I laughed heartily back in the 1960’s when they came out with an Electric Can Opener.
THAT had to be the silliest thing ever, in my mind... I mean... what decadence! Canned food was ALREADY lazy enough...Right?
Then, it became the ”must have” item for the kitchen and all we had throughout the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s was an electric can-opener of one brand or other.
Then, in 2000... I was given a manual can-opener that un-ROLLS the top-edge of the can and doesn’t drop the lid or cuttings (or electric can-opener grease) into the opened can. It’s so effortless to use and so efficient.... it’s a permanent item in the kitchen and I wouldn’t have any other.
In my younger days as a mechanic I disassembled and hand-packed all bearings and sleeves with grease. Then when I learned how convenient lever-action grease-guns were I bought one. It had to be hand-packed from a tub. It was messy, but an efficiency-improvement. I later replaced it with a cartridge-fed lever-action and threw the other away.... because, Who the Hell needs more than one?
Then two (after I was taught why never to mix different grease types.).
Then a
third when I bought a boat that required water-proof marine/boat-trailer grease.
Then a
4th, when I read the Kubota FEL needed Moly grease instead of common lithium General-Purpose grease.
Now I own
FIVE manual grease-guns (4 lever-action and 1 pistol-grip for small jobs.)
I cleaned the grease-guns outer-surface with acetone and painted them different colors to identify which type grease is in them.
Now you guys are buying
ELECTRIC GREASE GUNS?
GEEZUS! How decadent can you GET??
Hmmmnnn......
