On Tue, 18 May 2004 09:22:51 GMT, Unisaw A100 posted:
With salt and vinegar? Or tomato ketchup?
G'day Keith, or should I say Doook? :) You must be one of the longest contributors to this esteemed forum. My first conversation here was with Paul Radovanic back in '97 IIRC. What a nice guy who is sadly missed. And it was Dave Fleming who put me onto Agent. Another character! I see the Franch guy newly in O'Regon is still making his presence felt. What a nice place to come to, for interest, help, and raising of the spirit :)
On Sun, 16 May 2004 04:22:17 -0700, Rick Nelson posted:
Can I add my little personal paraphrasing in amongst your wonderful descriptions? Ta! I'm using a front verandah -- L shaped about 6' x 30' (covered) and an attached flat space 12' x 20' which is only partially covered and tools must be moved undercover when rain threatens.
I haved had a SWMBO for 40 years and she is tolerant and placid, but those occasional looks of mild disapproval of something, are devastating.
I'm only going to deal with my "big" tools. As I go in for cheap, rough-sawn, wet jarrah (rare and expensive these days) and store it for years in various covered places which are also full of valuable "stuff" (read "junk"), I must have heavyish machinery to get it into usable "wood". I have an 8" jointer with a 5'+ bed. I have a 12" thicknesser which I have given Hell to, in the past, but I have a set of carbide knives for it which should improve it's performance when I get the balls to install them. I have a BigBoy 6" belt sander which I love. It gives me the most bang for any buck I have spent. I have a Triton table saw/router table which is a bit fiddly, but really quite good for the money. A big Makita router and and a 9.25" Hitachi saw. I have an aftermarket speed controller for my Makita router, and I have removed the handles to fit in the Triton. I tried once to use it without handles with the speed controller, and it was a lovely tame pussy-cat. No dramas whatsoever. Hang on tight, but it is just so easy to control. I was scared spitless before I tried this, but was very pleasantly surprised. I've got a very varied collection of router bits which I'm in the process of making one display case for all of them out of a nice plastic tray from the fridge (see, ain't SWMBO's grand? :) I've got a beaut little aluminium trimmer which I've actually not used yet, but the ownership gives me pleasure :)
I've got, amongst much salvage bits and pieces of old jarrah, over 100 pieces of air dried jarrah (over 5 years) of 1.5" x 8" x 8' to 10'. Some of these blow the fork out of yer dungarees when you plane them and see the grain in them. Oh, I've also got several tons of fence pickets in new jarrah. Rough they are 3/4" x 4" x 7'. They are about the last you might get I believe. The bloke who loaded them for me was staggered that I'd gotten so much furniture grade jarrah for the price of third grade fence pickets. I departed as gracefully as I could in my 1000cc Datsun towing twice its weight of trailer.
Not much really, except a few more square feet of roof :)
Who cares? I love patting them all, or spraying CRC over them or even painting them forrest green with my epoxy rust resistant paint.
A jointer is essential for rough lumber and the longer the bed, the better.
Midsummer is to hot, and mid winter is too cold/wet. I wish I could spend a lot more but the less you spend, the more piquant are the hours that are spent, well that's my rationalisation.
On Tue, 18 May 2004 01:36:17 GMT, JG brought forth from the murky depths:
Grok that.
I noticed several things in that pic.
1) There are no shaves in the gar^H^H^Hshop yet.
2) The house is Delta/battleship/BFU gray.
3) The curb will be bumpy to get into your driveway.
4) There's no lawn to get in the way of your weekend fun.
G'luck in the new place. Where'd you settle, again?
-- Remember: Every silver lining has a cloud. ----
5) The person that located your hot water heater must have been the same one that put mine as far away from where we use it as possible, without going outside. Joe
Well, I guess that explains a lot, and the fact that you probably put insulation around the pipes. Joe who wastes a lot of water waiting for the warm stuff
Joe wrote:>who wastes a lot of water waiting for the warm stuff
At least you _realize_ the wastefulness.You could catch that in a bucket, then flush the commode with it. My shop is undergoing a shake-up. I'm putting a fold-up miter bench along the West wall, and the place is in disarray. Thanks, Sysiphus for replying with your ideas. The "boot' hinges work well.The bench should end up costing about 70-80 bucks, all of that in hinges. Cheap hinges! JTAS10XL dominates the back half, with an outfeed table/bench the size of a 36 inch door, 'cause it's a door. Storage in bench for routers, drill motors and planes(need more planes). PM54A jointer along the East wall, and a Dewalt 733 planer make a nice triangle for stock truing. At the far end is a Delta 14 inch bandsaw w/riser (anybody ever shim out the LOWER wheel?), Jet 17 DP, Jointech's shopmade "ultimate" router table, IPM fence system. Shopmade downdraft sanding station. Outside's a Jet 1100 DC, and a trash-can cyclone, all plumbed with 4 inch DWV pipe, and the static'll raise your hackles! And more F*&$^n' odds and ends than you can shake a stick at where the lathe will go. Someday... Tom Someday, it'll all be over....
As far as power tools there is a 10" Delta TS, a 10" Delta BS, a Delta BOSS, a Delta 12 drill. a generic 8" drill, a Delta 18-36 open arm drum sander, a Delta 6" jointer, a Delta 12" planer, a generic dust Collector, a CMS, a framing nail gun, a power finish nail gun, 2 brad nail guns, a 1/4" staple gun, a furniture staple gun, a router with stand, a plunge router, a bench grinder, a parts cleaning tank, an air compressor, an inline sander, a DA air sander, a chain saw, a grinder, an air grinder, an air impact gun, an impact wrench, an air ratchet, a cordless drill, 2 electric drills, a power hand circular saw, a sabre saw, a quilt filter, a lawn mower, garden tiller, a chipper shredder and the SWMBO.
Various hammers, pliers, screw drivers, wrenches, piston ring compressor, piston ring expander, valve spring remover, strut removal tool, engine hoist, engine stand, a power chain wench and Mr. Dinky
two piles of 3' x 7' x 3/4" double faced white woodgrain look melamine stacked 10' high, various short pieces of various stock and some scenery of the concert.
Big mutt named Lady. (Not the SWMBO) various mice and other insects and rodents which include squirrels and birds. And as a locksmith, a security system that even my SWMBO gets upset over when she hears how much it costs me. If it has not been mentioned in any of the above items, I probably have it, I just can't remember what it is or where it is.
The only thing I want now may be a Legacy with a 2.5 HP Router.
The Dust Collector for dust and Mr. Dinky for use.
Less than I don't. With spending 18 hours on dialysis each week, I'd like to spend at least that in the shop this summer, but ?????, I may get only 3 hours a week.
-- Woody
Check out my Web Page at:
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******** How My Shop Works ******** 5-21-03
Larry, who do you take me for a fool? (Well if you remember me from a few years ago, perhaps ;-)
This is Memphis, TN we are talking about. It rarely gets below freezing for more than 6-8 hours _outside_, never mind in a climate controlled garage... and believe me, all the hot water pipes in the wall are wrapped in pipe insulation. And once the painters are done the visible pipes will be treated similarly.
You did notice the domain name, right?-)
-- John G. in Memphis, TN Have a nice......... night.
On Tue, 18 May 2004 21:57:29 GMT, JG brought forth from the murky depths:
OK, I guess I'll have to let you go with a warning this time.
Newp. That one got right past me. (I don't always analyze links so yours just got clicked on without notice) But it snowed somewhere down there just a month ago. And a friend's family lives in TN somewhere and they get snowed in, so I SWAGged it as a cooler climate. So solly.
-- Remember: Every silver lining has a cloud. ----
Yes, there was a local contractor building his own or a spec house that put sensors in all the bathrooms, don't recall about the kitchen, that turned on a recirc pump whenever someone walked in. the pump ran the cold water in the hot water lines back to the cold water side of the heater until a thermostat told it to quit. The article, which I forgot to save, said payback was on ly a year or two on the whole system. Didn't mention how far away the heater was though. If I knew a lot more about plumbing, and what I could mness up without a checkvalve between me and the town supply, I might do the same. Joe
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