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What's on your Work Bench?

It has always kind of rubbed me in a similar way when people drive around in restored, beautiful cars and say "I did this" and "I did that" and turns out that they had it all done by a shop.

Something in the psyche of some people seems to feel justified in claiming credit for something simply because they paid for it.
 
rubclt said:
On topic note, updated my bench TV. A friend was moving and gave me 65” TV. I added an Apple TV box and I can mirror my phone screen to it… helpful when reading directions for install or looking at wiring chart photos…
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Very Nice!
 
Chamba said:
It has always kind of rubbed me in a similar way when people drive around in restored, beautiful cars and say "I did this" and "I did that" and turns out that they had it all done by a shop.

Something in the psyche of some people seems to feel justified in claiming credit for something simply because they paid for it.
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Be careful, because that's really no different than a new father. He joyously states "I did that!" seeing his new child that he will be responsible for taking care of from then on out, but all he did was make a seminal investment and waited 9 months for the shop to finish building it.

Of course I jest....that is not a fair comparison. And I do understand the irritation of the sentiment in material things. However, if they funded it and guided the work scope along the way, shouldn't they be allowed to have claim in making it a reality? Sure, they may not have done some of the specifically skilled labor, or any, but funding and logistics can be just as challenging to making something come to life. I think it's just a matter of perspective; the bottom rung will always be irritated by the top laying claim, just the same as the top will always be irritated with the bottom....when in reality it's a team effort regardless.

Carry on...
 
I take your point, but my issue is in the careless use of adjectives.

I am an airline pilot, I fly an Airbus full of folks from one place to another. Some folks pay really good money for a ticket on one of my flights. I've done this for nearly 30 years.

I'm fine with a first class passenger who paid top dollar (or a steerage passenger paying pennies for that matter) saying "I flew into Boston". What I would find peculiar is a passenger saying "I flew that Airbus into Boston." It's just a few words, but words can change whole outcomes.

The passenger went to all the trouble to plan his trip, book the tickets and work for the money to pay for it, no argument there. But his skill is not what landed it safely at Logan through ice, clouds, traffic and craziness. Semantics, yes. But hardly classist.

Similarly, I'm a pilot but when I fly somewhere as a passenger I don't claim credit simply because I possess the skill to do it myself.

Taking credit for planning and managing a restoration is miles away from taking credit for the skills necessary to actually complete the restoration.

As for the father analogy, even historical revisionists realise that a baby cannot gestate in man's body. So all the "I did it" rhetoric is heard through this knowledge. That's the key difference between that and a guy with a Collins Brothers Jeep saying "I built this bad boy"; there is no general knowledge as to his capacity or ability. Thus one is hyperbole and one is lying.
 
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Just like when I am tasked with figuring out dinner and I order out, my response is always, "I made it happen".
 
All mildly entertaining. People are...funny. To put it nicely. All depends on how they think of themselves and the image they they try to create. Me? I laugh at myself (wife does too in a good way)...quite a bit. My work bench is pretty cluttered
 
Whose workbench is it anyway? The person that built it or the person who uses it?

Back at it - Here's "Captain" (and no, he wasn't named after any CJ8 driving Captains). He came from the Cooper River in Charleston, SC. We think he may have been raised by an alligator from the way he devours his food! Rescue cat that now lives with us. Very, very feisty!
 
barrys said:
Saw some aluminum steps posted for sale on a FB page by a guy named Michael L. in Pennsylvania. Is that they guy you made them for?
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Well, he either found this posting or doesn't like the fact that I left a laughing emotional on his comment. He sent me a message saying blocked and I can't see his posts. I didn't even leave a comment on any of his posts expect the laughing emoji. 😂. I guess I won't be calling him out even though I said I wouldn't anyway. Back to work benches. I have 1 in my garage, haven't seen it in years.
 
From bench to car… our car met a deer and broke the light housing. The deer ran away…
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Ouch. Almost hit 2 in the Bronco last night. Then there was one standing in the driveway when we pulled in!
They’re thick, especially with the cold.
Glad you got it fixed up.
 
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Got her primed and ready for a workout.
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I feel so inferior... I bought a new grease gun for the first time in 25+ years probably... and I got the "upgraded tip" and "Swivel" so I can attach it, it won't fall off while greasing, do it one handed and then rotate it a bit if it doesn't fit where I need it to. It was "lock n lube" which I saw on a car show I think and I figured I would give it a go... pretty nice to have the lock-able tip on the grease nipple.

You go all 20V brushless power!!!

That is pretty cool, I must admit.

cb
 
That grease gun looks so clean, like it hasn't been used yet or you used a pressure washer to clean it.
 
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