mediatechnology wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2017 2:57 pm
JR. wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2017 10:36 am
This week my flag attachment point broke. I fixed it with a cable tie but these have low tensile strength so not a permanent fix. I may buy a smaller flag to reduce the wind loading.
Hard to find good flagpoles. Most of the ones I can get are thin-walled aluminum tubing. I have to keep shortening them. I'm about to abandon the current mount however because the Oak has almost completely swallowed it in bark.
My current flagpole that broke is already a premium one with swivel so flag can spin around, but the top attachment ring is injection molded plastic and fatigues and broke... I am thinking of replacing current with a smaller flag the wind has been blowing a lot since the global warming generated so much hot air
(half joking). The wind load is so bad it ripped the flag down more than once, and broke the old molded plastic flag pole base (not the cheap type), but i replaced with a metal mount that will not break... can't say the same for flag attachment molding holding top of the flag.
My (lifetime warranty) manual can opener broke again... (It was replaced free once already). Shipping it back for replacement will cost about the same as buying a new one....
There are more expensive ones for sale, but they do not appear to be any better... this time the teeth on the cogs that turn the cutting wheel wore down. Apparently steel(?) too cheap to hold up to normal use.
Try the KitchenAid:
https://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-Gourm ... can+opener
Yup that looks pretty much the same.... the lid magnet makes it the premium version. When these are brand new they cut great, but over time the cheap metal cog teeth wear. When the cog teeth mesh smoothly it drives the cutting wheel to roll through the lid (like butter)...when they don't they don't. The half life for manual can openers around me is low single digit years,,,
One recent one was a cute different design where it cut into the side of the lid's rolled over lip, but unfortunately no more robust than the others.
Someday I may break down and get an electric can opener, they seem to last forever, but serve as permanent residences for kitchen germs.
I liked mine so much I gave them as gifts LOL.
And also bought a spare.
We don't open many cans though but when we do this one rocks.
I have a spare too because mine always break.
I open several cans a week, mostly canned tomatoes, and canned corn. I wouldn't expect that to be excessive use but these cheap openers don't cut it very long. I replaced my broken oneida (replaced free once and may get another free replacement.) with similar lifetime guaranteed Farberware, maybe next time I'll try a kitchen aid...
I looked for better ones and while I can't swear by the picture that kitchenaid looks like it is cut from the same chinese steel. Amazon doesn't say where it was made, so unlikely it isn't Chinese.
JR
PS: I wish I kept a P-38, these came inside the C-RAT packages and were pretty good can openers.