[TheForge] Re: followup on holes in saw blade

[Mike Spencer]

Frosty wrote:

> Around here almost any decent hardware store carries left handed
> drill bits as well as taps and dies.

Not around here.  Maybe in the industrial park in Halifax. OTOH, since
I Never Throw Anything Away, I can often root in my junk heap and
coffee cans and find the weirdest stuff.  When I was putting up line
shaft for the little Jardine hammer, I found a couple of 1/2" threaded
bits with buggered nuts. But wait! They were 1/2x12, not 1/2x13.  What
to do?  Root, is what: in a can of assorted old taps, I found a 1/2x12
tap and fixed things right up.

Peter Fels wrote:

> Gotta watch them Canadian foreigners! They keep embarrassing us by
> acting in a civilized manner.

Don't let that deter you from visiting Canada.  We have this sorta
kinda Urban Theme Park called "Toronto" (pronounced "Tronno").  It's
not a total success but they make an effort there to provide gratuitous
rudeness, drive-by shootings and other attractions to make the USAian
visitor feel at home.  They're not very good at the rudeness --
"supercillious" is usually the best they can manage -- but they try.

OTOH, if you come to Lunenburg county (or most other places) here in
Nova Scotia, you'll just have to get a grip and suffer the
embarassment of civilized treatment.  Why, just last week, I was
walking along the road over on the river and two separate strangers
smiled and said hello when we passed.


- Mike

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