What did you do today?

[Mark J]

So the 2 part filler and the wood hardener are two different products?

[Chestnut]

34 minutes ago, Mark J said:

So the 2 part filler and the wood hardener are two different products?

That is correct.

https://www.minwax.com/wood-products/maintenance-repair/minwax-high-performance-wood-hardener

https://www.minwax.com/wood-products/maintenance-repair/minwax-high-performance-wood-filler

 

[Tom King]

I always just used West Systems epoxy, and colloidal silica to thicken it as needed.  Sometimes Git Rot to penetrate the punky stuff to start with.  I'm sure that Minwax stuff will be okay too, but I've used the West since the 1980's, so am used to it.

For sills close to the ground, I've taken out the wooden sill, and cast concrete in place.  Once the concrete has cured, that is coated with epoxy, and then paint adheres to the epoxy.  Those have held up great.

When you paint the windows, be sure to let the paint completely lap across the glazing, to bond to the glass, and try to cut it in so you don't have to trim the edge of the paint.  Those trimmed edges don't have the longevity of undisturbed paint.  Clean the glass with denatured alcohol before painting, so there will be a good bond.

I've never had a failure when done like this since Duration was the top of the line SW paint, and none since using Emerald either, but Emerald hasn't been on the market long enough for that to be a good test.  I'm sure it will be fine though.

[legenddc]

Finished the lathe cart enough to get the lathe on it. I haven’t fine tuned the drawers or bought handles for it, but it’s functional. Will eventually mount the lathe and will add some handles to the grinder base so I can move it as needed. First time making a case, drawers and installing a door with euro hardware. Made some mistakes, but it’s shop furniture. 
 

Also cleaned out the shop a lot on Sunday, hopefully I can finish cleaning it this week and get rid of a few early woodworking projects. Then time to plan out how it should function and get moving. 
 

Indoor Christmas decorations are already up too so I might get some free time this weekend. 

[Chip Sawdust]

Y’all are making me feel so non-productive! I haven’t done diddly lately except go to work, come home, work on a C-47 model I’m making for a friend. 
 

[treeslayer]

The weather was so brutal last year my grandson and I built a B17 and it’s displayed hanging from the ceiling in his room, then I built a M18 Hellcat tank destroyer that my dad drove in WW2, that one is under glass in my man-fort. 

[Chet]

11 minutes ago, Chip Sawdust said:

work on a C-47 model I’m making for a friend

 

7 minutes ago, treeslayer said:

I built a B17 and it’s displayed hanging from the ceiling in his room, then I built a M18 Hellcat tank destroyer that my dad drove in WW2, that one is under glass

I have a good neighbor that builds models like I build furniture.  Its some pretty impressive stuff.  Mostly he makes cars, he duplicates cars he had taken pictures of at the drag strip when he was a in his 20's and 30's.  He starts with just your normal model kit but that isn't what it ends up looking like.  He air brushes by had feathering the colors, has a printer to duplicate and design his own decals.  Its a pretty impressive set up.  Only difference between him and me is his setup is in his air conditioned house and his wife can still park in the garage. 

[treeslayer]

Someday when I get time  I’m going to build a wood model ship, a friend builds the big ones 2’ plus like Old Ironsides and has offered to teach me how it’s done

[Tom King]

I've been sick with a chest cold, since Friday, so haven't gotten a thing done, even a good night's sleep.  Everyone else around here had it, and were about over it, but no luck on it bypassing me.

Today, I had a 40' shipping container delivered.  I have been looking at these for a while.  I want to take all the stuff my family has stored in the White Building/shop I use for mechanic and metal work.  Also, we need to take some things out of my Mother's house, since she's now in assisted living, and a lake house that we intend to get ready to rent this coming Spring.

There are places around that sell them, typically for 3k, and up.  You can go pick them out at those places.  Since I was sick, and getting behind on things I needed to do, the time to go pick one out was now time I didn't want to spend doing that.  I checked online, knowing the nearest Port to us is Norfolk.  Long story short, I found a place that sells Wind and Water Tight 40' containers for $1725, if you get the next one off the stack.  Shipping to our place was 725.  Figuring it was luck of the draw anyway.  I ordered one.

I had already prepared the spot, a while back.  A swale was cut on the slightly sloping hill, so that water would run away from it all around, and a 6' mower could cut to the bottom of the ditch in one pass. 

The driver was, politely, the least impressive truck driver I've dealt with.  The prepared spot was directly in line with a shed roof edge, and there was more than ample room to get the truck lined up.  Anyway, we put a long 4x under the end that needs to be slid uphill, and one of the tractors should be able to slide it with no trouble.  The semi truck rig was quite impressive.  The trailer works much like a rollback truck bed, but the single axle is hydraulically rolled back and forth underneath the bed.  The axle could also have the brakes applied, and push the truck one way, or the other.  It didn't slide downhill as he unloaded it.  That was the best he could do after several tries.

The inside is surprisingly clean.  It even smells clean.  It's not beat up to amount to anything on the inside, and has a nice, wooden floor that looks like Teak.

We'll get it pushed where I want it, and leveled up when I'm over this sickness.  After several rains wash the salt spray off of it, we'll pressure wash it, and see how far 5 gallons of White Sherwin Williams Industrial Enamel goes with the airless sprayer, and long extension wing.

We had no idea what it would look like, or whose name would be on it.  Pam said she was glad it wasn't Dong Fang, like we have seen.

 

[Mark J]

So what happens when you don't want it anymore?

[Chet]

I am sure you know this but those containers do get hot in the summer so it's not a good place to hide chocolate bars. 

[Tom King]

48 minutes ago, Mark J said:

So what happens when you don't want it anymore?

Sell it, or give it away, or just let trees grow up around it. I can't imagine not wanting more storage space though.  I'm sure we could put a hundred of them here, and rent them for a hundred bucks a month.  It's not in view from anywhere, unless you go back there, which there is no reason for anyone but us to. It can be seen by anyone riding in the Dressage arena, and horses in the pasture, but they won't care a bit.

  It's not really in the way of anything.  We may get another one, or two of them, and build a roof over them, with open sheds in between.  They're cheap, secure storage-a lot cheaper than building another building.  It'll do for now, for what we need it for.

I intend to paint it white, plant some cedar trees to block a lot of the Sun, and put a dehumidifier in it.  No furniture will get stored in it.

[wtnhighlander]

I bought one of those, 40 ft. 'high cube' (9' tall) for storage during a big project at work a couple years ago. Mighty handy, rain tight, and cheap. Paint it with Rhino Liner, and I think it would make a nice storm shelter, buried into a hillside.

[Coop]

A local sporting goods place had an ad in the paper. S&W Shield, 9 mm, reduced from $350 to $249. Also a $50 gift card from the store and a $50 rebate from S&W. I couldn’t turn it down. 

[Tom King]

I see that same deal is all over the place.  Someone is bringing one of those to play with this weekend.  Thanksgiving weekend is always a get together of people bringing their new guns to try at our "range".  We have a pistol range at our rock quarry, which is about a half mile from the house.  There is a 22' high cliff, with a hundred acres of woods behind it for a backstop.

My contribution is a Kimel .22 that I found digging around in my Mother's house that we are cleaning out.  It's a cheap revolver made in North Carolina from German made parts.  It's bit of a pain, as the cylinder doesn't tilt out to load, or unload.  It had never been shot before, and was still in the original box.  Everything is really tight about it though.

At first, I thought the trigger was too heavy for my liking.  It has two cylinders with it.  The one in it is for LR, and shorts.   There is another cylinder for .22 Mag. 

I first tried it with LR.  Turns out, the heavy trigger is a great balance for the muzzle flip, and it's the best shooting thing I remember, straight away, for instinctive shooting from the hip.  I tried some .22 shorts, but couldn't hit anything with them, always shooting low.  I didn't even bother to try the Magnum cylinder.

Not my style is the nickel plating, and cheap "pearl" handle.  I bought some CoCobolo grips for it, and will send it away this week to get it Cerakoted, probably in a brown color.

[Chip Sawdust]

On 11/26/2019 at 3:16 PM, Tom King said:

It can be seen by anyone riding in the Dressage arena, and horses in the pasture,

I grew up around horses, my mom did dressage training under Dr. Charles Williamson, who wrote Breaking and Training thé Stock Horse (clearly he knew more than that topic but it’s a classic). We did hunt/jump competition and western/English pleasure competition too. I’ve carried more cavalettis around than most folks, I reckon. Do you guys train them too?

[Chip Sawdust]

11 hours ago, K Cooper said:

A local sporting goods place had an ad in the paper. S&W Shield, 9 mm, reduced from $350 to $249. Also a $50 gift card from the store and a $50 rebate from S&W. I couldn’t turn it down. 

The Shield is a good ccw gun for sure. I’d do that deal too if I needed yet another gun lol

[Tom King]

29 minutes ago, Chip Sawdust said:

I grew up around horses, my mom did dressage training under Dr. Charles Williamson, who wrote Breaking and Training thé Stock Horse (clearly he knew more than that topic but it’s a classic). We did hunt/jump competition and western/English pleasure competition too. I’ve carried more cavalettis around than most folks, I reckon. Do you guys train them too?

We used to.  We bred horses here too, but after the economy crashed in 2008, you couldn't give them away.  We raised Sporthorses, that did the Olympic events.  Our farm was an Eventing farm, and Pam ran a United States Pony Club, and 4H Horse Club here.  Our Daughter did most of the competing, and has bushels full of ribbons.  She won her first 4H State Championship when she was 8.  She's been grown, and gone for 15 years now.  We did some Fox Hunting too.   Most of the cross country jumps have rotted away, and been disposed of.  The cross country track is mostly used by dirt bikes now.

These days, we mostly just feed, and pet the last two horses we have.  They were both born here.  Some of our friends still come, and ride, and Pam rides once in a while.  Our Jumping Ring is now a grassy field next to our horse, and I've taken all the fencing down that was around it.  About the only things used for riding here now, are the Dressage arena, and a few miles of trails through the woods.

[Chip Sawdust]

That sounds really nice. I’m happy for you  

[Coop]

10 hours ago, Chip Sawdust said:

The Shield is a good ccw gun for sure. I’d do that deal too if I needed yet another gun lol

Unfortunately  I really didn’t need another gun either but I figured $150 for a decent semi was a good deal and my wife has been asking what I wanted for Christmas. This way, maybe it will insure that she doesn’t buy me another pair of pajama pants with a draw string! 

[treeslayer]

Black Friday tradition, stay far away from the crowds, cut down the Christmas tree with a couple of the grandkids, decorate and relax

[Coop]

Dave, great pics! The best Christmas decorations, IMO, are the ones collected over the years that all have meaning and it looks like you are there! 

[treeslayer]

11 hours ago, K Cooper said:

Dave, great pics! The best Christmas decorations, IMO, are the ones collected over the years that all have meaning and it looks like you are there! 

Absolutely correct Coop, there are a bunch of glass ornaments on there that are at least 67 years old, a particular blue one was bought when I was born, they don’t make them like that anymore. 

[Chestnut]

Bought a new mattress today to get ready to host for Christmas. We wanted a platform with storage underneath. All the commercially available ones didn't appeal for one reason or another. Threw immune together in a couple hours.

We'll put a bed skirt on it so it'll just look like any other bed but it has 13" tall of storage space underneath.

[JohnG]

Started working on a batch of picture frames today. (10) 5x7 and (13) 4x6. All cherry this time around. Simple design, 1” across the face and about 3/4” deep. Will probably use walnut for splines. 
 

Milled and cut to rough lengths, then cut the rabbet on the back. I recently bought the Whiteside rabbet bit set and it works great.