Measuring tape is not only for measuring

[niki]

Good day

The electric supply for my hand tools (100V & 230V) comes from the ceiling of my garage.

Every time I’m using the router, circular saw or sanders, I have to watch the cord.

One day I looked in the “measuring” drawer and I saw some 10 measuring tapes ($1) that are not in use, but junk collector will remain junk collector.

Have a look at the pics to see how I used one of them.

Regards
niki

[leehljp]

Now that is creative! It makes me think that the recoil Doggie chains could be used the same way.

[niki]

Thank you Leehljp

I did try first the retractable dog leash but it was too weak and could not hold the cord.

BTW, are you at Toyota City near by Nagoya or the one near by Fufuoka.

Ja, mata ne

niki

[lcm1947]

Now that is creative Niki. Pretty neat idea. I could use that setup over my work bench as I am always tripping over the cord. Neat!

[leehljp]

Thank you Leehljp

I did try first the retractable dog leash but it was too weak and could not hold the cord.
BTW, are you at Toyota City near by Nagoya or the one near by Fufuoka.
Ja, mata ne
niki

Toyota city near Nagoya, the one where Toyota cars originated.
Nihonngo ga jouzu yo!

When did you spend time here? Where?

[gsmittle]

Niki, you are one creative dude....

g.

[niki]

Thank you

Leehljp
Mochiron jouzu desu yo, juu ichi nen de, nihon de hataraite inashita, Yokohama ni sunde imashita.

And for the guys that does not understand Japanese so good:

I was working in Japan for 11 years and I lived in Yokohama.

BTW, the easiest spoken language in the word is surprisingly, Japanese. But the written Japanese is “mission impossible”.

niki

[leehljp]

Thank you
BTW, the easiest spoken language in the word is surprisingly, Japanese. But the written Japanese is “mission impossible”.
niki

Getting way off topic here:
You must be all brain if Japanese was easy to you. Between Keigo, polite (masu), plain and then local dialects/in home language, my brains are fried. To me, it is still the devil's tongue.

I was in West Tokyo 5 years, Kansai/Osaka 14 and Toyota 2 1/2.

[niki]

Well yes, there is the polite form and the plain or colloquial form but I did not have any problem with that.

Among Hebrew, English, Spanish Bulgarian and now Polish, the Japanese has the easiest consistent grammar. Just think about how many “irregulars” and how many tenses you have in English (and it’s the same in other languages), In Japanese it’s only two, Suru (to do) and Kuru (to come) and Past, Present and something like future (you never know what will happen the next 5 minutes).

When you speak a language from childhood, you don’t see the difficulties, but when you have to learn it, boy, English is a killer and if you add to it all the slang, it’s a murderer.
I will not comment about Polish because I think that the one that invented the language, hated the human race (tshijeshchi tshi – 33, say it! No teeth, no Polish).

There are some small differences between Kanto (east of the barrier –Tokyo area) and Kansai (west of the barrier – Osaka area) but I did not have any problems as long as I spoke the official language and I was all over Japan, from Hokkaido to Okinawa.

And all that started from a measuring tape…

Eat one Ramen for me…tomorrow we are going to make Tofu (I'm not kidding).

Happy Thanksgiving

niki