I have many more. Tales from the Back Yard Speaker Lab.....and the Front Yard Chassis Shop
I think the breaker box cover I made out of cardboard with a skull and crossbones drawn on it and the words LIVE...480 Volts...Stay the F%&K OUT! should have been the poster for compliance.
I made it somewhere around midnight in the plant where I worked because I had to add another breaker to feed an upgrade on a vapor deposition machine. The day shift guys simply tied the wire to one of the existing phases and went home. The breaker tripped every time the heating element turned on.
I left a note for the daytime MR. Fixit to get the plant electrician to order the proper cover. It stayed that way for several months!
It seems that the OHSA inspector didn't like it, but said nothing of all the laser burns in the walls and ceiling, not to mention all the interlocks that had been jumped on a laser power supply that made 25KV at half an amp. A cardboard cover he could see and understand, the other "high tech" stuff didn't even get looked at. It was about 1977 and there were too many other real problems to solve.
I think the breaker box cover I made out of cardboard with a skull and crossbones drawn on it and the words LIVE...480 Volts...Stay the F%&K OUT! should have been the poster for compliance.
I made it somewhere around midnight in the plant where I worked because I had to add another breaker to feed an upgrade on a vapor deposition machine. The day shift guys simply tied the wire to one of the existing phases and went home. The breaker tripped every time the heating element turned on.
I left a note for the daytime MR. Fixit to get the plant electrician to order the proper cover. It stayed that way for several months!
It seems that the OHSA inspector didn't like it, but said nothing of all the laser burns in the walls and ceiling, not to mention all the interlocks that had been jumped on a laser power supply that made 25KV at half an amp. A cardboard cover he could see and understand, the other "high tech" stuff didn't even get looked at. It was about 1977 and there were too many other real problems to solve.
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Wish I bought this earlier. Weller WD 1000.
My Weller WD-1 is excellent quality station
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You know, I've been following Tubelab - George for many years, always lots of good stuff to learn. He's contributed greatly to the hobby. And in all the photo's I've seen, he's got no shirt. Now, come on, we gotta help the guy. If we all chip-in a $ I reckon we could get George a nice shirt. Who knows, we might collect enough to get him a pair of shoes too
Track saws are awesome. I used one for the 5x5' 19mm BB sheet below, on top of hard foam. Carefully done the precision and edge quality are ready for glue up. Get a long enough track and one that is true! The cordless tracksaw idea to break down sheet goods for initial transport is brilliant - I had a heck of a time getting three 5x5' sheets home on the roof of an SUV. Although in retrospect the shop could have rough cut them for me...
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Not really a tool and I didn't have to actually buy it: Front Panel Designer from Front Panel Express, the company that does custom CNC. I use it to layout my DIY aluminum front and especially complex REAR panels for cutouts. Very intuitive to use and perfect for the task. Layout, print, transfer, scribe, cut. No more whoopsies!
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I found oven cleaner to work great on circular saw blades. Suspect it is the same as your grille cleaner.
I first looked on the internet and tried virtually every suggestion. The oven cleaner works best hands down nothing else came close. Of course use it in a warm well ventilated space.
I have a serious case of the "gotta-haves" now. Cordless is a great idea. Thanks for that post!
I've had to refinish several doors and windows plus do some finish carpentry lately and my Bosch Multi-Tool has moved to the top of my favorite power tools list for now.
Phil
Yes, great tools, great toys, great crew, 'unlimited' budget...good times.Hey hey! A fellow Perth inhabitant. That workshop at SciTech is great - all the toys.
Dan.
I use the Chef's Choice 120. I too wasted a lot of money and time over the years. This one doesn't get put away, has its own spot on the counter.
Chef'sChoice(R) EdgeSelect™ 120 Knife Sharpener - Bed Bath & Beyond
My demo hammer is bigger than yours. (Maine is rocky.)
My level.... the tripod is same-as yours, modern standard. My level has some of the same curves as yours, but is Sears Craftsman from the 1970s. Needed a lot of tune-up and constant cross-checks, but that's DIY.
They go together. I set the top of my driveway drain pipe right-at the level of the rock ledge 80 feet past the driveway. Observation in low-flow seasons confirms the level did not lie (much). Now I am chipping a channel in the rock to lower the ledge the 6-inch depth of the pipe. My front acre is going from mostly-flooded to dry a foot+ down.
New tool, super useful this month, though I don't "wish I had got sooner" because the technology is maturing. Cordless chain-saw. Will it cut? The Ryobi ONE+ saw eats small wood fast, and does large logs about as fast as my 1500 Watt plug-in chain-saw (which is near as fast as any gas saw I care to handle). The trick is a slimmer chain than the 91VG which has been standard on all small saws for a decade.
When I traveled to Tokyo on biz all the time I would spend Saturdays in the Akhibara -- and I purchased one of these for me -- the one I had was great at cutting veneers. (Also got one for a client/friend who was an avid wood-worker.)
That was over 30 years ago! I think that the saw is in the possession of one of my sons.
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