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Oct 9, 2004 | 09:53 PM

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Ford51

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From: Garland Tx

Also, a garage door. My grandfather is a big beleiver in re using and we decided to re use the garage door we took off of the house. But it was totally the wrong size, but that was planned for. The stupid people who built the house put the ugly wood siding on the garage door instead of paneling, which was the reason it was replaced in the first place (it was too heavy). So we first had to take all the siding off which wasnt too hard. Then we had to cut it down. We cut the end of it off and knocked out the support on the end that is bigger than the resst and put it back in at the new end of the door. (btw we had to do this for every level of the door). so we resized every one and started cutting panels and putting them in . But that wasnt even the hard part. we took a whole day to get it all on the track and connected and put back together, but found out one of the sproings was broken, so we had to get another one and put it on and finally got it all put together and painted. can you say PITA

Oct 10, 2004 | 01:03 AM

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nick88f150

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Haha Ford51. I forgot to mention my dad and grandpa both reuse everything. The door for the shed was off our garage. the door my sister drove into while learning to drive. It was meant to be a temp till we got a new one for the barn. However since it still isn't in, we might as well toss it.

Oct 12, 2004 | 01:26 PM

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The toughest project, hmmm. Oh yeah, back in 1981, after moving my older sister into her college dorm room, we had to get some furniture items. Word got out and before long, it was she and I and 8 of her dorm mates stuffed into my old '73 suburban heading to Crate & Barrel. No fib, on the way back we had all 10 of us crammed into the front seat because the back and roof were packed to the max with desks, tables, chairs bookcases, etc. All of which had to be assembled. I spent the next two days going from dorm room to dorm room, assembling the new furniture and accepting gestures of appreciation.

Oct 18, 2004 | 08:58 AM

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I've put together storage sheds, both metal and freezer panel and they can be kind of hairy.

I think the worst was in about 84' when I installed playground equipment at a town park, donated by a retired business owner. One of those powder coated round tubing and bright plastic jobs. It was the second one sold in the western US by this company and the largest. The instructions were about two pages and showed almost no detail diagrams or dimensions. Next time you see one of those things, look at how everything is tied together. All those verticle pipe have to be exact or it won't fit. There were no right angles, (I taught myself Trig on that job). Then the elevation of each platform had to be determined or the bridge and platform heights would be wrong at each station. The factory support learned more from me, I think - somewhat of a pioneer.

They really wanted me to be the regional install contractor after that job. I turned it down, because it burned me out and I didn't think anyone would be foolish enough to pay $40K for playground toys, (1980's dollars). Boy was that a mistake, I'd be retired now..