[TheForge] followup on holes in saw blade

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Mike Spencer wrote:
> 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
OK, I'm forewarned.
My nickel theory about that is,
That the closer one gets to the poles,
the more socially responsible folks tend to become,
'Cause if you can't get along, you'll freeze your ass.
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