In this heartfelt and practical episode of Fix-It Radio, host John Rush opens up about the recent passing of his father and the lessons learned from caring for aging parents. Joined by Larry Unger, John reflects on what it means to honor loved ones by staying productive — just as his dad would have wanted. The conversation naturally turns toward practical wisdom: winterizing sprinkler systems, fall cleanup tips, managing leaf piles efficiently, and even how to heat your garage safely.
Listeners call in to share condolences, home maintenance questions, and cybersecurity concerns — including the dangers of Wi-Fi–based home security
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Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
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In the floor behind the chair. This is America.
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Does everybody know what time it is? Fix It Radio.
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And it’s that time, Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for being with us on this fine Saturday morning. It is October the 18th, so if you’re listening to a replay of this particular show, you know what day it is. Fall is upon us here in Colorado. Larry Unger with us today as well. Good morning, Larry. Good morning, John. I should say Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, New Mexico, Jersey, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma. What am I missing? Wyoming, Nebraska. I can keep going. Montana.
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There you go.
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And we have listeners in Minnesota, Michigan, all over, actually. So thank you all. We appreciate that. And a lot of you listen in the distance through the app, which we really appreciate. Thank you for that as well. Text line, don’t forget, 307-200-8222, 307-200-8222. Got several things to cover today. And some of you may have wondered, why was I off the last couple of days? I actually had a funeral that was already pre-planned yesterday. I had a cousin that passed away, so I was off yesterday because we had a funeral. And then my dad actually passed away on Thursday night. So I was off on Thursday because we knew we were getting close to the end. And several of you kind of had heard word of that and have sent nice messages in, which I am very thankful for. So thanks for all the support. I do appreciate it greatly. And some of you even said, well, why aren’t you taking a few days off? I’m like, Yeah, no, I’m good. Actually, my dad was the type that, you know, he would be just fine with me, you know, going back and working and doing the things that I do. And he was a big fan of the show up until he really didn’t understand what was going on. But other than that, he listened to pretty much every program I’ve ever done. And so would he want me back on air going at it? Absolutely.
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Probably the sooner the better.
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That’s right. So that’s why we’re back at it. But I do. I appreciate the… the kindness of all of you and some of your messages that you have sent and so on, and I appreciate that greatly. But in this particular situation, and we’ve made a show on this before, but for those of you that end up with similar situations where you have elderly parents or different situations at home where you might have some folks that need more help and so on, we’ve done shows in the past on how to make your home better for those things. I might do another one of those here in the near future, because I’ve learned a ton over the past couple of years along those lines and have lots of experience that way. And for some of you, they may be entering into some of that. There’s a lot of things that there’s a lot of unknowns that nobody tells you about. Let’s just say it that way. I hate to say it, but you kind of learn as you go. There’s not a lot of instruction manuals along these lines. And I wish there were but there really isn’t. So a lot of it you literally learn as you go and you kind of just you just deal with things as they come. And I will just tell you straight up if any of you ever have any questions along those lines, you’ve got, you know, elderly parents or spouses or whatever the case may be, and you’re looking for some advice on what to do. I learned a ton again in the last couple of years. So
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Well, there’s a lot of misinformation out there, so you want to be careful about that.
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A ton. A ton. And, yeah, thank you for saying that, Larry, because, yeah, there is a lot of things along those lines and a lot of things that you learn. So a couple of weeks ago, a few weeks ago, we started – talking about WD-40, the uses of it, and so on. Now, I also was going to tell you guys this morning that, and I’ve heard some folks this past week, and even heard some newscasters talking about winterizing your sprinkler. Well, if you want to, you can. Go ahead. I mean, nothing says you can’t do it, but it’s not going to be that cold this week. I’ve looked at all the weather reports, and some are talking about you, some lows in the mid-30s. Mid-30s are not going to hurt your sprinkler system at all. In fact… Other than the copper outside, it really, you have to be below 30 degrees to really even have a hard freeze enough to even break pipes and so on. I know some of you will say, well, water freezes at 32 degrees. Well, I get that. But there’s, you know, that water that’s. In the pipe and the water, especially those of you that have copper lines that are coming from the inside of the house out, there’s a little warmth to some of that. And the reality is even 32 degrees isn’t enough to break things. You might get a little bit of light freezing, but it’s not going to be enough. You’ve got to get down in the mid-20s, even low-20s, to really see some significant damage outside on the sprinkler system, even if you haven’t drained everything. And frankly, you could take some insulation out. and wrap that outside backflow valve right now if that’s something you’re concerned with. You want to keep the sprinkler on for whatever reason because it’s just not that time yet. And if that’s you, then take a trash bag, some insulation, wrap it all up, duct tape, do that. Frankly, right now, you’d probably be safe for, I’m not exaggerating, probably another three, four weeks. And I’ll let you know each week accordingly. But currently, we don’t really have a lot slated to be super cold right now.
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No, and it doesn’t take just one day to freeze your pipes. It takes several days.
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Thank you, Larry. Thank you. Yeah, one overnight. Now, again, we get one overnight and it gets down in the teens. Sure, that can be a problem. Absolutely. But I don’t see that in the forecast.
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No, I haven’t seen anything either.
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We’re not there yet.
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Until next week. Well, then, even to Friday next week even.
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frankly this weekend looks really nice next weekend looks really nice so just just a side note i’m not going to talk about sprinkler blowouts because we’re just not there if any of you have a specific question along those lines by all all means you know ask me i’ll be happy to to go through that with you on a personal basis and you can even send me a picture of what your backflow looks like and so on and i can walk you through that but uh for a lot of you that’s you’re not there yet not a huge issue so lines are open you can always call in with a question 303- four seven seven five six zero zero three oh three four seven seven five six zero zero and one more thing too before we get going keep in mind that oh it’s that time of the year we’re gonna have lots of leaves falling larry and i were just talking about that before we came on air we look out here and see all the colors of you know looking looking west up towards the mountains Some leaves are falling, some are not. There’s still a lot of leaves on the tree. So some of you, when it comes to leaf cleanup, you’re probably even a little early on that. And my suggestion, especially for leaves that are on the lawn, is if you have the ability to mulch. Now, if it gets really thick, that gets hard to do. If you’re just talking right now, currently, some of those light leaves that are on top of the grass, if you have the ability to mulch those in and just let those go right back into the grass, do so. You’re not going to hurt a single thing. There’s some good fertilization there. You’re not going to bother anything. Just go ahead and mulch those things back in. Now, again, if you get to where there’s a layer of leaves and it’s really hard to mulch that in, okay, well, now you’re going to rake or you’re going to bag or you’re going to do whatever to suck some of those up. Yeah, I get that. But frankly… There’s not a lot of leaves falling to that extent yet.
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No, there’s not. And because I’m lazy and I don’t want to rake leaves.
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I don’t blame you. That’s not being lazy. That’s being smart.
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I’ll mow the grass, even though the grass doesn’t need mowed. I’ll run the lawnmower over it just to pick up the mulch of the leaves.
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Yeah, and again, when we get more into that, we’ll give you some tips and tricks on that. One tip really quick for some of you where normally you’re used to using trash bags, things like that. You put the leaves in the bags and so on. Another way to do that, and you have to figure this out because you need two people to do this, but one thing you can do is take a big tarp. And just lay that out and rake all of your leaves onto the tarp. And then you can carry the tarp off, kind of make a funnel out of the tarp and use that to funnel all the leaves into it. By the way, you could even just put them straight into the trash can. Nothing says the leaves have to be bagged. You could dump them right into a trash can if you wanted to. They don’t have to be. some of you have the ability to make a a leaf pile that you can turn into uh you know compost something along those lines using the tarp method makes that really easy you’re not wasting any trash bag to do that you can literally take a big square tarp you know 10 by 10 15 by 15 tarp whatever 20 by 20 whatever you’ve got kicking around you rake all of your leaves and everything onto the tarp that’s what landscaping companies do You take the edges that have all the little rings in it, and you just grab all of those up, and all of your leaves will be right inside the tarp. Go carry that thing wherever you want to, and off you go. Done deal.
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Yep. You use a bungee cord and kind of… Lock all the rings together.
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It’s a piece of cake. It’s there until you need it. So there’s a little tip on how to do some of the fall cleanup stuff right now. The one thing that is falling, that at least around my house is a nuisance, is the Austrian pines, the long-needle pine trees. They are shedding right now, and they do that every year. The needles come off. It’s not because the trees are dying. Some of you that are transplants, maybe that are new to the area that aren’t familiar with some of our pine trees and species of, yeah, that particular tree, the long-needle pines, the Austrian pines, uh they will lose all of their needles they’ll kind of turn brown kind of looks like the trees maybe even dying it’s not it’s the shedding process that it goes through it’ll grow new needles it’s how they that’s how their growth works but they they i love them but they are a mess
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Well, the needles need to be raked up because they’ll kill the grass.
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Yeah, they are potent. So, yeah, rake those. Same deal. You can do the same method I just talked about. Even some of you where those needles might be falling in where there’s rocks and things like that, you can just rake across the top of the rocks, throw it onto the tarp I just mentioned. Same situation. Those are harder to bag up, by the way, because those needles want to poke through the bag. Those especially are ones where if you’ve got a nice big trash can, I’d have a nice empty trash bag or nice empty trash can. I mean, take that tarp, just empty it directly into the trash can. Off you go. Done deal. As they go into the trash truck itself, you’re not going to bother anything by not having those things bagged up. In fact, truth be told, you’re probably better off not bagging them.
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Probably true.
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Because the bag has to deteriorate in the landfill. Those don’t. Right. Those will just turn back into compost all on their own.
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Yeah, and that’s true. And for those of you that like to have those little fire pits during the winter.
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Nice fire starters.
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Absolutely.
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Save a little bit of those, bundle them up in something, put them in a five-gallon bucket or whatever you want where you’ve got nice access to them, and off you go. But, yes, those make great fire starters as well. All right, we’re going to take a quick break. We’ve got a call coming in. We’ll come back, start into some of our topics for the day. Don’t go anywhere. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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And we are back, Fisher Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Larry Unger, Steve from Colorado Springs. You’re next, or you’re first today, I should say. Go ahead, Steve.
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Good morning, gentlemen. Are you enjoying this stupendous fall day? Absolutely. John, very saddened to hear about your dad. You were very lucky, as I was, in the dad lottery. Yes. And then we had dads of strong values. Absolutely. And they were great mentors, as well as great dads. And, you know, I don’t know about you, but when I was a teenager, naively, I thought everybody did. That would be wrong.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, it would be wrong. I was like you, Steve. I thought the same thing. And my dad happened to be one of those dads where there were other kids that maybe didn’t have the same dad, and he became that surrogate for a lot of those individuals. And I’ve heard from some of those individuals through social media that saw my dad’s passing, and he meant a lot to a lot of those younger kids at that time, Steve.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’m sure you will have a marvelous celebration of his life well lived.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you, Steve. I appreciate that greatly.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, one thing I wanted to pass on, it seems like the bad actors are always one step ahead of us. Uh-huh. And in this case… That’s because they think differently than we do, Steve. Yeah. And some of them are talented enough.
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Uh-huh.
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They can have real jobs.
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That’s absolutely right.
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Yes, you’re right. Anyway, the latest one, And this one still surprises me. It’s going to take some cyber guru to figure out a fix. But the bad actors have been involved in some very high-profile and not-so-high-profile break-ins to celebrities. And they have come up with a device that basically locks down your Wi-Fi. And since about 100% now of home security systems… Our Wi-Fi base, we’ve got a problem here.
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It’s funny you say that. I was watching a video the other day of an expert in that particular area. I can’t remember what video I was watching. I think this might have been a Sean Ryan interview, something along those lines. Anyways, there was a cybersecurity guy, expert, that was actually – this guy is one of those white hat hackers, they call him. He’s the good guy. And he basically, Steve, was explaining and showed even the device. He actually brought the device into this particular interview and said, yep, this is the device whereby I could literally in about a, oh, I don’t know, 100-yard roughly radius, I can lock down and literally control every Wi-Fi device in this particular area.
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Now, the question, since I don’t think they mentioned this, how do they get past the password protection on the router?
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They have got this software that literally will – they do two things. They can come through the back door. That’s one way they do it. And I’m not an expert in this area, so if some of you have better explanations, please let me know. But they have a back door in a lot of cases, Steve, they go through. And or this guy showed, listen, most passwords are pretty simple. Most people don’t get too fancy when it comes to passwords for their Wi-Fi. I literally can usually even break that password in a matter of seconds just with the software that I have.
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There’s got to be some better protective measures.
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Well, and you bring up something that’s really important. It’s for everybody listening. I hadn’t planned on this, Steve, but this is really a good topic. First of all, for those of you listening, make sure that your Wi-Fi sides of things, and a lot of people have confusion here, and typically I like to separate it. A lot of companies like Comcast and others, they will give you a router or a modem, I should say, and then build the router and the Wi-Fi devices into all that one unit. I don’t like… Like those units, Steve, I think they’re more vulnerable at the end of the day. You’re much better off having just a modem and then having a router slash Wi-Fi devices that are separate from the modem. I think you get another layer. It’s an arm’s length, if you would, another layer of security. And then on top of that, make sure that you use really long passwords, alphanumeric, lots of characters, underscores, dashes, things like that. In other words, the more characters you have, the longer it takes to break that. And on top of that, make sure that you go through and your sort of backdoor default settings are off. In other words, make sure that no one can come through the backdoor.
SPEAKER 09 :
My understanding, too, is, which most people hardly will ever do, you’ve got to reset that router password at least about every 30, 60 days.
SPEAKER 06 :
Not a bad idea. Yeah, it is. And especially those of you where you are, well, these celebrities are a great example. They’re not even right next door to somebody, Steve. They’re really out on their own, if you would. And once they get halfway close, they can run in and, yep, handle all of that very quickly.
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You know, I was reading an article on cyber scams, and only two years ago, it was one out of four Americans that lost pretty good sums of money. Now it’s one out of three, and it’s headed towards one out of two. And we’ve got to somehow ride herd on that. Anyway, last item I thought might be curious. Maybe to come up, and this would be a good show to do it, on a… Maintenance checklists for houses. There’s stuff I always forget. The main one would be like the filter on the washing machine. I’m going to spend three years just to do that, so I’m going to do it today. But come up with a checklist on these need to be done either on an annual basis or monthly or semi-annual. And you just go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good idea.
SPEAKER 09 :
And not forget anything.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good idea. You know, and that’s something that, frankly, I can work on that and even get that something that we can have something we can put up on the website as well. Steve, I’ll work on that. That’s a good idea. I can do that. That’s not hard to do.
SPEAKER 09 :
Excellent. Have an awesome day as much as you can.
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I’ll do it, Steve. No, appreciate you very much. Thanks for calling in. Text messages as well. A lot of you sending in condolences. Thank you for that. Also, I appreciate that. And the whole security thing, really quick, I’ll take a moment there. Steve just brought up a great point when it comes to not only just the camera sides of things, but some of you have alarms or whatever. whatever and in a lot of cases steve is correct they’re either running through the wi-fi side of things in your house or even if they’re wired in they’re still running through your router your modem end of things and if again if somebody knows the back door settings of a lot of those devices they have the ability to literally come in and just shut things down and you’re dead in the water. Now, my suggestion would be, and not everybody offers this, but a lot do, is the thing to do on an alarm especially is give it some cellular backup. That’s hard to negate. Now, that can be as well because you can jam a cellular network as well. So a really sophisticated criminal could come through and lock down your Wi-Fi, probably get through to your router. And in this particular case, if they know you have some sort of a cell backup, probably even jam the cell signals. Now, what I will say in that case, have good insurance. I mean, at the end of the day, if that person shows up and they want things badly enough, they’re probably going to get it anyways. Just make sure you have good insurance because, frankly, there’s not too many other things you can do outside of that. Now, some of you that are maybe more experts in that whole security field, if you want to call in or text in or something and give advice on what else to do, be my guest. But if you get some of these sophisticated criminals, I think it’s more a matter of good luck and have good insurance. Because thwarting some of these individuals is going to be tough. Now, along those lines, one of you this past week sent me a video. I think it was last weekend even. Somebody sent me a video of a person losing, in this case it happened to be an EV. It was a Mach-E Ford. But this applies to most new vehicles. It doesn’t have to be a Mach-E EV. And I don’t know why he’d steal an electric vehicle. But anyways, the vehicle was stolen right out of the driveway. And the video that you guys sent me was this particular person did nothing to break into the vehicle other than have a device that was picking up the key fob signal. He then, she then, I don’t know, they then, I don’t know who it is, can’t tell. they then duplicate that fob signal, and they have complete access to the car. And there’s more than one video out there showing you that. So what they advise you to do is if you have to park your vehicle outside, now I’m going to go back to, and this is the fix-it radio part of this, I’m going to go back to the whole, it’s nice out, we’ve got several weekends still left where it is nice, clean your garage where you can park inside. Because ultimately, it’s hard to steal your vehicle from inside. Some thieves will try, but… But typically, that’s a whole different scenario. They’re not going to break and enter to actually steal the vehicle. They’re looking for the easy access things, the cars that are out in the driveway, cars that are parked on the street. They can nonchalantly walk up, have this device, replicate the signal, hop in, drive away. Nobody’s the wiser. It’s harder, and here’s the other thing they understand as well. They break in. They get inside the house. Now the risk of them having something else happen to them goes up significantly.
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Right.
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And these folks know that. They’re looking for the easy prey. So my point there is put your car in the garage. I know that sometimes that’s not always possible, although I’ve had this discussion on this program many times. Although, usually it’s just because you got too much junk. I’m sorry, I’m just being straight up honest. Usually it’s because you got too much junk and you can’t park in the garage. And I know that because, as I’ve said, I drive past homes, especially in the summertime, you see the garage doors up, and it’s like, oh my word, there’s a bunch of junk inside that garage. Meaning they’re never parking inside of it. And in a lot of cases, it’s just because we hang on to stuff that we don’t need to. And again, with my dad’s passing, my mom passed even just a little over a year ago, and going through all of their estate stuff and cleaning up stuff and so on, I will just tell you that we all, myself included, although I’m getting better at this, save things you don’t need.
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Absolutely.
SPEAKER 06 :
Stop doing that. If you don’t need it, get rid of it.
SPEAKER 07 :
I started doing that a year ago, too, just going through stuff that I thought I had to have and realized, no, I don’t.
SPEAKER 06 :
You don’t need it. Okay, so here’s a question for you, Larry. What is your rule of thumb for what you’re going to keep versus what you’re going to get rid of? I wasn’t planning on this today, folks, but since it just came up, we’ll go down this path. Go ahead, Larry.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, if I don’t use something in six months, I get rid of it. Because typically in six months, I’m going to go through my life cycle of what I do, whether it be summer, fall, winter, whatever. And if I don’t use it within that time frame, I really don’t need it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, so you’re using the six-month rule. Right. And I think for me, certain items I do six months, certain items I’ll do a year. It depends on if it’s a seasonal type item, but even seasonal stuff, typically six months is enough to tell you whether you need it or whether you don’t. But I’ve even gone one step further as in I’ve accumulated over the years all sorts of different tools and things along those lines. And it’s like, okay, are these really tools that I really now – Larry, need, has technology changed? Are these things that I’m just hanging on to because you’re hanging on to it because at one point in time you invested money in it, but do you really need that particular device? And you know what I mean by that. Things change greatly as time goes by, and even being an old auto technician, there are just things anymore where it’s like, okay, for example, do I really need, and these are things I’m going through as we speak, do I need an air impact wrench? No, anymore I don’t.
SPEAKER 07 :
Air tools, period.
SPEAKER 06 :
I haven’t plugged an air impact wrench in in probably over two years, meaning why do I need them? I don’t. Those are items that as we speak, I’m starting to funnel through and then figure out, okay, is there any value? What do I do with these items? Is there any resale ability to some of these things? If not, is there somebody I can donate them to? And here’s the problem with some of this stuff, guys, and I’ve talked about this even on some of the electric end of things. Nobody wants it. And that part is sad because a lot of these, you know, some of those air impacts, and Larry knows this, this is years ago. I’m talking two decades ago. Some of these things were $300, $400, and I’m not exaggerating. Oh, yes. Which you figure if inflation, that’s a $700 or $800 tool today, probably at least a $600 tool today. If you paid $400 for it then, it’s probably $600 today. And I’m talking, I paid that money probably back in the 90s. for some of those things and yet they’re not getting drug out of the toolbox anymore and you don’t even plug them i larry i i rarely even get the air hose out i don’t have a compressor big enough anymore i got rid of my big compressor you just because you don’t need it right you you have the ability to do things now with all of the cordless tools we have it’s just not necessary anymore so the the thing is is what do you do with some of those items and that’s some of what i’m struggling with right now joe go ahead
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john three quick uh three quick things home security i had a friend was over my house and we saw my ring doorbell system and he was complaining to the man i’ve got this 55 a month landline the only thing i use it for is my home security system i wish there was some way to get rid of the landline and he wasn’t aware that you could do uh home security monitoring through wi-fi so if anybody out there is paying for landline just to support your home security system All the major ones do Wi-Fi. You don’t need your landline anymore to do home security. That’s one. Second, things to get rid of. He inherited a gun collection from his father that included a bunch of guns that his father had inherited from his grandfather. Sixty guns, double-barrel shotguns, rifles, most of which he’s never shot in his entire life. And there are some very reputable outfits out there that will take your guns. They’ll actually make you an offer. You send them a picture. You give them the model, the serial number.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good to know.
SPEAKER 10 :
And so they’ll give you the shipping labels and the boxes and everything else. So, again, he must have – he’s got to have close to 100 guns. Wow. And he has no idea. And his kids don’t shoot. They’re not hunters.
SPEAKER 06 :
So they’re not going to be passed down at all.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, he’s not going to pass them down. So, you know, rather than wait for his kids to try to figure out how to just… And he’s in his 70s, so… That’s a great idea, Joe, because, yeah, if you don’t have anybody that you’re going to be able to pass those things down to, then, yeah, why hang on to it? Well, even if they were, I don’t think his kids would want 100 guns. Some of these are like double-barrel shotguns from 1910, 1950. Now, they might have some collector value, but… Compared to modern shotguns, even if they were hunters, they probably wouldn’t use them or certainly wouldn’t use all 100 of them.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, no, that makes total sense. Absolutely, yeah. And some of those antiques, and over the years, I’ve had some of those that I either bought, acquired, inherited, whatever the case, Joe, and not recently, but years ago, some of those had, you know, at that time, and luckily for me, I don’t think they changed much in value over the years. I think I sold it just about the right time, and I did exactly what you’re talking about. I found a dealer that was willing to pay, you know, top dollar for for some old lever action rifles and things like that that, frankly, Joe, even the calibers were hard to even replicate and find. It was like, yeah, I’m not going to shoot these or use these. I might as well put these into cash, and I did.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I think there’s gunbroker.com, but there’s also Duryea, D-U-R-Y-E-A. They will actually make you a cash offer and then arrange for the shipping. So anybody who’s interested and has an oversized gun collection, One more thing. I bought a beast of a gas-powered pressure washer. It’s a four-cycle. And I was looking at it, and I only got it this summer, but I was looking at winterizing it. Can I keep it in my garage? It has an aluminum pump housing that doesn’t automatically drain. So I was concerned if I’m going to keep it in the garage all winter, I was worried about that freezing and cracking the aluminum pump housing. So There’s three things you can do. You can tip it up on its side and try to drain the water out, or you can hook an air compressor to it and blow the water out of it. Or third, you can get a turkey baster, John, and you can squirt some antifreeze into that pump housing. But if you have a pressure washer with an aluminum or any sort of metal pump housing, You either bring it down in your basement or make sure you drain it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, good idea.
SPEAKER 10 :
Or blow it out. Yeah. Or put some antifreeze in it.
SPEAKER 06 :
And the RV antifreeze would be the stuff to use there because you’re not hurting anything on down the road with it, and it’s even drinkable if you hit, you know, not that you’re going to drink it, but, you know, you’re not bothering anything with that at all, Joe.
SPEAKER 10 :
Is that propylene glycol or just straight glycol?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t know what they use in that paint stuff. You know, it’s funny you asked me that. I was trying to think the other day. I’m like, okay, what makes this different than regular, you know, glycol? Because it’s got to have some glycol in it, otherwise it would freeze. But they make it so that it’s, you know, it’s drink, you know, you can put it in your RV so you’re not, you know, you’re able to drink the water afterwards once you flush it and so on. I don’t know what they make that out of, Joe. I need to check that. I have no idea.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I’m sure if you look it up, John, they’ve got to have an ingredient sheet on it. It could be propylene glycol, which is what you use to humidify cigars. If you’ve got a cigar humidor, you use a little jar of propylene glycol to… It says here that they either use that or ethanol. Yeah, or ethanol.
SPEAKER 06 :
One of the two is what they’re using.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, either. So a turkey baster to squirt it in or blow it out with an air compressor or… put it in your basement yeah no no on the same token joe you know you could just heat the garage don’t get my wife sorry and john and sorry for calling sorry for calling too early but i got to get to the no kings rally today oh there you go joe have fun have fun enjoy yourself All right, take care, guys.
SPEAKER 06 :
Appreciate you, Joe. No, that’s a good one, by the way. No, I mean, at the end of the day, and semi-joking, but for some of you where it’s like, you know, depending upon the situation, heat in the garage isn’t as big of a deal as you think, and you don’t have to keep it hot. But just keep it above freezing, and some of the things that we’re talking about go away. And in a lot of cases, you’re not running it as much as you actually think you are, especially if it’s a garage where it’s attached to the house. You’ve got some radiant heat that’s coming through the house itself. So the reality is it’s not that big of a deal in some cases, provided it’s insulated and so on, so you’re not just heating bare outside walls. Right. If you’ve got the ability, and some of these garage heaters now have become, we probably could do a whole show on that. Some of these garage heaters have become very attainable, not a lot of cost, pretty easy to install yourself. A lot of them now you can run off of either electricity or you can, if you’ve got a gas line or whatever, you can do things along those lines. Again, these are things where, you know, utilize what’s out there. But that is one thing that has changed immensely recently. over the years to where it makes it a lot easier to you know heat your garage now for some of you where you do some work out of the garage in the winter months and so on or frankly just heating it to keep the or to accelerate i should say your snow melt that’s coming off of the car and so on yeah having that garage heated just a little bit uh makes the makes a world of difference when it comes to all of that so just a side note well yeah you can keep your you can keep your interior garage temperature up 35 degrees you’re fine Yeah. For example, you maybe only want to keep it at 45, 50 degrees, which seems really cold, but nothing’s freezing at that point. So, yeah, it seems cold and it will be cold if you’re out there working. You’re still going to need a light jacket and so on. I mean, it’s like being outside on a day like today when it’s 50 degrees. So think about that. But at the end of the day. Nothing freezes, so you’re able to keep things out there, store some things, paint, things like that. Because remember, paint and things like that can also freeze, so you want to keep those things in areas where it’s fairly warm. And in a lot of cases, for some of you, just heating the garage might be your answer at the end of the day. So I said that kind of tongue-in-cheek, but… Again, you get your garage all cleaned out. You got the ability now to park inside. You got the ability to maybe fiddle around out there during the winter months and have some projects or whatever. Larry’s getting into woodworking and things like that. You know, if that’s you and you like doing some of those things, you know, some of these small heaters that you can put up really do make a world of difference at the end of the day.
SPEAKER 07 :
They sure do.
SPEAKER 06 :
And again, they’re not as… This is the advent of things getting further down the line as we progress and we get more and more things. Capitalism, I guess, is the best way to say this. You end up with a lot more choices. I remember when we were kids and my dad was trying to figure out how to heat the garage. Back then, you had to go out and find old shop-type heaters that you could repurpose and do some things with because there wasn’t much else available on the market when it came to heating your home. Because the last thing you want to do inside of a garage is use any kind of flame. You want to keep away from that because, again, you’ve got vehicles and fuel and things like that, and there’s paint thinners and so on, and you really don’t want to have any open flames as far as that goes. And if you do, even if you’ve got a burner-type stove or heater, I should say, that’s why they’re all hung from the ceiling. They’re way high because the fumes don’t go that high, and you don’t have any issues with the flame being – that’s why water heaters have to be up off the floor a certain amount if you put them outside in a garage. I think it’s three – don’t quote me on the code on this, but it’s 30 or 36 inches off the floor. Maybe that might be a little high, but they’re always mounted up because – The fumes don’t go up. They stay down low, so you don’t have any issues with the pilot lights or even when the burner would come on or whatever. A lot of the heaters don’t have pilot lights anymore, but you get where I’m going with that. You don’t have an open flame any longer that’s low to the ground. That’s why heaters are always up. I think code, you guys that are in that world would know what code is. I could look it up, but I think it’s 24, 30 inches, something like that. I don’t know. But they’re always mounted on a pedestal, and now you know why when you go in a garage and you see a water heater. that’s why they’re always mounted up. They’re not directly on the floor, and that’s the reason why. Code in a garage is they’ve got to be up off the floor because of that. All right, just got several other things to cover. Any questions or comments, things you want to add, feel free to do so, 303-477-5600. We’ll be right back. Sorry, Drive Radio is next. This is Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 06 :
All right, we are back. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Somebody mentioned in the text message, too, that you might want to think about keeping those corded tools and air tools and so on. If lithium prices continue to go up, batteries might get to the point where you may want to have some of those around. Yeah, maybe. That’s your call. And that could happen, I suppose. Just remember for every one of those items that you keep and have around, you’re now storing it. And for some of you that have a lot of room, okay, fine. If you want to go put that in the tub and then you break it out at some point down the road when you need it, be my guest. That’s completely your call on things. I… When it comes to the battery sides of things, I’m trying to think how often I’ve actually replaced a battery that’s gone bad, and I don’t think I ever have.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know I haven’t.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, the old NICADs, those would go bad constantly, and you’d find yourself going through those. Even back in the shop days, you’d find NICAD batteries going bad, and you’d have to replace them. The flashlights that had NICADs and so on, they would do the same thing. But anymore, with the lithium batteries, you just don’t find yourself replacing those. So, I mean, will I keep a few corded tools around for the just-in-case situation? probably will although again i haven’t plugged a corded tool other than a grinder i do have some i do have some corded grinders that that i use that you know they’re just there’s a power strip next to the bench you just plug in and off you go but when it comes to drills and things like that i haven’t used other than a drill press i haven’t used a quarter drill in forever larry
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I use a drill press, and I’ve got my bench grinder. Outside of that, I don’t have anything to plug in.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I’ve got the regular 4-inch grinder. Outside of that, I don’t plug power tools in anymore, so I just have used the other stuff. Steve, go ahead. Welcome back.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, just something that picked my brain here, because our highly paid state attorney missed this one, and it was brought to my attention, and you’ve got a lot of people in your audience that have unmarried adult children. Yeah. I went ahead and verified this with McKenzie, who was on Martino’s show. You need to have, just like they have for you, a medical, durable power of attorney.
SPEAKER 06 :
There’s actually been some ads. Michael Bailey, who’s one of our sponsors of all of my programs, he ran some ads here recently, Steve, talking about that very thing that Yes, indeed, you need that because in most cases, I mean, some of you that have sent kids off to college know this, unless your kid, your child, student, allows you to even see their test scores and so on, Steve, you don’t get to see them.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and this guy, McKenzie, brought up a point, too. A, it needs to be in the state where they live, which in my daughter’s case is Maryland. And then where they’re going. He mentioned something I hadn’t thought of that, you know, with today’s HIPAA laws, If you have a child in a serious accident and they’re unconscious and cannot consent, and you do not have that medical power of attorney, in a lot of cases, they’ll just let them die and harvest the organs. And I went, oh, my God. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, no, that’s a very important thing. And I think for a lot of folks, it’s never thought of. And I’ll be straight up honest, Steve. And granted, my youngest is now 33 years of age, so it’s been a while. But I never thought of any of that back then. I didn’t have any of that. I never had thought through any of that. And I think especially in today’s world, that is something that every – parent that’s sending a child off or a unmarried child period i think yes they should give somebody in the family another sibling mom dad whoever power of attorney on those things financially and medically both
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, and our overpaid estate attorney did not catch that, so I was glad to at least catch up on it.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, that is solid, Steve. Yeah, Michael Bailey’s talked about that. For those of you listening, he can do even just a power of attorney for these situations. Even if you don’t have a full estate plan, but you just want something for your kids, he can do whatever you need to do, and that’s a great point, Steve, especially those kids that aren’t married. I mean, they might be 28 years of age, still need it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. That’s exactly what it’s for. If you have unmarried adult kids, you need to get it in today’s world.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. 100%, Steve. Nope, you’re 100% correct. Thank you for that. Yeah, great reminder. And, again, we have a great resource for that, Michael Bailey. He’s the mobile estate planner, and I will tell you this right now. He’s busy. Super busy because he’s good at what he does and we promote him and we’ve sent him a lot of business and things like that. So I will tell you right now that last time Michael was on, Charlie, we’re in October. I think you’re looking at probably early February right now, actually sitting down, getting a meeting with him because he’s about 90 days or so away. out and with the holidays and so on so plan on your middle of october already so you’ve got you know the rest of october so november december january yeah you’re going to be end of january early february getting in if you call now and i would highly suggest so those of you even that have kids that maybe are 16 17 years of age and they’re going to be going off here in the not too distant future You can do these pretty much at any time. Michael can help you with all of that. The biggest thing is at least sit down and have a conversation and figure out what your plans are and how you want to handle those things. I know that’s not necessarily a fix-it radio topic. It applies to all topics, actually, because after going through all of this with my folks, trust me, you want to have your stuff dialed in. When you do, there’s so much other stuff already going on where it’s hectic and there’s decisions being made and so on. The last thing you want to have to do is screw around with, do I have power of attorney? Do I have this? Do I have that? If you have all of that, it’s easy. And it’s just one less thing to have to deal with.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and it’s so frustrating when you can’t get information from doctors or attorneys or whatever concerning your loved one and the estates and all the things that you have to do with that.
SPEAKER 06 :
And here’s what’s funny or ironic about all of this, just as a side note. With all the things I’ve been through with my mom and my dad, now with my dad it was a little different when you have to go put somebody into memory care and so on. There’s a lot of hoops to jump through, and yes, they require proof of all sorts of things, physical proof. I will say, though, on the hospital level, me just saying I had it was typically all they needed. I think at one point I might have had to show one particular agency an actual copy of it. But in general, all I had to do was say I had it, and that was typically good enough for them, and off I went. Now, I did have it, so I wasn’t lying, and I was always able to provide that if somebody needed it. But I can tell you that not all of them required actual proof of it, but I think they wanted it just in case. And I had it, of course, and all of that. But having all of that makes it – Larry’s right. It makes a huge difference at the end of the day, yes. Yeah. So, again, that’s not necessarily fix-it radio. That’s probably more of a ready radio, the preparedness end of things. But believe me, having all of that dialed in makes a huge difference. Okay, I did want to throw out a few more WD-40 things just because we talked about that a couple of weeks ago. There’s no way we’ll get through all of this today, but we can get to as many of these as we can. We ended the last one. And there were, I think, I don’t know how many tips we had on here. Hang on, 14 ways. And we only got through a few of these because the last one was we were talking about stainless steel, which there’s debates out on whether you want to use WD-40 for that or not. But removing stains. So normally grease stains can be a nightmare to remove, and one slip of whatever sauce on your favorite blouse or ink spill or whatever can be catastrophic, although WD-40 may be cleaning those messes. up almost too easy so it’s a good stain remover as well now that’s a new one on me i had i’ve never used it for anything along those lines so that’s that’s a new one on me i’ve never tried that i do know it’s water soluble so it would make sense that if it attacks the stain lifts it the wd-40 is going to wash out because it doesn’t stay on that’s where you can use it for the paint on your car and things like that because once you use soap and water On the paint on the car, the WD-40 is gone. So the same, I would think, would apply to your clothes. So it makes sense. I’ve just never done it.
SPEAKER 07 :
I haven’t either. Never tried it.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’m going to try it. So there’s another use right there. Now, cleaning tools, yep, that one’s a big one. Spray WD-40 on to remove the grit, the grime, the rust, the junk, the whatever. Yeah, it works very well for all of those things. And, again, it’s something that it will help you get things back in shape. Just remember, and I talked about this the last time, it’s not necessarily an oil per se. So if you’re wanting permanent lubrication, which never happens, by the way, but you’re not getting necessarily a permanent lubrication out of it. You can use WD-40. Just remember you’re going to be applying it over and over again because it’s not going to stay and last like a Teflon spray or something like that would be. But you’re not going to use the Teflon spray to do the same things you would with WD-40. Okay, repelling pests. This is another one I’ve used. Now, I have done this. I have used WD-40. It talks about this in this particular article. I’ve used it on wasps. You didn’t have a can of whatever around. I used WD-40. Yep, sure enough, it works. I’ve used it for that. I don’t know whether the oily basis of WD-40 gets on the wings and has detrimental effect that way. I don’t know how it works. I know it does. It doesn’t kill them, it just chases them away? Well, in some cases, if you get it directly on them, no, they’re down for the count. Now, I don’t know if it kills them or if it makes their wings, you know, quote, unquote, inoperable. I’m not a scientist. I’ve never studied that. I just know that when you use it, they not only go away, but a lot of times you’ll see them fall to the ground.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’ve never tried it.
SPEAKER 06 :
It works. So if you don’t have wasp spray kicking around, I’ve also used it on ants and things along those lines as well. So whatever’s in it, it’s enough to where insects it doesn’t do well with. So… There you go. There’s another use for it. Bring life back to artificial plants. Yeah, so this one makes sense. So those of you that have artificial plants and they can get kind of dusty and nasty and so on, a little WD-40 on that will restore that back to life. The other thing WD-40 works for, for some of you, is where you’ve got a – I don’t know how I can explain this. Some of the modern fiberglass-type windows and doors, right? Instead of actually painting a door, if you notice it’s starting to get a little bit faded and looks kind of nasty, spray it with WD-40 and wipe it down. It’ll restore it. It’ll bring it right back. So some of you have like an artificial wood-looking door, but it’s actually fiberglass, and it starts to get kind of weathered because maybe it sits in the sun. You can WD-40 that and bring it back to life. Now, again, it’s not going to last forever. It will wear off. You’re probably going to find yourself doing that on a monthly basis, but you can make it look brand new, and then you’ll start to see it kind of look and weather it again. Just put some more WD-40 on it, and away you go. You can bring those things back to life that way. interesting yeah i had a door that way that uh we finally ended up painting the door because i got tired of doing that but you know again to paint it though means you had to sand it down and there was a process involved in in all of that and it’s much better painted but for the longest time i used wd-40 on it you bring it back to life i’d do it about once a month or so and And off you go. So, yes, that one I’ve used on a personal basis, which kind of goes along with the protecting of the outdoor furniture. WD-40 will do the same thing there. So say you’ve got to leave your outdoor furniture out, and most of us do because it’s outdoor furniture. Maybe you have the ability to put that in for the winter. Maybe you don’t. You can spray a coat of WD-40 on that. And, frankly, if you’ve got a cover or anything, you can kind of group everything together, spray it with WD-40, put your cover on it, and you’ll be good for spring. And it just keeps that deterioration, the oxidation and things that might be happening.
SPEAKER 07 :
For sure, because as long as water doesn’t get to it, it’s not going to wash off.
SPEAKER 06 :
Correct. Put your cover on it and off you go. Done deal. So this is another way to do things. This one’s interesting. Conceal tile scratches. Ceramic tile, marble, linoleum surfaces are beautiful, but homeowners can avoid them due to fears of chips, scratches. WD-40 is a miracle worker. It doesn’t completely fix, of course, because you’re not, and it doesn’t keep those scratches from happening, but can it hide them? Yes. So if you’ve got a little scratch in a tile or something along those lines, can you use WD-40 on that to hide that? Sure, because what it does is it works its way down to the crack, kind of gives the crack the finished look that’s up above the surface because the scratch is digging into it, and you’ll give it sort of that look that was there before. Unless you really look closely, you won’t notice the scratch. Now, that only works on tile. It won’t work on your car.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, darn it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, there’s no solution for that. Removing nuts and bolts. Larry and I talked about this the last time we were on. And, yeah, you can use it as a penetrating grease, although I will say this, or penetrating lubricant. I will say this, if you’ve got something, you know, a bolt manifold bolts on cars are notorious for trying to, you know, get them off because they get heat and rust and so on. And I will tell you that WD-40 probably won’t do much for those. You need an actual penetrating oil, Rostov. There’s other products out there that work very well.
SPEAKER 07 :
PB Blaster.
SPEAKER 06 :
PB Blaster, I love. By the way, that’s a particular product that I think for rusted bolts and stuff works extremely well. I don’t know what they put in that stuff, Larry, but it works wonders. So I’m not a big WD-40 guy in loosening up rusted bolts and so on. I always go get the rust penetrant, the blaster and some of that. I use that versus WD-40. But can you use that? Sure, you can. Now, this is interesting. This one is a new one on me as well. Protect gold and silver. Sorry, protect good silver, not gold and silver, but protect good silver. I would think you could do this even on gold as well. Where it normally would tarnish because of the oxidation thing, we’re talking about that, you can WD-40 those up, and you’re good to go. Now, this is something else that’s interesting about WD-40. Someone would say, well, why would you put that on your silverware where you might be eating off of that down the road? Again, it’s going to wash off.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
and the interesting thing about wd-40 is every time i spray some of that somewhere and it drips my dog licks it because like it’s got like a fish oil component to it i believe and at the end of the day has my dog ever died from eating it no no yeah there’s still alive and kicking and i’ve had numerous dogs over the years that they love the taste of wd-40 so is it going to kill you no Now, would I drink it and eat it? No. But is a little bit on even silverware going to harm you and hurt you? I highly doubt it. No. At the end of the day, probably not. Protect hardwood when painting. That’s a good idea. So you can end up a little bit of splatter. Normally, you try to put your visqueen down or your protectant so you don’t get any paint on the hardwood surfaces. But if you put WD-40 on things first, it won’t stick. The paint doesn’t stick.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Again, this is a new one on me. I never thought about that one. Now, I learned a trick the other day. If you’re painting and you want really quick results and you don’t have even masking tape around and you don’t have a lot of time to even tape off doors and handles, aluminum foil. You can work right around the door handle, get it right up against the edge, and if you do that just right, you can actually take it from one doorknob to another to another because you just reuse the tin foil each time. And it matches shape. And it molds right around whatever the surface is you’re trying to mask off and actually works better than masking tape at times. So there’s a little tip. I learned that one this last week. Never have done it. Never thought about it. But the next time I do something, I’m like, yeah, instead of the tape, instead of grabbing that, I’m going to grab some aluminum foil. I’ve never used it for that, but it makes total sense after I watch somebody use it that way. Keep squirrels out of your feeders. So in other words, you can actually spray the bottom part of your feeders and such and the slipperiness of that, and you have to continue to do it because, again, the water and stuff will wash that off. But you can actually use WD-40 and make that slippery where the squirrels can’t climb up onto the bird feeder. So another little tip. That’s another one I haven’t tried, but I will. Bill, you’re up. We’ve got a minute. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
At the yard sale, I want to pour a concrete floor in my pole barn, and there’s a rebar here, but it’s all rusty. Will that rust affect it?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, not a bit. No, in fact, most guys won’t even take the rust off of that, laying that with the concrete on top. Okay, thank you. It won’t bother a thing, Bill. But if you’ve got it and it’s cheap, buy it. Yeah, okay. Absolutely. Go buy it and use it. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And by the way, same thing applies to, for Bill, if you’re still listening, same thing applies to a lot of guys will put the wire mesh, you know, the wire down. They’ll use rebar and some wire in the concrete. They’ll raise the wire up a little bit. Again, that can be all rusty and nasty and doesn’t make a hell of a bit of difference. Keep in mind that. that concrete has a water content to it anyways and it it you’ll never make it it’ll never matter you’ll never you know you’re never if you were to break all that apart on down the road it’ll be right in the middle of that concrete and it’ll make a hell of beans a bit of difference it’ll all be just probably clean that comes apart uh yeah probably would be actually the chemical reaction someone probably gets rid of everything that’s there uh last one on this wd-40 protect your lawnmower coating wd-40 will protect your lawnmower parts from rusting corrosion yeah you know what that’s a great idea for some of you that maybe don’t have the ability to put the the lawnmower in the shed maybe it has to go on the side of the house or maybe it even does go in the shed nothing wrong with taking in fact i’m going to do that this year take wd-40 spray the entire underside of the deck for example and a lot of times you’ll get surface rust and so on that happens through the winter months you won’t doing this
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I use it on the top part of the lawn and underneath the deck, and it helps keep the grass from accumulating in the deck.
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I’ve never done that. I’m going to. It’s a great idea. It works really well. So there again, so that’s the last tip. We finally got through all of these WD-40s, and I even had somebody that I was talking to yesterday asking, you know, what do you use to get tree sap or road debris, tar, things like that off the paint of your car? And I’m like, WD-40. You don’t have to get super fancy and go out and buy a bunch of product and spend a bunch of money on things. Just use WD-40, and you’re good to go. All right, that’s it today for Fix-It Radio. Don’t forget, you can always go to the website, fixitradio.com, and I’ll do my best to go back through and find some things that Steve was talking about when it comes to maintenance tips and actually get a maintenance list. I should say get that up on the website here in the near future as well. That’s it. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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