Bitter and Twisted? Me? Nearly.

[ToughButterCup]

| have yet to find a way of sorting this out ..... all you experienced builders will have sorted it won't you ? Somehow? Cheaply, quickly, easily? 

 

I find myself using the chalk line when I don't need to use it simply because its easy to use and much easier to store . I am ashamed to say that, on a few occasions now when the tangle is too creative, I just order a new line .

 

Anyone found an easy quick way of storing builders' line?

[SteamyTea]

With your fingers, oh

 

 

[Onoff]

Bit of wood with a notch in the end.

[Russell griffiths]

Buy it on the plastic round spool, fix a 3inch nail to the end, wind it up every time, if you don’t wind it up it’s your own silly fault. 

 

[Vijay]

yep and I can conform it works an absolute treat https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/164871764917?hash=item26631f7bb5:g:rQ8AAOSw075gozpW

[ToughButterCup]

15 hours ago, Russell griffiths said:

.... , if you don’t wind it up it’s your own silly fault. 

 

Thats me told then innit  ?

I'd hate to make that  @Russell griffiths angry.....   

 

What a bloody good idea @Vijay . Thanks.

[joe90]

Ha, I was going to send you a photo of my home made reel but can’t bloody find it!!!, ah well, not planning another build anyway.

[ToughButterCup]

17 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

With your fingers, oh ....

 

Yeah, ? that's right - I can hardly feel string wrapped round my left hand : and  wierdly, the string that I can feel when its wrapped round my fingers, feels like it's on the back of my hand . Thats because  they took the skin off the back of my hand and wrapped it round the stump(s) and glued the skin to my palm. I genuinely have hairy palms. 

[JFDIY]

Buy a chalk line, but don't put the chalk in?

[ToughButterCup]

46 minutes ago, JFDIY said:

Buy a chalk line, but don't put the chalk in?

 

Duhhhhh... Slaps own face hard many times. Warra friggin eejit, wood, trees etc.

 

Thanks @JFDIY

[JFDIY]

And make sure it's significantly different (visually) to your chalk line so you don't have to check every time which one is which.

 

 

[Pocster]

I don’t know !

laser innit !! ?

[ToughButterCup]

15 hours ago, JFDIY said:

And make sure it's significantly different (visually) to your chalk line so you don't have to check every time...

 

The thing about having male children visiting the site is that the phrase;

"Got a (...) old fella ? " means that, in the next few minutes petty larceny is likely. 

 

Yes @JFDIY , many of my key - precious even - tools are partly painted in lurid,  embarrassing colours, or wrapped in electrical tape. 

That reminds me, the site hoover is still Missing Presumed Dead, as is my Birmingham Screw Driver, ( crowbar) and several screwdrivers- you know the ones you've carefully stolen from other sites. 

[JFDIY]

32 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

Birmingham Screw Driver, ( crowbar)

 

Oh, a Birmingham screwdriver is a hammer round our way

 

And crowbar is a 'night key' ?

 

 

[ToughButterCup]

Screws are bigger in Lancashire.

[JFDIY]

Reminds me of a bloke my dad worked with (doing groundwork and fencing), he claimed the threads on screws were only so you could get them out if needed