Good point. I'm using another piece of the prep table top for a base so we don't scorch our bar top. It would be easy enough to pop-rivet a few pieces of angle to the corners of that.
Have you got a Blowes or Orange Hell in your region? Both of ours stock a nice collection of 1/4 and 1/8 plexiglass.
Huh? This is a remote county of 7,000 people--maybe counting some livestock--and a town of around 2K. We have a single chain restaurant--Subway--and a grocery store or two (in the county, not the town). We may be the only county in Oregon without a single stop light--ODOT doesn't seem to keep score on that. Nearest big box is an hour-and-a-half away (driving too fast), each way. If the PTB decide we need the sneeze shield, I guess I could hop on over--on the clock and they cover fuel--currently right about $5/gal.
Looks like you've got an Ace and a True Value. From my experience in the ones in the surrounding villages out here, they all stock a decent supply of plexi. Getting glass is hard, that takes a few days, plastic they have lots of. The truck comes once it twice a week from the regional warehouse, a couple hours away. And if I'm willing to pay a bit, I can get it faster, as it gets tossed in a truck that can detour for a fee.
Sadly, nope. Screws, nuts and bolts, yes--in common sizes and shapes. Want a stainless, metric bolt? Tough--pick one. Paint, maybe. I think I bought the last can on Plasti-Dip from the True Value (ever wonder why the ue in the two words is pronounced differently? I have.)--if that's still is what it is. May have also bought the last stick of 1" Al angle. Wallowa County Grain Growers tends to change what chain hardware store they are about annually.
In the Bay area Recology does the same.
I bought a cut to size piece of plexiglass from a local glass shop for the lighting window on one of the blast cabinets in 1/4x14x45” for $35 and ordered it with a call in and picked it up in a couple hours once they called back. Lowes here also has plexi but it is more expensive.Do you have a deal with them to save any and all camp fuel?
I just got notice that we're hosting a wedding with 80-odd guests on the 30th this month. I'm informed that I need to make a stand/safety cover for a heat strip (for keeping hot food hot) for a "buffet-style" service. Looking through the boneyard, I found the "lid" for a prep table, like this:
Yeah, I can run with that.
Gotta add some legs to get the heat strip 16" from the table top. Off to the hardware store for some 1" aluminum angle.
How did I make the angle cut--whatever angle it is?
The way a good ol' framing carpenter would. Sure I could have mathed it out with my trig skills--which I haven't exercised in about thirty years, or I could have used my CAD skills and program--if I had either. This works and is fast and accurate enough for my needs.
Customer side:
Server side:
So we don't scratch up the surface of our nice, custom-made bar top
Plasti-Dip to the rescue. I just applied the second and last coat.
Reckon that'll work. If I had a four-foot long sheet of Plexiglass, I'd make a "sneeze shield" for it, but I don't--and probably can't get one shipped in time. If the Powers That Be insist, I'll see what I can do.
I used to teach a 1 week class once or twice a year to engineers that covered oxy-acetylene and plasma cutting, stick, mig, flux core and tig welding. We would spend about half of each day in the shop with them using each process and the rest of the time learning about safety and procedures. Just about all of them said it was the most enjoyable class they had.
Well, at least that wire wasn't hidden with chinese copper spray paint, lol. You could tell it was aluminum by looking at it. I guess I should have said, "back in my day, copper-colored wire was solid copper!"
The one I had sitting around was compact F, but I will see what is cheapest at HD or lowes and go with that.
Yeah, gotta save some pennies so you can afford the period-correct shades!
I had to return three rolls of Cat6 cable to get one made out of real copper wire.
Roof rack loads into the camper/bed shell vs directly into the bed?Finished the roof rack and mounted it. I'll put the porch lights on tonight.
Zim
C'mon, man--mantises are among the coolest bugs out there--get the little gal interested in them!
Larry the shell is 1x2 aluminum skeleton (8) and a host of 1x1 supports, all at least 16ga. The roof rack is really a platform for me to "shoot" racing events, automobiles and other **** like a Peeping Tom. LMAO. Also I'm tired of carrying 2x4's cross stacked inside the cap. PITA. And, I'm in need of a sheet or two of 16/18/20ga sheet metal, all under a hundred pounds. I've carried more weight on top of a 1975 Plymouth Grand Fury Police Special 440 moving from one shack to another shack in Ohio. LMAO
This is how you can tell the engineers never thought of, or cared about, future repairs and the poor SOB who has to do them. I was overjoyed when I needed to replace the in-tank pump on my Toyota Corolla and found the access panel under the rear seat. Didn't even need to empty the tank and the entire fix was, literally, a fifteen-minute job. Toyota cared back then.
I cut a hole in the hump.
