Friday John Ku – AKA TGIF

~ John W. Howell

funny friday

 

Friday is here and with it another week of reading writing and arith— No hold that. The only arithmetic I did this week was when I had to buy new stainless steel screws at the lumber yard. That’s a story for another day.

Well, that’s not fair to dangle that one out there is it? Okay here’s the story. I opened one of our outside doors facing the Gulf and one of the hinge plates came away from the wood. The screws that had been holding the plate in place rusted, and the screw heads simply fell off. When I inspected the rest of the doors I found all of them in a similar condition.

What I had to do was drill out the old screws and put wood back in the holes so the new screws would have something to hang on to. A total of eight doors needed to be fixed. Each door had three hinges and each hinge had eight screws. That’s a total of  8 doors x 3 x 8 = 192 screws. I had to have a Brinks Armored Car employee walk me to my car with the 192 screws made of gold…er stainless steel. The process took a while but now it will be my wife’s next husband who will have to deal with this problem again. Here is a photo of one of the hinges finished. I was too perplexed to take a before shot.

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Which finally get’s us to this week’s JohnKu that talks about a stitch in time.

Prevention by John W. Howell © 2015

Temporary things,

By nature need nurturing. . .

For maximum use.

30 thoughts on “Friday John Ku – AKA TGIF”

  2. John, you were working on multiple levels with this one. Well done.
    But EIGHT doors? That’s a lot of s… never mind. I’d better watch what I say if you and Dan get together. 😉 Just kidding. Have a fabulous Friday my friend! Hugs.

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  5. First, you scared me John. You promised a stainless screw tale when you commented on my post and I thought you were going to leave me hanging at the cliff. You do have a tendency to do that. I was also wondering if you were going to ask us how many of the hinges, doors and screws were going to St Ives.

    Seriously, that’s a lot of work, but it appears to be a well-done repair. A hat-tip to you for sure.

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