So glad I kept my stereo stock. I found a stock stereo on eBay that had an auxiliary input added to it so I could listen to Pandora n such but at the same time it’s still stock. No fuss, no muss.
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It's nice to see someone makes a point to let you know they appreciate what you're doing.
Some people buy stuff and some people make stuff. I like to enjoy the ride.
I'm actually dreaming up a new cutter to replace what I made a few years ago. It only cuts one direction but that hasn't made any difference because I'm right handed so cutting into the left is natural to me.
Here's the old one and a piece of angle aluminum for the new one.
If you look at the cutter you will notice strips of stainless steel adhered to the aluminum angle, on opposite sides of the edges of the utility blade. Those strips contain the blade and an alan screw and washer is used as a hold down. You can buy the stainless in a thickness of .025", exactly the same thickness as a heavy duty utility blade. I made this cutter for a really difficult vinyl repair. I had to cut out three 20 foot long by 2 ft wide sections of sheet vinyl flooring. It was a wood plank pattern with those skinny, black 1/16" wide "grout lines" between the planks. This cutter allowed me to cut EXACTLY the depth of two pieces of material without cutting in to the substrate. you just keep adjusting the blade on practice pieces until it doesn't cut more than two pieces thick. Unlike simply using a utility knife, the cutter cuts at exactly a 90° angle.
I later used this to trim out a 3/4 inch section of commercial carpet that was stretched in a 5 foot wide hallway. The utility blade rides exactly on the edge of your straight edge so that makes the cut really accurate.
Anyway the tool works so good I'm going to remake it. I noticed the crane loop pile cutter has a 30° angle and my Roberts has a 60° angle. I'm thinking of putting an angle of this one around 40 to 45°.
I'm also contemplating making two plates for this cutter out of quarter inch aluminum. That would make two detachable pieces and I could make one fit a utility blade and the second one fit a carpet blade. that 5-in piece of angle aluminum would simply act as the handle and the bottom part of the guide. Anyway it's in progress I just haven't committed myself yet.
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I like it my man but that is a lot of work to make a top cutter but like you say, sometime it is about the journey
It's definitely is about the journey. There are pictures on the site somewhere, of a lift I made for my router. I needed something with super precision to do an inset repair in a wilsonart laminate floor. Took me most of the year to dream up how to make it and to actually build it, then I had to build a table to set it into. Between buying the aluminum and buying the nuts and bolts and drill bits and taps, I might have $300 into this stupid thing. We don't want to talk about how much my time is worth because it would be really stupid to spend $6,000 on a lift for a router that you use once a year.
For $300 to $500 you could buy one.
....... But not mine.
Quit talking like that. You're attempting to make me buy a welder.I just finished welding the exhaust for my car from the header to the cat back.
Stock with the engine was 1.5 inch, maybe even 1.25 and now everything from the header back is 2.5 inch. Should help seeing as the engine went from a 92 hp to 185. Tomorrow is test drive day. Last time I did that was last October or so, my "exhaust" was a the cat back I had bought from Yonaka, the stock 1.5 inch cat mounted to a header collector that was way too big and some oversized flex pipe and some clamps. Needless to say that did not work all that well at all so this year...
I have been working on that car for almost 3 years on and off, without a garage and without a bloody clue what i am doing and it is almost done. I think I will actually be able to drive it to work on Monday
Then comes the real fun of transferring the stereo to it. I already have the rear seats and the whole hatch gutted down to the metal, now I just need to start fiberglassing a new enclosure and amp racks. Its gonna be a blend of MDF and fiberglass so we shall see what takes shape but either way it will be fun.
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It's definitely is about the journey. There are pictures on the site somewhere, of a lift I made for my router. I needed something with super precision to do an inset repair in a wilsonart laminate floor. Took me most of the year to dream up how to make it and to actually build it, then I had to build a table to set it into. Between buying the aluminum and buying the nuts and bolts and drill bits and taps, I might have $300 into this stupid thing. We don't want to talk about how much my time is worth because it would be really stupid to spend $6,000 on a lift for a router that you use once a year.
For $300 to $500 you could buy one.
....... But not mine.
I’m just the opposite. I spend a couple bones for a router lift but I’m on my 3rd homemade table.
I joined a router forum in attempts to gain some information on using a router. I was contacted by a customer and they requested me to attempt a repair with a discontinued laminate floor. It was wilsonart bamboo looking plank.
The repair area was 8 or 9 ft out from the wall. I needed to route and fit in leftovers in approximately a 12x20-in rectangle in the floor. Basically, to set in pieces of leftover laminate. Next to that repair was a 6x8-in square that needed to be inset also. The owner had removed a goofy stairway to nowhere that went to a weird loft. it just left empty spaces where they removed the supports for the stairs.
I decided to use splines on part of it and lap joints on some of it. Being that those formica-like laminate floors have zero forgivability compared with wood, I decided to make a lift. All the guys that do woodworking, make their router lifts out of plywood and 2x4s. I live on the Oregon coast. If you make something precision out of wood that slides up and down or to and fro, it's going to be tight in the winter and loose in the summer.
Ok, I says to myself...... Aluminum! That became my chosen material.
The project made me go totally crazy and when it was completed, I can say yes, I would change one thing. I don't have enough adjustability. I might be able to correct that, but there are workarounds for everything.
Anyway, it was fun once it got completed, and it works. I wish I had a milling machine and a lathe but I'm probably going to buy a welder first.
The repair area was 8 or 9 ft out from the wall. I needed to route and fit in leftovers in approximately a 12x20-in rectangle in the floor. Basically, to set in pieces of leftover laminate. Next to that repair was a 6x8-in square that needed to be inset also. The owner had removed a goofy stairway to nowhere that went to a weird loft. it just left empty spaces where they removed the supports for the stairs.
I decided to use splines on part of it and lap joints on some of it. Being that those formica-like laminate floors have zero forgivability compared with wood, I decided to make a lift. All the guys that do woodworking, make their router lifts out of plywood and 2x4s. I live on the Oregon coast. If you make something precision out of wood that slides up and down or to and fro, it's going to be tight in the winter and loose in the summer.
Ok, I says to myself...... Aluminum! That became my chosen material.
The project made me go totally crazy and when it was completed, I can say yes, I would change one thing. I don't have enough adjustability. I might be able to correct that, but there are workarounds for everything.
Anyway, it was fun once it got completed, and it works. I wish I had a milling machine and a lathe but I'm probably going to buy a welder first.
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You need a welder man. Just get some hokey piece of crap from harbor freight. I got a 60A flux-core from Canadian Tire and it is going strong. I did have to preheat my 1/4 inch steel flanges for my exhaust but it welded them strong. It is super fun to dink around with for sure. I wanted one for a long long time and it always seemed like a novelty to me until I needed to make my exhaust and then I spent less on the welder than a 21" flanged "test pipe". That is a win. Now when the time comes to make the mounting brackets for my second alternator and battery replacement and installing the cooler for the turbo, bam! Free moneyI joined a router forum in attempts to gain some information on using a router. I was contacted by a customer and they requested me to attempt a repair with a discontinued laminate floor. It was wilsonart bamboo looking plank.
The repair area was 8 or 9 ft out from the wall. I needed to route and fit in leftovers in approximately a 12x20-in rectangle in the floor. Basically, to set in pieces of leftover laminate. Next to that repair was a 6x8-in square that needed to be inset also. The owner had removed a goofy stairway to nowhere that went to a weird loft. Just left empty spaces for the remove the supports and stairs.
I decided to use splines on part of it and lap joints on some of it. Being that those formica-like laminate floors have zero forgivability compared with wood, I decided to make a lift. All the guys that do woodworking, make theirs out of plywood and 2x4s. I live on the Oregon coast. If you make something precision out of wood that slides up and down or to and fro, it's going to be tight in the winter and loose in the summer.
Ok, I says to myself...... Aluminum! That became my chosen material.
The project made me go totally crazy and was completed, yes I would change one thing because I don't have enough adjustability. I might be able to correct that, but there are workarounds for everything.
Anyway it was fun once it got completed and it works. I wish I had a milling machine and a lathe but I'm probably going to buy a welder first.
I've watched a ton of videos I want to TIG.
Actually, my next door neighbor's grandson bought a harbor freight welder. He has a Ford bronco and a muffler went bad. The factory muffler has a 3-point flange like what goes on to a header collector. He cut off the flange and welded it onto a aftermarket muffler. The kid doesn't talk much but it would be fun just stop over and check out the welder and ask him a few stupid questions.
....... And no, he is not a welder. He just bought the welder to replace his muffler. I'm betting he probably save money..... And he now has a welder.
....... And no, he is not a welder. He just bought the welder to replace his muffler. I'm betting he probably save money..... And he now has a welder.
See man, thats what i am talking about.
I'm 100% on your side with this. If I invest in the welder, I just want to get one notch ahead of a base model, so that I don't buy something that I can't grow into.
I have a friend that bought a Craftsman wire welder. It has the gas and everything but it was a cheap one. I borrowed it once to weld up some trim tabs on the back of the cab on my 1973 Chevy stepside.
The Sears brand being a cheap model had issues feeding the wire
The tension control did not work very well and it kept getting a bird's nest inside and you don't realize that's happening until you blow a hole through the metal as a wire stops feeding. It was frustrating. Personally I'd rather find a used welder for 300 bucks for 400 bucks that is more than I need. I'm taking a wild guess that when you bought yours you thought you hardly ever use it. Once you started using it you don't know how you made without it.
Am I very far off in my guesstimation?
Define multimaster was the first tool I bought to use on one job that was impossible to do without it
I spent $235 on a tool that I never thought I would use it again. It became a tool that I use all the time and right now I don't know how I'd live without it. Tools are funny that way.
I have a friend that bought a Craftsman wire welder. It has the gas and everything but it was a cheap one. I borrowed it once to weld up some trim tabs on the back of the cab on my 1973 Chevy stepside.
The Sears brand being a cheap model had issues feeding the wire
The tension control did not work very well and it kept getting a bird's nest inside and you don't realize that's happening until you blow a hole through the metal as a wire stops feeding. It was frustrating. Personally I'd rather find a used welder for 300 bucks for 400 bucks that is more than I need. I'm taking a wild guess that when you bought yours you thought you hardly ever use it. Once you started using it you don't know how you made without it.
Am I very far off in my guesstimation?
Define multimaster was the first tool I bought to use on one job that was impossible to do without it
I spent $235 on a tool that I never thought I would use it again. It became a tool that I use all the time and right now I don't know how I'd live without it. Tools are funny that way.
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If what I type, into my microphone, sounds really screwy and makes no sense whatsoever......... It's my microphone on the phone, not my typing skill level.
I often talk to my phone instead of manually typing the words, the TV is on and at times I've even seen it write an entire sentence from the TV instead of the comment that I am trying to write.
Do not trust your life on technology.
I often talk to my phone instead of manually typing the words, the TV is on and at times I've even seen it write an entire sentence from the TV instead of the comment that I am trying to write.
Do not trust your life on technology.
I have Dragonspeak on my laptop, but don't use it.If what I type, into my microphone, sounds really screwy and makes no sense whatsoever......... It's my microphone on the phone, not my typing skill level.
I often talk to my phone instead of manually typing the words, the TV is on and at times I've even seen it write an entire sentence from the TV instead of the comment that I am trying to write.
Do not trust your life on technology.
I have only used it thrice but I believe that your assumption is correct
Tom Picciani
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Been digging holes and putting in shrubs all over. Put in 120 feet of 6 inch edging. And then 5 cubic yards of mulch. Oh and discovered a great tool for mulch. I got a manure fork. The tines are bent so you can stand closer to the pile and avoid stopping it bending. Much easier on the back!
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I probably should have put this in the joke section.
I watch a channel on YouTube called video leak police. It shows video from dashboard cams personal police cameras during police stops, chases, domestic violence calls etc.
This one is going to win an award in 2021 for one of the funniest things I've ever seen on this channel.
I dedicate this to Havasu and dare him to show me something funnier.
It no workie Hi?
For some reason the original poster supposedly took that one down. YouTube is notorious for taking down images that might be considered offensive. Usually things that are too graphic. This was a guy that got into a police car and drove off on a highway and there was a long Chase and a police SUV did a few pit maneuvers and a police car went off the grass into a thicket trees. As a dozen other police officers in their cars pulled off the road behind him so he couldn't drive back out, the cops were looking in the bushes for him and the guy comes darting out runs 50 ft across the grass hops in a second cop car and drives off.
There's a helicopter above filming everything and a few miles down the freeway they were able to get spike strips out and the guy finally pulled off the road. The guy opens the car door and laid down on the grounds with his hands out before all of the cops chasing him even came to a stop.
This idiot was in a SWAT team members police car. instead of attempting to grab a rifle or a gun that might have been available he just laid on the ground waiting to be arrested.
The man was not remotely translucent and he did not get shot.
...... Might have been because he didn't point a weapon at the police or try to attack them.
So I have no idea why the video was removed.
During the two chase segments, I would have liked to have seen It sped up a little bit and have them play Benny Hill's music.
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Here you go Hav. This is a shorter version of the one that I saw.
https://youtu.be/
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