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Best of luck to you, it has been well worth it to me as well. It had gotten so bad I could barely function, and was doing almost nothing in my shop for the preceding year or more. The initial pain and recovery is just the first step (so to speak), knee recovery takes a long time. My alignment is per...

I wisely waited until after my right knee joint replacement to view the surgery films. Yikes! No wonder I hurt in places far removed from my new knee!!! They beat the crap out of me. Going OT: May be a bit graphic, but given the demographic, I don't expect so. Not me. When I had my bilateral knee r...

You could just send me the new box, then you wouldn't have to change anything. Just here to help...

Wow, I'm jealous. I only have the primary imperial boxes. I really want that big one at the bottom!

I've got enough metal in my body to be worth more as scrap metal than anything else. I find I rarely set off the older detectors, other than at some checkpoints that seem to be set super sensitive (typically LAX, Laguardia, Sea-Tac, etc). You'll usually see it before your turn because they will be w...

I would bet big money that will stay in. Once healed, they cause more damage to remove, so are left in place as long as there are no issues (like infection or chronic associated pain). All of my pins, screws, bars, and plates stayed in place, except the ones that protruded to be locked into a sort o...

I've got a "sky hook" for just such issues, but find it's usually more hassle than value for anything less than the big 15". I have a D1-6, and my best solution to date for the 12" HD 4 jaw is a stack of 2x4 drops. For all my medium sized chucks (8" to 12", already mounted), I cut a 2x4 just wider t...

Ouch! You don't do things halfway do you. I've had a few, and compound fractures are no joke. Cool plate.

I had fun watching them drill and tap a hole in a bone, then set a screw using a tiny torque wrench. Even through the haze I thought that was rather cool.

Not typically very cheap, but I use the large Huot boxes for bulk storage.

I had an Phase II AX piston (AXA is actually wedge) that came on my first little lathe (G4000). It was fine, but the lathe was limp and underpowered. I got a larger lathe (Rockwell 11), and another PII AX. This lathe was much more robust, allowing much heavier work, and I started noticing on hard in...

I've used screen protectors with success. Some of my phones have had super sensitive screens, and the protector helps quiet them too. On my current (Pixel III) I have no protector, and sometimes I swear it reacts without quite touching the screen, or at least below the threshold that I can "feel" it...