I build and or fix everything myself. When your poor thats what ya gotta do to make it in this world...

It's not what you know, it's what you can learn.

There are a number if "handyman" jobs I don't know, but I'd have no problem learning them. Alot of these jobs can be figured out by trial and error (some could get a little costly).

I know who to ask or where to look, I learn it then do it... a big problem with people is they don't try, they just let someone else do it.

Folks had more time than money. Knew a lot about the world, but very little about firearms, cars, home repair, etc.

I would say self-taught, but really I learned a lot from the people around me. When I wanted to get into AR's, I leaned on Strongarm. When I wanted to learn about cars, I ran over to my neighbor's place every time he was under the hood and ended up buying a junk 3.8L from the junkyard Dad let me keep in the garage. Bought a Chilton's and went to work. Rebuilding that motor was a great experience. I paid for the parts and Dad funded the tools. That said, without the internet I wouldn't know Jack.

The other day my Powerstroke died. I tried diagnosing it myself, pulled the part I thought was the problem, with no luck. An hour of reading on the interwebz and I had it back up and running with a new Injector Control Pressure Sensor. Think I would have found that on my own? Dealer would have charged me $200 for diagnostics, $186 for the sensor + 2 book hours for the job. Call it $500. I got it fixed myself for $144.

It's expensive to be dense. Some people can afford it.

ETA: You think it's bad here? Try Southern Ohio... or anywhere on the East Coast...

I've always been mechanicly inclined, I do industrial maintenance for a living and knew next to nothing about it when I got hired. My biggest problem is motivation, actually getting off my ass and doing what needs done on my own shit. Except for guns of course

Holy shit...my doppleganger.

Any thing that I get that is mechanical gets modifed.. Built a 100 or so engines and probably as many transmissions, basic electrical, welding, tons of fabrication. IF the SHTF then I should be able to put together some cool stuff as long as I'm not under fire from the sheep.

i like to think i'm pretty handy across the board. (i'm kinda like dangerJ, only 24) but when i was a kid my dad used to give me junk radios and appliances, 2 screwdrivers, snips and a hammer. he says i used to neatly take everything apart, separate things into neat little piles, etc. never put anything back together, but i think that's what gave me the inclination to not be afraid of taking anything apart to try and fix it. home repairs, electical, plumbing, gardening, landscape work, livestock, guns, cars(work on cars for a living), boats, etc, i have done it or will do it. i may not be amazing at anything, but i can do most things more than adequate to get by.

I'm not too bad at most things.

What little automotive stuff I can do I pretty much learnt from Chilton.
I would LOVE to take a continuing ed class at a community college on rebuilding and tuning small engines, but NIACC is just plain NOT interested in doing one and I don't want to drive further.

I can do rough carpentry; I lack the something to do finish carpentry even remotely well.
I can DO the finish carpentry work, but it'll look like shit.

My Dad was a plumber and I learned how to do that and could do most of a heating and AC system in a house.
I WILL NOT do electrical.
It would almost certainly work out OK, but it's one of them "know your limitations" things.
I'll be glad to help with pouring concrete, but will sit back and watch any brick laying or tiling.
I CAN paint and do sheet rock, but again it'll end up looking like shit.
Roofing falls into this same category.

I can fix your bicycle and actually kind of like working on them.

Can do quite a bit of work on firearms but want to learn more.

Have built quite a few computers (desk tops, not laptops, don't ask me to work on a laptop. Or an Apple anything)

I can run a sewing machine reasonably well, and have even put in zippers, but what I make kind of has that rough look to it.
Again, this is something I would like to be better at.

What else would fall under the "Handyman" description?

Not a big surprise there

I can do minor stuff like soldering copper pipes, installing new light fixtures, switches ect. I'm game to try to tackle any small job, but I leave the major stuff to someone else since I really don't have the time to devote to big projects. outside of the house I can do minor repairs on the vehicles and other gas powered equipment.

I bought a 01 durango friday. Has a few rust spots that need taken care of. Damn iowa winters... was gonna sandblast and primer the areas, but it started to rain. So i gave up. I can fix and work on just about anything mechanical and electrical, but i lack motivation....

I'd like to think I am.

Spent about 8+ hours on a ladder Sat. basically rebuilding a double casement window on the second floor

by my self. The window was so rotten that a lot of the sill and lower parts of the windows were soggy and crumbly.

Dug out all the rotten and "built" the parts I needed replaced.

I replaced a window just like it about a month ago to the tune of $630+++

Did the instal myself so save some $$ there too.


I'm such a tight ass when it comes to $$.