Archive for September, 2006

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Do The Job Right

If you don’t have the time to do the job right, how are you going to have the time to do the job over?  Those are not original words from me, but I sure do use them often. I try to always remember this saying whenever I’m doing a home improvement project. However, I took [...]

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Monday, September 25th, 2006

This weeks New Stuff

One of the other ideas our resident computer expert Jr came up with on our Rockies outing was putting the new gun additons of the week in a Blog as well as our usual list on our website so here they are. I traded for a Marlin 1895 Limited IV in 45-70. If you havent seen [...]

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Monday, September 25th, 2006

FloodSafe Water Supply Lines

About four years ago I received a call from my wife. “There’s water coming from the basement ceiling! It’s running everywhere” I’m thinking, that can’t possibly happen, because there’s no plumbing right above there. So I dashed home and sure enough saw water dripping from all over the ceiling. Needless to say I was less [...]

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Sunday, September 24th, 2006

BFR deal

A few of us from the store went to the Rockies game Tuesday night, great fun. Thanks again Chuck! It was a beautiful night, had a couple of beers, and the Rockies won. What more could you ask for? haha I was sitting next to our website-computer expert Jr, and we were trying to come [...]

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Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Winter Projects

Well, I didnt make it out shooting Friday like i had planned. I have plenty of excuses, but the simple truth is I just didnt make out there. I burnt the clutch out in my car last week and its still not fixed so the prospect of driving my van out to the range, which [...]

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Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Rustoleum Reflective Finish

I was reflecting the other day, thinking about my Finnish heritage when I saw a reflective finish, wait, this sounds like a real groaner coming on. Okay, seriously, this is cool paint! Reflective paint that goes on clear. You can just barely notice it during the day, but shine a headlight or bright light on it and [...]

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Thursday, September 21st, 2006

New 3M Command Hooks

We’ve just got cool new 3M Command Adhesive metal hooks in. These are really nice, sharp-looking metal hooks in designer finishes. They have the same removable adhesive backing that allows you to use them, then remove them later withour tearing a big chunk of your wall off. The Command line of hooks has been around [...]

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Monday, September 18th, 2006

Shooting

Im sad to admit I havent been out shooting for months. I have bought and sold several guns in this time and still no shooting. Im not sure what happened to me in the last few years. I used to be able to find the time, but lately I just have been busy. It sucks [...]

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Monday, September 18th, 2006

Don’t be an Idiot (Like Me)

Here’s a helpful tip: When installing a storm door, window, or anything else that needs some cutting and drilling it’s often hard to remember which is up, down, in and out on the item. Take a piece of masking tape and write right on it up, down, in or out. That makes it a lot [...]

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Thursday, September 14th, 2006

A new look…

Well, I’m pretty sure we are the first ever hardware store blog. I am definitely sure we are the first blog with a fully customized ACE Hardware theme! Hopefully everyone finds the new look a little bit more interesting. I’d love to hear what anyone thinks. By the way, this is a bit of foreshadowing [...]

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