Cotton's Law

[flyguy0609]

Cotton's law of home building states that " The purpose of the hobby is to buy tools". The first corollary to Cotton's Law is " The quantity of tools will always exceed the available storage." or "Tool Organization is futile".

Any other observations on home building?

[Bryan Cotton]

Excellent - another one is "it will be done next year." Believe it long enough and sooner or later it's true!

[BobDz]

You only need 200 clecoes.

[WaiexB22]

No matter how long you procrastinate hoping to save on shipping charges, as soon as you place your order to spruce or sonex or jegs or whoever...you will inevitably need something else from there right after you place the order.

[DCASonex]

Cotton's law of home building states that " The purpose of the hobby is to buy tools". The first corollary to Cotton's Law is " The quantity of tools will always exceed the available storage." or "Tool Organization is futile".

Any other observations on home building?

Not enough storage space for tools only means that you next investment will be in a bigger shop. Last three moves, shop has gone from 350 sq, ft. to 850, to current 1,150 sq. ft.

David A.

[DCASonex]

You only need 200 clecoes.

Probably adequate if that is 100 each of each of 3/16" and 1/4", for the 1/8" and 3/32" sizes better at least double that.

David A.

[flyguy0609]

To paraphrase from the responses above,

Cotton's Law states:

"The purpose of the hobby is to acquire tools."
1st expansion. The general theory: "Said acquisition occurs in three phases, #1. Purchase of tools to assemble the "hobby". Phase2, Acquisition of tools to create parts assembled in Part 1. Phase 3 Go whole hog, and get the tools used to make the tools used in Phase 2. 2nd expansion, the special theory, states that the tool requirements grow as an exponent of the phase number. Mathematically : F(x) ^n, where F(x) is a function of the complexity of the hobby and n is the phase number.

I'm ready to make the Haj OSH.

[flyguy0609]

We recently had a death in the family. THe deceased was a 35 year veteran at United Airlines. His tool accumulation is nothing short of epic.

His garage

His Basement.

This is just a sample, He had so many tools that he didn't have room to work..

[GordonTurner]

“…so many tools that he didn’t have room to work…”

There must be a corollary contained therein :)

[flyguy0609]

“…so many tools that he didn’t have room to work…”

There must be a corollary contained therein :)

And when there's a corollary, there's a math function closely followed by an algorithm being chased by a mischief of techies. :)