breath that long).
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#149866 - 23/03/2003 09:51
Re: I see that...
[Re: Daria]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
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Huh? You've lost me...
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#149867 - 23/03/2003 09:52
Re: I see that...
[Re: tman]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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Look at the color of the names of the posters.
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#149868 - 23/03/2003 10:01
Re: I see that...
[Re: Daria]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
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I turned green and I didn't even notice. It must be because I am envious of Mark's workshop (or rather the skill to use all of those tools).
I am trying to hang some shelves today and failing miserably at it, I hate plaster walls
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#149869 - 23/03/2003 10:09
Re: I see that...
[Re: Laura]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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Use a stud finder! (I'm sure there's a joke there somewhere...)
We replastered all of the walls after I got this house. I should probably finish the last couple rooms. Sigh.
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#149870 - 23/03/2003 10:26
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[Re: Daria]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
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Yeah I would but stud finders do not work on plaster walls, at least the one I have doesn't.
*surveys the 10 holes she has drilled in a row so far trying to locate a stud*
Sigh.
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#149871 - 23/03/2003 10:31
Re: I see that...
[Re: Daria]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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Well spotted, I hadn't noticed (probably because I never read my own posts).
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#149872 - 23/03/2003 10:31
Re: I see that...
[Re: Laura]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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You should be able to use something that senses metal, then. The lathe is presumably fastened with metal to the stubs.
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#149873 - 23/03/2003 10:33
Re: I see that...
[Re: andy]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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I read a thread with one of my posts in it. I clicked it, not noticing it was mine because the author's name was green. "Hey, this sounds like what I wrote!"
"Oh".
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#149874 - 23/03/2003 10:46
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[Re: Laura]
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old hand
Registered: 20/07/1999
Posts: 1102
Loc: UK
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If you have a fairly powerful magnet handy, run it slowly back and forth over the wall until you locate a nail- or screw-head. It works quite well, you can feel the drag as you pass anything magnetic.
pca
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#149875 - 23/03/2003 11:11
Re: I see that...
[Re: pca]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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Or just strap on a pair of the X-ray goggles that Patrick is wearing in his current avatar picture...
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#149876 - 23/03/2003 11:12
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[Re: pca]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
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This girl has decided who the hell needs shelves anyway. After 2 hours I got the left half of one bracket up, seems the right side is off of the stud though. Grrrrrrr.......
Seems the studs are spaced 15" apart, I did find that out finally and have many holes to spackle.
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#149877 - 23/03/2003 11:24
Re: I see that...
[Re: Laura]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
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*kicking myself*
Seems that the stud sensor does work on plaster walls once you have fresh batteries in it and know where a stud is to test it on.
I guess one is never too old to learn something new. Now to go off and hang 3 shelves in my work room.
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#149878 - 23/03/2003 11:26
Re: I see that...
[Re: Laura]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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#149879 - 23/03/2003 11:58
Re: I see that...
[Re: Daria]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
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Has decided to give up and is heading off to the hospital for stitches now. Don't ask.
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#149881 - 23/03/2003 12:09
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[Re: Laura]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/02/2002
Posts: 3411
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Arrgh... I can empathise with strangely spaced studs. My house was built in 1860, apparently before they had invented standards.
When I recently tried to put a small shelf in my bathroom, I ended up cutting away a horizontal inch-wide strip of plaster and lathe until I located the 2 studs, and then fashioning a wooden cross brace to fix to the studs, sitting nearly flush with the wall. I then spackled over the top, and fixed the shelf into the brace. It was the only way I could find to put the shelf where I actually needed it.
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#149882 - 23/03/2003 12:11
Re: I see that...
[Re: Laura]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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#149883 - 23/03/2003 12:12
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[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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I set up my new dishwasher (a countertop model, actually; All I needed to do was install the quick disconnect on the faucet) without hurting myself. Yay.
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#149884 - 23/03/2003 12:21
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[Re: genixia]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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My house is circa 1920. There were a few places where they did some weird things when they were hanging the lathe, but the stud spacing was pretty standard otherwise.
It didn't matter; We ripped 6 inches of plaster around the walls and ran new wiring to replace the knob and tube it came with, and dropped cat 5 and rg59 to every room. So there's new plaster in every room of my house.
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#149885 - 23/03/2003 13:41
Re: I see that...
[Re: Laura]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
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Don't ask. But I always ask. It comes from getting too many stitches in such stupid ways that I'm instantly curious to know about other people's stitches. :P So.... what did you do?
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#149886 - 23/03/2003 14:19
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[Re: canuckInOR]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
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They ended up not putting in stitches and just used steri-strips but since I hit it so hard with the hammer that it split the skin they did take x-rays, nothing broken thankfully. I wish they had given me something for the throbbing pain though, aspirin just isn't cutting it.
Now to go clean the blood off of the wall.........
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#149887 - 23/03/2003 14:50
Re: I see that...
[Re: Laura]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14491
Loc: Canada
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>Seems the studs are spaced 15" apart
They'll actually be 15.25" (average) apart, except near doorways and/or windows.
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#149888 - 23/03/2003 14:53
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[Re: Laura]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14491
Loc: Canada
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Steri-strips are a modern miracle! I have several huge packets full of various sizes of them here, and more in the first aid kit that goes climbing with me.
For those who have not yet discovered them, DO SO! They act like sticky stitches, placed directly over the wound in a such a manner as to pull the two sides together and keep them that way, and clean. Best for clean cuts/slices, lousy for scrapes. Healing time is vastly improved, since the skin doesn't have to waste effort developing a scab to do the same job.
Cheers
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#149889 - 23/03/2003 14:58
Re: I see that...
[Re: mlord]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
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But one doesn't get any sympathy for steri-strips not that I probably would have anyway with stitches. I'll pick up some more of them tomorrow at work, I'm sure these won't last for 10 days.
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#149890 - 23/03/2003 15:51
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[Re: mlord]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
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placed directly over the wound in a such a manner as to pull the two sides together
You want to try staples for that . When I cut my head open in France (snowboarding) earlier in the year, I thought that I'd misheard or mistranslated what the French doctor was telling me.
Turns out, I hadn't. She put two staples in my scalp.
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#149891 - 23/03/2003 16:17
Re: I see that...
[Re: Roger]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 16/06/2000
Posts: 1682
Loc: Greenhills, Ohio
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Oh, staples. You have my belated sympathy
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#149892 - 23/03/2003 16:33
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 21/07/1999
Posts: 1765
Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australi...
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Sorry to hear about the masochistic (sp?) incident. But jeez that was funny.
depending on the size of the shelves and the load (books weigh a lot), you could use a metal spring toggle to hold them.
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#149893 - 23/03/2003 17:14
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[Re: Roger]
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veteran
Registered: 25/04/2000
Posts: 1525
Loc: Arizona
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One of my friends in grade school (like back in 1986 or something) fell off the slide onto the tarmac/concrete (none of this wussy rubber stuff they got going on now). He ended up having like 10 staples in his head or something.
It was amazing how much enjoyment he got out of showing them to the girls and grossing them out...
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#149894 - 23/03/2003 18:39
Re: I see that...
[Re: Laura]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
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I assume steri-strips are akin to butterfly bandages? If so they do work well but have a tendency to scar. At least they did on me. Right in the middle of my forehead, too. Oh well... I usually carry superglue and Nu Skin whenever I go camping/hiking/doing anything dangerous. I love Nu Skin particularly, as I use it to prevent blisters in places I know will normally get blisters. Great for bowling.
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