What did you do today?

[kwfloors]

Finally got the eviction paperwork from court to clear my lot out. What a nightmare it is. Next is possession of the physical stuff so I can clean it up. Giving them a couple days of daylight work to get their stuff out and looking for an escavater to demo and haul.

 

[Floorist]

Got the rocking chair cut out, routed and dry fitted.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Finally got the eviction paperwork from court to clear my lot out. What a nightmare it is. Next is possession of the physical stuff so I can clean it up. Giving them a couple days of daylight work to get their stuff out and looking for an escavater to demo and haul.

Damn that was quick. I just filed eviction notice today for my other house. Should have it in the mail by Tuesday, then all hell is going to break loose.

 

[Floorist]

Damn that was quick. I just filed eviction notice today for my other house. Should have it in the mail by Tuesday, then all hell is going to break loose.

I had one rental once. Took 90 days to get him out. He tore up the house so bad that I sold it for what I still owed on it just to get rid of it.

 

[DarisMulkin]

I had one rental once. Took 90 days to get him out. He tore up the house so bad that I sold it for what I still owed on it just to get rid of it.

I had thought about selling it for what is owed but then a friend made me a nice offer, not what they are going for in this sub but a good one where I will make a little money after paying off the original mortgage. The bad part is it is Karen's daughter and granddaughter that we are evicting. Doesn't make for good family relationship.

 

[highup]

It doesn't Daris, but how's our relationship been? They haven't understood that you're losing money every month on their behalf.
It doesn't appear like they made any attempt so you just got to do.
I'd make a lousy landlord I'm too sympathetic.

 

[Floorist]

I had thought about selling it for what is owed but then a friend made me a nice offer, not what they are going for in this sub but a good one where I will make a little money after paying off the original mortgage. The bad part is it is Karen's daughter and granddaughter that we are evicting. Doesn't make for good family relationship.

The guy I had to evict had been a friend since we were 5 years old.

 

[C.J.]

Had to cut some aluminum today. I am tired of trashing a decent blade when I do so I ran to HD real quick and picked up a new blade. This thing cuts aluminum real nice. I didn’t notice it right away but one of the guys commented on how the blade wasn’t singing like my saw usually does. I do like that.

 

[JPfloor]

Had to cut some aluminum today. I am tired of trashing a decent blade when I do so I ran to HD real quick and picked up a new blade. This thing cuts aluminum real nice. I didn’t notice it right away but one of the guys commented on how the blade wasn’t singing like my saw usually does. I do like that.

Made in Italy... Me likey....

 

[DarisMulkin]

Had to cut some aluminum today. I am tired of trashing a decent blade when I do so I ran to HD real quick and picked up a new blade. This thing cuts aluminum real nice. I didn’t notice it right away but one of the guys commented on how the blade wasn’t singing like my saw usually does. I do like that.

Did you put the blade in backwards like they do/did for aluminum siding?

 

[highup]

Had to cut some aluminum today. I am tired of trashing a decent blade when I do so I ran to HD real quick and picked up a new blade. This thing cuts aluminum real nice. I didn’t notice it right away but one of the guys commented on how the blade wasn’t singing like my saw usually does. I do like that.

The teeth look a lot longer than if expect for aluminum...... Yeah, I know it soft, but still.... Looks more like a 96 tooth rip blade.
The rake is steeper than I thought too.

 

[highup]

Did you put the blade in backwards like they do/did for aluminum siding?

I wouldn't reverse the blade with something that's much thicker than sheet metal. Just gotta contain those chips, they fly everywhere.
When I made my router lift, I cut 4 pieces of 1/4" aluminum on my old portable Makita. It cut just fine with a Diablo 8 1/4" it may have had a 56 tooth blade. The cuts on each piece were around 8 by 9 inches, plus a couple of 15 inch cuts. To help contain the shrapnel I capped the aluminum pieces with some scrap plywood. I hosed the plywood in the cut area with WD-40. The blade was perfectly fine afterwards. I'd worrying about the teeth coming off on anything thicker than sheet metal.
It made me nothing to worry about but I would just use a metal cutting blade made for aluminum and never give a second thought to the backwards stuff.

 

[C.J.]

I was looking for the specs on that blade and ended up having to go to the Diablo website to get it. Usually they have the specs blasted all over the packaging just saying look at me look at me. Anyway, I was curious as to whether it’s more teeth, the blade hook angle, tooth composition and grind, prolly a bit of everything, that is what makes this blade good for its purposes.

I don’t plan on using it for my daily trim work but damn if it doesn’t work great on aluminum. I’ll have to refresh my memory but I thought it said it was also great for laminate but to only use a sliding miter saw. I can see that cus I already know how much difference a sliding saw makes when cutting vs a fixed miter saw. You’ll smoke that blade trying to cut through a piece of laminate. If you don’t want to smoke the blade you end up chopping at it repeatedly with the saw until you finally cut through.

 

[C.J.]

Did you put the blade in backwards like they do/did for aluminum siding?

I remember guys doing that back in the day but they have specialized blades for everything now so no need to try and cheat the system. I was looking at an aluminum cutting blade for my 7 1/4” saw but I hate cutting metal on that saw because it always kicks. I have to sandwich the metal between blocks of wood and clamp it to the base just because I’ve seen it kick and it scares me.

Same thing with cutting plastic transition pieces on that saw, it just likes to kick. Prolly the blade I have on it but it’s a 7 1/4” saw so it will never get the same respect as a bigger saw. I usually just buy whatever 3 pack of blades that’s on sale and change them out as necessary. I did get a plywood blade for it to try out. It works decent but it rings pretty good during use. Maybe those laser cuts in the blade really do make a difference cus the plywood blade is the only one that rings on my 7.25” saw. Wonder if they make a plywood blade with laser cuts in it? Prolly not cus I’ve seen the 10” 200 tooth plywood blades and they’re a solid piece of metal just like the 7 1/4”.

 

[highup]

For a couple of days last week my brother and I worked over at a local theater doing a small office upstairs with glue down carpet and this little section down here never got completed because it was under construction so we did this too.
They were running a little low on carpet, this 5x8 1/2 ft area took five pieces.

 

[zannej]

I was sick Friday (which was Mom's birthday). I decided to make up for it today by fixing up her lap tray. The plastic was flimsy so it warped a bit, the "cushion" was absolute garbage. Ugly, weak fabric, undersized, understuffed, poorly adhered. It was falling off. After watching and reading some tutorials I decided to combine some techniques. I liked one where the lady attached the fabric to cardboard so it could stick to the tray more easily. I found some foam board in the store & went with that instead. I reinforced the plastic part with foam board (hot glued it on). Then I took a second chunk of foam board, cut it to size, poked stitching holes, cut out hole for cup holder (prevented it from sitting flush). I sewed strips of fabric to a zipper, sewed the fabric to the foam board, then got the rest of the sides done with fabric (I used a continuous strip to go all around). Had to watch a tutorial on ladder stitch to refresh my memory. I used basting stitches to hold things in place, used a backstitch for attaching it to the foam board, ladder stitch to attach the bottom piece of fabric to the sides Shape came out a bit wonky, but it didn't need to be perfect. Took the bag of Styrofoam microbeads from the old cushion & stuffed them inside. Hot glued the threads on the foam board to seal them up to stop fraying & then hot glued the cushion to the plastic. Now it no longer flexes as much, has more weight to it, and the cushion isn't falling off, looks much nicer, & has more stuffing. I had Mom put however much polyfil she wanted in it. Zipper operates nicely. I might go back and use a ladder stitch on it because the stitching I used is ugly. Because I'm very slow at sewing and had trouble threading the needle, it took over 10 hours. Didn't help that the thread sucked. Kept fuzzing up, tangling, snagging, etc. I had to put spit on it to keep it together properly. I would have used wax but couldn't find any.
Finished working on it after 7am so now I need a nap.
This was the original-- except the fabric was uglier & not nearly as stuffed (photo from product page).
Zipper & sides sewn to foam board with bottom basted to one edge

After it was all sewn together before gluing to tray (the color in the first 3 pics is more accurate)

Still need to get a picture after it was fully stuffed.

 

[highup]

I never thought of sewing foam board
Neat project. Nothing like handmade gifts. My brother's birthday is tomorrow.....
.....well, technically, it's right now.
I think ill get him some lunch meat on the way home from work.

 

[Floorist]

Painting a wood carving, hope I get better.

 

[highup]

Painting a wood carving, hope I get better.

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Never change, your just fine the way you are buddy.
......oh crap, I thought I dumped em all. That was a Bud Light speaking
You're light years ahead of me Rusty. Last thing I carved was a myrtlewood butter dish in 1973.

 

[JPfloor]

One of our freezers went on the blink yesterday. We knew they were old when we bought this place six years ago but everything was in working order so we just let it be. After calling our refrigeration expert it ended up being a simple repair, a relay. As long as we had it opened up we checked the serial numbers on the compressor to check for availability. Turns out it still has the original compressor, that is still working fine, from 1969…That’s with no maintenance of any kind. Amazing how well built some products were back then. Now everything is disposable. A new one installed would be $3800… I’ll think I’ll just let the old one keep running… Hopefully for another 50 some odd years…