A Day With Murphy!

 I  started adding more Noodles to the bottom of the boat. Everything was going great until I brought two tubes of Liquid Nails that wasn't the same as the first Liquid Nails I purchased last week. I couldn't understand why the Noodles kept falling off. The first tube of Liquid Nail that I brought was a heavy duty formula for construction projects. The Noodles bonded very quickly after adding the  construction adhesive.  In my frustration, I discovered that not all Liquid Nails adhesives are equal. Some are more like glue that peels off your hands like skin. It dawned on me that the tube of Liquid Nails I brought last week, was made out of hard brown paper. The tubes I brought over the weekend was made of plastic. The construction adhesive is more difficult to clean off your hands than the Liquid Nails that comes in the plastic tubes. What made things more difficult were that the Liquid Nails weren't all in the same place because of the different kind of applications they are used for. There's really no room for chaos when building mobile craft that's rode in. One of the most import thing about designing and building anything, is to pay attention to the smallest details.










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