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Plumb bob maintenance
Posted by nate-the-surveyor on December 4, 2021 at 7:38 pmhttps://www.wonkeedonkeetools.co.uk/plumb-bobs/plumb-bob-maintenance-and-care
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dmyhill replied 2 years, 4 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies- 4 Replies
Back in the day, I had a chainman that would wipe down his bob every day. It was spotless ????. Not a mark on it.
I asked him once to borrow his bob to tap in a lath. As I made the first tap, he stopped me and handed me a RR spike to tap with.
I do have to say that the truck was very clean while he was on the crew. ????A plumb bob is an instrument, not a tool.
- Posted by: @paul-landau
Back in the day, I had a chainman that would wipe down his bob every day. It was spotless ????. Not a mark on it.
I asked him once to borrow his bob to tap in a lath. As I made the first tap, he stopped me and handed me a RR spike to tap with.
I do have to say that the truck was very clean while he was on the crew. ????The best kind of chainman!
So, my second, I would be standing there with him, and borrow his pencil, his straight edge, whatever. Of course, it all ended up in my vest.
He never said a thing, but each morning the items were back in his vest. I figured out that each day when he put the truck away, he carefully put everything back where it went, including all the stuff I had borrowed during the day.
I guess he could have just procured more pencils and pens and straightedges from the storeroom (and always had new ones) but he did save the company some expense.
-All thoughts my own, except my typos and when I am wrong.
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