About Me

I put together this blog to share my knowledge and skills with different tools to hopefully enable others to do more things themselves both for the enjoyment of working with your own two hands and also to maybe save some money over having someone do something that you could very well do yourself.

I titled this blog the "Millennial Tool Box" after hearing a story one day from one of our neighbors daughters who was living in San Francisco and had her toilet get plugged up and instead of just taking a plunger and unplugging her toilet, she got on her smart phone and summoned a Task Rabbit who quickly came over and unplugged her toilet for $25.00!  I almost fell out of my chair when I heard the story, but we live in a time where it is difficult for young people to own a home let alone have a shop, so I thought I would create this blog and focus on the basics and hopefully share information that will enable millennial's like my neighbors daughter to first try doing things themselves before turning to the services of a professional or a Task Rabbit.

With respect to my own experience, I grew up in a household where we never hired a plumber or mechanic and I learned from my father how to work on cars or fix just about anything around the house.  I am retired now, but I worked for over thirty two years as a mechanical engineer and always enjoyed being in the shop at the companies I worked at or the suppliers I interfaced with.

Besides doing all the work on our daily drivers I did a ground up restoration of the 1967 Mustang Fastback in the picture below, including actually painting the car in my garage.


I've always worked on whatever has needed to be fixed around our primary residence and about ten years ago, built our second vacation/retirement home here in Washington State.

I hope you find the information on this blog useful and I would enjoy hearing any comments or suggestions you might have on anything I have written or that you would like to have me write about.

Thanks,

Mike

P.S. If you happen to be interested on old Honda CT90's here is a link to another blog I have on restoring these old motorcycles.


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