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I found a squeaky door so I got the oil and fixed it... Then did every door I could before my wife caught me.
Am I alone here? It's so satisfying to just glide open!
Edit: She followed up with: "you're enjoying yourself too much"
Damn straight I am. It's the little things you have to enjoy!
The hero we need. Every apartment complex has a handful of squeaky doors.
I went a tad further and took every pin out of every hinge, then cleaned and coated with white silicone grease. Aaahhhhh., sweet silence.
I really almost got my pliers out to take out pins. But I was already off of task.
Wife knew i was working on the house but it was too quiet so she tracked me down.
I was trying to be sneaky but she still caught me!!
Every time I move to a new place, the first thing I do is use some graphite dry lube on all of the locks and doorknobs, because it feels like I'm the only one on the planet who cares about non-grindy locks.
Great stuff right there! Anybody else struggle with the cap on these? On mine the little cap is so hard to pull off and then if I'm not really careful I pull too hard and the whole red part pops off.
Yes it's a pain. But that's for safety reasons. I've never had a spill!
Maybe we finally have an excuse to get one of those fun looking oil cans from the cartoons and dump it in there?
Most of the time it's a good thing. I've freed up a few doors in my time and discovered that I should have left them alone, as they weren't making noise, and now having less friction they tended to drift into a less desirable spot where before they would stay put. Sometimes friction is your friend.
My front door squeaks but I haven't oiled it because it's nice to hear it from the back of the house.
I tend to put door stoppers to protect the wall. Sounds like you like yours half open or something. I'm sure there's something like a Silicon or rubber gasket you can put on the hinge to get it to stay in place.
"Yes, dear"
Just wait till you get some food-safe mineral oil. Cutting board, wooden spoons, coffee table ... You start to find wood everywhere.
Oh I got that too. Bought some nice wood cutting boards and the wife was putting them in the dishwasher like the plastic ones. They cracked...
Now I'm the only one allowed to wash/care for them.
This is also on top of me being the only one to wash the kitchen knives because she can't be bothered with all the steps.
Ooh, that's a great tip - I'm always on the lookout for opportunities to replace a plastic thing with a wooden upgrade so have plenty of wood around.
I had some in a drawer and used it on a lock that was stuck to loosen it until I could get graphite from the hardware store. Then went on a mission and de-squeak the whole house.
Lubricating*
Fixed
Ben Shapiro is on Lemmy?
Try using WD-40 dry bike chain lube on a previously oiled/greased stuff, adding teflon to the mix and i swear it makes everything glide better
Always put a small squeeze on your salad!