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Sorry to hear about your cat zannej
You never seem to have anything go right for you
You never seem to have anything go right for you
Nick
In Remembrance
Might have been one of the shots he gave her . Sorry to hear of your loss . I know how attached people get to their pets .
Dang, might have this done by the 4th of July.25+ years ago I started to make a BBQ from a stainless steel beer keg. I cut it open with a dozen or so jig saw blades. (that keg steel is HARD)
I temporarily put some small steel hinges on the lid part and since I don't weld, bulding a grate for the coals and for the grill put the project on hold. It's been setting under my deck ever since. I found an old heavy duty coal grate and cut it to fit the lower contours. A friend was tossing out his old rusty gas BBQ and one side of the top grill was like new. It's cast iron and the grill is about to be modified into a two piece grill so I can add charcoal from one side while cooking if needed. Tomorrow I'll trim the grill to fit the inside of the keg contours. Today I bought some 3/8" stainless steel rods and drilled holes in the front and back of the keg to become the surface for the grill to lay on.
......then it's back to re-doing the old rusty hinges and blocking off the keg holes so I can control the inlet of fresh air. I also need to make some sort of a stand for it.
.........hope to have it done before Christmas.
Got brave and drilled 4 holes in the sides of the Keg and made a wish-washy aluminum strap hinge for the lid. This was just a test to see if my idea would work. The hinge is just some 1" flat bar and held on by aluminum rivets. The hinge design is known as a lucky first attempt hinge. I made the holes in the keg lid small in case I needed to move their location 3 or 4 times. Small errors aren't as noticeable. A friend of mine has a plasma cutter. Since the hinge hole distance worked and using the aluminum flatbar proved that the lid functioned well, I can now replace the hokey aluminum flat bar with some snazzy looking custom shaped 1/8 or 3/16" thick stainless steel bars which will match curved contour of the sides of the keg.
These hokey aluminum flat bar hinges worked well enough to christen the keg tonight with a couple of burgers. It's a former keg, ....so I also christened it with a couple of beers.
Nice start to the weekend.....still a long ways from done, but workin' out neato.
I still need to find a cool looking piece of wood for the handle....... maybe some driftwood or a branch, or antler. Something with character. I'm feeling a bit more enthused since the hinge idea worked out so well.
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Those things kill people, right?
I can't even imagine being in a car or van when those things it. What happens to shingle or even shake roofs? ...or cows ...or???
Those things kill people, right?
Lots of damage.
Thanks. My kitties are my babies-- and it bugs me more that the vet is just incompetent. It's not the first time she's sent an animal home misdiagnosed and they died. I do seem to have some crap luck, but I know it could be worse.
And those are huge chunks. Kind of reminds me of when we would make snowballs for snowball fights when we lived in Virginia. Makes me glad we don't get much hail here. I think I've only seen hail here once and it was small hail that didn't do any damage. Hail is one of the reasons why I don't like skylights. I've seen videos of people in their houses as hail came crashing through the skylights.
And those are huge chunks. Kind of reminds me of when we would make snowballs for snowball fights when we lived in Virginia. Makes me glad we don't get much hail here. I think I've only seen hail here once and it was small hail that didn't do any damage. Hail is one of the reasons why I don't like skylights. I've seen videos of people in their houses as hail came crashing through the skylights.
Retaining the skill set is a big issue. To ever get half decent you really need to handle a lot of yardage on a lot of different sort of layouts and goods. THEN, you still need to keep your hand skills, tools and techniques up with regular practice. There are crews with the union that exclusively do this nearly 100% of the time. So since I'm not on that sort of level I just take my time and try not to screw up. I'm just good enough to get the work done to a fairly high standard. Not the best and certainly not the fastest. The customer will be happy.
I wouldn't try that with this type of glue. They really don't want it setting up to more than a quick gas off and light tack---------it works nicely if you follow the Nora training. Pre-fitting is a huge part of this. You can't expect to do a lot of kneeling, twisting and freehand cutting in the freshly laid material.
PRE-FIT
Apply adhesive
Allow tack/gas off
install
roll
minimize traffic of all kind
NO heavy traffic for a few days
It's different than lino and vinyl but I don't mind that. I really like when it's done right in a fairly large section next to an area laid otherwise------NOT following any of the above advice. It's easy to see the contrast.
Maybe I can get some photos. The differences show up in certain lighting that occurs mainly from particular angles and sunlight timing. There's some real YUCK work out there that makes nice work stand out.
Woke up at 6 something in the morning and thought it was evening. Then later saw it was 10 and still light out so I realized I hadn't just slept all day. Helped my brother get his license reinstated-- involved driving him to the place to pay a ticket. The ticket he got was illegible (due to the printer for it being almost out of ink). The office where the tickets are paid is only open 3 days a week (but we never knew which days) and I found out today that they close at noon. Someone at the post office screwed up and returned the letters they sent because it was to our physical address instead of P.O. Box. The employees who have been there a long time know to put it in our box but there are some new ones who must not have known and returned as undeliverable. There was no website with any info whatsoever other than the address of the Mayoral Court of the town and for the past several months nobody answered the phone every time we called. He finally got ahold of someone last week and they told him to call back next Monday-- only Monday was a holiday. So, at least he has his license back now.
Still not done. I'll begin heat welding the seams tomorrow.
Nick
In Remembrance
Looks good In.
You certainly get the good jobs
Slow and steady wins the race.
I didn't know you could do curves like that with rubber. Looks fantastic. On a job like that, I'd only be good for sweeping and vacuuming the floor before you fit and glued.
I've had to make relief cuts on the inside radius. The outside curves can be stretched so there's no extra seams/welding and look much nicer. Twerking the rubber down into the cap metal on a 4" cove with this 3MM Nora is a real wrestling match.
Incognito, that looks fantastic! It kind of looks like concrete floor-- very smooth finished kind. Very clean and smooth.
The local school board is going to be having fits. Just got messaged that the elementary school burned to the ground.
Those are the pics that were posted online. I'm wondering if they exaggerated about it burning "to the ground".
The local police decided to try to use the disaster to their advantage and called Pizza Hut to ask them to donate free pizza (which I suspect is not legal for them to do-- and these cops will most likely retaliate if they are told "No"). Employees told them to call their boss and ask him. If someone wanted to offer to buy pizzas for them, that would be one thing-- but I'm pretty sure it's not kosher to call a business and ask for free food. Nevermind that the firemen are the ones actually putting out the fire. I'd be more inclined to give them free food.
Meanwhile, I have mixed feelings about the school burning. I have bad memories from there. It was one of the worst schools I went to (well, all 3 of the schools here count as the worst schools I ever went to-- and I went to quite a few over the years because we moved around a lot). Back in the 80s it was full of nasty abusive jerks who had no business being around children much less having authority over them and being legally allowed to beat the hell out of them. So, on one hand, I'm laughing inside and thinking "burn baby burn" but the intellectual and practical side realizes how much trouble this is going to cause for parents, students, and the schoolboard. I don't have much sympathy for the schoolboard. They eat up 3% of the 11% sales tax here and they don't even put it to good use. They have a surplus of funding yet they make parents send $15 to $50 on the first day of school as part of the mandatory school supplies-- they also make them bring paper, pencils, pens, etc to give to the school. Most of the students who bring the stuff never even get to use the stuff they bring. The money mostly goes to the administrators and the teachers are paid a pittance and the schools don't have enough books or chairs to go around.
Edit: It was some hyperbole involved. Only one section of the school burned to the ground. It was the oldest part, but the newly renovated parts survived.
The local school board is going to be having fits. Just got messaged that the elementary school burned to the ground.
Those are the pics that were posted online. I'm wondering if they exaggerated about it burning "to the ground".
The local police decided to try to use the disaster to their advantage and called Pizza Hut to ask them to donate free pizza (which I suspect is not legal for them to do-- and these cops will most likely retaliate if they are told "No"). Employees told them to call their boss and ask him. If someone wanted to offer to buy pizzas for them, that would be one thing-- but I'm pretty sure it's not kosher to call a business and ask for free food. Nevermind that the firemen are the ones actually putting out the fire. I'd be more inclined to give them free food.
Meanwhile, I have mixed feelings about the school burning. I have bad memories from there. It was one of the worst schools I went to (well, all 3 of the schools here count as the worst schools I ever went to-- and I went to quite a few over the years because we moved around a lot). Back in the 80s it was full of nasty abusive jerks who had no business being around children much less having authority over them and being legally allowed to beat the hell out of them. So, on one hand, I'm laughing inside and thinking "burn baby burn" but the intellectual and practical side realizes how much trouble this is going to cause for parents, students, and the schoolboard. I don't have much sympathy for the schoolboard. They eat up 3% of the 11% sales tax here and they don't even put it to good use. They have a surplus of funding yet they make parents send $15 to $50 on the first day of school as part of the mandatory school supplies-- they also make them bring paper, pencils, pens, etc to give to the school. Most of the students who bring the stuff never even get to use the stuff they bring. The money mostly goes to the administrators and the teachers are paid a pittance and the schools don't have enough books or chairs to go around.
Edit: It was some hyperbole involved. Only one section of the school burned to the ground. It was the oldest part, but the newly renovated parts survived.
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