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MineralMan

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8. I designed and wrote DIY projects for

Wed Oct 22, 2025, 04:55 PM

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magazines like Popular Mechanics and Family Handyman. One of those projects was a 10'x12' indoor/outdoor workshop. The cover story for Family Handyman in the 1980s. I also did power tool reviews. So I had a surplus of shop tools. In 1987, though, I switched to writing about PCs and software, and quit doing DIY stuff.

Other than my own projects, I wasn't using all that equipment any more. I donated most of it to local schools, and just kept my favorites. By the time we moved to MN, I just wasn't using them.

Now, I'm 80 years old. I don't do any of that at all any more. It was very interesting, though.

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I Have no Idea about the Epstein Files [View all] MineralMan Oct 2025 OP

I knew it! Cirsium Oct 2025 #1

Those files will cost you, though... MineralMan Oct 2025 #4

Been released already usonian Oct 2025 #2

LOL! Mine are well-used, though so I can let them go for less money. MineralMan Oct 2025 #3

Going through my excess right now. I'm at the point where it's not that "I might need this some day". It's more like usonian Oct 2025 #5

I left all of my stationary woodworking equipment in California MineralMan Oct 2025 #6

I'm in the Sierra Foothills. I have a small 8X15 shop that was already here when I bought the place. (it was empty) usonian Oct 2025 #7

I designed and wrote DIY projects for MineralMan Oct 2025 #8