I should have recognized myself, because my body looks exactly like that.warmstrong1955 wrote:I searched 'Steve Graham cleaning his concrete floor' on the interweb, and there it was!
Stripped Screw Holes in Plastic
Moderator: Harold_V
- SteveHGraham
- Posts: 7788
- Joined: Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:55 pm
- Location: Florida
Re: Stripped Screw Holes in Plastic
Every hard-fried egg began life sunny-side up.
Re: Stripped Screw Holes in Plastic
Back to the screw in plastic, Depending on what plastic it is you can drop some cyno (super glue) in the hole and run your screw in lightly.
Sent from my SM-N920C using Tapatalk
Sent from my SM-N920C using Tapatalk
Re: Stripped Screw Holes in Plastic
To assume that others know and understand that isn't in keeping with reality, nor good practice. Gasoline is responsible for the misery and death of many, some of whom figured they were different, that, somehow, they were exempt. I would be derelict in my duties as a moderator were I to allow your (reckless) comment to go unchallenged.John Hasler wrote: Used in small quantities and with proper respect gasoline is just as safe as any other volatile flammable solvent.
Lack of knowledge and understanding is often responsible for individuals making less than acceptable decisions. Without your suggestion being contested, it's entirely possible that some unsuspecting individual might leave their container of gasoline open while using "just a little" to clean the mess they've created, which may be in the same room as their natural gas fired water heater. Need I say more?
While gasoline may behave as a solvent, it is produced for the express purpose of being used as a fuel. The properties it displays make it VERY undesirable for use as a cleaner. That's the point.
Harold
Wise people talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.
-
- Posts: 532
- Joined: Thu May 30, 2013 4:40 am
Re: Stripped Screw Holes in Plastic
Yeah,
You have to baby everyone, assume they have no common sense, general knowledge or sense of self-preservation and not make any recommendations with any scope for an absolute ignoramus to do themselves or others any damage.
My personal thoughts on this are that if you don't know enough about it to know you're doing it safely you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
On the other hand there are so many people these days who's default world view is "Why wouldn't I be able to do that" despite having no applicable knowledge then perhaps Harold is right.
Quick, sell all your machines without interlocked safety guards, you might hurt yourself! I'm off out to bust up all my dangerous manual machines before anyone is mashed or killed!
- Nick
You have to baby everyone, assume they have no common sense, general knowledge or sense of self-preservation and not make any recommendations with any scope for an absolute ignoramus to do themselves or others any damage.
My personal thoughts on this are that if you don't know enough about it to know you're doing it safely you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
On the other hand there are so many people these days who's default world view is "Why wouldn't I be able to do that" despite having no applicable knowledge then perhaps Harold is right.
Quick, sell all your machines without interlocked safety guards, you might hurt yourself! I'm off out to bust up all my dangerous manual machines before anyone is mashed or killed!
- Nick
Re: Stripped Screw Holes in Plastic
As "extreme" as Harold's cautions might seem, he does a service to the participants here.
If just ONE person learns useful safe handling of a volatile liquid, then Job Well Done.
This Forum is all about sharing and learning, regardless of one's level of knowledge.
I say the having taught college Engineering students proper shop practices. I found it necessary to assume that many students lacked "practical knowledge",
which was invariably true.
Thank you, Harold.
~Russ N.
If just ONE person learns useful safe handling of a volatile liquid, then Job Well Done.
This Forum is all about sharing and learning, regardless of one's level of knowledge.
I say the having taught college Engineering students proper shop practices. I found it necessary to assume that many students lacked "practical knowledge",
which was invariably true.
Thank you, Harold.
~Russ N.