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| I'm looking a simple, maybe 2' long retracted, 4' long extended, light duty
screw jack.
If anyone knows where I can find a gizmo like that, please let me know. I
want to put a swivel foot on each end and use it for a knee brace on a fence
post.
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| Chas Hurst 2006-07-14, 5:25 pm |
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"RB" <rbig@bellsouth.nospam.net> wrote in message
news:TSRtg.1346$IB.253@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
> I'm looking a simple, maybe 2' long retracted, 4' long extended, light
> duty screw jack.
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> If anyone knows where I can find a gizmo like that, please let me know. I
> want to put a swivel foot on each end and use it for a knee brace on a
> fence post.
Make one from a piece of pipe and a length of threaded rod. Weld a nut on an
end of the pipe.
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| Jim Ledford 2006-07-14, 9:25 pm |
| Chas Hurst wrote:
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> "RB" <rbig@bellsouth.nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:TSRtg.1346$IB.253@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
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> Make one from a piece of pipe and a length of threaded rod. Weld a nut on an
> end of the pipe.
home made stuff is great.
sad watching another spend to much money on what could be so
easily made out of a few scrap parts from the scrap parts pile.
did you know most neighborhoods have rules against having a
scrap parts pile? yep, upsets those who are unable to visualize
a future use for a piece of scraped out metal. they call'em
eye sores and that's their reasoning for not allowing neighborhood
dwellers with visionary expertise to retain and maintain a scrap
pile. all about, if 'I' can not do it then 'I' want to prohibit
you from being able to do it.
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| Srgnt Billko 2006-07-14, 9:25 pm |
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"Jim Ledford" <jimled@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Chas Hurst wrote:
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> home made stuff is great.
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> sad watching another spend to much money on what could be so
> easily made out of a few scrap parts from the scrap parts pile.
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> did you know most neighborhoods have rules against having a
> scrap parts pile? yep, upsets those who are unable to visualize
> a future use for a piece of scraped out metal. they call'em
> eye sores and that's their reasoning for not allowing neighborhood
> dwellers with visionary expertise to retain and maintain a scrap
> pile. all about, if 'I' can not do it then 'I' want to prohibit
> you from being able to do it.
Same with "dump picking" - they stop us from recycleing stuff from there
also. Twenty years ago I built a nice 10 by 12 shed wuth lumber I "picked".
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| Jim Ledford 2006-07-15, 3:25 am |
| Srgnt Billko wrote:
> Jim Ledford wrote:
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> Same with "dump picking" - they stop us from recycleing stuff from there
> also. Twenty years ago I built a nice 10 by 12 shed wuth lumber I "picked".
at the county trash dump they got not one but two old men guarding
the stuff. ticks me off how the government had rather fill up a
landfill with that good stuff rather than allow me to take it home...
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| RB wrote:
> I'm looking a simple, maybe 2' long retracted, 4' long extended, light duty
> screw jack.
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> If anyone knows where I can find a gizmo like that, please let me know.
1. go to hardware store
2. buy piece of all-thread, and a 'rod joiner' sized to fit it. there's
the jack you describe. alternately, use a turnbuckle as an 'expander'
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> want to put a swivel foot on each end and use it for a knee brace on a fence
> post.
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