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What's Your Profession?
Yep. I love DIYing as much as I can and really really hate having to call someone in. Around my circle I'm the local mechanic, appliance whisperer and even the occasional furnace repair. I also do all my own framing, drywalling (badly), plumbing and electrical. I don't have the HVAC tools to do...- Jim Sobie
- Post #204
- Forum: General Discussion
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What's Your Profession?
Training developer for a major Class 8 truck manufacturer. Previously an environmental test technician for a large audio company, before that a diagnostic technical writer for Ford, and before THAT a labor time study and prototype mechanic for several OEMs. Aside from that I'm also a licensed...- Jim Sobie
- Post #202
- Forum: General Discussion
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Morning Coffee and a Pipe
A cup of Kroger 100% Colombian, brewed strong (1 cup of grounds per pot) and a cob of burley. Other tobaccos and beverages may happen later during the day, but the morning cup and bowl do not vary.- Jim Sobie
- Post #74
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, September 2021?***
Cult Blood Red Moon in an MM Mark Twain. Sitting on a park bench.- Jim Sobie
- Post #2,467
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Self Haircut
Well, it was the salon my friend worked at, which was why I went, to throw her some business. But yeah it sucked.- Jim Sobie
- Post #48
- Forum: General Discussion
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Self Haircut
My barber shop is a crapshoot with half the barbers being good but always booked, and one old barber who is always free and drinks his lunch and leaves tufts around my ears. When the pandemic hit Michigan none of them wore masks so I decided to bust out our 20-year-old Wahl clippers, haven't...- Jim Sobie
- Post #47
- Forum: General Discussion
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Self Haircut
I went to a ladies' salon so my friend who worked there could cut my hair. It was full of old ladies with perms who all glared at me because they couldn't talk smack about menfolk or something. Paid the $25, never went back.- Jim Sobie
- Post #44
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anything Interesting On Your Workbench?
Yeah the 275 just fell into my lap. It's the galvanized finish. Only used once and (typical for nonlantern folk) brutally overfired. Trimmed the wick, cleaned all the soot out of the globe and all set!- Jim Sobie
- Post #27
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anything Interesting On Your Workbench?
I want to get a Rayo just to have one. I only have the Rochester, an Aladdin B from the late 40s that needs a gallery (among other things) and a cheap Eagle 2 from the 70s that I have because it was my grandma's. Of tubulars I have a Dietz Monarch from the Syracuse factory that I believe is a...- Jim Sobie
- Post #25
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anything Interesting On Your Workbench?
Sure! Mostly I have Colemans (they're like lint, they just stick to you) but I do have an old AGM and an Aida Express Record I found at the Buckley Old Engine Show, of all places...both are still waiting to be restored.- Jim Sobie
- Post #23
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anything Interesting On Your Workbench?
I have a 1937 Detrola 110 tombstone radio, still works but I dismantled it to clean up decades of gummed-on tobacco smoke and dust. Also want to replace the original wax paper capacitors with modern caps. I also collect and restore pressure lanterns and oddball oil lamps. The lamp pictured is...- Jim Sobie
- Post #11
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anything Interesting On Your Workbench?
I have my great-grandfather's 1913 Sessions mantel clock patiently waiting on a shelf for the day I have the time and the money to buy rebushing tools. One bushing was (primitively) repaired with a loop of steel wire and now that arbor is too cocked to turn freely.- Jim Sobie
- Post #10
- Forum: General Discussion
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Barely Lit
Yeah I will say I tend to chuff the burleys...- Jim Sobie
- Post #37
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Hello from Indiana
Righto! At base it's a hole you shove dried leaves into and another hole to suck the smoke out of. Okay yes I know it's more detailed than that, and sure I occasionally look at beautiful Petersons and Savinellis, but at my core I'm a base-model driving, black coffee drinking, cob and burley...- Jim Sobie
- Post #10
- Forum: New Member Introductions