However, as I have mentioned before I AM a Christian, and whole heartedly subscribe to the interpretation of scripture that says that God created the earth, and put man here to be stewards of this earth... So yes I am going to do my part, and encourage others to live and work cleanly.
In that effort, my community has been going, slowly, to an actualy reasonably effective curb side recycling program. We are actually on our second waste / recycling contractor for the city, and each has given us a recycling bin to put curb side...
The older contractor while they gave us a bin, really wouldn't allow us to recycle anything but maybe newspaper (don't subscribe) and maybe aluminum, and glass.
So for the longest time I was taking loads of recycling into work in my truck, and utilizing our facility recycling program to process out the empty cat food cans, plastic bottles and packages, cardboard boxes from all the Amazon and other online purchases etc...
That changed with the new trash / recycling contractor, that accepts nearly all recyclables that are not hazardous (still need to recycle electronics that are piling up, and have serious problems taking my stuff to Best Buy after they got busted simply dumping batteries left for recycling in the garbage dumpster, but that is another story all together...
So with this, and with the truck getting road / off road worthy, not to mention all the recent shop, and some household additions, I have had a LOT of packaging materials, cat food cans, pull off metal car parts etc... that needed to be recycled. And one recycling bin wasn't going to do it...
I needed to use the second tub, the one the old contractor left and never picked up...
Problem... I had put it to use holding my electric pressure washer, flat sprinkler hoses, and plastic drop cloths from my painting projects. These things needed to be moved...
So last night, with what little time I had in the shop I found a home in the lawn and garden shelves for the hoses, moved the pressure washer to the top of the library cabinet, and moved those drop cloths up into the attic just beside the ladder entry for easy access.
With the tub cleared up, I can now recycle all the old cardboard and stuff in one week instead of over several weeks overstuffing the one tub...
My old circular saw is an item I bought for myself back when I was in college. I was working at Ace Hardware in Houston Texas, and we had a customer return this thing as defective. They had run across the cord with the blade. It was processed and was heading to the dumpster, so I asked the owner of the store if I could try to salvage it, and he said take it... We had a replacement power cord in inventory, I paid employee price for it, something like $3.00 at the time, and installed it, then tested the saw. It worked perfectly! This saw has been working flawlessly now since that eventful day in, If I recall correctly 1995 or 1996.
I recently did something stupid, and dropped it, managing to bend the arched slide thing that the wing nut locks onto, and the motor body slides on to adjust the sole, the blade was out of square, the blade wandered terribly, and it was hard to adjust up / down with any accuracy.
Last night I pulled it apart as much as I needed to, and used my handscrew clamps to straighten that piece back out, after a few trial and error attempts, I have it where the saw adjusts smoothly, blade is square and parallel, and the blade wander is gone.
When I was working on it, I noticed something that I felt should be posted. I have tried a couple of their Made in China tools and am FAR less than impressed, but even for a puny 11 amp motor, this old Made in USA Skilsaw has really been a workhorse... Sure I would love for it to be more powerful, but there is nothing I have tried to do with this little saw it hasn't done exceptionally well...
If I totally ruined this particular saw, I would have to go looking for another one just like it... Not super feature rich, but it has the features I need, with great durability, and an unbeatable price tag to boot.
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