What did you do today?

[JohnG]

On 11/14/2023 at 2:04 PM, legenddc said:

I think around 2" on each side. Hopefully that's wide enough for the roughly 22" and 28" spans. Doesn't have to be perfect as it'll be hidden by the frame. Thanks for the tips!

2" should be fine. The pane is on the bigger side, so I'd probably lay it on the edge of a table and use two pairs of pliers, each about 1/3 in from the edges. Then pivot them downward, away from the side you scored with the cutter. Or you can use one pair of pliers and know it might not break off along the whole length (I'd still position them about 1/3 in from one corner). This is fine, but sometimes you end up with a little nub where the break tapers away from the score line. You can usually nibble away at those with pliers, but need to be careful if you don't have much overlap on the frame. I liked linesman pliers, but any with a wider profile would be fine. You don't want to grip it so tight that it's likely to crack the glass. If the pliers have really aggressive teeth on them, a layer or two of tape would probably be wise.

 

[legenddc]

On 11/14/2023 at 11:42 PM, JohnG said:

2" should be fine. The pane is on the bigger side, so I'd probably lay it on the edge of a table and use two pairs of pliers, each about 1/3 in from the edges. Then pivot them downward, away from the side you scored with the cutter. Or you can use one pair of pliers and know it might not break off along the whole length (I'd still position them about 1/3 in from one corner). This is fine, but sometimes you end up with a little nub where the break tapers away from the score line. You can usually nibble away at those with pliers, but need to be careful if you don't have much overlap on the frame. I liked linesman pliers, but any with a wider profile would be fine. You don't want to grip it so tight that it's likely to crack the glass. If the pliers have really aggressive teeth on them, a layer or two of tape would probably be wise.

 

Awesome. Thanks for the tips. I did test 2 cuts yesterday on the piece that broke and got it to snap off in one piece. Only 10-12" wide but a good start. Struggling to hold the straight edge tight and move the cutter. I'll wait until my wife is better to have her help hold it.

36 hours on meds and my wife is still feeling pretty awful with shingles. She has one call today and then will be relaxing all day. Hopefully I can keep everyone clean and fed for the next few days.

[Ronn W]

On 11/9/2023 at 8:12 PM, pkinneb said:

ahh a picture is in order don't you think? 

 

Bar Stool Done.

 

[pkinneb]

On 11/15/2023 at 10:52 AM, Ronn W said:

 

Bar Stool Done.

 

Great job Ronn!! Question for you is it comfortable? I plan on making a set of these for are bar in the basement.

[Chet]

That came out really nice Ronn.  Beautiful looking and great workmanship.

[treeslayer]

You do great work Ronn, beautiful stool

[legenddc]

Wow. That looks amazing! Nice work!

[wtnhighlander]

Lovely stool Ronn! Is that brass tubing, or solid bar stock?

[Coop]

Damn bud! That’s sweet! 

[Ronn W]

On 11/15/2023 at 6:26 PM, wtnhighlander said:

Lovely stool Ronn! Is that brass tubing, or solid bar stock?

It's solid in this case.

[Ronn W]

On 11/15/2023 at 10:57 AM, pkinneb said:

Great job Ronn!! Question for you is it comfortable? I plan on making a set of these for are bar in the basement.

I would ease the edges of the seat  little more.  Because the seat is quite high you don't want the edge to feel sharp as you slide your but onto the seat - especially if you are wear shorts.  It is reasoably comfortable. I think the one could decrease the depth of the seat from front to back.  Then, again, I am only 5'-9" tall.  Make sure that you adjust the height of the stool to work with the height of the bar.  The brass foot rest is really optional.  If it is for a home there would be less wear and tear than in a bar setting.  The brass rods in the beack are also optional,  the crest rail itself gives enough support without the rods IMO.  But they look nice.

This is a very heavy piece, I would consider judiciously making it a little less massive for home use.

[gee-dub]

I've been getting through a lot of my minor to-do's lately.  I picked up a few Rockler router table fences for stupid-cheap on clearance when they changed styles a few years ago . . . quite a few years ago now that I think of it .  Anyway, I use them at the drill press, on sleds, and so forth. 

I like having the taller fence with dust collection at the drill press.  When using shorter drills for close work the quill handles would some times hit the fence.  My usual fix was to just unscrew the offending handle, get through the job, and put the handle back.

 

I swear I just heard Teri Garr say "put the candle back" from Young Frankenstein . . . in my head

But, I digress.  I finally made some shorter handles.

[drzaius]

I shortened the handles on my General drill press. They were so long they were always bumping into something. Much better now.

[Chet]

On 11/16/2023 at 5:31 PM, gee-dub said:

I finally made some shorter handles.

On 11/17/2023 at 10:56 AM, drzaius said:

I shortened the handles on my General drill press. They were so long they were always bumping into something.

Doh!  I am always knocking my knuckles on the work piece then wondering how I could change the set up to avoid this.  I never thought of shortening the handles.

[pkinneb]

On 11/17/2023 at 2:25 PM, Chet said:

Doh!  I am always knocking my knuckles on the work piece then wondering how I could change the set up to avoid this.  I never thought of shortening the handles.

Yep you are not alone 

[gee-dub]

I couldn't find the rod in single short lengths and so bought a 5 pack of m12 x 250mm rods off Amazon for about $20.  I cut two of the rods in half and used 3 of the pieces.  I put sections of black plastic tubing over the threaded rod for comfort.

[drzaius]

I just cut a small length off each rod and ran new threads

[Tom King]

Short handles are a great idea.  I often have to take one or two of the handles out and use it with one or two fewer handles.

As for today, BIL and I tried to jet a water line under a 21' wide paved driveway to the rental house.  We've had the driest Summer and Fall ever, so the red clay subsoil is not much softer than concrete.  It was going about 1 foot per ten minutes until we hit a rock about 8 feet in.  

I thought only a water line was on that side of the driveway.  I found that with the tractor bucket.  We drilled a line of holes with the tractor auger and I cut out the webs between them with the loader bucket.  We hit a 3/4" diameter wire that I thought was just some old unused wire, but when we stopped for lunch there was no internet in that house.

The technician came out about 6 tonight and finished fixing it.  He said don't worry about it.  It happens all the time and if it didn't he wouldn't have a job.

For jetting the line, I was hand holding the hose from the small electric pressure washer inside the pipe we wanted under the road to go service the RV parking area.  I don't know if I'll be able to pick up a fork in the morning.  I'd wash out some dirt, pull the hose out, and tap the pipe in with a 4 pound dead blow mallet.  It was going pretty good until the water only ran clear and wouldn't tap in any farther, so I'm thinking we probably hit a good sized rock.

I haven't figured out the next plan of attack yet.

Pictures show how I find pipe and wire trenches.  Just slice the top off the ground down to a clean cut and it shows up where the dirt got mixed when the trench was filled back in.  It was a little over 2' away from where I though it was, but the 7' bucket found it anyway.  That saves a lot of guess digging.

[Tom King]

After sleeping on the ordeal yesterday of trying to get the PVC pipe under the driveway, I decided to use a completely different approach today.

Beside the building I'm using as a shop now is a pile of scrap metal that was here when we bought the piece of land next to ours that building is on.  There are some 10' pieces of 4" thin wall steel tubing powdercoated navy blue.  I didn't think I would ever have a use for them.  I was wrong.

I decided to try pushing one under the road with the tractor.  It eased right on along. I drilled a hole for a shackle and pulled it back out.  The plan was to just use that as a trial.  It worked so good that I'm going to weld enough length together to go all the way.

There are enough of them that we can push one in and pull it back out with no need to blast the dirt out.  The ditch is so slick and sloppy from all the water yesterday that we're going to leave it until after Thanksgiving to dry out and push one all the way through, wasting some of the extras just to get the dirt out.

BIL and SIL had to leave until after Thanksgiving but are coming back after our renters for Thanksgiving holiday leave.  

The second picture is after we pulled the test piece back out.  It's jamb packed full of red clay, and left a pretty hole in the ground.  

 

[gee-dub]

I have been doing good on the "small stuff" to-do list so I kept going today.  Apparently the dead bolt on the DC shed never fully engaged.  Took care of that.

The original shop plan called for two ambient cleaners and two cord reels.  I had one reel before I even broke ground and it has been in service ever since the shop build "finished".

The other one had been back ordered for so long I almost forgot about it.  It showed up out of the blue the other day.

Back in the '90s the company I worked for issued me and my crew fleet vehicles.  When I would leave the building there would be a row of a dozen identical cars.  I stuck a Blues Brothers decal loosely in the back window of mine.  Just the other day I found it while going through old office stuff to throw out.  The HVAC on the east wall works better now 

I have had such good success with under the table dust collection on my larger bandsaws that I abandoned the lower collection point years ago.  My 10" has been a problem and has gone through a couple of versions.  I finally tried under-the-table only for a while.  Collection is now better than other versions so far.

For folks that missed the original modified Shop Vac end collector thread . . .

I also finally got around to doing a routine maintenance on the planer; gear oil, lead screws, table posts and all that.

Funny . . . it doesn't look any different.

 

[Coop]

Kind of like keeping a handgun lubed. No difference in looks but she’ll show her appreciation if you need it. 

[pkinneb]

Took advantage of the unusually warm weather here and cleaned up the leaf's one last time

...and I actually got the snow blower on the tractor before the snow flies that happens about once a decade 

[legenddc]

I need to blow my leaves today in case the neighborhood landscapers come tomorrow to collect them.

My wife is feeling better and we were finally able to cut the glass for the frame. Got both pieces cut cleanly and accurately. Tonight I'll put a chamfer on the inside of the frame, sand the inside and get the frame glued up.

[legenddc]

Making progress in the frame. Will cut the splines tonight hopefully. 

[pkinneb]

Ran the 2023 MPLS Turkey Trot 5k with my son and several thousand of our friends  I think this was the 24th for me and 16th for my son. Sunny and 26 degrees a great way to start Day.

Happy Thanksgiving all!!