You don’t know what you don’t know. I need to buy another Skill saw. I also needed a carbon tipped blade. So off I went to Home Depot.
All the carbon tip blades were 7 inches. All the saws said 7 1/4. The employee I got to help didn’t seem to know much more than me. Thankfully another customer wandered into the area. He look like he knew his way around. So I asked him. He said “don’t worry about it“ so I bought me another Ryobi Skill saw which is 7 and 1/ 6:45 inch Diamond tipped blade.
When I got home and went about taking the saw out of its packaging I got ready to install the new blade. It didn’t seem to me like this would be too difficult. The hardest thing seemed to be holding the protective guard open in order to slide the blade and place. I proceeded to remove the bolt that holds the blade in place. Underneath were several other pieces, washer kind of things I said to him aside carefully one clearly said “don’t placeless next to the blade.“
So I put that piece in first followed by another and then the blade and then the top screw and tighten it up. I inserted the battery and pulled the trigger and made it sound like something was loose. Well, the blade was loose. I did something wrong so I started to unscrew the screw to take the blade off.
Unfortunately, somehow running the saw her completely tightened the screw. I couldn’t move it. I got a pair of pliers that didn’t work. I got a pair of vise grips that didn’t work. Then I realized that as I was turning the bolt, the motor was turning to I don’t know what to do.
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So the next day we went back to Home Depot. I was grumbling about the whole thing. Mostly just wanted to throw that thing away and start over. My wife want to know what the problem was. I said “I feel like an idiot.”
She said, “you’re not an idiot. You don’t know what you don’t know.”
I said, “yeah but it’s about the third time this week.”
She said, “I think your pride is getting in the way.”
The truth is that remark hurt mostly because it was true.
So if I went to Home Depot and I went to the return pace and fessed up that I didn’t know what I was doing. The young woman at the counter was very nice and she called to get someone to come and help.
I got a Telya. This guy was very very helpful. First of all, he pointed out that there was a button you push that holds of the motor in place. He went off to retrieve some tools and came back with the blade off. Then he proceeded to attach the blade.
This turned out to be more difficult than he or I imagined. In fact, another employee came by and the two of them worked at it for a good five minutes or so trying to figure out how to get all the pieces together right. I felt less and less like an idiot.
Eventually, they got it on, and it’s as good as new. What’s the didn’t cost me anything with some of my pride. So remember when you don’t know what you don’t know it’s OK to ask for help.
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