Recent content by trecane

AvE Imagine a super smart shop teacher with the speaking style of an uncensored Yogi Berra. Sensitive people should skip this. For everyone else, it is pure joy. I'm not sure if this is a maker thread but "The Hydraulic Press Channel" is just good clean fun. The real deal from down under

I started watching Project Binky a week or so ago and it is fantastic. It's Wallace and Grommit meet Top Gear. I cannot recommend it enough. These 2 guys are absolutely insane and you have to love them for it. What they are doing is so typical of the experience of rebuilding anything. Cars...

Nice build. I have a basement workshop in a 100 year old house and am very jealous of your headroom.

Happy Birthday!

Thanks for the ideas. That picture really helps

That's what worries me. How did they get the nut in if that lip was there? When I slide the nut into it there is a clink as it as it runs into the lip. I double checked for any extra screws or pins that might be holding it in. I tapped the nut slightly to see if that would drive it out. I...

I have a similar 6' ladder. The wood was in decent shape so I replaced most of the rivets with screws and nuts. It isn't a bad ladder but if the wood in yours isn't in really good condition then throw it out. Even if the wood is ok, the time and effort you spend restoring it is probably worth...

I recently bought a Chas. Parker 954 that I found lying in the dirt outside of a 2nd hand store. At the time I didn't know about the infamous Parker jaws issue. Lucky for me they are in pretty good shape or I would be the proud owner of a Chas. Parker boat anchor. In fact the whole thing is...

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I am a SW engineer and part time carpenter. Part time in that I renovated my house. Originally I wanted to live in a house so I could enjoy woodworking and small boat building as a hobby. I built a Greenland style skin on frame kayak, some furniture, a flintlock rifle. I also took a Windsor...