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12-05-2006, 03:47 PM
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| Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In a house ... but I might move.
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|  Venting Yes, from time to time I must simply break down and vent.... I am sure some know how that feels. It was a simple task.... one I've done so many times before.... changing the blade in my saw You know those pesky little wires that are wrapped around the new blades.... well perhaps it is the arthritis, perhaps it is the eyesight but this morning I wasted a good deal of time trying to get new blades undone. I had a little tantrum, giggle. If you want to call it that and for a moment thought of trying another BRAND (I know, I know.... don't go there!) Then.... when Sue came in the shop to see why I was ah, swearing.... she took less than a minute to open them. Laughed and left the room. Shaking my head here.....I am not aging well when someone who is years my senior can do it and I can't. So now I will mumble "bi-focals" as I head back in the shop.... thanks for listening. LOL. Take care Toni
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12-05-2006, 03:49 PM
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| Technical Editor  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Lebanon, Pa
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| I just cut them...mini wire cutters work great! Bob
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12-05-2006, 03:55 PM
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| Southern Cheesehead  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Georgia
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| Toni, I just did the same thing this past weekend. I bought some nifty plastic tubes to finally put my blades in (they were still in the little plastic baggie thingys). It was all I could do to keep from getting them and sometime me tangles in that little wire.  I wanted to scream. Then I was having trouble keeping the blade in the saw. So I gave up and had lunch. 
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12-05-2006, 04:41 PM
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| Newly Customized Moose  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Truro, Nova Scotia
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 Got as far as unwinding 3 separate dozens from the copper then thought "S*d it!" and stuffed them in with the wires around them - I swear some of those wires are continuous loops
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12-05-2006, 04:41 PM
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| Fallen Angel Join Date: Mar 2005
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| Getting older can be frustrating, but it's better than the alternative! Gill
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12-05-2006, 04:58 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Cottageville, West Virginia
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|  I just don't know what to think about you "old" people!!!! I'm 62 and still feel like 20.....(but only in my mind)!! LOL!!! 
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12-05-2006, 05:32 PM
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| Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Grass Valley, Calif
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| I, of course, did a "happy dance" because I could do something that she couldn't (at that moment anyway LOL..it is not something that happens often)..of course my 'dance' probably just looked silly or like I had to run upstairs to the bathroom still smiling tho  |
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12-05-2006, 06:13 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Hamilton Ontario
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| I have a $ 2.00 tip for ya'll. Just like everything else, there is a right and a wrong way to unwire the packet of blades. On one end the wire is wound over itself, if you turn the packet over to the other end the wire should be loose enough to pull off. At least this is what I have found. But then again maybe Toni does need bi-focals Marsha |
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12-05-2006, 06:15 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ne Texas
Posts: 892
| Don't ya just hate those da-m wires?? I use to unwind all my bundles when I put them in the neat little pvc tubes I made- stupid stunt- I had a doofer box I kept my blade holders in and was for ever knocking them over and they went everywhere-- after a long long time of doing the dumb way I got smart and decided to only open one bundle at a time- easier to pick up bundles than a zillion loose blades. Then I had a brain fart and made me a much needed blade tube holder for my "tubes" using a 2x4 and my drill press and air nailer I had one knocked out in no time- I can put all my blades in their own little house and just reach in and get one at a time ( after I unrap the little boogers.) I use a sharpend hat pin to get the thread started and have to admit that I go barefoot in the shop and would hate to get one in my foot. well dumb things do happen don't ya know.
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12-05-2006, 06:44 PM
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| Scroller/Turner  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wynndel, British Columbia Canada
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| Some of you ladies don't carry a pocket knife in your slacks like most of us guys do .  I just use the smallest sharp blade in my Swiss army knife and slide it under the tiny brass wire to open it and then unroll the wire effortlessly without any frustration. Works for me. W.Y.
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