It was the same with me
No pictures of my shop; too messy right now.
Iāve accumulated a fair bit of wood tooling over the decades, due to serendipity most get at least occasional use. Even had a cross-over when I used the chop saw to make spectroscope boxes for camera profiling. Only real woodworking GAS was recently; fellow I work with on the railcar restoration brought a battery-fueled finish nailer for a part of the project. Dang, no compressor or cumbersome hoses, and I have about six trim projects in the house queue, so I spent the $300 for a DeWalt that uses the same batteries as my other tools. First tool my wife gave me a bit of āstink-eyeā aboutā¦
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I had the same with a battery-powered lawn mower[1], itās so much better not having to faff about with a wire, Iāve never not worried about hitting it with the mower, and itās another thing that you have to put away. Added a strimmer and hedge trimmer using the same battery system, and heck, a hammer drill too.
Never getting corded stuff again, if I can avoid it.
Itās about 6Ć15m of lawn, for those used to associating the term ālawnā with āseveral acres with a small forest on one sideā. ā©ļø
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Fun physics video for your weekend enjoyment.
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I did buy a corded bandsaw. My intent was to mount it in a fixed frame, holding the trigger down to cut metal was problematic. I put a velcro strap on the trigger and a on/off switch on the cord, voila, a bench bandsaw for 1/3 the price. I have removed the saw from the bench to cut stuff in-place, but the bench configuration gets a lot of use.
My main inconvenience right now are the couple of tools I bought before I discovered the price/performance ratio of deWalt. Black&Decker weed eater has its own box of batteries and charger, praying for the danged thing to expire so I can present the replacement proposal to the CFOā¦ 
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except you keep charging those damn batteries. I have a Bosch system, but the mower only lasts half the lawn
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I donāt even remember what was the last time Iāve seen an e-ink display, but I hope as well they see some more developmentā¦
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They are getting pretty goodā¦ Lately Iāve been considering the Boox Palma 2. I am a bit tired of reading stuff on screens and my Kobo is just too clunky to get articles and other quick reads into
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are you using KOreader? I have koreader on my kobo with the readeck plugin to grab longer form articles that Iāve sent to my readeck instance. It is exactly what I want. KOreader also has an RSS reader built in.
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Yeah I use KOreader but had no idea about this plugin. Thanks, gonna give it a try tomorrow
Yeah, that happened with the first mower I got, a SKIL. Had two batteries on board, still barely made it through the garden. I brought that one back, mainly because the mechanism to manage the height was designed by someone who never used a lawn mower, and had the unfortunate habit of suddenly dropping from whatever height you had set it to, to the lowest, repeatedly.
Now I have a cheap LUX that can easily do my lawn with juice to spare, I can run the strimmer from the same charge.
No idea where Bosch falls on this spectrum and how large your lawn is.
The emergency door opening signs in some buses here are made of some fluorescent material so that you can read the guide even in the dark 
Very clever if you ask meā¦
Also, I might have spent a tad too much time on the forum recently 
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No such thing.
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I know some folks here on pixls are also on Instagram, so this might be relevant:
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Replacing the screws on my bike(s), preferably with A2 stainless ones (you can see why). They have washers that seem to be integrated. Regular washers I can get at the hardware store are way to wide for M5. (Local bike shop does not carry stainless screws.)
Do these have a standard? A name? Maybe a DIN number?
The bolts looks like DIN 912. Look up DIN 125 washers, I think thatās what youāre after.
I found out, these are called āSEMSā bolt/screws, the washer is integrated during manufacturing. They donāt have a DIN standard.
may be this could help?
https://www.inserco.eu/de/elektronik-einpressbefestigung/die-sem-schraube/
Yeah, Iām disappointed, but not really surprised. Theyāve been pushing for this relentlessly, it was clear from the start that they werenāt going to rest before they managed to push this through. Itās a failure of the system that this wasnāt blocked (either because āyou already tried X times, people donāt want this, stop wasting time, DENIEDā, or because ālots of those who should vote are not in, youāll have to wait until theyāre back, no sneaking shit through in the quiet periodsā), but eh.
Weāll see what it amounts to in practice.
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