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Rollerskates / inline skates. The little town i lived in previously had a good ski/bike/skate shop with helpful sales people and plenty of selection... The larger town i live in now has a couple of ski shops and some big chain "sports shops"... but no one selling quality skates or accessories. I recently ended up having to buy a brake off of the 'Net. $20, half of that shipping. Ridiculous.
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'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Yeah, when we were in Nashville, my wife worked in one of the last independent good skate shops in that area. The only one that still bought decent skates anyway. Everyone else has been driven out of business by the big box "sports" stores, which is really bad for the sport, because you need someone that can fit you right with skates. On the other hand quads are seeing a resurgence here because of all the roller derbies.
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Roger Wright wrote:
What can you not purchase in your town (besides a bus ticket out, if you're in the midwest US)?
Large-pearl tapioca. Decent skates. Fresh cheese curds.
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Shog9 wrote:
Fresh cheese curds.
That's one of the few things that will probably remain a regional treat. One of the most disappointing things about traveling around the world in this day and age is buying something in Asia as a gift and then finding it cheaper in the local grocery store when you get back. At least some things are staying regional and not being exported and blandized for mass consumption. Can you imagine Kraft and Sargento cheese curds. The whole point is that every shop has their own family secret recipe for curds and brats.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Welcome to Bullhead City, where we can build huge housing and commercial developments, but I can't buy a piece of steel. Unbelievable! Having a number of power tools that are better used when securely mounted, I designed a simple workbench two weeks ago requiring a few lengths of 16 ga (~.065") steel angle to support the shelves and 12 ga (.109") angles for legs. After calling and faxing every supplier in the area it turns out that none can provide it. They quote me 1/8" and larger in 20' lengths, but not one can take a sheet of thin steel (which they have in stock), shear it to width and bend it lengthwise to 90°. Ridiculous!:mad: So the only workaround I've found is to order square steel tubing, which I'll spend Saturday slitting lengthwise with a table saw to the sizes I need for the project. As a bonus, my 60 lb table will end up weighing about 120 lbs - nice for stability, but a little tough to move about. Grrrrr... Small towns are nice, but they lack certain conveniences. What can you not purchase in your town (besides a bus ticket out, if you're in the midwest US)?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Here in suburban Frisco Tx we can buy everything except real Liquor. Man this place sucks. :-D
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
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Roger Wright wrote:
What can you not purchase in your town (besides a bus ticket out, if you're in the midwest US)?
A SodaStream. No one does them any more. Nor the refills. Bastards.
Mark Twain once said "If you find something you like, buy a lifetimes supply as sooner or later they will stop making it!"
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Welcome to Bullhead City, where we can build huge housing and commercial developments, but I can't buy a piece of steel. Unbelievable! Having a number of power tools that are better used when securely mounted, I designed a simple workbench two weeks ago requiring a few lengths of 16 ga (~.065") steel angle to support the shelves and 12 ga (.109") angles for legs. After calling and faxing every supplier in the area it turns out that none can provide it. They quote me 1/8" and larger in 20' lengths, but not one can take a sheet of thin steel (which they have in stock), shear it to width and bend it lengthwise to 90°. Ridiculous!:mad: So the only workaround I've found is to order square steel tubing, which I'll spend Saturday slitting lengthwise with a table saw to the sizes I need for the project. As a bonus, my 60 lb table will end up weighing about 120 lbs - nice for stability, but a little tough to move about. Grrrrr... Small towns are nice, but they lack certain conveniences. What can you not purchase in your town (besides a bus ticket out, if you're in the midwest US)?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Roger Wright wrote:
What can you not purchase in your town (besides a bus ticket out, if you're in the midwest US)?
A SodaStream. No one does them any more. Nor the refills. Bastards.
martin_hughes wrote:
Bookmark
Plenty of them here, but I think postage would be a bit steep.
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martin_hughes wrote:
Bookmark
Plenty of them here, but I think postage would be a bit steep.
Bookmark? I don't want a bookmark I WANT A SODASTREAM!
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Bookmark? I don't want a bookmark I WANT A SODASTREAM!
I don't know how that happened. I was talking about Sodastreams, but I think the quote from somewhere else sneaked in.
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Welcome to Bullhead City, where we can build huge housing and commercial developments, but I can't buy a piece of steel. Unbelievable! Having a number of power tools that are better used when securely mounted, I designed a simple workbench two weeks ago requiring a few lengths of 16 ga (~.065") steel angle to support the shelves and 12 ga (.109") angles for legs. After calling and faxing every supplier in the area it turns out that none can provide it. They quote me 1/8" and larger in 20' lengths, but not one can take a sheet of thin steel (which they have in stock), shear it to width and bend it lengthwise to 90°. Ridiculous!:mad: So the only workaround I've found is to order square steel tubing, which I'll spend Saturday slitting lengthwise with a table saw to the sizes I need for the project. As a bonus, my 60 lb table will end up weighing about 120 lbs - nice for stability, but a little tough to move about. Grrrrr... Small towns are nice, but they lack certain conveniences. What can you not purchase in your town (besides a bus ticket out, if you're in the midwest US)?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Welcome to Bullhead City, where we can build huge housing and commercial developments, but I can't buy a piece of steel. Unbelievable! Having a number of power tools that are better used when securely mounted, I designed a simple workbench two weeks ago requiring a few lengths of 16 ga (~.065") steel angle to support the shelves and 12 ga (.109") angles for legs. After calling and faxing every supplier in the area it turns out that none can provide it. They quote me 1/8" and larger in 20' lengths, but not one can take a sheet of thin steel (which they have in stock), shear it to width and bend it lengthwise to 90°. Ridiculous!:mad: So the only workaround I've found is to order square steel tubing, which I'll spend Saturday slitting lengthwise with a table saw to the sizes I need for the project. As a bonus, my 60 lb table will end up weighing about 120 lbs - nice for stability, but a little tough to move about. Grrrrr... Small towns are nice, but they lack certain conveniences. What can you not purchase in your town (besides a bus ticket out, if you're in the midwest US)?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
A quality, reasonably priced hooker and some decent blow.
Brian ----------------------------------------------- Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. - Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845) If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. - George Aiken
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Any sort of decent tech books is what I can't get where I live.
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Christian Graus wrote:
Any sort of decent tech books is what I can't get where I live.
You can't get proper braodband down in two-head-ville Graussy.
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A quality, reasonably priced hooker and some decent blow.
Brian ----------------------------------------------- Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. - Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845) If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. - George Aiken
In Old Bullhead (the north end of town) I can introduce you to $5 Mary, and her friend Mr. Snow. If you're not picky about teeth and stuff...
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Welcome to Bullhead City, where we can build huge housing and commercial developments, but I can't buy a piece of steel. Unbelievable! Having a number of power tools that are better used when securely mounted, I designed a simple workbench two weeks ago requiring a few lengths of 16 ga (~.065") steel angle to support the shelves and 12 ga (.109") angles for legs. After calling and faxing every supplier in the area it turns out that none can provide it. They quote me 1/8" and larger in 20' lengths, but not one can take a sheet of thin steel (which they have in stock), shear it to width and bend it lengthwise to 90°. Ridiculous!:mad: So the only workaround I've found is to order square steel tubing, which I'll spend Saturday slitting lengthwise with a table saw to the sizes I need for the project. As a bonus, my 60 lb table will end up weighing about 120 lbs - nice for stability, but a little tough to move about. Grrrrr... Small towns are nice, but they lack certain conveniences. What can you not purchase in your town (besides a bus ticket out, if you're in the midwest US)?
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Just to be different, I'm going to reply to your steel search problem. :) How about ordering online? I found a few sites that you could do this but don't have links at the moment. Else Grainger.com is another option. You can buy it in the lengths you need too which will be handy for shipping and you not needing to cut it.
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Just to be different, I'm going to reply to your steel search problem. :) How about ordering online? I found a few sites that you could do this but don't have links at the moment. Else Grainger.com is another option. You can buy it in the lengths you need too which will be handy for shipping and you not needing to cut it.
I have looked into that, but the shipping cost is almost as much as the steel. I also don't trust anyone else to cut it, being a bit picky about my design tolerances. But for some projects I probably will use that method. Sheet steel angle is still a problem, and I haven't found any online source for it. The local supplier tells me that it's very hard to ship without damage, so few suppliers carry it. I guess people who use a lot of it buy full sheets and keep their own shears and brakes. I'll have to consider that before I design any more projects with the thin stuff. One of the skills I'm trying to acquire is gas welding aluminum, and once I get that down the shipping won't be such an issue. Brazing is easy enough, but I'm not a good enough mechanical engineer to estimate the strength of a brazed joint; I trust a good weld. [EDIT] Now that I think of it, I doubt it would be too hard to design and build a brake. Tedious, yes, but not difficult. [/EDIT]
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I have looked into that, but the shipping cost is almost as much as the steel. I also don't trust anyone else to cut it, being a bit picky about my design tolerances. But for some projects I probably will use that method. Sheet steel angle is still a problem, and I haven't found any online source for it. The local supplier tells me that it's very hard to ship without damage, so few suppliers carry it. I guess people who use a lot of it buy full sheets and keep their own shears and brakes. I'll have to consider that before I design any more projects with the thin stuff. One of the skills I'm trying to acquire is gas welding aluminum, and once I get that down the shipping won't be such an issue. Brazing is easy enough, but I'm not a good enough mechanical engineer to estimate the strength of a brazed joint; I trust a good weld. [EDIT] Now that I think of it, I doubt it would be too hard to design and build a brake. Tedious, yes, but not difficult. [/EDIT]
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Ahh, yeah, shipping. You should just get a plasma cutter then! :-) You could make most anything then. . .and if you get/make a brake you'd be pretty well set up. Yeah, a bit spendy - I sure would like one for messing around with, just know I don't have the time to make the purchase price worth it. "Gas welding aluminum"? Do you mean a wire feed welder with argon (? - can't remember, I know it's not CO2 like used for steel welding) as shielding gas? I have a stick welder and its sure comes in handy at times. I would like to get a wire feed as thin stuff with the stick welder of course, is a beach to do.
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Ahh, yeah, shipping. You should just get a plasma cutter then! :-) You could make most anything then. . .and if you get/make a brake you'd be pretty well set up. Yeah, a bit spendy - I sure would like one for messing around with, just know I don't have the time to make the purchase price worth it. "Gas welding aluminum"? Do you mean a wire feed welder with argon (? - can't remember, I know it's not CO2 like used for steel welding) as shielding gas? I have a stick welder and its sure comes in handy at times. I would like to get a wire feed as thin stuff with the stick welder of course, is a beach to do.
Kent K wrote:
Do you mean a wire feed welder with argon
Nope. Just plain oxyacetylene welding. It can be done, but it takes practice. Brazing is easier, but I don't know how to estimate the difference in strength from a welded joint. I'd hate to have my kayak rack fall apart on the highway because I brazed what should have been welded.
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