Ever had a eureka moment too late?

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LancsRick

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Ever completed a task with a lot of prep and fiddling, only to realise just as you finish it off there was a far simpler way and you've just wasted hours of your life?

I'd clearly never do such a thing, I'm, Erm, asking for a friend...
 
No. Not really.
Only every time I have ever done something for the first time. :oops: :roll:
 
usually, It's throwing stuff away for me. I find that having a coffee, thinking about the job and a having cigarette. makes the job as straight forward as it can be.
 
Red floor paint arrived yesterday to try and nudge my brain into thinking 'if foot is in red square, theres a chance you could bump into mitresaw and knock it out of square' This seemed like a better solution.
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Atleast I didn't paint the floor with it lol.

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My usual workflow

- Decide to try something for the first time
- Try to figure it out as I go along .... as how hard can it be really?
- Make a huge mess of it
- Go back in for a cup of tea and research it online
- come back out and do it much quicker, better and with less swearing
- completely forget the process
.. 6 months later
- try to do the same thing. Wait. I think I may have done this before?
- hmmm - I'll just try to figure it out as I go along .... as how hard can it be really?
- Make a huge mess of it
- Go back in for a cup of tea and research it online - this seems familiar
- come back out and do it much quicker, better and with less swearing
- completely forget the process

repeat
 
Well not exactly too late, but I did once have a pretty good eureka moment.

I was trying to make a jig to cut tenons on the tablesaw and so I did all the usual googling.

I found a picture of a jig that I liked the look of. There were no plans, and the business end was not on show, but it wasn't hard to figure out how it must work. So I set to.

After a while, I thought, "This is rubbish! There is a much better way of doing this!" and so I slung it and developed my own, which, of course, as you would expect, I'm sure, is the Best Tenon Jig In The Whole Wide World.
:)
S
 
I needed to cut a very minor taper into a vertical piece of architrave (0.4degrees!) due to fitting a doorframe AFTER plastering the wall - lesson learnt.

I carefully built a two meter taper jig, only to realise just as I was finishing it I could have just stuck some scrap on the back of the architrave and used a template trim bit...
 
transatlantic":2y1tpgj7 said:
My usual workflow

- Decide to try something for the first time
- Try to figure it out as I go along .... as how hard can it be really?
- Make a huge mess of it
- Go back in for a cup of tea and research it online
- come back out and do it much quicker, better and with less swearing
- completely forget the process
.. 6 months later
- try to do the same thing. Wait. I think I may have done this before?
- hmmm - I'll just try to figure it out as I go along .... as how hard can it be really?
- Make a huge mess of it
- Go back in for a cup of tea and research it online - this seems familiar
- come back out and do it much quicker, better and with less swearing
- completely forget the process

repeat

You need to move the kettle into your workshop, sounds like you would save hours of time. :lol:
 
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