What did you do today?

[pkinneb]

Applied the second application of topcoat on the sack back

 

[legenddc]

Delivered the table base over lunch today. Managed to get the stain to match very closely to the chairs. Client was very happy. 

[Tom King]

Looks great.  Cetainly a lot better than the shiny metal base.

[pkinneb]

Finished up a vertical holding jig for the PantoRouter. This will help speed up a couple processes in my urn builds.

Here I used it to do the vertical slots on the side stop

[Von]

Probably have to zoom in to tell, but bees took over our bird bath. I understand they do this when they need to regulate the temperature of their hive.

[BillyJack]

I had to take a day or two away from the roof. I’m not suppose to lift over 30lbs, but I never listen. Soreness in the stomach tells me I over did it..

 

So I’ll need to back off for a bit..
 

 

[pkinneb]

While I wait for the finish to dry on my chair, the humidity here is really messing with it, and also some PantoRouter parts to arrive for my URN build I made a cart for my new steam bending chamber I will be making this week. The one I made previously is not long enough for loop back bows 

Question for you all. The steam generators I am using have hoses that are 8 flippin feet long and I only need half of that. Any idea how these ends are attached? I would like to shorten them but not seeing a way to remove just the end. Thanks!

[Ron Swanson Jr.]

On 6/22/2024 at 6:35 PM, pkinneb said:

Question for you all. The steam generators I am using have hoses that are 8 flippin feet long and I only need half of that. Any idea how these ends are attached? I would like to shorten them but not seeing a way to remove just the end. Thanks!

 

Not really... But if you can't carefully take it apart by hand -and i know you've tried- then you're probably out of luck. 

Short of contacting the manufacturer, or just pre-order a replacement if cutting it apart doesn't do it...

My guess is that internal fitting is built right into the hose. 

You could always curl up the excess and hang it on the inside of your cart? Then it's there if you need it down the line.

 

Good luck!

[Ron Swanson Jr.]

On 6/22/2024 at 7:37 PM, Ron Swanson Jr. said:

Not really... But if you can't carefully take it apart by hand -and i know you've tried- then you're probably out of luck. 

Short of contacting the manufacturer, or just pre-order a replacement if cutting it apart doesn't do it...

My guess is that internal fitting is built right into the hose. 

You could always curl up the excess and hang it on the inside of your cart? Then it's there if you need it down the line.

 

Good luck!

I have a similar hose on my sprayer. It looks like the hose was heated up, and then stretched to be seated over the fitting and making an air tight seal. Definitely not something i would think that i could recreate. 

[Coop]

Paul, this looks very similiar to the hose on the Festool shop vac. There are two indents, for lack of a better word, on the coupling where it attaches to the hose.

If yours have these, depressing them simultaneously will disconnect the hose from the coupling. 

[pkinneb]

On 6/22/2024 at 9:42 PM, Coop said:

Paul, this looks very similiar to the hose on the Festool shop vac. There are two indents, for lack of a better word, on the coupling where it attaches to the hose.

If yours have these, depressing them simultaneously will disconnect the hose from the coupling. 

Thanks Coop i'll look again tomorrow but it looked like they were fused on some how. I may just cut the line and splice in the middle if I need to. I will try the as they are and see what kind of steam I can get but running it through all that extra pipe is really a waste of energy  

[Mark J]

Add insulation to the hose?  It would probably make the hose stiffer, but you don't have to do the entire length.

[gee-dub]

Between projects so;

- General shop clean up.

- DC / Vac bins and filters checked and dealt with as required.

- Chisel, plane iron, card scraper, and router bit touch ups.

- Machine surface inspection and maintenance as required.

- Scrap sorting and burn-pile volume enhancement.

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[Tom King]

I actually built something out of wood today.  I made an intermediate transition box for puppies that are not quite three weeks old.  We start training them to use a litter box when they're 2-1/2 weeks old.  The world beats a path to our door for litter trained puppies.  

Picture was when I was switching them from the whelping box that they were born in.  This is a smaller step in size for them than our normal step from the whelping box to an expen.

They might stay in this one for a week.  It's a litter of six, so this gives the Mom more room to nurse them than the 2x3 foot whelping box with this same size litter box in it.  The litter box is one I made that is the same height as their bed so they don't have to climb over something.  Puppies have the instinct not to soil their bed to start with, but it's easily lost.  That's why puppy mill puppies raising on a screen are so hard to house train since they learn to just let it go any kind of way.

[wtnhighlander]

I got to meet the new neighbors.

[Tom King]

Looks like they're hungry.  They're a lot meaner than they look.

[pkinneb]

Got a spare urn glued up. hoping I don't have to use it any time soon but I least I won't be busting butt to get one knocked out if I do.

[wtnhighlander]

Apprently there is something under the wild cherry trees that they like.

And you are right Tom, raccoons are not a critter to mess with.

 

[JohnG]

 

This guy killed two of our chickens, here it is coming back to try for a third. I persuaded it to leave and not come back 

[Coop]

As @wtnhighlander’s Jerry Closer’s video said, “knock him out John”! 

[JohnG]

It has finally been dry enough for my machine shed project to resume. The spring water that was flowing through the pad location turns out to be seasonal, as it is now completely dry. The back half of our property stays pretty soggy Jan/Feb through May/June, and the pad is not far or much higher than that area so it’s not too surprising. 

Dug out the bad dirt and found a spot in our field with good clay, so they are swapping it out. Soil engineers gave the OK on the clay and the plan. Going to start with gravel floor to make sure the wet months don’t cause much settling. If it does, we’ll put in a curtain drain around the pad. If not, I’ll have some of the gravel dug out and pour a concrete floor once I’m ready to spend more money on it. 

[JohnG]

And now that I posted that, it started raining enough that they had to call it quits for the day. 

[Tom King]

I would be thankful for any rain here.

[JohnG]

For our orchard and gardens, I was very glad for the rain. But I’m ready to have my building. 

[legenddc]

Been super dry and hot up here too. Going to give the plants a good soaking today since we'll be on vacation next week.

Got back last night from a work trip in New Orleans. Will be home for 34 hours total before leaving for vacation. Work trip went well and we only went out one night on Bourbon Street. Went to the oldest operating bar in the US, supposedly built in the 1720s.