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What did you do today?
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Got my riding mower put back together.
Is that the one that made a curve in the seam to stop seam peaking? Or the one like Hi said that rolls up?
It is solid plastic with a curve in the center.
I can post a picture but probably not today. Today is my wife's birthday.
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Tell her happy birthday from a bunch of guys she doesn't know.
I don't have it anymore. I might have tossed it 20 years ago.
Starter went out on my mower today. Just got the deck pulley changed. I am getting tired of working on it.
Finally got all the supplies together to make my kitty cube. I used the aforementioned metal wire modular kit but only used 1 cube (5 pieces). I used thick cardboard cut to fit in the bottom, wrapped it in a puppy pad, put it inside a plastic bag, sealed it up, put 1/4" foam padding over the top & added another puppy pad before upholstering it in felt. Outside of the cubby is felt. Inside is microfiber. I hand-sewed it bc my sewing machine wouldn't cooperate. I sewed 3 sides for each of the panels (felt sewn to microfiber). I had only secured the metal wire pieces at the bottom so I was able to slide the panels over (with 1/4" foam on the inner side for padding). Secured them at the bottom but left room for zip ties to secure the sides & back to the bottom more efficiently.
Poked holes for zip ties in higher parts & zip-tied on the top. Then I used plastic grid from a crappy "washable" HVAC filter that was garbage. I kept he plastic just in case though & it paid off. Hardest part of the entire project was cutting it. Jigsaw didnt' want to do it (wrong blade), Dremel was over at friend's house, Matrix ran out of battery & friend still has the charger. I ended up using wire strippers to make the plastic small enough to cut w/ scissors. I added the foam & taped it together. Was running low on felt so I used scraps to cover the front. Looks like Frankenstein's monster.
I only secured the front w/ 2 zip ties in the middle but sewed the rest of it on to the front by hand.
Got 1" foam for the kitty cushion. Upholstered one side in plush microfiber & the other in sherpa fleece. I added cheap shoelaces to tether it inside in case they get rowdy (although it fits very snugly). I hid the ties behind some of the fabric.
I just need to do some touch-up sewing & hang it up in their cage. Trying to figure out the best way to secure it so that if the cage ever needs to be taken apart, it still can be. I was going to use zip ties, but those are hard to remove & I need something sturdy but removable.
Wire pieces put together (sans top)
Upholstered with top attached
With front in place
Cushion
Finished cubby
Poked holes for zip ties in higher parts & zip-tied on the top. Then I used plastic grid from a crappy "washable" HVAC filter that was garbage. I kept he plastic just in case though & it paid off. Hardest part of the entire project was cutting it. Jigsaw didnt' want to do it (wrong blade), Dremel was over at friend's house, Matrix ran out of battery & friend still has the charger. I ended up using wire strippers to make the plastic small enough to cut w/ scissors. I added the foam & taped it together. Was running low on felt so I used scraps to cover the front. Looks like Frankenstein's monster.
I only secured the front w/ 2 zip ties in the middle but sewed the rest of it on to the front by hand.
Got 1" foam for the kitty cushion. Upholstered one side in plush microfiber & the other in sherpa fleece. I added cheap shoelaces to tether it inside in case they get rowdy (although it fits very snugly). I hid the ties behind some of the fabric.
I just need to do some touch-up sewing & hang it up in their cage. Trying to figure out the best way to secure it so that if the cage ever needs to be taken apart, it still can be. I was going to use zip ties, but those are hard to remove & I need something sturdy but removable.
Wire pieces put together (sans top)
Upholstered with top attached
With front in place
Cushion
Finished cubby
Tom Picciani
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Finished sheathing the hobby bench and glued the top together.
bought a couple toys: a Kreg pocket hole kit 330 (the $40 version. And I got the hidden hinge kit for the cabinets I’m going to build.
Might end up with a lot of 1/4 plywood and about 1/2 sheet of Mdf. Hate that stuff when I am cutting it. Dust everywhere
bought a couple toys: a Kreg pocket hole kit 330 (the $40 version. And I got the hidden hinge kit for the cabinets I’m going to build.
Might end up with a lot of 1/4 plywood and about 1/2 sheet of Mdf. Hate that stuff when I am cutting it. Dust everywhere
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Hope the kits worked well.
I still need to help my friend put his cabinet handles on now that he's feeling better & tested negative for Covid again.
Kittens love their cube. Temjin was pedaling her feet on the sherpa.
Slept until 5pm today then realized it was election day so I went to vote. My voting place only had 2 machines but the 1st one I tried was broken. Lights wouldn't come on to show the selection. Poll worker stepped in and hit different names to see if it would light up but it seems the LEDs are not working so they moved me to the other booth. The broken machine had been used 7 times that day. When I was done on the working one, it showed 12 people had used it. They said hardly anyone had come by & it was almost 7pm. When I went to sign in I saw my mother was listed as having voted by mail.
Speaking of which, when she went to drop off her ballot, they cut the envelope open to check to see that someone else had signed to confirm her signature & said they would re-seal it later. Makes me wonder if her vote will even be counted bc they did that. Not like there were any choices really. Only one candidate for each party actually running. I had thought other stuff was going to be on the ballot too as the list of what was on the ballot wasn't available online.
I still need to help my friend put his cabinet handles on now that he's feeling better & tested negative for Covid again.
Kittens love their cube. Temjin was pedaling her feet on the sherpa.
Slept until 5pm today then realized it was election day so I went to vote. My voting place only had 2 machines but the 1st one I tried was broken. Lights wouldn't come on to show the selection. Poll worker stepped in and hit different names to see if it would light up but it seems the LEDs are not working so they moved me to the other booth. The broken machine had been used 7 times that day. When I was done on the working one, it showed 12 people had used it. They said hardly anyone had come by & it was almost 7pm. When I went to sign in I saw my mother was listed as having voted by mail.
Speaking of which, when she went to drop off her ballot, they cut the envelope open to check to see that someone else had signed to confirm her signature & said they would re-seal it later. Makes me wonder if her vote will even be counted bc they did that. Not like there were any choices really. Only one candidate for each party actually running. I had thought other stuff was going to be on the ballot too as the list of what was on the ballot wasn't available online.
Busy day, so far. Put a starter on the mower. Made some reinforcement for a set of metal shelves. Built a new out-feed rail for my table saw.
How did the people cutting the envelope open know what her signature looked like?
I watched an NHRA race, then bought some hamburger....
...yup, that's about it.
No idea. They were only checking to see that someone had signed to say they witnessed her signing & did not seal the envelope back up in front of us so I wonder if they threw it away or something. I don't think it can be counted if they broke the seal.
Kittens are loving their kitty cube. Only thing that got them more excited was when I changed their litterbox. Fresh $#!+sand always seems to get them riled up. They were jumping around in it & playing. When they were done they went back to the cube. I'm thinking of making them a pillow. I initially set a ramp up for them but I didn't secure it so they kept knocking it down. It was an old cloth-covered ramp from a cat tree that broke. It's back down on the lowest tier helping to stabilize the crappy wire ramp that came with the cage. I suppose if I crimped the ends I could make the ramp stay tighter, but they will outgrow the ramps soon so I can they aren't permanent.
I'm currently trying to find a better solution for their food bowls. They keep knocking the food bowls over. I'm going to try to find a way to mount the bowls to the side of the cage.
Hey, the forum is back up. It was down for a couple hours.
I was down for 10 hours or more so I didn't notice. 
I had a leak in a water line that runs under my place for an outdoor faucet. Bought the new cpvc pipe a couple months ago and yesterday decided to start working on it. Pipe sections are 1/2" cpvc and are all glued together and ready to hook up, but need to change the location slightly. It's been a pain not having the second faucet. The line runs on the ground and I'm thinking of getting some 1"schedule 40 PVC from the Habitat store and sliding it over the 1/2" pipe as added durability and a bit of protection from freezing. We don't get below freezing very often.
I mowed, trimmed, edged then blew both yards in the heat of the day. I then moved and loaded my new gun shootin shed to another spot of the yard, then loaded it back up with the shootin stuff, then took a nice, cool plunge in the pool, and fell asleep floating on my raft for an hour.
