I stopped in tonight to finish up a woodworking project, the stretcher frame that I glued up last night. As I was getting ready to leave, I noticed that the exit door still had the sign saying not to use it, so I used it. And it worked. But it didn’t work as well as it should. I noticed that even though somebody has oiled it up, the push bar still didn’t return smoothly. I could hear it dragging, so I took a look at it. I found that it was dragging on the shroud at the latch, so I removed some material from the shroud so it doesn’t drag anymore. I’ll let somebody at a higher paygrade than me decide to remove the sign, but I see no reason for it to remain.
In the process of fixing that, I got a little irritated with the hammer and prop rod holding the lids open on the metalshop toolboxes. So, I replaced one gas strut on each with a semi-permanent prop rod. If the lids ever need to be closed, the new pieces will have to be taken off, but they don’t get closed often as is. So, until somebody wants to spend money on new gas struts, these should do.