Recent content by jake28

First time patching up a fender. The grinder, putty, and paint will make me the welder that I ain’t.

One additional thought: - learning a CAD program isn’t an impediment to successfully 3D printing in 2026. The ever-growing online library of printing files and remixes of those files means that many handy doodads and gizmos are only a few clicks away. You can learn a cad program like Fusion...

Another vote for Bambu, at whatever price point fits your budget. Ten years ago, even 5, many 3d printers were like owning a 1970s Alfa Romeo. Sometimes they would run, sometimes, plenty of fiddling, but you’d get where you want to go, eventually. A modern Bambu printer, with the library of...

Estate sale purchases. A figurative and literal haul. A local tool collector liquidated his extensive collection of woodworking and machinist hand tools before his passing, and the estate sale still featured hundreds of hand planes, chisels, files, hammers, vices, and other shop fixtures. I can...

Chunk of redwood 3x6 I was working with recently. Part of an old water tank taken down in Marin County CA around 2005. This tree was probably around for the Crusades.

@Ryan thank you for the bot-bashing. Also, I would like my iPad.

Re: snow clearing 1. Would you be plowing your own driveway? And 2. What do you think the seasonal price for plowing the red road will be? It’s a straight shot and not very long. I would expect snow removal to be one of the primary responsibilities of the HOA. My neighborhood has 65 lots and 58...

Welp, I haven’t (yet) added a sliding saw to the shop. I’m not yet ready to commit the space and funds that I’d rather put towards a CNC. Three interim solutions that I’m looking to experiment with: 1. I found some stashed T track and some HDPE/Delrin so I’ll make a cross cut sled for when...

Friends, once again I find myself chopping up plywood and wondering if a sliding table saw is right for me, either to complement my sawstop or to replace it. My particular needs have not changed, but a very nice Hammer B3 sliding saw / shaper combo just came up for sale near me. And I’m a sucker...

Said goodbye to my 1991 VW Golf Country: a car that was fun for a bit, no longer gave me joy, and is off to an excited and enthusiastic new owner. I got it, fixed it, drove it, parked it, and sold it for basically what I had into it. Onto the next project. I’m loving the newly opened parking...

Barn-found and resurrected my 911. Hadn’t run in 4 years. Oil change, carb clean, battery charge, and swapped out a leaking valve cover and gasket. Needs a rejet, and years of accumulating oil in the exhaust smoked out the whole neighborhood on my test drive.

My spelling was off, my intention was not. That should have read “Sisyphean,” and while I have much to learn in the overlapping worlds of forest treatments, arbor work, and modern philosophy, I’m confident it’s best not to argue with a guy with a chainsaw. As I was consulting Wikipedia for the...

Cheers @badonk I went to the school of ChatGPT Weber tuning and got similar results. I just added an AFR gauge and wide band sensor so I’ll have better baselines than sooty spark plugs.

A detour: treework Funny thing about living in the woods; there are a lot of trees. And sometimes those trees need to come down. I find felling and chipping trees to be a cathartic, though perhaps, Sisyphusian task. The woods around my place are overly dense after a 150 years of suppressing...

@badonk are you running Webers on your 911? I just moved my 3.2-powered 75 911 from sea level to 6200 feet and it’s running, shall we say, a bit rich. If you’ve delved into the jetting, I’m curious if I should be trying to size up the air corrector, or sizing down the main jet, or both.