good morning, fellow TCS'ers!
i love to learn new, and many times really interesting, things. whether it's some interesting fact i come across, something from a book i'm reading, a new fact or 'how to do' that someone has shared with/shown/taught me, or something i've researched on the internet.........i'm always happy to have learned something new.
we learn new things really quite often, sometimes without even taking notice of it.
for today's Question of the Day, let's talk about something new we've learned --
What's the most recent new fact, subject, 'how to', or other that you've learned? (can be anything -- trivia, something about a friend or relative, that you like a food you'd never tried before, etc)
i'll start!
i was assembling a new cat sisal post with wood base a couple days ago, and found that i really needed to countersink the screw holes for the extra screws it needed -- a relatively minor, and annoying (because this is an expensive item, and that issue should have been noticed and corrected by the seller/maker), fix i needed to make so the sisal post doesn't 'teeter' when jaspurr scratches it or jumps up on the perch at the top of the sisal post. the extra screws need to be countersunk so the wood piece that attaches over it will lay flat.
now, i've never needed to countersink screws before, so i knew i'd need to look into how to do that. i thought there might be a specific tool that was needed for it, but wasn't sure about that. i love tools, so needing to buy a new tool is kind of exciting for me.
yesterday i did an internet search, and found my answer -- learning something new and interesting! countersinking screws is really quite simple, once you know how to approach it. here's the info i found (very helpful that there are pics along with the instructions, especially since i'm a visually oriented person) -- http://www.wikihow.com/Countersink. it turns out that i may very well have a drill bit that's 1/4-inch, but i'll have to check to make sure. should i need to buy one, there's a hardware store about 3 minutes walk from my house.
okay, now it's your turn!
i love to learn new, and many times really interesting, things. whether it's some interesting fact i come across, something from a book i'm reading, a new fact or 'how to do' that someone has shared with/shown/taught me, or something i've researched on the internet.........i'm always happy to have learned something new.
we learn new things really quite often, sometimes without even taking notice of it.
for today's Question of the Day, let's talk about something new we've learned --
What's the most recent new fact, subject, 'how to', or other that you've learned? (can be anything -- trivia, something about a friend or relative, that you like a food you'd never tried before, etc)
i'll start!
i was assembling a new cat sisal post with wood base a couple days ago, and found that i really needed to countersink the screw holes for the extra screws it needed -- a relatively minor, and annoying (because this is an expensive item, and that issue should have been noticed and corrected by the seller/maker), fix i needed to make so the sisal post doesn't 'teeter' when jaspurr scratches it or jumps up on the perch at the top of the sisal post. the extra screws need to be countersunk so the wood piece that attaches over it will lay flat.
now, i've never needed to countersink screws before, so i knew i'd need to look into how to do that. i thought there might be a specific tool that was needed for it, but wasn't sure about that. i love tools, so needing to buy a new tool is kind of exciting for me.
yesterday i did an internet search, and found my answer -- learning something new and interesting! countersinking screws is really quite simple, once you know how to approach it. here's the info i found (very helpful that there are pics along with the instructions, especially since i'm a visually oriented person) -- http://www.wikihow.com/Countersink. it turns out that i may very well have a drill bit that's 1/4-inch, but i'll have to check to make sure. should i need to buy one, there's a hardware store about 3 minutes walk from my house.
okay, now it's your turn!
