Hopsichord
Member
Apologies in advance -- maybe this would fit better in another forum.
I'm getting close to the last stages of building my new Brutus 10 all-electric HERMS system with a 3-pid control panel. For building my panel, I bought the really cool Irwin self-adjusting wire stripper and a Titan ratcheting crimper. They've made things SO much easier. Yet how much sense is it to have a tool that I might use maybe once or twice, if ever again, in the next 20+ years? I can see using the wire stripper some here and there maybe, but I don't know that I'll have a need for the ratcheting crimper ever again.
I'm wondering if there might be interest (or maybe it's already in the forum) in a borrowing and/or co-op forum. As an example, I need punches for my kettles and would love to not have to buy them at whole or reasonably discounted price--I'll likely never use them again and they would either collect dust or I'd have to try to resell them. It'd be great to put that $100 or whatever into a pH meter, for example. Seems like there would be many other people here who would love to borrow something for a project and either return it to the owner or pass it along to the next person needing it. I know I would.
Maybe someone could buy a new tool and pass it down the line with a small return from subsequent borrowers who would help pay it off over time. Like, the $26 crimpers I bought--maybe I could pass those along and each time someone borrowed them, they sent me $2 (or more, depending on original cost), until the original cost--minus my equal $2 investment--was paid off. That would allow 13 people to use them for $2. From there, it could be put into the borrowing "pool". Maybe the borrower or co-oper would pay for shipping?
This could save people a good amount of money that they can instead put directly into their systems, projects, brews, whatever. And for someone who took the initial hit in buying something s/he might not ever use again, s/he could be paid back over time (if s/he wanted to) and help others spend their hard-earned money on actually making beer.
I know there's a pay it forward thread and a trade forum, but I feel like this is different?
Eager to hear what others think or if I'm just missing a forum/thread along these lines that I'm just not seeing.
Thanks!
I'm getting close to the last stages of building my new Brutus 10 all-electric HERMS system with a 3-pid control panel. For building my panel, I bought the really cool Irwin self-adjusting wire stripper and a Titan ratcheting crimper. They've made things SO much easier. Yet how much sense is it to have a tool that I might use maybe once or twice, if ever again, in the next 20+ years? I can see using the wire stripper some here and there maybe, but I don't know that I'll have a need for the ratcheting crimper ever again.
I'm wondering if there might be interest (or maybe it's already in the forum) in a borrowing and/or co-op forum. As an example, I need punches for my kettles and would love to not have to buy them at whole or reasonably discounted price--I'll likely never use them again and they would either collect dust or I'd have to try to resell them. It'd be great to put that $100 or whatever into a pH meter, for example. Seems like there would be many other people here who would love to borrow something for a project and either return it to the owner or pass it along to the next person needing it. I know I would.
Maybe someone could buy a new tool and pass it down the line with a small return from subsequent borrowers who would help pay it off over time. Like, the $26 crimpers I bought--maybe I could pass those along and each time someone borrowed them, they sent me $2 (or more, depending on original cost), until the original cost--minus my equal $2 investment--was paid off. That would allow 13 people to use them for $2. From there, it could be put into the borrowing "pool". Maybe the borrower or co-oper would pay for shipping?
This could save people a good amount of money that they can instead put directly into their systems, projects, brews, whatever. And for someone who took the initial hit in buying something s/he might not ever use again, s/he could be paid back over time (if s/he wanted to) and help others spend their hard-earned money on actually making beer.
I know there's a pay it forward thread and a trade forum, but I feel like this is different?
Eager to hear what others think or if I'm just missing a forum/thread along these lines that I'm just not seeing.
Thanks!
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