In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Laundry done and a bit of shopping done as well today.
Went into an electronics store thinking about buying one of those combo jobs that have CD-Tape-Radio-Record player all together. Talking to the guy who worked in the store. Thought the picture on the front of the box was a large CD. I had to tell him no that was a phonograph record. He said, "I've seen one but don't know how to use it."
Told him that I was a lot older than him and I grew up with one. Some of these items are made under the old "Victrola" name. 
I said my grandparents would have had one of those.
Rotten whipper-snappers.
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It sounds like these are wood screws, that go through a hole in a metal piece directly into wood, to hold the metal piece on? If so, then you don't need to worry about matching threads. That only counts when you're trying to fit a metal screw into a threaded metal fitting or nut.
ASSUMING it's a wood screw, once a wood screw comes out, it leaves a slightly bigger hole in the wood than the size of the screw, meaning the exact same size screw might fall out. Depending on how big the screw hole is, you can sometime insert a piece of a wooden toothpick to fill up the hole a bit. Or you may need to upsize the screw. Or you could put epoxy in the hole and put the screw in, and count on the epoxy to keep it all together.
Those are the 'fixes' I can think of offhand, but I'm sure google knows more!
I'd be happy to chit chat back and forth!
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Oh and Jack, I wanted to highlight what Signy said earlier, which is that you're probably dealing with surface water and poor drainage, not a high water table. I think that might have gotten lost in the mix.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Oh and Jack, I wanted to highlight what Signy said earlier, which is that you're probably dealing with surface water and poor drainage, not a high water table. I think that might have gotten lost in the mix.
Dunno. Hard to say other than I'm on a semi-minor flood plane that used to be a really terrible flood plane before the ditch system was made sometime in the 60's or early 70's. Maybe once I've got the gutters up and the drain pipe fixed my problems will go away.
I'm STILL working on laundry today. I think I've only got 2 more loads left to do though. I didn't count, but I easily did over a dozen loads over the last 3 days.
I didn't pitch any of my suits yet. I knew I had two, but it turns out I have 4. I was going to get rid of any dress pants I had that were dry clean only outside of the suits, and any that weren't "wrinkle free", but I must have done that already, so keeping them too. Got rid of a few dress shirts that weren't extremely low maintenance. I hate keeping all of that stuff when I almost never use any of it. Maybe I'll pare it down further once I go through the rest of the clothes.
I threw away three coats that were damaged. Two are going to Goodwill. I've still got 5 more but I can't bring myself to get rid of them yet. I love having nice coats and the ones left are all pricey stuff that I bought new myself and are in great shape. I also threw away a bag of crap clothes. It turns out I had a lot of junk shirts that I'd never wear going out for use while doing yard work or painting that I've forgotten about. I'll be getting rid of quite a bit more I imagine once all the laundry is done and I take an inventory.
1 1/2 more bags full of coats and clothes to go to Goodwill so far. Already brought 2 there yesterday.
My end goal is the following:
1. To have all of my suits and coats I'm keeping in my living room closet with room to spare for guests coats (mission accomplished there).
2. Maybe call a local dry cleaner and see if I can get new bags to put the suits I ultimately keep in. I don't need anything fancy. Plastic is fine. I'd just rather have something that was designed for the task rather than cut out large black trashbags to cover them.
3. No more clothes and linens than what will fit in my two dressers I'm keeping and a single closet in my Master Bedroom.
I may have already accomplished this. I won't know until the rest of the laundry is done and I start packing stuff away. My space for hung up clothing that I would frequently use and isn't crap clothes for yardwork/painting is nearly full, but aside from a few drawers in one dresser that have all of the good towels, I've got a lot of dresser space for the rest.
Going to watch some DIY youtube stuff tonight and make a shopping list for my porch homework the next two days. It's already raining right now and should be through the morning, so I wasn't going to get anymore outdoor work done today. Hopefully it dries up pretty quickly tomorrow so I can jump right into it after picking up what I need.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:What works better than KILZ? Zinsser? Something else?
Originally posted by 1kiki:
Hey Signy
Thanks for letting me know !!! about the specialty sealer.
When I went to Lowes for genuine TSP I did look up oil-based KILZ, and you're right, it's no longer sold (according to them). I should check out Ace hrdwr b/c they're usually more on top of things. It might be available in small containers. (Many years ago I was looking for oil-based porch floor paint at Ace, and it was available in small containers but not large ones.) Just a detail to track down.
Lowes did recommend another product they said works even better than Kilz did. You know I have a particular reason to be looking for something like Kilz but my second pick was milk paint with maximum tung oil.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Today is my vacation day! It's the day I slept in, and didn't plan on doing anything other than taking the dog out for potty breaks (she refuses to poop in the backyard), lunch with dear daughter, and weekly grocery shopping. I promise to clean upthe kitchen, but only after a nap!
This has been the month of baby lizards! Baby fence lizads everywhere. plus a ginormous skink in the potted succulent up front, and another ginormous skink between two 4X4s laid down on the ground in back. This also seems to be the year of orb spiders ... spiders that create those lovely webs that go round and round 
When I let the dog out for a pee at night, there's been an orb spider right across the kitchen door sidewalk. It diligently spins its web every night, and diligently disassembles it every morning - clearly, a night-hunting spider!
DD pointed out another orb spider web this evening. The sunlight was shining thru the threads, and each thread refracted the entire rainbow of colors. The entire web was rainbowed, and the colors shifted depending on the angle that we looked at it. I've literally never seen a refractive orb spider-web before. I've seen them at all hours of the day, and night, and sparkling with dew (or less frequently, frost) but never with rainbows. It was quite impressive!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:What works better than KILZ? Zinsser? Something else?
Originally posted by 1kiki:
Hey Signy
Thanks for letting me know !!! about the specialty sealer.
When I went to Lowes for genuine TSP I did look up oil-based KILZ, and you're right, it's no longer sold (according to them). I should check out Ace hrdwr b/c they're usually more on top of things. It might be available in small containers. (Many years ago I was looking for oil-based porch floor paint at Ace, and it was available in small containers but not large ones.) Just a detail to track down.
Lowes did recommend another product they said works even better than Kilz did. You know I have a particular reason to be looking for something like Kilz but my second pick was milk paint with maximum tung oil.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
I've used both Kilz2 and Zinsser. That's really all my experience with water based primers. Both of them are really good for drywall applications, but if I've ever needed anything more than that I've used Original Kilz.
Well, that's not exactly true. I've used Zinsser for outdoor applications before. It certainly doesn't hold up as well outside, even with a coat or two of Sherwin Williams outdoor paint on top of it. But to be fair, there was an inordinate amount of water splashing up onto it that wouldn't have been if I had gutters up, and the birds LOVED the spot and shit all over it everyday before I took it out. It was the fence on the front porch attached to the pillars. Pillars are still there (just primered with outdoor Zinsser), but the fence is gone. Really need to get that outdoor paint on it now too.
Clothes/linens are done. Got everything out I needed to so I'm only taking two small closets and two dressers with all of them. Ended up with two more bags of trash and two more bags for Goodwill.
Decided to wash a bathroom mat that I have that's pretty heavy duty. Freakin instructions says it's machine washable, but to also wash it alone. Gorram thing is far to heavy with all the water in it and my washer keeps shutting down when it tries to put it through the spin cycle... and I have a great Amana designer series washer and dryer. I think I'm just going to throw it out, even though it's a great little bathroom mat.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Top loading? If you're mterested in finishing, put something else in that sucks up a lot of water, like a couple of bath towels you don't care about. When it starts to spin and bonks out, open the washer and rearrange the bath mat on one side and the towels on the other for balance.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Top loading? If you're mterested in finishing, put something else in that sucks up a lot of water, like a couple of bath towels you don't care about. When it starts to spin and bonks out, open the washer and rearrange the bath mat on one side and the towels on the other for balance.
Great idea!
I just happen to have a whole pile of towels that I don't care about suited just for things like this.
Loading it up with water again for the 3rd attempt. Probably not a bad idea to rinse it this many times either since it's super nappy and I bet it's still got a lot of detergent to get out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
It sounds like these are wood screws, that go through a hole in a metal piece directly into wood, to hold the metal piece on? If so, then you don't need to worry about matching threads. That only counts when you're trying to fit a metal screw into a threaded metal fitting or nut.
ASSUMING it's a wood screw, once a wood screw comes out, it leaves a slightly bigger hole in the wood than the size of the screw, meaning the exact same size screw might fall out. Depending on how big the screw hole is, you can sometime insert a piece of a wooden toothpick to fill up the hole a bit. Or you may need to upsize the screw. Or you could put epoxy in the hole and put the screw in, and count on the epoxy to keep it all together.
Those are the 'fixes' I can think of offhand, but I'm sure google knows more!
I'd be happy to chit chat back and forth!
The screws do go through a piece of metal before going into the wood as this box has a little tray that closes and folds down when you close the lid on the whole box.
Thanks for the ideas. Will let you know what happens next week when I begin again the search for a screw to repair this with.
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