Have they tried local pharmacies? CVS, Rite-Aid and Walgreens here all have them listed in stock. And of course, there’s Amazon.
Not sure what you’re saying, but my best guess is that you found it to have less variety than a continental supermarket? That’s almost certainly true (although the Safeway in Honolulu is no doubt much closer; when I’m there I see lots of goodies not for sale in Hilo).
Or is your point is that it seemed awfully “Hawaiian,”? Maybe it is, compared to what you’d find in Boston or St. Louis. I am not sure I’d know.
Online ordering has made a huge impact on in-store availability. Entire realms of small, odd items or specialty items aren’t carried in-store anymore.
More that it had a remarkable amount of local stuff relative to say… a Tom Thumb in Dallas (Safeway by a different name).
I mean, we’ve got plenty of Texas stuff here, but not anything like the Hawaii-specific stuff in the Kailua Kona Safeway.
Years ago our refrigerator went out and the part it needed wasn’t available within 100 miles. A couple years later the same part went out again. I now keep that part on hand so I don’t have to wait two days to order one and have it delivered. The last time the part went out, I was able to replace it before the freezer even warmed up versus days of getting ice and digging through ice chests.
Interesting! Thanks for the observations.
This is what I thought you might mean. Had no idea that this was something you could purchase. There is often if not always a suitable piece of wood just laying around that I will use.
Still have all my fingers but often get splinters in my palm from ‘piece of wood just laying around’… a good push stick has a comfortable smooth grip and some sort of notch or overhang to engage the workpiece without slipping. Making one involves several fussy operations with power tools on a fairly small piece of wood - which could be risky without a good push stick…
That doesn’t sound like the worst idea in the world to me. What is your objection, cost? Any idea how much it would add to the price?
Oh man, I hear you. Even as a kid, the bookstore or corner drug store were my favorite destinations. I still remember the smell of the drug store that had the best selections of magazines - my favorite one was a longer bike ride than some others, but I didn’t care.
There was also a bookstore that had not just books and magazines, but a large wall of daily out-of-town newspapers from every major U.S. city. That retail concept obviously went the way of the push stick.
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It’s hard to know to what extent SawStop prices are due to the technology and to what extent they are a premium brand. I’ve never used one.
But the least expensive 10" SawStop model I can find online is $900, while the cheapest 10" model at Home Depot that doesn’t look like some sketchy Temu thing is a Ryobi for $229
Add to that the fact that when the blade is stopped you have to replace the blade and the cassette that makes it work (about $100), and they DO sometimes fire mistakenly. They work, AIUI, based on conductivity. So I’ve seen people complain that things like damp wood can set them off.
So it’s a good technology, and if I ran a pro shop I’d want one. But for light duty home use it’s just going to be too much for many people.
I think that’s dependent on location and exactly what a “corner store” * is - I’m 61, and there was never a time in my life when “corner stores” had magazine racks. They sold newspapers and “TV guide” and that was it. “Newsstands” or “candy stores” had magazine racks and so did supermarkets.
* “Corner stores” didn’t sell magazines but they did sell a limited selection of groceries and household products, cold cuts , sandwiches, snacks. They might also be referred to as a “deli” or a “bodega”. Newsstands/candy stores sold newspapers, magazines, candy, coffee, bagels/rolls/individual donuts, soda, snacks. Newsstands/candy stores no longer really exist except in airports and large train stations
I find that smaller, independent stores are often better for the oddball things - they might have bought a case of “oddball item” ten years ago and still have half the case when a Lowes or Home Depot would have gotten rid of it long ago.
As @OldOlds said, likely triple the price of low cost table saws. Manufacturers have already said they won’t sell consumer grade table saws in the US if this rule is put in place, but it has little chance of moving forward in the current political environment. Even in countries without this regulation the price of table saws would increase because of the resulting lower volume of sales from the US.
Yeah, I was going to mention Rockler, but a lot of cities don’t have specialty wood working shops.
I’ve never owned a table saw, but if I was in Lowes looking for something that functions like a push stick, I might visit the concrete department. There are various floats with nice D-handles and surfaces made of rubber, foam, or wood. Probably I’d rub my chin a bit, then go home and check Amazon.
I’ve had trouble finding these pots too. I want them in cool, vibrant colors. If I can even find plastic pots that size, they’re always in drab colors like gray, tan, beige, etc. Blah.
Ouch.
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Our microwave stopped working so I set out to buy a replacement. The guy at the local appliance store said that anything I bought would have to be shipped in aside from a very limited selection (some clearance models). A run by a few other places was basically the same. I finally found the microwave I had selected at the first store in stock at a Lowes three towns over but was surprised at how hard it was to just walk out with a microwave under my arm.
This was an over the range type model. I’m sure a countertop model would have been easier (probably grab from Target, etc) but still – your job is to sell appliances!
If the brake is triggered accidentally, for reasons other than contact between the blade and your body, I think they replace the blade and cartridge for free. If it gets triggered because you were about to amputating a finger you probably wouldn’t complain about the replacement cost.
There are other ways to trigger the mechanism, green or wet wood for instance, and there’s a switch to turn off the brake for those uses. The switch is reset back on after every use though because users would turn it off and leave it that way. Just like the way blade guards that are required equipment on all table saws can be removed and users don’t put them back on. Arguably, the majority of all table saw injuries caused by contact with the blade would be prevented by using blade guards properly.
I’m just flashing back to my 1970s shop classes in school. We were basically turned loose on jigsaws, belt sanders, drill presses, soldering irons, bench grinders, etc. I don’t recall any specific safety instructions. I’m not even sure that we wore protective eyewear.
All this with one teacher supervising 25-30 male teens.
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Yes, this. Hate it.