FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
Gawd help you if you accidentally cut up an Amazon box....or make a space ship out of one.
Ma could have put something in that box!
Ma could have put something in that box!
How'd it go today?
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Ammo Cans. Man tupperware
stikine
Treehouser
You are all weirdos. 😁
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Amazon and pizza boxes are for the shooting range. Change my mind
pigwot
M's, Juniper's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Grandpa
Most boxes get reused if they aren’t already torn up. Ryan, iirc your HH II is arriving in a box that first held an early, all-metal version of a Kreg pockethole jig from about 20 years ago.
I like old containers.
Back in 1950 when my parents started the day camp in Michigan they still lived in Ann Arbor, picked the children up, drove to the lake for the day and dropped them off afterwards. Lunch included homemade cookies, transported in a tin from the Behrhorst cookie company in Pittsburgh.
When camp grew too big, and we had a home on the lake the tin sat for years in the attic. When we cleared out the house I kept the tin and now store one of the flavors of the annual holiday pizzelles which we make in it.
I like old containers.
Back in 1950 when my parents started the day camp in Michigan they still lived in Ann Arbor, picked the children up, drove to the lake for the day and dropped them off afterwards. Lunch included homemade cookies, transported in a tin from the Behrhorst cookie company in Pittsburgh.
When camp grew too big, and we had a home on the lake the tin sat for years in the attic. When we cleared out the house I kept the tin and now store one of the flavors of the annual holiday pizzelles which we make in it.
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Old tins are the best. Seems like a no-brainer to me for a company to use nice metal tins. It's persistent advertising, cause a lot of people save them for various things. Add a tiny bit to the product cost, eat a tiny bit of the additional expense, and it's bargain level advertising campaign.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
At Eldelweiss in Greer AZ. One of our largest and longest running customers is Brandt Cattle.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Pruned fruit trees on snow covered ground today up in the National forest. 4500 0r 5000 elevation. Just a nice morning with Levi helping.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
One of our retired feed yard owner customers brought his peeJ in for custom tow bar mounts
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Oil burner is driving me crazy. Little to no heat for past four days. Having a hard time sourcing the simplest of parts locally. 60* B nozzle, R8184G primary, ($180
), etc. I've got the burner running, and now it looks like the heat exchanger is plugged. Tomorrow's project. Hope I get it figured out soon, a cold snap is coming.
), etc. I've got the burner running, and now it looks like the heat exchanger is plugged. Tomorrow's project. Hope I get it figured out soon, a cold snap is coming.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I have had no luck with Oregon semi (speed or durability)...you? RM is good stuff.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Fingers crossed, the boiler is purring away as I type this. Weil McLain boilers have these really tight zig zag heat exchangers that require a special saw tooth looking tool to clean between the nubs. I don't have one, but I found this random piece of scrap metal on the floor near the boiler, and in less than a minute with the angle grinder I had a fair copy of said tool. It was a little short, so I did have to ream from the firebox side.l also. Pretty messy job, but it seems to have worked.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
That's being generous.
stikine
Treehouser
Boy, all you need is a few used syringes lying around to make that picture complete.
#progress #construction #buildingmodernlife
Knotorious
That Guy With The Face
That's so gnarly. This picture is worth a thousand disgusting words. The wanton littering speaks volumes. Is that Vitamin water? Healthy for the consumer, not for the planet, apparently.
No doubt. Don't forget the used cottons and bent, charred spoons and latex tourniquets! Perhaps a few of those cheap, transparent crack lighters for those too stingy to buy a Bic.
Kaveman
Treehouser
Knotorious
That Guy With The Face
I hate when the pharmacy tells me last minute that my most important medication is on back order.
I think I just found another pharmacy that has it, so fingers crossed.
If that's all I have to deal with today, then I guess it could be much worse.
I think I just found another pharmacy that has it, so fingers crossed.
If that's all I have to deal with today, then I guess it could be much worse.
Kaveman
Treehouser
Still a major issue, that can easily affect your quality of life Knoty! That shit is to be taken seriously!
pigwot
M's, Juniper's, Lowen’s, and Inge’s Grandpa
With having been so sick over the holidays, along with all the other busyness, I never got Harvey’s specialized, rocking-head, incising lathe off the pallet until the day before yesterday.
I had noted that a switch box atop the motor controller box had been damaged when the rigger moved it out of Harvey’s shop to their warehouse.
View attachment IMG_8984.jpeg
I bolted it down to the concrete pad once I got it, aligned with a laser level and then wired it into the 220 V circuit. The high-speed function was intermittent, and the slow speed, DC motor was dead. And, as it was late by then I just shut the lights off in the shop and went in for the night.
Kept having dream state ideas as to what it might be, so I got up at 2:50 AM and back to the shop to figure it out.
The damage the controller sustained had pressed a hot conductor against a ground screw where it was arcing, taking the least resistance path to ground rather than running through the DC motor. As you can see from the burnt screw head in this photo, Harvey might be an excellent woodturner, but not much of an electrician. (at some point I’ll rewire the whole thing as you see there are no wear grommets where the cabling enters the switch box!)
Crimp-on ends added to clean up those ground straps:
Turned a thin walnut platter to check out alignment.
I had noted that a switch box atop the motor controller box had been damaged when the rigger moved it out of Harvey’s shop to their warehouse.
View attachment IMG_8984.jpeg
I bolted it down to the concrete pad once I got it, aligned with a laser level and then wired it into the 220 V circuit. The high-speed function was intermittent, and the slow speed, DC motor was dead. And, as it was late by then I just shut the lights off in the shop and went in for the night.
Kept having dream state ideas as to what it might be, so I got up at 2:50 AM and back to the shop to figure it out.
The damage the controller sustained had pressed a hot conductor against a ground screw where it was arcing, taking the least resistance path to ground rather than running through the DC motor. As you can see from the burnt screw head in this photo, Harvey might be an excellent woodturner, but not much of an electrician. (at some point I’ll rewire the whole thing as you see there are no wear grommets where the cabling enters the switch box!)
Crimp-on ends added to clean up those ground straps:
Turned a thin walnut platter to check out alignment.
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