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Show Home Improvement, Safety And Economy SAFETY DO'S AND DONT'S America today is a nation na-tion of do-it-yourselfers when it comes to fixing up "the old homestead", both to stretch the home improvement improve-ment budget and for personal per-sonal satisfaction. Because this is a new way of life for many homeowners, Cooper The Toolmaker suggests these guides to sensible precaution against the unexpected: Wear goggles whenever there's danger of flying wood or metal; add a mask in dusty conditions. Disconnect electrical circuits when working with light fixtures. When tightening a nut with a Crescent adjustable wrench, pull don't push the tool. Place a heated soldering solder-ing iron on a tip rest. Replace fraying cords on electrical appliances immediately. im-mediately. When sharpening a power lawn mower blade with a Nicholson Home & Garden File, disconnect the spark plug wire. Paint is a tool read cautions on cans carefully. Hold tools firmly. Assume As-sume one might slip in use, so be prepared. Use a hand tool only for the work it's designed to perform. Fine Wiss fabric scissors would cut cardboard, card-board, but their utility snips will do the job safely, easily and without tool damage . . . and cut metal, too. Keep work areas uncluttered, un-cluttered, tools clean and sharp. And here are a few basics for keeping your home generally gen-erally safer: A blown fuse or tripped circuit breaker signals sig-nals a fault in the electrical system. Find out where and why, now! When you need to replace re-place a broken storm panel, install break-resistant acrylic sheeting like plexiglass. Make periodic inspection inspec-tion tours. Now, while the subject of safety is on your mind, why not begin your own list of potential hazards, and eliminate them promptly. |