Crap

I have all these tools now. Compressor, floor jack, welder, hoist…you name it. I should be able to do anything, right? Wrong. Yesterday I couldn’t even rotate my damn tires.

I’m not happy. I bought a low-profile jack at Northern Tool, and I even asked T-bird owners how low it had to go to get under my car. But yesterday the silly thing would not fit under the jacking points. I was sitting out there with my pretty, mint-condition impact wrench and my urethane hose and my Helm manual, ready to go, and I had to pack it in and put everything back in the garage.

Can you believe it? I have no idea how other T-bird owners rotate their tires. I guess I’m going to have to go to a damn garage and pay twenty dollars. I could do it with the T-bird jack, but it’s horrible.

As long as I had the compressor pumped up, I decided to put the needle scaler on the hose and take a look at the iron railing on the back steps. The iron goes straight down into the concrete, and water accumulation has nearly rusted it through. In addition, there are layers of rust and old paint on the iron. I hit it with the scaler for a few minutes, and the crap really flew. Problem: it won’t fit into all the corners and bends. I’m not sure what to use in the tight places. And it doesn’t get all the rust off. It just polishes it down so it’s pretty rust.

I should saw the iron off at the concrete, weld new pieces onto the bottom, drill out the concrete so the old iron is gone, shove the new bits in, and fill it with epoxy. Or maybe I should fabricate a whole new railing.

I could get a sandblaster, but I’d have to leave the sand wherever it landed. No cabinet.

I thought I had a fifty-foot hose, but apparently, it’s a hundred feet. I must have forgotten. It’s pretty sweet. It goes all the way through the house and out the back door.

Is it possible to have enough tools to guarantee that you can do nearly anything you’ll need to do? I don’t know. But I am determined to find out.