Anything Can Be Fixed

My father is truly a jack-of-all-trades.  Even at the age of 83 he is the first person I go to if I have questions.  Thirty years ago I asked him in jest if there was anything he couldn’t fix.  His response surprised me, “Anything can be fixed if you have the right tools, and if you are willing to spend enough money on it.  You just have to decide whether or not it is worth committing the time and money to the project.”

That philosophy of “fixing things” is probably the reason why when purchasing tools (he made many of them, himself) he always purchased them based upon both quality and price — the right tools worth committing to. I wish I had his discernment about what is justifiably fixable, and what tools are the right tools. When I walk in his body shop I still don’t know what half of his tools are used for. Dad, what is this? “That’s a Valve Spring Compressor.” Oh. Dad, what’s this? “That’s a hydraulic valve tappet remover.” Oh, sure.

Need tools? Good tools? The right tools? You will want to check out SJDiscountTools.com. They seem to have everything. In fact I probably need my dad to look at most of them so I can ask “Dad, what’s this?” “That’s your cursor silly.”