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worked fine installing 1/2" plywood in attic space. make sure you wear eye protection as plastic collating does fly in all directions

and is sharp (as you will find out when you inadvertently kneel on a piece). gave it four stars instead of five because of price. a 5,000 pack of similar nails is around $44.00 at home depot. B & C Eagle A238X113/22 Round Head 2-3/8-Inch-by-.113-Inch-by-20 to 22-Degree Plastic Collated Framing Nail (500 per Box) - Nail Gun'

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This is a good planner if you're just looking for one to jot your assignments down with quotes to read every week, you're not going to be too rough with, and you don't mind ads and coupons in the middle of it. There's pages of college tips at the end of the planner, like Ways to Get Involved With Your Community and Helpful Suggestions for Getting Along with Your Roommate, and more. There's also a time-zone map with a grade tracker.



The reason I didn't give it 5/5 stars are because of the ads. They annoy me so much, so I just ripped them out. Unfortunately, there are a few pages of ads that actually have planning pages on the back/front sides, so I can't rip them out unless I want to be missing some dates. They are all TH1NK related.



Another reason is because of the durability. I'd say the cover is like paperback book thickness, and I just wish it was thicker because I'm going to need it for the entire year. I can imagine that it would be pretty tattered by the end of the year.



This planner does not have resources like maps (besides a blacked-out time zone map with no locations pinpointed) and no conversion tables or equations, but I didn't rate it lower because it didn't claim to have them. TH1NK Student Planner 2011-2012'

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This book lays out a step-by-step approach for new product development. I like the way they do their surveys and customer visits.The first 1/3 of the book was a little dry, but the book overall is very easy to read. It was hard to put down as I was very interested in how they would put the whole process together. Some of the examples and tables needed more explanation. They were not as clear as they could have been. But overall this is a highly recomended book. Probably a MUST READ.Although this book is largely "on target" in terms of how to organize your customer-centric approach to product development... I think it lacks certain human intuitive points. For example, there was no discussion of the name of the product, nor much on ergonomics. This book needs to be read in conjunction of those by Barry Feig and Doug Hall.In this regard, I would think that a company like HP would use this type of approach, but not Steve Jobs of Apple.I learned several important quantitative approaches to measuring what the customer wants. But at the same time I think their quantitative approach may be somewhat utopian. For example, when you do your customer visits and later your surveys, you may find that you discover something new... so you scramble and change your questions to proceed further. This would mess up the data in their approach. Thus, I think the process is a little more messy in real life. And, for really important decisions, intuition plays a greater role. I don't think I made up a matrix decision chart when I decided to marry my wife. There are alot of decisions that are like this in the product development area.Another area where I had trouble was in the use of "value mapping" analysis in doing trade offs for deciding what features need to be included. This is another one of those cases of over-relying on the matrix approach. Suppossedly we are to determine a customer value -- either on productivity improvements, cost reduction or other subjective judgements. Well, let me tell you, this is ripe for serious manipulation. All you can do is get the customer to react to your designs. You need to read the Barry Feig books for more discussion on this.However, I will use their quantitative approach in my next product development quest, realizing that it may get messed up a little. I really liked their discussion of how to do questionaires (the Kano method was terrific).I thought their discussion of developing customer images was also great, but I got the feeling that this was not the author's forte, as this was more intuitive type of thing. Regardless, this was valable to me and I'm glad they included this in the book.Perhaps most important to me was their confirmation that the biggest reason for missing the customer's desires... was FAILURE TO PROBE. I wholeheartedly agree. That's one of the reasons I laugh when I see the mall interviewers asking all those closed-questions. The author does a great job of discussion this.The author, Sheila Mello, passes my test for a business author: she is a consultant in the field. This is not a book by some college professor preaching his hands-off theories.There was a lot that I agreed with in this book, and there was a lot of important ideas that I picked up, and will implement next time. I recommend that this book be read before the Feig and Hall books to provide you a base foundation for your approach.Highly recomended book, if not MUST READ.John DunbarSugar Land, TX Customer-centric Product Definition: The Key to Great Product Development

If your product isn't geared to the customer, how do you expect to sell it?If you don't know how to design to customer specs, how do you start? And...is the customer ALWAYS right? Maybe you have to be one step ahead of them and surprise, delight and challenge them. You will find the answers to these questions and some very helpful processes in "Customer-centric Product Definition." And it doesn't matter if you are designing a cake pan, a high-tech gadget or a chemical product, the principles all apply. There is a very helpful chapter on establishing metrics, because if you can't measure it, you don't know about it. Other chapters make the case for customer-centric design and list techniques such as customer visits (with structure to get what you need), internal processes and much, much more.A must-read.

Customer Centric Product Definition is a terrific book! It defines the steps necessary for achieving successful product development, which starts at the beginning with the definition of the product. The company case histories included illuminates the absolute necessity to follow a rigorous and robust product definition process as developed by Sheila Mello. I have been in the product development area throughout my entire career and this is the first time, a thorough and documented process for demystifying the "fuzzy", but crucial front-end of product development has been offered. Unlike many books written on product development it does not just pay lip service to identifying the crucially important needs of the customer. I came away with a blueprint, something I could immediately use, for defining products from the customers perspective and identify both stated and latent customer requirements. I highly recommend it for anyone involved in the product development process. It should be "must" reading for all business executives for understanding the necessity of clearly getting this phase of product development - right. Two thumbs up to Sheila!

It's not about customer relationship management after a product is developed. It's about building the product that customer's want from the beginning. The message of the book is fantastic!The content of the book is very good although at times late in the book you will want to slow down, digest and focus on understanding what is being done to pull a lot of the tools together in Ms. Mello's methodology. Very good tool for the product manager!'

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Lithium - lube, grease

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I have an 8 year old car, and the hatch-back and hood latches stick or fail to lock into place quite often. I applied a couple of squirts of this grease to both latches and the improvement was significant.



My hood latch now opens and closes/locks into place every time. The hatch-back latch, which suffers from rust and was getting to the point where you needed ungodly strength to open it, now opens, closes, and latches with much greater ease.



Product also works great on squeeky doors. I definitely recommend this product for metal on metal lubrication. 3-In-One 10042 White Lithium Grease, Aerosol Can, 10.25 Fluid Ounce, 3" OD, 2.63" Length

I really like this stuff.



I have a large wrought iron vehicle gate that has hinges the squeak a lot. It has a grease fitting, but that doesn't seem to work well. I have tried squirting other oils into the hinge area and that has had limited success.



I squirted this stuff into the hinge joint area and it stopped the squeaking! I have also used it on other items with equally good results.



Highly recommended!

My year old French door refrigerator started making a loud squeaking noise recently. At first I oiled the hinges with a silicone lubricant and it actually made the sound worse - much worse! So upon closer examination, I noticed it looked like a metal to metal hinge assembly. So I resorted to this White Lithium Grease. One squirt and the noise was gone and it has stayed gone - completely vanished. I was really shocked at the difference this lubricate makes versus the silicon lubricant. I remembered that another reviewer stated White Lithium Grease was for metal against metal and Silicone lubricant is for plastic or non-metal surfaces. Well, apparently he knew his lubricants a lot better than I did. But at least I remembered what he said.

I like this item fine. I bought it for my elipticle. It did the job but I do have to reapply it often to keep the bars from squeeking when they move up and down. I possibly bought the wrong product for what I was trying to achieve. - Lube - Clutch - Grease - Squeak'

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If you need to understand the nuts and bolts of 802.11n, you need this book. It goes into great detail. The explanations are as simple as possible but no simpler. It is densely packed with good information on 802.11n. It focuses strictly on 802.11(n) and does not go off on tangents.



The book begins with how MIMO works. It explains it rigorously without much spoonfeeding. Then it goes into interoperability with a/g devices with background into why they did it how they did it and what that means for users. It goes to explain various PHY and MAC level enhancements and features that come with 802.11n.



This book will be invaluable for someone writing software for 802.11n APs, bridges, and sniffers. Serious users of 802.11n, even if they're debugging networks and not writing software, will need the level of detail provided by this book. The book does not have quick and practical answers to questions that knowledgeable engineers installing or using an 802.11n network might ask. This book is about the nuts and bolts only. Next Generation Wireless LANs: Throughput, Robustness, and Reliability in 802.11n

For people who working on 802.11n, they can not afford to miss this book. This is a book written by engineers who are actually working on the real product. The book helps reader to navigate through the complex 802.11n standard, and provides valuable design techniques.



Even for people not working on 802.11n, this book still serves as a nice reference book for MIMO and OFDM technology. I am not working on 802.11n, I am working on WiMAX. but the MIMO technology described in this book is far more better than any WiMAX book.

For anyone who is unfamiliar with the IEEE 802.11n standard amendment, this book is an excellent introduction and reference. It provides great summarized technical information and pointers into the .11n standard amendment for futher reference. It is also an excellent reference on OFDM and MIMO channel characteristics and modeling. A great book for IT managers getting ready to deploy this new technology. A MUST read for all engineers and IT staffers working and testing 802.11n. The book is one of the best ever written on 802.11! Kudo's to the authors for a great book!

This is a well written book. This book explains both PHY and MAC concepts pretty extensively. This book has something for everyone. I would have personally preferred if they had devoted the entire book to the working of MAC though. Good part of having this book is I don't have to refer to the 11n spec for every small detail. The book does a good job of condensing the 11n spec'

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This book would be very helpful if YOU were the one who left your mate, or possibly if your mate left because he/she felt unappreciated.



For those of us who were dumped, (which is probably most people looking at the book) I would recommend searching for other books about moving on and getting on with your life, even though I'm sure that's not what you want to hear. But often the best way to get someone back is to get over them.



Women should be especially careful with the ideas in the book, since men often feel smothered and trapped in relationships. (Sending him roses every day = bad idea!) Remember, you don't want him to be glad you're gone, you want him to be surprised at how well you're doing without him! This will make him wonder if he made a mistake, versus confirming in his mind that you are needy/clingy, etc.



The book also lacks specifics. It appears to be written for married couples or people living together, since it seems to suggest that you will be seeing your ex daily, which isn't true in my case. There is really no advice on how to contact your ex if you didn't live together, and therefore have no reason to talk to him/her anymore.



It does have some good relationship advice in general, but overall it left me still wondering what to do. Instead of obsessing over it, I bought "How to Heal a Broken Heart in 30 Days," which is more helpful.



I figure if you move on and eventually start to date other people and then your ex comes back, it will be a nice surprise (or you will realize that the spell is broken and maybe you don't want them back anymore). Either way you win. How to Get Your Lover Back: Successful Strategies for Starting Over (& Making It Better Than It Was Before)

When my relationship soured, I was very frustrated trying to get help from counselors (influenced by 12 step programs) who only talked to me about my co-dependency, and "What was wrong with me that I wanted my partner back?" When I was really in a lot of pain, I could hear them thinking "Oh no!, Not another couple who got together without realizing how screwed up they were! Got to get them apart!" Although it's true that both my lover and I had plenty of areas to where we need to grow, we had a lot of good things going for us too, and I was pleased to find an approach which allowed me to use my strengths to improve the areas where I was weak in the relationship. I've never been convinced that wanting to work on a relationship always co-dependency. Stephan Levine, John Welwood, Gail and Hugh Prather, Barry and Joyce Vissel and others all speak of a relationship can be a path of awakening, and all would agree, I think, that there are times when one person has to carry the relationship. This book shows how to do that. What I liked best about this book is that the author's ideas allowed me to take an *active* approach to untangling the knots in my relationship. The approach gave me something to do -- internal work on myself which made a difference in my relationship. It was not about bugging my partner.I bought the book when I read in chapter 1 where the author wrote "A lost relationship may be a lost opportunity for growth." You don't hear that much from anyone. (And that's the way I felt, not that I just wanted to cling to my lover.If I was clinging, I wanted to stop.) And in chapter 2, "Loving 100% to Get Your Lover Back," I really enjoyed reading the author's working definition of love: "the active care and concern for the life and growth of another human being." And yes, my favorite chapter was chapter 9, "Dealing with the Resistant Lover," where the author use of many real life examples seems to bring the writing alive. Yes, my lover was resistant, and yes, I do think this chapter would be good to expand.I don't fully agree with the March 29, 1999 reader from Irving, Texas. He says the book advises practicing "positive visualization." No. It doesn't say visualization. It says practice creating positive moments. Visualization is only one technique which might help, and the book mentions that only briefly. It rather says work on creating loving moments with your beloved, even if your beloved hates you right now. It may be true that this book doesn't tell you specifically what to do when your partner gets involved in a long term relationship with someone else and they can't or won't tell you what's going on, but I felt that the books encouragement to create positive moments covered that scenario by extension. In other words, you could, if you really wanted to, try to get your lover back if they are in a long term relationship with someone else, it would just be a matter of being very careful to maximize your opportunities to create positive moments. (But if your partner was really happy in that relationship, does loving them 100% include trying to pry them out of a situation they are happy with? That's the question.)The July 22, 2000 reader from USA might be right when she says that the book will attract love addicts, but one of the major points of the book is to show that "addiction" to love (is addiction to Love really possible? - Charlotte Kasl, a major figure in the co-dependency movement, refutes that idea in her book Woman, Sex, and Addiction) really doesn't work. Making a pest of your self doesn't work. Smothering doesn't work. Failing to love your own self and failing keeping your energy up doesn't work. Love is defined in this book as showing your partner "active care and concern" and keeping your neediness out of the way while you try to create positive, intimate moments. Only 100% pure love, including loving your self, allows you to create such moments. I feel it is one of the few books which has some practical techniques about how to prevent your relationship from becoming another statistic in the 50%+ divorce rate. (I don't object to divorce necessarily, by why is it so many of us are getting up and saying "`til death do us part," when we can't seem to live up to it?) This book helped me understand what goes wrong when people get intimate and gave me ideas about what "one person can do to get the two of you back together." Maybe you can't change your partner, but you can keep an eye out for your own reactive patterns. (Watching out that you don't step into your partner's stuff doesn't hurt neither.)Amazon has an interview with the author at .....I've heard that this author is working on several other books, including one called Radical Intimacy: How to Dance in Tune with Your Own Life Force, and also that he has recently recorded a "book on tape" version of How to Get Your Lover Back.I found a web site about this book, ...... Apparently the author also runs a retreat or something someplace in Hawaii where he helps people with their relationships. - .... - Love And Relationships - Self-help - Unconditional Love - Interpersonal Communication'

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Hardi-plank Cutting Shears - fiber cement tool, hardie board gauge

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Used this to side a new house with 8 1/4" Hardiplank lap siding, with a 7" reveal. Two decades ago we made our own hangers... Glad I found theses for my first Hardi job, because they're fantastic and easily made it a two-person job (one to cut and one to hang). It is also easily a one person job for low work, but climbing up and down from scaffolding for high work will get old. There are many glowing reviews of this product, and you should believe them, so here are some tips and thoughts:



- These hangers reference the bottom of each course - definitely the most accurate way to hang siding and much better than hanger/gauge products that reference the top of each course. Hardi can vary in height so if the hanger hangs from/references the top of the board, you are immediately introducing error into the procedure. Geckos do it the smart way.



- For blind nailing, some courses will snug up very tight to the wall, certainly short pieces. This will mean that you have to grab the bottom lip of the board and pull out a bit to slip the Gecko in. For the most part, you'll be able to insert a Gecko one-handed. I have no experience using these Geckos with face nailing, only blind nailing.



- Geckos have two rails that the Hardi will rest on, you need to keep an eye on how the Hardi rests on the rails so that you know the tool is perpendicular to the Hardi plank. If the tool is positioned off-vertical, you will introduce error.



- You must watch the Gecko when setting the Hardi down into the Geckos. It is heavy enough to make the Geckos slip a bit downward and introduce error. The procedure is simple: clamp the Gecko so it is snug to the reference course. Lightly set the next course onto the Gecko rails. Check that you haven't bumped the Gecko downward off the reference course (if so simply loosen the clamp, push Gecko upward against reference course, tighten the clamp, then nail it up). We blind and hand-nailed our Hardi over 1" XPS foam, into OSB/Stud. To get the wind rating we wanted on 24" centers, we had to use 3 ¼" galvy nails with a large diameter head. Gun nails would not work over XPS foam. Too much variance in backing pressure - no amount of air pressure adjusting would solve it - either too far in, too far out, or both. Thus the hand nail. This is a lot of pressure on the Hardi and Geckos while nailing - so we learned to constantly watch for Hardi movement while resting on the Gecko. After a short time it becomes second nature and you can be careful, accurate, and fast at the same time.



- You will learn tricks to use if you've developed some course-error, and need to do a correction course. The Gecko can easily be loosened and held lower to tighten a course up. You can also slip a siding nail sideways into the Gecko between the Gecko support rails and the Hardi to introduce a slightly looser course... as a sort of shim. Very quick and easy to do.



- They are scary-quick to move - no other similar product will move as quickly.



- Yes, these are plastic, not metal. I would not want to be dragging around metal versions of these all day unless they came up with an aluminum version... that's not likely.



- Yes, the plastic can break from a fall. One of mine fell 20', hit something hard, and chipped the plastic frame. Luckily it wasn't a show-stopper and we completed the house with the original set.



- For little chunks of siding, like 6", we just used one Gecko and eyeballed the plank horizontally. This keeps the course going up nicely, but you've got to really watch what you're doing.



- Do not over-tighten the clamps. This will cause the top edge of the plank to kick out from the wall, and your next course will then try to hop off the Gecko hangers. You will quickly get a feel for how much to tighten them to effectively hold, yet not cause the plank to kick out.



- We found that if you place the hangers too close to the plank ends, you get a Hardi-sag that will bug you later when that sagging area must be clamped to on succeeding courses. The slight errors will start translating onward. We found placing the hangers a bit over 24" from each end of a 12' plank distributes the load better and keeps the plank hanging with pretty much no sag.



- If you insist on accuracy/quality, you still need to shoot reference marks, snap reference lines, and keep track of things. These aren't some sort of miracle tool that will take all the thinking and checking out of the equation. For instance if you're working up a course on each side of a window or door, you MUST run reference and keep track so that when coming over the top of the window, header courses will line up and reveals look good. You should not blindly trust the Gecko to run the courses up perfectly on each side of the window or door. Always keep track of references for accuracy and to avoid gotch-ya's.



- If you are a professional, I would recommend having a spare set of Geckos, as one will eventually break with enough long falls. They will not last forever if you're doing high scaffold work. A fall will eventually break one. I was lucky with my break, as it was non-essential plastic, and we kept working. If you can't afford down time (professional), then buy two sets and work the price into your costs. This will give you two spares and allow time for ordering/shipping the next backup set if necessary. As a pro, I simply would not hesitate to have four Geckos on hand at all times.



All this verbage may make it sound these are a pain to use. That couldn't be farther from the truth. These tips mostly apply to using the Geckos smartly while addressing the error-translation issues that arise on all siding jobs. You can really fly along with the Geckos and I wouldn't consider hanging fiber-cement siding without them. PacTool International SA903 2-Piece Gecko Gauge Hardi Board Siding Gauges - Siding Tools - Siding Guage - Fiber Cement Tool - Hardie Board Gauge'

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Nail Gun - framing nailers, nail gun

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i have to tell everyone i can about how good these guns are. i have been installing siding, triming houses, and framing for 20 years and have always been a hitachi and makita guy, but since i've started using these guns i have no reason to buy them again. i have been forced to branch off into other areas like roofing and interior trim. I've bought several of their guns and i have had zero problems with them. great service, quick shipments, and a very dependable product. Freeman deserves a bid kudo for bringing a great product to us at a price everyone can afford. Freeman PFR2190 21-Degree Full-Head Framing Nailer

I bought this product to build a large deck. I'm very pleased with the performance. Weight/balance is good. Worked well with a variety of nail sizes (2 3/8, 3, 3 1/2, straight and ring shank). My only compliant is that the gun stops working when the gun gets low on nails (3-4 nails) due to the nails losing alignment. It's not a big deal since it works fine once you load more nail strips. However, it was frustrating diagnose the condition the first time.



For the money, this is a strong product.

What can I say, it does exactly what it's supposed to do and it's very solid. Right out of the box it was firing nails and kicking butt. I was very surprised to get a framing nailer at this price and with great quality. I like to buy top named brands for the most part, but would consider Freeman every bit a top named brand after using this nailer. Skip the high priced nailers and get this one, you won't sacrifice in quality.

I used the Freeman Framing nailer to build a roof on a porch and it's been great. I've used Paselode nail guns in the past and this compared nicely to those. I accidentally dropped it once but had no problems from that. This nail gun has been great and so was the price

I don't have the framing nailer rather the pin nailer. I have Hitachi and Bostich trim nailers and staplers which are very good by the way. The freeman is high quality with cost trimmed in weight increase rather than lower quality. Also some safety features are eliminated, such as this can be fired without touching the wood. Not a big deal to me, I'm sort of loath to paying for features I don't appreciate.





Hope this was helpful. - Nail Gun - Framing Nailers'

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