So...what's been going on....well a whole lot, but none of it where I wanted it to be so any "less booked" time has been about as hard to come by as a nice rain here this spring/early summer
Still working on putting back together the lift table shown above....I need to steal a trained octopus from the zoo as they have a nifty mechanism for some wear strips/guides on the main column that are proving "fun" to get all put back together and then inserted into the column in time...more on that later though after I conquer that task
I fired up a 3d printer again...well kinda:
So maybe more accurately I caused someone else to fire up a printer. 20 years ago I had an incident with an impact wrench, extension and wobble socket that wasn't pinned in(my fault) and lost a front tooth...well the crown broke after 20 years....RIP. So it was time for a date with the oral surgeon for a removal of the root, implant placement and as it was the front tooth and the implant(fancy word for a metal screw up in the bone) has to heal for 3-4 months before the new crown can go in...I opted for the Invisaline type retainer with a fake tooth in it to not give the impression I play hockey and took a puck to the face. That meant they used a cool 3d scanner I'd love to have, printed the resulting topography and used it for the retainer creation and gave me the molds/prints. For the nerd in me pretty cool...I should've asked if I could get a discount if I printed them myself!
During the last 6-ish weeks we've also been gearing up for hopefully the father in-laws last major cancer treatment which was a stem cell transplant where they "collect" his own stem cells, blast him with high dose chemotherapy, then give him back said collected cells to improve/boost his recovery from the high dose chemo that hopefully killed any remaining cancer cells(along with some desirable stuff). I've simplified it....but it meant a lot of prep, then 3 weeks in a hospital....we can all sympathize with that not being an enjoyable experience. In positive news he responded extremely well to what is hopefully a "cure" (between 50% to 85% cured which means no reoccurrence at 5 year mark after treatment) and is back home and starting a pretty length recovery to build back up energy, stamina, etc but has a positive outlook.
So that's unfortunately about it....a number of potential Craiglist/Marketplace purchases have been fortunately deterred by a lack of time and a disaster zone of a garage which caused me to waffle on "nice or cool to have stuff" so no additions since the above mentioned lift table. As we hopefully gain some time back in our household with less medical stuff I'll hopefully use some of the time to get back into the garage...top projects that need completed in semi rough order:
- Lift table functional
- Dust collection for tablesaw functional
- Wall mounted hardware storage
- Completion of wiring/controls for drill press(finalized VFD front mounted remote, RPM Readout, start/stop
- Fix oil drip in planer gearbox and get new DRO installed
- Volvo service work
- Decluttering(at all times)
So not out of things to work on!
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