Mechanical stuff

[Doreen Peri]

Finally, after 16 years of hardcore use, my Weber kettle grill collapsed. The third leg got so loose it was sitting at such an angle that it couldn't be used.

So, I bought a new one. Amazon.com. I buy everything I need there. You can literally buy everything in the world at amazon.com. Anything and everything. They ship it to your door and you don't ever have to leave the house. I hate shopping. Amazon.com is the perfect solution to me. No traffic, no parking, no problems trying to find a clerk. Just click and pay and it's delivered.

So, today, they delivered it and of course, it didn't come assembled. I had to put it together. I'm so proud of myself! I am very bad at mechanical stuff. I see a bunch of parts and freeze up. I look at diagrams of directions for assembly and cringe.

But I did it! Just me all by myself and I only had to hammer something twice to put the caps onto the wheels. No other tools were necessary.

Plus......... I only had one part left over!

Yay me!

heh

Are you mechanically inclined? Do you enjoy putting things together?

I remember when I bought my son a bike and my husband was up all night the night before Christmas putting the darn thing together. And he loved stuff like that! Why he waited until the last minute is another topic but the point is, even for people who are good at it and love it, it takes a lot of time.

Everything should be "No Assembly Necessary" ... Why can't the manufacturers do this work? We should get a discount for assembling products ourselves.

But still, I DID it!

(let's hear a round of applause!).... Yay ME!

Tomorrow night I'll celebrate by cooking myself a rib eye steak.

This weekend, I'll have to figure out how to dispose of the old grill. That's another problem. What do you do with stuff like that? You can't just throw it in the landfill! Any ideas on how to dispose of a big old mettle kettle so it will be properly recycled would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[stilltrucking]

My grandmother would probably turn it into a planter. She would use anything for a planter. That house in the picture is next door to a junk yard. The junkman would unload and stuff would fall to the gutter and she would come by later and scavenge. She must have had twenty dolls heads upside down with plants growing out of them.

I was a fortunate grandchild, and she gave me such lovely baths.

Doodle art by my brother aka jitterbug.


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[Doreen Peri]

Turn it into a planter! Brilliant! Thank you!!!

And thanks for sharing the photos... I love that drawing.

[mtmynd]

a mettle kettle planter is a good idea... you had a good grandmother to like plants. i like plants but i'll never be a grandmother... but you know that.

yea, truck... jitterbug does good doodlewerx... lots of detail. good stuff.

[Doreen Peri]

I can't use the legs... which is why i had to replace it to begin with.

But I'm thinking a mettle kettle sitting smack dab down on the deck might look pretty darn cool. I'll try it and share photos for y'all.

Thanks again, Jack!

[judih]

sounds good - as long as the roots can breathe - can you hammer in some holes?

as for mechanical stuff - i enjoy being able to deal with simple mechanical breakdowns and fixing them. i love that certain quiet calm that comes with picking up a screwdriver (not a euphemism) and taking things apart, rearranging them into proper segment and then putting it back together.

i believe it's my father's engineering side that suddenly appears from within.

i don't do it often, and i still can't fix my bicycle chain, but hand me a broken down laminator or a photocopy machine that burps misfed paper and i'm a vision of patience and faith.

[Arcadia]

I can´t visualize at all a mettle kettle, first time I listen to that words but they sound funny! I wonder if it´s more or less near to what we call here a parrilla or a parrilla eléctrica?

mechanical stuff? well, I´m particularly slow and a little dumb dealing with mechanical stuff. mmmmm... I guess the most sophisticated thing I do with plenty success and speed is to change the light bulb from time to time! But it seems I can live with some half fix things, in fixing-process or not fixed things around the same! What I noticed is that my somehow inability is always very inspiring for anxious handy people. And yeah, sometimes I have to deal with that! Although, I enjoy a lot to observe handy calm people working (one of my grandparents was that kind, plus he used to sing or whistle doing that). I also enjoy doing tasks that imply some kind of mechanical work in learning contexts. Good luck with the recycling!

[jackofnightmares]

Doreen wrote:

I am very bad at mechanical stuff. I see a bunch of parts and freeze up.

It is so mindless, i guess one could write a Zen and the art of any thing book.

a vision of patience and faith

is all it takes.