Hi mtngrown,

Welcome! Thanks for the kind words; we're glad to have you here. We completely agree with your sentiments regarding our increasingly disposable society and the detriments inherent with engineered obsolescence of consumer goods.

Sounds as though you've had a long and interesting/eclectic career (thanks for your Army service!!). When you're ready to share some of your own homemade tools, we'd love to see them. Please post them directly in the Homemade Tools, subforum. We'll add each one to the database, as well as to your builder page on the site.

Non-tool items should be shared in the Not a Tool, but Homemade subforum.

Ken