1950s Magnificent Magnavox HI-FI Console issues

[WISCOJIM]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

I don't get that that much money to buy stuff like a $200 bench grinder or a $150 set of files.

Please don't exaggerate the cost of basic tools to make a point. You don't have to buy top-of-the-line stuff.

A file for this purpose will cost about $3 new, and a bolt on bench hand grinder will rarely be over $10 at estate and yard sale.

And it's not very complicated at all to use a file. You should really learn sometime how to use basic hand tools. You'll be amazed how much money you can save in a lifetime by learning basic tool skills and investing in a very modest number of tools.

You at age 27 have a tremendous resource that us older guys didn't have. You-tube can quickly and easily show you how to do most anything.

Back in the old day us dinosaurs had to learn things on our own by experimentation or by going to the library and reading a book if we didn't have a mentor nearby. A lot of the older generations were already sufficiently proficient with hand tools long before getting through school.

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[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by WISCOJIM

Please don't exaggerate the cost of basic tools to make a point. You don't have to buy top-of-the-line stuff.

A file for this purpose will cost about $3 new, and a bolt on bench hand grinder will rarely be over $10 at estate and yard sale.

And it's not very complicated at all to use a file. You should really learn sometime how to use basic hand tools. You'll be amazed how much money you can save in a lifetime by learning basic tool skills and investing in a very modest number of tools.

You at age 27 have a tremendous resource that us older guys didn't have. You-tube can quickly and easily show you how to do most anything.

Back in the old day us dinosaurs had to learn things on our own by experimentation or by going to the library and reading a book if we didn't have a mentor nearby. A lot of the older generations were already sufficiently proficient with hand tools long before getting through school.

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Yeah well the problem is that I don't own my own place, I rent, and I don't think that my landlord would appreciated me using a bench grinder in my place and before you say anything, NO I don't have a garage because the garage is where I'm in now (it was made into part of the house back in the late 2000s.)

[WISCOJIM]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

Yeah well the problem is that I don't own my own place, I rent, and I don't think that my landlord would appreciated me using a bench grinder in my place and before you say anything, NO I don't have a garage because the garage is where I'm in now (it was made into part of the house back in the late 2000s.)

I can't see how this could bother a landlord. You clamp it to your table or counter-top, crank it for a couple minutes, put it away. No big deal.