What did you do today?

[Mark Brown]

lol

Mine looked like this. Without the supernova!

 

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lol

Did you take that one?
Screwed up again, I was asking Tom. I don't know you that well Mark, but I'm assuming you're not deep into astrophotography.

 

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The only roller I've ever had for seams is a star roller. On some carpets they say not to use it. If you're not stupid they work just fine.
The wool carpet of the golf course that I'm working at says not to use a star roller, so I made a workaround just to show that I care.
I stopped by the habitat store yesterday and found a flat roller just begging to be made.
They had one of the goofy rollers that you put a refrigerator on. $3
So now I got me a fancy schmancy flat roller for the carpet seams.
Here's the before picture.
It actually works really well as is. I'll show the finished product after I get back from work tomorrow. It turned out pretty sweet.

 

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If you read what I wrote before I corrected it...... I swear this flooring forum hates me.
I use my microphone instead of typing on YouTube and other places but my words never get tweaked and twisted as bad as they do here for some reason. It seems that it types correctly when I talk, but after I post my comment, the words get tweaked and twisted. It doesn't seem to happen anywhere else.

 

[Tom Picciani]

Did you take that one?
Screwed up again, I was asking Tom. I don't know you that well Mark, but I'm assuming you're not deep into astrophotography.

its actually 2 images, taken years apart. The arrow points to where the supernova happened.

 

[DarisMulkin]

My wife and I just got our arm itching for about 4 days on the second shot, other than that nothing.

 

[Tom Picciani]

I didn’t even realize I captured the supernova until I read an article in Sky and Telescope showing it’s location. When I checked my images, there it was!

 

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I didn’t even realize I captured the supernova until I read an article in Sky and Telescope showing it’s location. When I checked my images, there it was!

It was that called right time at the right place? I'm going to take a wild guess you don't have a lot of supernova images. That was impressive.

 

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Any reason why a star at the bottom of the left photo is bright and on the right photo is the dimist of the three stars.

 

[Tom Picciani]

Any reason why a star at the bottom of the left photo is bright and on the right photo is the dimist of the three stars.

2 different cameras were used with different resolutions. I’m guessing the left one has lower resolution

 

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Darn I hope that I saw a supernova that you didn't.

 

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Okay guys for the first time in 45 years I have a smooth seam roller.
..... Actually it's pretty slick.
I cut a strip off of a piece of quarter inch aluminum that I had. It was exactly the length needed to connect two sets of rollers I just cut it for width on my table saw. It only took two passes moving slowly, then a tiny bit of touch up with the belt sander to round off the edges.
I'm a big spender it cost me three bucks plus a little JB weld.

 

[Mark Brown]

I love you more every day man, every single day!

 

[Floorist]

Okay guys for the first time in 45 years I have a smooth seam roller.
..... Actually it's pretty slick.
I cut a strip off of a piece of quarter inch aluminum that I had. It was exactly the length needed to connect two sets of rollers I just cut it for width on my table saw. It only took two passes moving slowly, then a tiny bit of touch up with the belt sander to round off the edges.
I'm a big spender it cost me three bucks plus a little JB weld.

Randy, you are amazing.

 

[Floorist]

Had to go buy a new riding mower today. Those things are pricey and hard to find.

 

[Mark Brown]

I started porting my stereo from my Hyundai to my Honda. The most important part of any car is the Audio equipment which at no time shall be equal to less than three times the value of the car it is installed in.
This is going to take some time so for now, I just want to get the head unit and amps running then I will simply plop my sub box over and build a temporary sound bar for the 8 speakers I run that are not subs. The idea of the car is that I want to make the backseats/hatch into a custom fiberglass speaker/sub/amp install but I do not know if I have the ability to pull that off so for the time being I will just settle for sound. I figure it takes me the rest of the summer to complete and lord knows there will be a lot of profanity... but if I ever get it done, it will be something.
The nice part is I built the stereo a few years ago so I already have all the expensive bits... other than some MDF which isn't getting cheaper by the day and a custom pearl paint job... but if that does not pan out rustoleum is cheap

Nothing like installing 600W of drivers into a 92 Honda Civic, but I need something louder than the exhaust

 

[Floorist]

I started porting my stereo from my Hyundai to my Honda. The most important part of any car is the Audio equipment which at no time shall be equal to less than three times the value of the car it is installed in.
This is going to take some time so for now, I just want to get the head unit and amps running then I will simply plop my sub box over and build a temporary sound bar for the 8 speakers I run that are not subs. The idea of the car is that I want to make the backseats/hatch into a custom fiberglass speaker/sub/amp install but I do not know if I have the ability to pull that off so for the time being I will just settle for sound. I figure it takes me the rest of the summer to complete and lord knows there will be a lot of profanity... but if I ever get it done, it will be something.
The nice part is I built the stereo a few years ago so I already have all the expensive bits... other than some MDF which isn't getting cheaper by the day and a custom pearl paint job... but if that does not pan out rustoleum is cheap

Nothing like installing 600W of drivers into a 92 Honda Civic, but I need something louder than the exhaust

My grandson got into my car the other day and asked what the music is, I told him "Cinderella" and he was lost.

 

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Randy, you are amazing.

Thanks rusty, it's the frigerator rollers that are are amazing.
..... Not the plastic ones, they're crap. If I had a laser engraver I could call it the Roller Down 6300. I'm sure that Jerry would approve of that name.
The amazing part is that my sheet of aluminum was exactly the right length for these rollers so I only had to make one cut to form the aluminum cap.
I used my angle grinder with a cut off wheel to cut the adjustable arms off the sets of wheels, then I set my table saw over a piece of carpet pad to catch the shavings, sprayed some WD-40 on the aluminum and the blade, then slowly fed it through the saw and in two cuts it was done. After that I just buzzed the edges with the belt sander sprayed some brake clean on it to get rid of the oil. I had a couple of large tubes of JB weld on hand. It went amazingly quick.
I'll bet from start to finish, it took a little over an hour.
Actually it didn't cost me three bucks it cost me a buck and a half because I still have the other set of rollers.
I must be living right, because I went to habitat to see what pieces and parts they might have such as drawer guides with plastic rollers on them...... I stopped in there a few days ago for something else and these rollers were not there. I think there was some divine power that force me to go to habitat.

 

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I love you more every day man, every single day!

I'm not married.

 

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Had to go buy a new riding mower today. Those things are pricey and hard to find.

One would think somebody would have a used one for sale. At the hardware store even the cheap ones are expensive.