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nateo

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Rigged up a siphon watering system for the Christmas tree. Our trees seem to get bigger every year since we found a local tree farm that sells them for a song and I'm not a big fan of having to lie on my back to water it. After checking online and seeing options from $50 to waaaaay more I decided I could rig something up.

A trip to the store for a stretch of tubing, a plastic bin from the dollar store, and a dig around the shop for piece of flexible copper and an old lug nut made it possible. I bored out the lug nut to act as a weight for the end of the tubing, bent the copper into a pleasing candy cane shape for hooking on the tree reservoir, shoved the tubing over the copper and filled the plastic bin with water. A few ***** to get the siphon going and now I can water the tree standing up!
 
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I moved my son-in-laws car under the lift to get it out of the way and moved my project to middle of garage...a whole 3 uninterrupted weeks of garage time starting next week. Hoping to make major progress on my car, I spent a absolute fortune on it this year buying parts or having parts made.
 
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The rest of the wheels came in for the trailer, so I swapped the other one. The little trailer we use for carrying our camping gear now has nice 12" rims with highway-speed rated tires instead of the little 50mph 8" ones.

Next on the list of mods for this thing will wait until January/February time frame. I need to finish the aquarium stand before I start another project and the trailer is usable as is.
 
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vwpieces said:
sanded, sanded, sanded
sanded, sanded, sanded
sanded, sanded, sanded
And some hot wax.
Beeswax concoction from failed reloading brew. Just added some mineralspirits to make it useful for something.
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Good nuff for a workbench 🙄
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So would two pieces of sanded ply, lol.
 
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Got my 3D printer back up, finally! Printed a remote holder for the workshop TV, and printing a pile of bin holders for the HF storehouse 40 bin organizer. Gonna take a while for them all, lol
 

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Upgraded the crappy router on my table with a significantly better one.

Ran some test passes. Cuts like butter.

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To be fair the old router did survive the first 14 years of my woodworking hobby. Always had issues with it moving in the mount, though :(

New one doesn't have that issue.
 
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niget2002 said:
Upgraded the crappy router on my table with a significantly better one.

Ran some test passes. Cuts like butter.

Old:
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New:

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To be fair the old router did survive the first 14 years of my woodworking hobby. Always had issues with it moving in the mount, though :(

New one doesn't have that issue.
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You'll love it. I've had a 1613 and 1617 for over a decade. Can't kill em. Consider using the plunge base under your router table. The router barrel and the fixed base have a tendency to gall and make an unhappy mess if you keep adjusting it up n down.
 
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Made a little tray thing to hold all the crystals in one string, so I can work on them more easily. Cut several hundred little wires. Rebuilt several crystal streamers. Plenty more to go.
 
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Little bit of car maintenance on the old Volvo. Reconnected the subwoofer, replaced the overdrive electrical wire which had disintegrated so now I have 4th gear again, fitted the dashmat, then cleaned and dielectric greased the battery terminals.

Lots of fiddly stuff but it should make a big difference
 
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Finished up the 'recreation' of the below sleigh (after far too many hours).

My parents bought the blue one around a year ago at an online auction local to them because they liked it and thought it was unusual and pretty unique (we don't get a huge amount of snow here). Upon receiving it - and this might sound bizarre- I thought the sleigh would be 'too good to restore' given its largely in a solid state and more importantly looks to be in original finish. I reckon it dates mid-late 1800's given its construction and intended use, and from our liaisons with a carriage collection/museum we think it could be Russian. Therefore, rather than restore the original, I decided to make a recreation following the old one as a pattern. Its probably 85-90% correct. Given the limited market of a sleigh, we decided to finish it in a Christmas theme so there might be scope in future for letting it out for window dressing etc, however at present its currently sitting on my parents porch with a 5ft Santa on it..! I will likely make a further one in future that will be truer to the original- as I've always considered this one a practise run.

It was mainly constructed out of ply, steel, brass and aluminium, with interior being a heavy duty velvet complemented with leather as per the original. I did everything other than paint it - I don't have a booth for that!
 

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Duisky said:
Finished up the 'recreation' of the below sleigh (after far too many hours).

My parents bought the blue one around a year ago at an online auction local to them because they liked it and thought it was unusual and pretty unique (we don't get a huge amount of snow here). Upon receiving it - and this might sound bizarre- I thought the sleigh would be 'too good to restore' given its largely in a solid state and more importantly looks to be in original finish. I reckon it dates mid-late 1800's given its construction and intended use, and from our liaisons with a carriage collection/museum we think it could be Russian. Therefore, rather than restore the original, I decided to make a recreation following the old one as a pattern. Its probably 85-90% correct. Given the limited market of a sleigh, we decided to finish it in a Christmas theme so there might be scope in future for letting it out for window dressing etc, however at present its currently sitting on my parents porch with a 5ft Santa on it..! I will likely make a further one in future that will be truer to the original- as I've always considered this one a practise run.

It was mainly constructed out of ply, steel, brass and aluminium, with interior being a heavy duty velvet complemented with leather as per the original. I did everything other than paint it - I don't have a booth for that!
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That is really cool. hopefully you will get some snow and can borrow a horse and try it out.
 
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kaymccampbell said:
You'll love it. I've had a 1613 and 1617 for over a decade. Can't kill em. Consider using the plunge base under your router table. The router barrel and the fixed base have a tendency to gall and make an unhappy mess if you keep adjusting it up n down.
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I bought the router table base that they sell. It has the ability to adjust the height from above the table.

Jury is still out on how easy it will be to pack sawdust in the hole where the allen key goes.

I'll have to take a closer look and see if there's really any other differences between it and the fixed base.

Update: Heh... the fixed base and the under-table base are the same. Under-table base just doesn't have the black plastic slide plate and the two handles on it.
 
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