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[fiddle fixer]

I use anti-seize for extreme conditions, usually high heat, like exhausts. I think an ample coating of motor oil or grease is sufficient for everything...

[fiddle fixer]

When I get firewood, I cut a tree down and then I cut it up.

When a siren goes "off," it actually goes on.

People...

[fiddle fixer]

I like the one where, at an evening party, a woman told him he was drunk. He replied, "Yes, but you, madam, are ugly, and tomorrow I shall be so...

[fiddle fixer]

There are two of us. We lived for 48 years without running water -- just a hand pump at the kitchen sink connected to a dug well in the yard. Pumping...

[fiddle fixer]

I estimate we use 150 to 200 gallons of water a month.

[fiddle fixer]

In the early 1960s I attended an academic boarding school that had an almost non-functional machine shop in an old barn. It was open to students only...

[fiddle fixer]

I have a home woodworking job shop specializing in the repair of violin-family stringed instruments and their bows. I also buy instruments and bows to...