Bob Heine
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Scary but wonderful news. Congratulations to mom and Luckie.
Between 485 & 705 SQ/FT 3rd time's a charm with a 3 car workshop
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Workspaces between 485 and 705 squarefeet.
XJSuperman
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Awesome. Gotta love it when things just work themselves out.
tj675
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Congrats on the new addition!
nicholam77
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Congrats Logan!! So tiny and cute!
gearhead1960
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Congratulations. This will all be in the rear view mirror soon enough.....
bugnut
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Congrats glad all is well!
iced98lx
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Congrats! Glad it went well!
T-handle
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Congratulations to you and your family!
PileDriver
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Congrats!
racer-john
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Congrats on the birth.
Atlascycle
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Congratulations!!
Thanks all for the positive thoughts and wishes! Slowly getting adjusted to the new world and starting to get some time back....
1st off Mom and new baby doing great, he's still in the NICU and likely for the next several weeks but up to 4 lbs 10 oz(birth weight 4lb 1 oz, dropped to 3 lbs 10 oz after) and they're very happy with his progress and we're grateful for no complications so far other than just being small. The staff has been incredible and we're "more ok" now with not being there as many hours a day as we have some of the best care providers money can buy watching over him
On the home front, 0 progress on the closet built in but have gotten a few other things accomplished
Playset area is coming along, landscape edging almost in and about half of the set(and the critical pieces for assembly) are stained and ready to go:
Some misc sprinkler repair/relocation going on as well. Have 5 or 6 more heads that need moved/changed due to the fence that went in, hoping to hire those done as I just don't have time to get to excited about that
And unloaded this over the weekend:
....unfortunately it's in a neighbors garage and not mine
! But it's across the street so that's still not a bad deal to have close by so we're both excited about that...offered that I'd make space for it until his new panel was in(3HP so it's 240V) and he could use it in my garage....we'll see if he bites!
1st off Mom and new baby doing great, he's still in the NICU and likely for the next several weeks but up to 4 lbs 10 oz(birth weight 4lb 1 oz, dropped to 3 lbs 10 oz after) and they're very happy with his progress and we're grateful for no complications so far other than just being small. The staff has been incredible and we're "more ok" now with not being there as many hours a day as we have some of the best care providers money can buy watching over him
On the home front, 0 progress on the closet built in but have gotten a few other things accomplished
Playset area is coming along, landscape edging almost in and about half of the set(and the critical pieces for assembly) are stained and ready to go:
Some misc sprinkler repair/relocation going on as well. Have 5 or 6 more heads that need moved/changed due to the fence that went in, hoping to hire those done as I just don't have time to get to excited about that
And unloaded this over the weekend:
....unfortunately it's in a neighbors garage and not mine
! But it's across the street so that's still not a bad deal to have close by so we're both excited about that...offered that I'd make space for it until his new panel was in(3HP so it's 240V) and he could use it in my garage....we'll see if he bites!OutlawDrifter
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Glad to hear all is well with your little one!
jbrentd
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Congratulations on the little one! Hope you get to bring him home soon. It's a weird feeling leaving the hospital without your newborn, but like you said, he is in good hands with those NICU nurses. Our oldest son was born 6 weeks early and in the NICU for 3 weeks.
nicholam77
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Great to hear it's going as well as it can be! Playset area and yard are looking nice
Quick update....
Minimal progress on house or garage stuff, occasionally I'll get something accomplished but most of the time it's attempting to not slip too far back on keeping the household semi-together
Baby Boy is doing great, likely has a couple more weeks before discharge but continues to make nice progress without many concerns from the medical team. Taking big sister up there in an hour or so for her first time to see him out of the incubator...that should be interesting. Otherwise started a new gig at work(same company, new role) so transitions and learning curve's of that, coupled with it being a busy time and now back to leading others has sapped most of the ambition to get too carried away on projects after supper....it too will get better and hoping in July back to some project work!
Minimal progress on house or garage stuff, occasionally I'll get something accomplished but most of the time it's attempting to not slip too far back on keeping the household semi-together
Baby Boy is doing great, likely has a couple more weeks before discharge but continues to make nice progress without many concerns from the medical team. Taking big sister up there in an hour or so for her first time to see him out of the incubator...that should be interesting. Otherwise started a new gig at work(same company, new role) so transitions and learning curve's of that, coupled with it being a busy time and now back to leading others has sapped most of the ambition to get too carried away on projects after supper....it too will get better and hoping in July back to some project work!
Let's see here....
Little guy still in hospital and continues to progress well which is awesome....likely at least 2, maybe up to 4 weeks left. He's still getting some oxygen and is still on a feeding tube so until he can keep his stats up without the oxygen help and can successfully eat and gain wait for multiple days in a row with that feeding tube he'll be there.
Sister did pretty well with him and lasted about 3 minutes sitting next to me in the big chair with him on my lap until she decided she was done and ready to move on....but she's 2.5 and that's about as long as she lasts on anything and it's a new environment for her with lots of interesting "new stuff" so I called it a win and went back that night after she was asleep
For a picture to spice this up a bit....took this one 2 weeks ago when I changed front brake pads on my 2014 Silverado....
If you've got a ride with pretty chrome caps over your lugnuts and live where it gets cold...check the lugnuts. These have 80k miles and 10 years on them and it took some force to get the socket on them....replacements are ordered for all 4 corners but haven't shown up yet....not something I want to fight on the side of the road when its rainy and dark as such things always end up being
Also tried some of this over the weekend....billboard advertising did work for me.
I grew fond of their beer when I lived in Chicago and this could become a new go to summer choice for me....I'd describe it as beer with a hint of lemonade...where as I enjoy Leiny's Summer Shandy but it's more lemonade with a hint of beer and gets too sweet for me after a couple...which isn't all bad!
Little guy still in hospital and continues to progress well which is awesome....likely at least 2, maybe up to 4 weeks left. He's still getting some oxygen and is still on a feeding tube so until he can keep his stats up without the oxygen help and can successfully eat and gain wait for multiple days in a row with that feeding tube he'll be there.
Sister did pretty well with him and lasted about 3 minutes sitting next to me in the big chair with him on my lap until she decided she was done and ready to move on....but she's 2.5 and that's about as long as she lasts on anything and it's a new environment for her with lots of interesting "new stuff" so I called it a win and went back that night after she was asleep
For a picture to spice this up a bit....took this one 2 weeks ago when I changed front brake pads on my 2014 Silverado....
If you've got a ride with pretty chrome caps over your lugnuts and live where it gets cold...check the lugnuts. These have 80k miles and 10 years on them and it took some force to get the socket on them....replacements are ordered for all 4 corners but haven't shown up yet....not something I want to fight on the side of the road when its rainy and dark as such things always end up being
Also tried some of this over the weekend....billboard advertising did work for me.
I grew fond of their beer when I lived in Chicago and this could become a new go to summer choice for me....I'd describe it as beer with a hint of lemonade...where as I enjoy Leiny's Summer Shandy but it's more lemonade with a hint of beer and gets too sweet for me after a couple...which isn't all bad!
tj675
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Great to hear that the little guy is doing well.
BlakeTheCarGuy
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Hopefully the little guy will continue to get better and come home soon.
nicholam77
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I've been really curious how this is going to go as well... even if short it must have been an exciting moment for them to meet for the first time.
Every couple of years I'll decide it's a good idea to try a Leiny's summer shandy, and yep still sweet. At least for me, but 99% of the time I go for hoppy. I don't hate the idea of a shandy in summer, though, so I'll keep an eye out for that Goose Island! My default so far this summer has been the Deschutes "Fresh Haze".
NickH
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Congrats on the little guy, hopefully he can come home soon!
Our oldest was in the NICU for 2 weeks after he was born. The first few days were probably the scariest of our lives, but now he's a healthy, fun, smart, hilarious 7 year old.
Hang in there, it gets better!
Our oldest was in the NICU for 2 weeks after he was born. The first few days were probably the scariest of our lives, but now he's a healthy, fun, smart, hilarious 7 year old.
Hang in there, it gets better!
Marine5068
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Is that the only 220volt machine you're using or do you have more?
If so then you don't necessarily need the sub panel if there are spots left on the main panel.
I had over half of my 200 amp panel dedicated to electric baseboard heat which I changed to pellet heat so it freed up a lot of space for me.
Thanks gents! Feels like we're in the home stretch as he's over 7 lbs and they're going to try and do part of the feedings by bottle starting today....maybe next week he comes home...????!!!!!
Here, it goes well if it's done in small bursts...couple minutes and she says "all done" and we let her go...now will see how it is when it's at home vs the hospital and doesn't have all the "new-ness" to get distracted with and if she stays more engaged...but so far for that little bit she's super interested and engaged!
And I'm now out of the Goose now....need to hit a couple bigger places and try and find it in something bigger than a 6 pack! And while I'm there see if I can find the Fresh Haze!
When I was planning the subpanel install I figured I'd have 5 or 6 eventual 220V machines....jointer, planer, bandsaw, table saw, dust collector and maybe a welder...plus a minisplit so with where the main panel was and only having 4 open slots it was much simpler to put the sub in and go from there. Of those I'd probably only ever have 2, maybe 3 on at a time...but sub panel was still the right call for this project
Weekend update: blown to hell....literally....check the date for that top windspeed below:
That blew in around 12:30 or 1am on Saturday morning and left at peak approx 188k customer accounts without power which I figure was probably around 40 to 50% of the metro...ouch
Fortunately we weren't that badly damaged and 2 downspouts came off and lost (1) maple tree
Unfortunately I had been slacking in my storm preparedness and had in my head how the future generator plug and interlock switch would work for the house...but didn't have the main component...so with that many out of power early Saturday morning and the big boxes already sold out of genny's and getting bare of chainsaws I headed to Northern Tool to try and be there at open to see what I could lay hands on that day and ended up with this:
Inverter type, 4.5k starting, 3.5kw rated capacity and weighs 99 lbs so capable of moving solo for short distances but much more portable compared to some and whisper quiet with that inverter style. Bad thing is it's 120V only so harder to "light up" both sides of the breaker panel but for the very very very rare times we have a significant outage(and our neighborhood utilities are all underground) it should work out just fine. But it helped keep ours and several neighbors freezers chilly for the 18 hrs or so we were out, and I've now made up the necessary power cords and adapters to better use that 120V/30A outlet for "plug in" type loads other than RV's. Spent part of Sunday cleaning up the tree mess then doing oil changes on the genny and getting it stored primed for storage....now to figure out where it goes....
OutlawDrifter
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We had that a few weeks ago, but missed it on the last storm! Glad you guys made it through ok. I see Alliance, NE had softball sized hail.
Good purchase on the generator!
Good purchase on the generator!
Atlascycle
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Logan,
I found the 312 Lemon Shandy at my local HyVee
I found the 312 Lemon Shandy at my local HyVee
Quick update... attempting to normalize life here now that this has happened
About 2 weeks shy of due date but after 8 weeks making daily trips to the hospital most days it definitely became a routine but we are enjoying(mostly...midnight feedings will tire quickly) getting into this new phase of this journey we very thankful our NICU journey though lengthy was not nearly the roller-coaster it is for many.
Haven't got much else accomplished with work being slammed between a job transition and record overall volume. Few minor things....
Started the father in law staying with us for awhile on replacing this wood closet organizer with the basic wire system from closetmaid or similar to make it easy to go to double hanging to enable the next step of built in project
They used construction adhesive in one spot that is taking more effort to fix...I would've cut out and patched in but I'm not doing it and it keeps him busy so it's a win win.
About 2 weeks shy of due date but after 8 weeks making daily trips to the hospital most days it definitely became a routine but we are enjoying(mostly...midnight feedings will tire quickly) getting into this new phase of this journey we very thankful our NICU journey though lengthy was not nearly the roller-coaster it is for many.
Haven't got much else accomplished with work being slammed between a job transition and record overall volume. Few minor things....
Started the father in law staying with us for awhile on replacing this wood closet organizer with the basic wire system from closetmaid or similar to make it easy to go to double hanging to enable the next step of built in project
They used construction adhesive in one spot that is taking more effort to fix...I would've cut out and patched in but I'm not doing it and it keeps him busy so it's a win win.
gearhead1960
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Welcome back Logan. Glad to see the baby home! It's all downhill from here....
nicholam77
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Great news Logan!
tj675
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Great to see that the little one is home!
Congrats! Hope the stress is lower, even though sleep may be less
Thanks to the inlaws I have one less item preventing work on the new built ins...drat...yay? Had to convert this set to double hanging to keep the same linear ft of hanging space to keep the boss happy.
Hopefully some garage time over nap time today... :fingers crossed:
Hopefully some garage time over nap time today... :fingers crossed:
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Progress! Nothing super impressive but a step forward on organization and getting a place for everything and everything in its place....for a few seconds at least.
Basic consumer grade big box adjustable shelving with wire decking. Long term I'm supposed to do a bench with lockers in that spot but that's probably a couple years away so this should help dramatically for now. It is anchored back to the wall with GRK lags
Basic consumer grade big box adjustable shelving with wire decking. Long term I'm supposed to do a bench with lockers in that spot but that's probably a couple years away so this should help dramatically for now. It is anchored back to the wall with GRK lags
Got closer to completion on an improvement in dust collection on the chop saw
Auto start switch for the old shop vac I've now dedicated to the saw. Paired with a dust deputy on a HD bucket
3D printed Y manifold in bright blue to go from the larger hose out of the deputy to whatever size of shop vac type hoses I sacrificed to the purpose.
Then another 3d printed part....this time a dust hood to hopefully catch the stuff that doesn't make the turn up into the main flow. If this works will probably redo this part with some of the loc line style blue vac hose that is positionable as with the base rotating for mitering difficult to anchor it without causing a headache when I need to miter something
Haven't cut anything on it yet as about the time I got the area cleaned to better gauge the improvement one of the kids hollered so back inside I went!
Auto start switch for the old shop vac I've now dedicated to the saw. Paired with a dust deputy on a HD bucket
3D printed Y manifold in bright blue to go from the larger hose out of the deputy to whatever size of shop vac type hoses I sacrificed to the purpose.
Then another 3d printed part....this time a dust hood to hopefully catch the stuff that doesn't make the turn up into the main flow. If this works will probably redo this part with some of the loc line style blue vac hose that is positionable as with the base rotating for mitering difficult to anchor it without causing a headache when I need to miter something
Haven't cut anything on it yet as about the time I got the area cleaned to better gauge the improvement one of the kids hollered so back inside I went!
nicholam77
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Looks good! Probably just missed it but don't remember seeing your chop saw station. That Bosch saw looks pretty slick. Going to add any sort of stop block system? You'll have to let us know how the dust collection performs.
Atlas-Howdy from the south side of the metro....did you pick up any and if so what did you think? Haven't gotten many other opinions on it yet since it's pretty new, father in law is in from out of town and likes 312(from when they'd visit when we lived in Chicago) and likes Leiny so need to get more for him to try
Oh the ode of my chop saw station...as I'm too tired to do "real" work but can't fall asleep yet here is the timeline on that and one of many significant character flaws I have
7 months out of college, I'm the stereotypical entry level engineer having just completed my onboarding rotations and am assigned to a small-ish town(5k people) in rural Iowa. Some of you may be aghast at this...as were many of my co-workers who were concerned and made sure I knew what was getting into until I let them know the town I grew up just outside of was around 550 people....so this way of life was very familar and not to be a culture shock! I was around an hour or so from the Omaha metro area(where I'm currently located) which was about 3 hours closer to a major metro then I was growing up so piece of cake.
It was pretty cheap cost of living, and I was single living in a small rented farmhouse out on an acre or two in the country....lots of time to work harder on my tool collection with fewer moves in the future and lots more time. Slow **** and only slightly better than dial up internet at the time(I NEVER saw downloads faster than 1mb/s and satellite at the time had data caps and super high lag) meant that playing video games outside of single player mode wasn't an option....so to the garage hobbys I turned.
With time being rather plentiful, and the raw materials(wood) generally available pretty cheap on company auctions from scrap lots we set aside, I generally had my collection of lumber that was often in odd sizes but perfectly suited for what I was doing so I'd usually come home with a bed load or so for under 20 bucks
One of the first things I decided I needed to build was a set of case's for future drawers/doors/something storage and then have the chopsaw in between. As the only type of "kill" that's acceptable for a green engineer with too much time on his hands is overkill I think I was successful there. Lots of glue, half lap joints and some pocket screws(hey it was 2009 and before I'd even heard of Festool). I was using the basement as my workshop(garage was roughly 1.5 car and kept my caddy in there), stairs to the basement were off the garage as many houses in this area of that vintage had:
Eventually I got (2) matching cases built and out of the basement assembly area:
Aside from building a top for the 2nd case(tops were doubled up 3/4" particle board with 3/4" thick mahogany edgeband) and putting a "shelf" between the (2) cases they stayed in this kinda configuration as "functional" chopsaw infeed/outfeed for a couple years...here was a picture about 2 years later in the next garage
So that character flaw...yeah it's I'm far to accepting of "temporary solutions" and "it works now" and get distracted by the next project that's more fun to get started and make big improvements vs finish the last 10-20% of the prior project....trying to work on it but yeah it it's still evident on this project. And that Delta chopsaw I picked up used on C-List...yeah i should've gotten rid of it far sooner!
Think it took another year or so to get to here where I finally made face frames and started the drawers:
Fast forward a bit and we get to current state(and 2 more moves between where this last picture was taken):
I've got all the drawers built for the left case but for some reason that lower left never got installed on slides which got lost in the last move...drat! Solid maple drawer fronts(again cheap corporate auction lumber) got made...but haven't finished yet. Right hand cases was intended to be wide drawer at the top and doors below....drawer is made but no front and no doors yet either!
I do love the Bosch Glide(that's the 12"), had it for probably 7 years and it did all the cuts on my siding on the Iowa house I resided, only thing I'd change if it died tomorrow would be to buy the 10" instead of the 12" as I just don't need that capacity and when moving it she's a bit akward.
I am intending to get a stop block setup on it....I'm not personally a fan of the fixed fences that sit on top of the table tops as I like having the option for unobstructed work surfaces for flexibility....it probably isn't worth it as it complicates things and encourages Flat Surface Disease...but maybe I'll get cured of that too? The cabinets overall are bigger then they should be for that saw and just a bit akward size wise in the space so I have in my head the next iteration of workbench for that wall and when that gets built those disappear....but until then it's what I use and given what I know about myself I should probably get started on that stop block/fence setup sooner rather than later....
As to the dust collection...works pretty well...I tweaked the hood design at the back of the blade and am going to try and print that revision tomorrow and see if this catches more of the "strays". I was intentionally trying to stay far enough behind the blade that the blade never touched the hood but it left a lot of area for dust to get away, so I've enlarged the hood a bit and am going to try it closer to the blade and intentionally cut a slot through the top of it with the intention it's not used on miter cuts(which I don't do frequently anyway). This should help capture more of the dust...and with the printer if I ding up one too badly I just load the file and hit start and come back 6 or 7 hours later to another one!
OutlawDrifter
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I don't think this ever goes away...seems like I clean just to have my benches and roller box covered again shortly thereafter.
I wasn't getting notifications on updates to your thread for some reason, glad the little one is home!
If you find a cure Marc for FSD you'll make a mint off the members here!
Minor project got started tonight
The rolling flat drawer cabinet on the right is also the home of the MFT table when it's folded up, but it's 4-9/16" too low to be aligned with the rest of the tabletops so time to fix that. Decided I'd rather block up between the wheels and cabinet as those lower drawers are a pain to get into so set up and ripped down some 3/4" ply that was left over on the tracksaw...also "temporarily" zip tied the auto start switch to the shop vac handle to discourage walking away and encourage usage.
Laid out the cuts to make 6" long spacers and predrilled with a combo pilot/countersink set(really liking these!) and then glued it up.
After chopping to length will then "box in" one end to add some additional lateral stability. Pocket screw and glue it up onto the bottom of the case and hopefully make it a nicer height to work off!