Popular Post BillyJack Posted November 4, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 4, 2020 Lakes 10 mlm minutes away. Trying out the new rod StCroix replaced the broken rod with. Nothing biting. Boy wanted to go cat fishing so l I changed gears and bought some hooks,weights,bombers and hooks for the 3 year old for cane fishing... One she caught this summer..shes a natural... 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post drzaius Posted November 5, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 5, 2020 2 hours ago, wtnhighlander said: C'mon, @BillyJack, show us your secret fishin' hole! Glad you included "fishin" to that sentence 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gee-dub Posted November 5, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 5, 2020 Cobbled together a "version 1" of a saw-rack idea I have been playing with. Made for smaller saws like DT, Dozuki, flush trim and the like. Sorry, this one posts in this orientation no matter how I rotate it and save copies??? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted November 5, 2020 Report Share Posted November 5, 2020 Interesting idea! The ball acts as a wedge to grab the saw from dropping, yet release on lifting, yes? Do you have the balls trapped from falling out somehow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted November 5, 2020 Report Share Posted November 5, 2020 On 11/3/2020 at 12:17 PM, wtnhighlander said: Be careful what you wish for... https://www.amazon.com/Rinse-Ace-Sink-Faucet-Rinser/dp/B008N92YRW/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=faucet+sprayer+attachment&qid=1604427381&sr=8-6 There were several pics in this link and I looked at each, wondering what I would see. All’s good! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tom King Posted November 7, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 7, 2020 Been working on fences for two days. The perimeter fence is mostly 5' high four-board, with a 9 ga. aluminum hot wire above the top board. We haven't had the hot wire on for years. Pam let me out of the pastures when I was on a tractor, and she went to the barn from there, expecting to go back out of the gate, but went to the house the other way. The gate was left closed, but not chained for several days. Wednesday, we woke up with the two horses sleeping in the field in front of the house. They went right back in when we called them. The trouble is that they found where the chicken feed is, and developed quite a taste for it. That night, they found the weak spots in the fence, and pushed their way out. No choice but to work on the fences. Some of the 40 year ground contact posts lasted exactly 40 years. The part above ground is still hard as a rock, as are the boards. The fence was the easy part. Fortunately, the ground is soft, which would work fine for an auger, but I would have to disassemble the fence anywhere a new post is needed. First I tried some hole diggers, but the clay is so sticky wet that it's hard to get it out of the diggers. The remnants left in the post holes was just mush. I tried just pushing a post down, and it went down about 8", so I decided to try just pounding them in. That worked fine, and I could even pound it down enough not to have to do any cutting on the tops. The bad part was that Red Cedars had grown up against the fence in a number of places. Actually good places to help block the view of lake house across the road from that fence. Not good for conductivity of a hot wire though. I spliced in sections of leftover underground wire, like we used under gates, and that worked fine. The worst job was there is one section, several hundred yards long, that is next to a stand of woods. I spent most of the time cutting back trees, and limbs, and dragging them out of the way. Had to use a small chainsaw, clearing saw, pole chainsaw, and hedgetrimmer, since there were so many different sizes, and types of stuff to cut. The most miserable part was that the temps were in the mid 70's, and I felt like I needed to wear long pants, and my tall snakeproof boots, so I lost a lot of water over the past couple of days. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pkinneb Posted November 8, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 Cleaned up the shop good after the basement project. Gonna knock out a few quick shop projects then back to furniture 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chestnut Posted November 8, 2020 Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 11 hours ago, pkinneb said: Gonna knock out a few quick shop projects then back to furniture Morris chair? Those interesting bar stools are first aren't they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom King Posted November 8, 2020 Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 One thing I did yesterday was dive into figuring out why my Millermatic 251 welder would no longer feed wire. This has been one of the many jobs on the to-do list that has been put off for a couple of years (maybe longer). My best friend, since we were 5, and 6 years old, brought over a portable oscilloscope so we could troubleshoot the circuit board. He's now retired from NASA, where he was head of a department in Space Sciences, was on a team that won the Nobel Prize, known as the Father of Calorimetry (thanks to some ideas from me), and has won all sorts of awards. When we were teenagers, we built telescopes by hand, but also did stuff like put together Heathkit electronics. I still have the tools I used back then for soldering parts on circuit boards. According to my research on the internet last night, this particular welder is known for having "circuit board problems". We just dove into it with schematics in hand from a download off the internet. We traced the problem to a blown capacitor in about an hour after figuring out how to read the simplified schematic, and tracing leads on the circuit board. One big problem we found, that it seems like no one else has ever noticed, is that there is supposed to be a circuit breaker in the hot feed to the wire feed motor. THERE IS NOT ONE THERE!!! Any time the wire finds unusual resistance, like a kink in the liner of the gun hose, or the feed rollers being adjusted too tightly, it blows that capacitor because there is no overload protection on the hot feed wire. Now it's not much trouble to replace that capacitor, and it's not a lot of money-a few bucks. The repair cost of this board is typically a little over $200, and a new board is $500. I don't know yet if either "fix" addresses the real problem of the missing circuit breaker. There is no telling how many thousands of these welders caused people trouble because of this manufacturing Negligence. This is prime territory for a Class Action Lawsuit, but it seems like no one else has ever noticed the real problem. Anyway, that's one thing I did yesterday.......... Oh, I probably should have included that at our first meeting, when we were 5 and 6 years old, we fixed his electric train that he had taken the engine apart on to try to fix it. We're 69, and 70 now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted November 8, 2020 Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 2 hours ago, Chestnut said: Morris chair? Those interesting bar stools are first aren't they? Four projects on the list right now 2-pool table spectator chairs, the interesting bar stool, Morris chair, and the sculpted rocker probably in that order but that’s always subject to change Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wtnhighlander Posted November 9, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 9, 2020 More experiments in tablesaw turning. Inspired by some end grain platters recently posted by @Gary Beasley, I decided to put a maple 'tree cookie' to use. It was cracked, of course, but yielded some chunks I could play with. These await finish, but came out ok. Far from Gary's fine work, but acceptible for not owning a lathe. I really dig how the end grain patterns look in this maple. BTW, the cookies were very rough cut by a large chainsaw. My first challenge was how to get faces that were reasonably flat and parallel. I worked out a method for doing that at the TS as well, I'll try to get pics on the next one I do. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted November 9, 2020 Report Share Posted November 9, 2020 Really cool looking pieces Ross! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Beasley Posted November 9, 2020 Report Share Posted November 9, 2020 Looks darn good for a tablesaw bowl. How thick did you get them down to? Seeing how you avoided the pith they should stay fairly flat. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhighlander Posted November 9, 2020 Report Share Posted November 9, 2020 Gary, the thicknes varies a little as the external and internal curvature of the rim isn't an exact match. Around 1/4" on average, I'd say. Certainly not thin enough to pass light! I really need a FTG blade for this. The ATB teeth leave saw marks that require a great deal of sanding to remove, and the inside curves aren't easy with just a 5" ROS to work with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pkinneb Posted November 10, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 10, 2020 Knocked out the first little shop project on my list, a shelf for my cordless palm routers. I like having them close but sitting on the outfeed/glue up table was bugging me, problem solved. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mark J Posted November 11, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 11, 2020 Between a book I've been reading and some internet research, I was able to figure out where my father's regiment was stationed at the onset of the Battle of the Bulge. I couldn't get down to the company level, but it was very cool to be able to see the regiment's position. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post treeslayer Posted November 11, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 11, 2020 29 minutes ago, Mark J said: Between a book I've been reading and some internet research, I was able to figure out where my father's regiment was stationed at the onset of the Battle of the Bulge. I couldn't get down to the company level, but it was very cool to be able to see the regiment's position. Our nation thanks him today Mark and all Veterans, my father was there as well with a tank destroyer company, just a couple words for the veterans on here and anywhere “Welcome Home” 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted November 11, 2020 Report Share Posted November 11, 2020 @treeslayer, was your father also in the Bulge? My father was in the artillery, Cannon Company, 394th regiment, 99th Division. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeslayer Posted November 11, 2020 Report Share Posted November 11, 2020 26 minutes ago, Mark J said: was your father also in the Bulge? yes sir, 630 Tank Destroyers attached to the 1st Armored Division, the Bulge, St. Lo, Hurtgen forrest, and on and on 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted November 11, 2020 Report Share Posted November 11, 2020 I salute your Dad, that's a lot of war to survive. The shooting part of my father's war was over in about a day. His company was overrun and they were taken prisoner. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drzaius Posted November 11, 2020 Report Share Posted November 11, 2020 Every year about the beginning of October, we watch Band of Brothers. It's too hard to binge watch, so it gets spread out over some weeks. I've seen it almost every year since it came out & it still has a profound effect on me. I'm getting a lump in my throat as I write this. The episodes retelling the experience of the Battle of the Bulge are some of the most powerful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark J Posted November 11, 2020 Report Share Posted November 11, 2020 1 hour ago, drzaius said: Every year about the beginning of October, we watch Band of Brothers. If you haven't seen it, "The Pacific" is a similar telling of the war in the pacific theater. Almost more intense than Band of Brothers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted November 13, 2020 Report Share Posted November 13, 2020 Knocked out another quick project, headphone holder btw FWIW I really like these new ISOtunes. I thought I would only use them for yardwork which I have but find myself using them while milling as well. Also got my new DP table glued up, added maple edge banding, and I will add melamine to the top I do have a question for you guys. Right now I only have tracks that run front to back but I have seen a few DP tables with a track from left to right as well, anybody have this? Do you use it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted November 13, 2020 Report Share Posted November 13, 2020 I only have the track like yours and can’t feature a need for left to right. Not like you will ever use a miter bar like on a router table. Yours looks great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkinneb Posted November 13, 2020 Report Share Posted November 13, 2020 1 minute ago, Coop said: I only have the track like yours and can’t feature a need for left to right. Not like you will ever use a miter bar like on a router table. Yours looks great! I'm guessing its for using hold downs which I rarely if ever do but thought I would throw it out there just to see what you all thought. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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