Recent content by cannuck

Spent morning in garden as usual. Lost 10 days while in AB looking after grandkids and another week due to rain - and holy **** the weeds just took over the whole garden. We will be lucky to salvage a crop. Also tried H2O2 to kill off algae in well tank - and indeed it stopped the brown...

To put in order: extra storage of 2 x 40 sea cans with 20 x 40 covered by crane in between, the whole thing covered with tensioned fabric. - Shops were crammed to the roof with accumulated tools and materials, so this one meant able to use. - spray foam on roof = fantastic comfort year round...

I set up a 3D printer bay in the corner of my Faraday cage (i.e. steel shop} assuming an X2D would be powered by cable from shop computer - that could sit by shop window looking towards house. Of course, NO cable connection and the printer struggles to make a decent connection to house. I have...

Intended Saturday to be all about organizing yard to receive press brake back onto its storage pads. Fired up the crane to pick some I beams and oilfield tubular goods onto a few heavy pallets but got phone call from feedlot next door. His large 4WD tranctor got stuck in yard as ground was...

You can't just cut a piece of tubing and stick it into the worn area - because the worn dimension is not round - but oval on fore and aft axis. The only way to fit such a bushing would be to fly cut (bore) to bushing OD, weld the length in place then saw cut from the entry slot to open up to...

Not exactly "in" the garage, as it was ******* with grandson 3d printing. So, I went to the farm to start up my FLD120 that hasn't moved in 2 years. Batteries were on a maintainer all winter with cable to light load circuits disconnected. Very surprised to find not enough juice to crank...

Yesterday "we" (OK, my 15YO grandson/shop helper) printed a poop can, a pair of vents and a riser for top glass of new x2d, along with Legp brick and Mandalorean helmet to see how well it could do fine detail. Everything worked as intended, so I need to get busy upping my CAD game. My 240V...

I did my 26 x 39 roof a few years ago with 5.5" of closed cell foam and absolutely no distortion when sprayed directly on panels. I suppose that might not be the case for an exceptionally large, unsupported area but I am 24" between supporting members with fairly low profile ribbing in IIRC 22...

Like your bus bars, but where's the ground on black side? Heat shrink makes for nice strain relief but if long term and especially in corrosive environment doesn't seal end of wire conductor from long term damage. I fully understand that is a condition that is probably tolerable in this case.

tend to buy from 2 sources: automotive stuff from HD trailer suppliers and AC from an electrical/electronic specialty store. Amazon/online stuff is not worth the crapshoot. Also: buying from commercial sources you can and must be sure to have correct tooling for what you are buying.

Started clearing what was originally to have been my welder parking spot in corner of workshop. There is a tool and manual shelving unit beside my toolbox that covers 1/3 of the bay (3' gap and each end of 2 x full wall workbenches) that resulted in this becoming a junk collection niche in...

Important to point out there all sizes and kinds of drilling machines as there are milling machines. I have worked with a horizontal mill that was big enough to set up a card table and 2 chairs for the machinist and apprentice to watch the cut. Can't say I have seen a drill that big.

IF your power feed drive is completely without any free play, otherwise it can still let a twist drill break through hard. Kind of why I like to hand feed - I can hear and feel when the hole starts hitting other side and back off feed accordingly. Also why I so much like annular cutters. I...

I have a large (3/4" chuck) power feed drill press, but seldom use power feed as I like to be able to feel and see that I have feed right. Nothing beats the ability to just grab a part and throw into a drill vise to make a quick hole - but in my case that drill press table is set up to drill...

Parked 500 kms away now, sorry.