handyman-ness

[star seed 7]

I've got a handyman fail today. While I was gone for a few months I let my cousin borrow my car a few times and the first time I drive it the tire is flat and has obviously been driven a lot on no air. I get to QT to air it up but there's a hole in the sidewall and it's beyond hope. I drive it home and decide to put the spare on there before I take it to a tire place. Get all the nuts off but the damn tire won't break free. I try all my handyman tricks and none of them work. 2 hours trying to get this tire off the wheel. I finally decide to see if there is mobile tire service like they do with windshields and duh of course there is and it's like only $20 more than going to the store. Now someone else can deal with it in like two days. What a waste of energy.

[wetwillie]

What are the handy man tricks, asking for my Canadian friend.

[star seed 7]

Bang with a hammer on the tire. Knock the rim with 2x4 & hammer. Put the nuts on loose and drive it back and forth on the driveway. Sumbitch is stubborn.

[wetwillie]

One thing that's actually worked for me is facing away from the tire and donkey kicking it with sole of my shoe.   

[star seed 7]

That's the first thing you do!

['taterblast]

fixed a hissing toilet today. such a small simple thing, and really makes me wonder how much i've paid in my life for things that could have been done with a proper 5 minute tutorial.

[mocat]

fixed a hissing toilet today. such a small simple thing, and really makes me wonder how much i've paid in my life for things that could have been done with a proper 5 minute tutorial.

just kind of shifting the flapper deal inside the tank so that it covers the hole completely?

['taterblast]

no it's the fill valve that just needed to be rinsed and very minorly adjusted

it's basically the exact situation presented here:

[TheHamburglar]

Going to put a hole in an interior wall & add a door.

[ChiComCat]

Going to put a hole in an interior wall & add a door.

You're a bolder man than I.