Did you buy a special bit designed for flattening? How much sanding afterwards? That turned out sweet.
What did you do today?
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I did buy a new bit. I think I spent maybe $45 on it so nothing crazy. They do have some really fancy CNC spoil board bits with replaceable carbide inserts that work like a charm but then you’re getting up into the $100+ range and I’m just not there yet.
You do have to sand out minimal lines between router passes when you’re done planing it but it’s not bad at all. It’s not perfectly smooth but it is flat and that’s what counts. A CNC machine can get it perfectly flat and smooth but my sled is CN me not CNC so sanding it is. 60 grit on my palm sander knocks down all the lines then I hit it with an 80 grit screen and damn those things are nice, especially when I have my palm sander hooked up to my HEPA vac. First time I’ve tried the sanding screens and I liked the 80 grit screen better than the 60 grit disc. I sanded it up to 150 grit then started applying oil.
What I really need to do is to hook up some dust collection for the sled or just say heck with it and set up the jig outside on some saw horses so I can let the chips fly and Mother Nature will take care of them for me cus there’s a lot and I only buzzed down 1/8” split between both sides.
A photo I took. Seems right for Halloween.
Waiting for "trick or treaters". Only had 6 so far and they were grandkids.
Still not dark here. Last couple years barely a handful came. So far the guy across the street came over twice with two different kids. I was surprised they came so early. Usually they come after dark but those kids were barely walking so he's just kinda going through the motions.
In the late 40s they started a school program here. They would have a dance, movies, and free food and games from 7 to 12 on Halloween, for high school students, They stopped it about 3 years ago. Kids were no longer interested.
Upgraded my nail gun today. Lol.
CJC instead of CNC.
It's gonna last longer.
Most all is done downtown these days. Lots of parents and kids on the main drag.
There had to be at least 4-500 kids go through my sub last night. We quite passing out candy maybe 10 years ago when they tore up our flower bed and what have you. The bad part is they are mostly bussed in. You know when they aren't from here when the parents ask how to get back to their car in the shopping center up front of the sub.
Friend of mine on one of the main streets had 800. But she does that kind of stuff. She took their model A and delivered Christmas presents to the poor kids last year. She is a Republican who moved here from California. Told me should could not handle it anymore. Don't know what her boyfriend does for a living but, they bought an 1880s Victorian home and are restoring it as authentic as they can.
That is really sad.
Worst case here was a neighbor kid. He went out long before it got dark and filled his pillow case.
When it was time for us to go out, he traveled door to door with us.
A lot of people said to him :
"You've already been here tonight"
His bag was already 1/3 filled when we started. As a kid, it was a bit embarrassing.
I wonder today, if they understand that feeling.
Good thing you just so happened to have those cinderblocks on the truck! I prefer cartons of VCT.
I had the help run to the lumber yard for them.
It was closer than going back to the shop for vct. Had I known I would have brought some. Unfortunately there was carpet here before so never got a good look at the slab.
I need x-ray glasses....... Who am I shitting, if I had x-ray glasses I wouldn't be using them on the floor!
Sadly, having a gun might not have helped Paul Pelosi-- it may have gotten him killed. He'd have to know how to use it properly and be quick enough to shoot or deter before the guy could take it away from it. There were a lot of news reports in these parts about break-ins where the burglars took the guns away from the homeowners and either injured them or killed them.
I haven't dealt with trick-or-treaters since we lived in Guam. I had a grim reaper type costume and I hid in the carport and scared the crap out of the kids. I enjoyed that. I really wanted a gigantic Furby that would speak in normal furby voice to tell them to come closer and then have its eyes light up red and have a demonic voice tell them it was going to eat them. I thought about it bc I once saw a Furby commercial where they had a giant furby being put in an ambulance and rushed to a fake hospital to give birth to more furbies.
Speaking of birth, friend's gf had her crotch goblin removed by c-section this morning. I was supposed to meet them at the hospital around 7 (had to leave just before 6) but fortunately messaged my friend before leaving and he said it was put off until 10. He asked for food so I met him around 10 and gave him taco bell. Then I helped him set up the arrangements for the paternity test. He was embarrassed about having to explain that he wasn't sure it was his. I thought they were already getting the swabs but he said something about the baby not being in the room yet and its been a few hours.
Stopped by Walmart to get a new power outlet for the microwave (did I remember to post what happened with that?) and then popped in to Dollar Tree briefly. Picked up food from a local place on the way home bc we can't use air fryer or microwave.
I'm going to have to shut off power for the entire house bc I don't know what breaker the outlet is on. That is going to suck. But I need to change the outlet and reconnect wires to the light switch downstream bc the kitchen lights went out.
I'm probably going to get a nap soon if my brain can calm down.
I haven't dealt with trick-or-treaters since we lived in Guam. I had a grim reaper type costume and I hid in the carport and scared the crap out of the kids. I enjoyed that. I really wanted a gigantic Furby that would speak in normal furby voice to tell them to come closer and then have its eyes light up red and have a demonic voice tell them it was going to eat them. I thought about it bc I once saw a Furby commercial where they had a giant furby being put in an ambulance and rushed to a fake hospital to give birth to more furbies.
Speaking of birth, friend's gf had her crotch goblin removed by c-section this morning. I was supposed to meet them at the hospital around 7 (had to leave just before 6) but fortunately messaged my friend before leaving and he said it was put off until 10. He asked for food so I met him around 10 and gave him taco bell. Then I helped him set up the arrangements for the paternity test. He was embarrassed about having to explain that he wasn't sure it was his. I thought they were already getting the swabs but he said something about the baby not being in the room yet and its been a few hours.
Stopped by Walmart to get a new power outlet for the microwave (did I remember to post what happened with that?) and then popped in to Dollar Tree briefly. Picked up food from a local place on the way home bc we can't use air fryer or microwave.
I'm going to have to shut off power for the entire house bc I don't know what breaker the outlet is on. That is going to suck. But I need to change the outlet and reconnect wires to the light switch downstream bc the kitchen lights went out.
I'm probably going to get a nap soon if my brain can calm down.
Ha! I still have PTSD from all my early year bosses tearing me a new one when something I needed wasn't on my car/truck/toolbox.I had the help run to the lumber yard for them.
It was closer than going back to the shop for vct. Had I known I would have brought some. Unfortunately there was carpet here before so never got a good look at the slab.
I need x-ray glasses....... Who am I shitting, if I had x-ray glasses I wouldn't be using them on the floor!
WHAT!!!!!?????? You don't have XYZ? ANY good mechanic comes prepared for the job. Meanwhile those bungholes ran operations where they'd dispatch you with absolutely zero information on what you were up against that day.
Have you used cinderblocks before? I wouldn't think they're heavy enough. Problem with the VCT is the "kids" are not what they used to be and tend to drop/mishandle on and off the truck and then on and off the floor. So once the carton's cardboard is ripped you play the whole duct tape game. Vinyl/rubber cove base cartons are even worse and our shop always had tons of those for "sandbag" projects.
I hated when someone else would measure my job. The last 10 years I measured everything I did.
Yeah, they work great. Just have to put cardboard under them to not eff up the hardwood. Plus a built in handle to carry them with.
Then when you're done there's ALWAYS a project that you can use cinder blocks on. They don't sit around too long. Now the odd boxes of vct on the other hand.... Been looking at them for over a decade!
