Posted by lon [ 69.28.2.52 ] on October 17, 2006 at 14:53:55:
In Reply to: Re: Hand drill has a stuck chuck posted by gfederys on October 17, 2006 at 12:24:18:
I never hear from the neighbors which is all to the good.
But they must wonder what's going in in my extra room.
The place is old, the extra room carpet was shot when I got here
and there's not even a pad underneath.
But it's up on the second floor and my collection of tools
is very small. I keep the vacuum handy.
What I'd like to see happen here is a revial of the
Do It Yourself Shop. That's a place where people can come to
use tools they have no room for or can't afdford to buy
outright.
We had such a place when I was a kid-- around 1960.
I'm actively engaged in this and think it's a good project
for many towns with abandoned buildings of appropriate size.
The goal is to have the municipality purchase a space and
make it a green development project retrofitted and used
as a demonstration of alternate energy systems-- plus
whatever revenue comes in from renting time on the machines.
In this case the abandoned space is a failed supermarket close
to city center.
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