Above 1200 Sq/FT Cleaning Up My Shop

[BUGTHUG]

looks like poison ivy in the middle of the log (on the ground)

 

[1/2 Cup]

A fine line, isn't it, between great patina and trashy? And beauty is all in the opening of the hive (the eye of the bee holder).

Thanks for the compliment!

Andy , I have to agree with you on that score..

 

[brg404]

Well, I just spent a couple of evenings plowing through 85 pages of this thread. I am exhausted, but let me summarize:
1) Andy makes brooms, socks and has a kiln (but we haven't seen evidence of pottery)
2) Andy has a caboose and 2 road graders. And cows. And Tractors. And a Coke cost 10 cents.
3) Andy gets more done in 1/2 hour than I get to all week.

I want to be like Andy when I grow up...

Oh, and BTW, I heard this one: When Engineer Andy went to Houston to see NASA, the Average I.Q. for both Texas and Oklahoma went down... But everything is back to normal now.

Bruce (in Texas)

 

[oldironfarmer]

looks like poison ivy in the middle of the log (on the ground)

Does look like it, doesn't it? I noticed that too. However I'm highly susceptible to poison ivy so I have to believe if it was I already would have snipped it off with limb loppers (my favorite tool for poison ivy when I don't have time to wait for Roundup). We will never know but I would bet it is blackberry on the right of center and that left of center you and I don't recognize as poison ivy.

Andy , I have to agree with you on that score..

I try to err on the trashy side so nobody will think I'm snooty. An old British friend put it best one day:"Don't worry Andy, you have culture, you get it in yogurt".

Well, I just spent a couple of evenings plowing through 85 pages of this thread. I am exhausted, but let me summarize:
1) Andy makes brooms, socks and has a kiln (but we haven't seen evidence of pottery)

There are small bowls on the broom machine. And there are two small bowls just on the near side of the quart measuring cup on the back side of the desk.

2) Andy has a caboose and 2 road graders. And cows. And Tractors. And a Coke cost 10 cents.

One thin dime!

3) Andy gets more done in 1/2 hour than I get to all week.

Umm... now you've gone too far!

I want to be like Andy when I grow up...

Many thanks!!

Oh, and BTW, I heard this one: When Engineer Andy went to Houston to see NASA, the Average I.Q. for both Texas and Oklahoma went down... But everything is back to normal now.

Cute. You obviously did not meet the engineering organizations I worked with in Houston. But you may have something there. Back in '86 times were tough in the oil engineering business. Layoffs (redundancies) every other week in my company. I quit my engineering company to go to work as a maintenance engineer in a refinery (with a raise surprisingly) and my boss had a going away party for me. His toast: "We truly hate to see Andy go. We'll have to lay off two good people just to maintain productivity".

Bruce (in Texas)

Thanks to all for your visits and comments, even those mis-guided ones from Texas! I forget there are Texans here, I'll try to use shorter words.

Bruce took his turn so I'll take mine.

One time a Texan was having a good time in NYC at a party, basically making everyone else miserable with his loud boasts. One of the guests was a doctor and one was an undertaker. They got together and hatched a plan. Give the Texan something to make him pass out, put him in a casket and lower it into an open grave the undertaker had opened. All agreed and they showed up at dawn to watch the fun. The sun got up, it got hot in the casket, the Texan woke up, opened the casket, stood up, looked around and shouted "Glory be, resurrection morning and the first one up is a Texan!"

 

[oldironfarmer]

It got to 30C here today! (86F)

That is hot in the big middle of the winter (August if you're seeing the Southern Cross at night). We took the Chevelle to town to see a friend in the hospital. Had a nice lunch at a diner built in 1957. The only picture proof I have is evidence of absence.

Here were my cars at the diner last June for "Drag Main Night". A fun night with maybe a hundred cars, no registration, just drag main and watch others. I plan to take the show truck, Miss Vicky, and the blue and yellow cars this year. Great BBQ sandwiches at the diner.

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Drag main is early June and my thread started July 15 so I didn't think to take pictures of other cars, I was too busy hot rodding mine around town. Including giving my insurance lady and her son a ride. She kept threatening to cancel my insurance each time I squealed the tires but she loved it. I'll get pictures this year if I'm still on the forum.

They did have a burnout contest but I'm just not into that kind of abuse for my tires.

To trim out the 2x4 under the back wall the board had to be scribed and cut to match from 1-1/4" wide to 1-7/8" wide. It was 121" long and I didn't want to move my bandsaw to cut it. And the bandsaw is not really suitable for a board that long without support stands, and, I'm lazy. So I cut it on the table saw. Not recommended but it works well if the curves are slight.

It fit fine!

Trimmed out one side of the door, hung the shelf, populated the shelf

and hung my warp board and an old barn door. The barn door has a special place in my heart. It was on my uncle's barn. He died in 1969 and the farm sold. It is adjacent to my dad's farm. His son and I played many hours in the barn. It has a slide latch that pinched my finger almost every time I used it, it would stick and then when it went ... OW!

The new owner never used the barn and it fell into disrepair and finally blew down about ten years ago. I asked the guy and he said get what you want. So I made a flying trip up and saved the old door. My cousin does not yet know I have it. The offensive latch is still in it. I've had it stuck in the corner, thought I would use it as a cover for a tool cabinet but it's pretty fragile so I just screwed it to the wall.

Some of the stuff I put on the broom shelf includes a rope machine with a 1902 patent date and a wore out grinding stone from my dad's farm. I would like to build a foot cranked grinder for it with an offset axle because the hole is not in the center anymore. Some day when I get bored.

Where's Vladimir when I need him. (or 1/2 something) I borrowed an ultrasonic thickness gauge for measuring the shell on my son's floor lift.

I don't want to weld up the shell if the pits are only a small part of the material thickness (too much refinery work). Part of the loan was the batteries would not charge so I offered to fix it. It's a $1,500 instrument.

The battery connections were corroded and I bought new ends for the battery leads.

I took that picture to get battery data, but the lead end is the little white rectangular thing they use in mobile home phones. Although I think it needs new batteries I took it apart to check for corrosion and to make sure voltage was getting to the battery terminals. It's pretty smart. Without a battery installed there is only 0.5 v at the battery connection. With the battery unhooked I get about 0.15 v per cell, 0.8 v overall. With the battery installed I get various readings, usually 0.9 v and sometimes 9 v. When I measure voltage with the battery installed the voltage slowly decays. I'm assuming the voltmeter is messing with the battery charger.

For all you smart guys: just give in and buy batteries and try them? I'm letting it charge overnight to see if I'm getting residual voltage out of the batteries after I unplug the charger. I've let it charge before but could not be sure all the corrosion was off the pins and i was actually getting voltage to the batteries. I'm sure I'm getting voltage to them now.

I wish it were hydraulic

 

[drivesitfar]

ANDY: I LOVE the BROOM room that is continually improving daily!!!

so are you doing all your routering on a table or a hand router or do you have a shaper?

cutting up that old OAK TREE years ago and then making window frames years later out of the wood is just COOL.

you don't have any pictures of your mill you used to cut that oak or other trees that you can post do you?

hope you had a great SATURDAY and finally a rest day tomorrow now that it's finally SUNDAY again.

cheers

 

[1/2 Cup]

Andy, your shop is looking a treat..

I can excuse you for doing what they call out here Hoon Driving, do that and get caught = impound..

PS I bet you had fun

The Broom Room is just awesome..

Throw the towel in with the batteries and get new ones is all I can say, maybe Vieux has a fix for them..

Cheers.

 

[oldironfarmer]

ANDY: I LOVE the BROOM room that is continually improving daily!!!

Thank you! After all these months seeing actual cleaning and arranging is most gratifying!!

so are you doing all your routering on a table or a hand router or do you have a shaper?

I have an aluminium plate in my Formica work bench I screw a router to upside down to rout small items. I've found long boards with any twist or warp will not rout cleanly so generally I clamp and hand rout. Before my shop fire I had a shaper with several sets of cutters. It was destroyed and I've never replaced it because I just don't do much cabinet work and I get by with a router and I don't have a lot of floor space (I know, but the wood shop is cramped).

cutting up that old OAK TREE years ago and then making window frames years later out of the wood is just COOL.

Thank you, it feels good!

you don't have any pictures of your mill you used to cut that oak or other trees that you can post do you?

I thought I had some but they don't seem to be handy. As I've said it belongs to a friend. We kept it at my place for years, in the hay barn out of the weather. It's a Woodmizer LT-35.

http://woodmizer.com/us/Products/Portable-Sawmills/LT35-Hydraulic-Portable-Sawmill

hope you had a great SATURDAY and finally a rest day tomorrow now that it's finally SUNDAY again.

cheers

Thanks!

Andy, your shop is looking a treat..

I can excuse you for doing what they call out here Hoon Driving, do that and get caught = impound..

PS I bet you had fun

I had to look up hoon driving. Yep, illegal here too. At least a ticket for disturbing the peace if you squeal your tires. However on Drag Main night the police enjoy the show as long as the speeds are low and the activity does not appear dangerous. The burnout contest was only in one designated area and was controlled with a fire truck standing by to wet the road and help if a tire should catch fire.

Now out here in the country, I have neighbors who are disappointed if my car leaves the stop sign at their intersection with no childish behavior involved.

The Broom Room is just awesome..

Thank you!!

Throw the towel in with the batteries and get new ones is all I can say, maybe Vieux has a fix for them..

Cheers.

Thanks for the advice. Not everything can be saved (accumulated, yes, saved, no). I've read that individual cells will go bad and the rest can be ok. One guy rebuilds his own DeWalt batteries by combining the good cells. I need to go back and figure out how to do that as I've saved up several old DeWalt battery packs.

 

[krcoomer]

Andy: It only took me 3 more days to eat the last 30 pages of the elephant, but I enjoyed every one of them. As you detailed your paint booth, I remembered a lot that my dad has told me over the years and you sort of echoed what his 40+ years in the paint and industrial coatings industry opinion is. I am sure you do this, but I did not see you mention having your escape route planned in case of some form of problem while using the spray booth.

Another safety note you made was discharging static when you fill a tank. Before I was born my dad worked in an underground room with two other guys. One had a newborn and my mom was pregnant with me. The older gentleman who worked with them forgot to hit a static strap and a 5 gallon bucket of solvent flashed on him. Instead of grabbing a lid to put on it, he started for the stairs and lived 8 days in a 1960's burn unit. I have been told that he was asked why he went out and he was worried about the other guy's kids growing up without them. Every time someone is burned in an industrial setting, I hear the story, but I often get complacent about the gas pump.

Thanks for sharing your variety of interests, skills and techniques and I am subscribed for the long run to keep learning from you.

 

[oldironfarmer]

30 pages in 3 days? And you were reading, picking up on the small things

I do take fire seriously. Especially when it comes to burning me. Basic fire prevention in the paint booth is running the exhaust fan. The walk through door opens out, dual purpose of escape and fan vacuum in the booth holds it against it's seals (which, thanks for asking, are not installed yet). The bi-fold doors at the back with filters also open out and are planned to have vacuum hold them closed so they may be pushed open. Bi-fold but no track.

The older gentleman had the presence of mind to think of others in his distress, and very well may have given you a father to grow up with. 65 sounds old, until you're 68, then not so much.

Very glad to have you watching over my shoulder. Comments are appreciated, especially those times where I slap my forehead and shout "oh, yeah! I need to do that!".

 

[oldironfarmer]

Somebody asked about my router. Here's a picture of my home made router table set into the Formica bench.

A friend came by yesterday to plane some red cedar. He's the guy that owns my sawmill. I wasn't paying attention and filled up my centrifugal pre-filter and loaded up the plastic bag on the dust collector. I hate changing the bag because it takes three or four hands. The bag hangs on little sharp pointed clips while you put a spring clamp around it. I can't seem to keep it on the clips. Today it occurred to me to use tape to hold the bag while installing the band. Duh!! Hardest solutions are often simplest.

I've had the dust collector at least 15 years using the same plastic bag. It's had holes taped up a couple of times so I just decided to shoot the moon and install my spare bag. It seemed to still be in good shape, but having no spare I went in and ordered two more from Grizzly. $5 each plus $10 shipping. Cheaper than driving to town, so I ordered them. Then I thought to look for third party sellers. WOW! 5 bags for $25 with free shipping! Do I call Grizzly and cancel? Or do I support my favorite importer? Then reality set in. If I get 15 years out of the bag I just installed (probably more) and 15 out of the other two I just ordered, I will be 113 when I need additional bag. If I order 5 it actually costs me $5 more than 2 and I expect my heirs to throw away at least one of my two. And if I do need another bag at age 113, will I be able to find it?

Took my wife to town in the blue car, and dined at a high class place.

OK, high class for me.

FINISHED trimming the broom and loom room and gave all the trim a good shellacking.

So I finished the finished trim. It looks better with a little sealant on it. I project the shellac will last until I'm 113. I like shellac, it is quick, easy, and in low wear applications lasts very well. I like the shelf with the brooms hanging on it so much I'm going to build a similar one on the adjacent wall just to display small items on.

Thanks for stopping in!

 

[brg404]

Thanks to all for your visits and comments, even those mis-guided ones from Texas! I forget there are Texans here, I'll try to use shorter words.

Im sure that will make it easier for both of us!

I wanted to mention that your spring cleaning spree has motivated me to do the same to my shop. But instead of spreading out, Im building shelving to get parts and spares and tools off the floor.

And I'll second the vote to see the lumber mill if you do have a picture. Ive 50 foot pecan tree that needs to be turned into lots of smaller bits.

As always I look forward to your next installment.
Brg

 

[sublime68charger]

How far away is the sonic drive in?

There are a great drive place to eat!

Nice work on that dust collector bag and you've planed well for your later years by stocking up!

 

[1/2 Cup]

Andy, you are all class..

Your trim has finished nicely, well done..

Regards

 

[dlcwent]

This is so typical of you. You've got a big job to do and you're sitting down. You're never gonna get anything done that way.

 

[krcoomer]

Somebody asked about my router. Here's a picture of my home made router table set into the Formica bench.

I love the custom hammer head on the no-mar hammer. Had not thought of that, but that would work for a brass bolt also.

 

[Justind97]

Andy,

I spent days reading through your 85 pages of clean up! You have come a long way in 6 months. The energy you posses in astounding. I hope that I am in as good of shape in 50 years as you are!

The one thing that kept me going was your sense of humor. You've got a few lifetimes on me and I hope that I can keep the humor I have now like you have. I know many people who hit 60ish and become negative nancies.

I got a good chuckle with your handsy Andy nickname from school!

Keep up the hard work! I'll keep checking in.

Justin

 

[jbmatth]

The broom and loom room trim turned out great. I've cut up lots of trees in my time but it never really occurred to me to save any for wood working. Of course that was before I got into wood working and now all of the trees are cut down. Darn! I guess I could just plant some now and have them ready to harvest when I retire.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Im sure that will make it easier for both of us!

I wanted to mention that your spring cleaning spree has motivated me to do the same to my shop. But instead of spreading out, Im building shelving to get parts and spares and tools off the floor.

And I'll second the vote to see the lumber mill if you do have a picture. Ive 50 foot pecan tree that needs to be turned into lots of smaller bits.

As always I look forward to your next installment.
Brg

Pictures of the sawmill coming somehow. I may have to drive over and take some. It seems when we were cutting logs that taking pictures was the last thing on my mind. Well, not the last thing, but close to moving to Houston and leaving the farm.

We had a maintenance superintendent named Russel Barnes who took a company job in Texas. I tried to tell him they didn't need any more Rusty Barnes in Texas.

Thanks for your visit.

How far away is the sonic drive in?

There are a great drive place to eat!

Nice work on that dust collector bag and you've planed well for your later years by stocking up!

Eight miles one way and nine miles the other. Both small town stores. They are an especially great place to drive in your used car.

Thanks for the comments! "Stock up" is my by-line. It is with great sadness that I'm at the point I realize I truly do have a lifetime supply of some things. Like tractor restorations.

Andy, you are all class..

Your trim has finished nicely, well done..

Regards

I wish it were all oak or pine, but that was my choice!

Thank you for the visit! Did you get a Coke? Be sure to leave the can, I'm collecting those to melt, you know.

This is so typical of you. You've got a big job to do and you're sitting down. You're never gonna get anything done that way.

I know. It was hot and humid and I spent as much time sitting and wheezing as I did swinging the sledge hammer.

But thanks for noticing!!

Somebody asked about my router. Here's a picture of my home made router table set into the Formica bench.

I love the custom hammer head on the no-mar hammer. Had not thought of that, but that would work for a brass bolt also.

Hmmm..... I really need to clean up my shop before I take pictures. You had a vieux of one of my projects. The hammer in question was acquired in a box of junk missing one side. I finally found a metric bolt which fit the missing threads. It is stored in the hammer so I won't lose it. The intention is to make a bois d'arc head for that side, epoxied onto a headless bolt. After five years or so maybe it is time to add the wood? I could make a brass end, thanks for the suggestion! However a wooden hammer in a wood shop is a good compromise.

Thanks for commenting and stopping by, Cokes are a dime.

Andy,

I spent days reading through your 85 pages of clean up! You have come a long way in 6 months. The energy you posses in astounding. I hope that I am in as good of shape in 50 years as you are!

Are you calling me old? Good eyes!

The one thing that kept me going was your sense of humor. You've got a few lifetimes on me and I hope that I can keep the humor I have now like you have. I know many people who hit 60ish and become negative nancies.

I got a good chuckle with your handsy Andy nickname from school!

Keep up the hard work! I'll keep checking in.

Justin

Glad you stopped in, and it is getting ever harder for new acquaintances to take the time to read all this drivel. But I'm glad you did!

Ummm.... the handsy Andy thing was not a joke. I don't think I would survive in the culture of today. You just can't tell which ladies like being touched until you try

The broom and loom room trim turned out great. I've cut up lots of trees in my time but it never really occurred to me to save any for wood working. Of course that was before I got into wood working and now all of the trees are cut down. Darn! I guess I could just plant some now and have them ready to harvest when I retire.

Thanks for stopping in! Remember to bring your family back some time!

You should have some bois d'arc around there. It is good for lots of things and it does not take a big tree.

I know it was a feeble attempt at humor, but planting trees when you are old is a sign of maturity (genuine "paying it forward"). I still plant trees and plan to when I get old as well.

I need your roof painter's number

 

[krcoomer]

Don't worry about cleaning up before you snap the shot. There is a message board to tell you what is out of place.

I am going to have to start looking around for some bois d'arc, and I am glad you gave the common names. I had always known it as hedgeapple and later on Osage orange. Many years ago my wife's grandfather had me get him some hedgeapples to put in his garage and basement to keep spiders away. We were there a few months later and I asked him how they worked for him. He said he threw them out after there were spiders under most of the ones he had out. I asked if they were dead and he told me in no uncertain terms that they were not dead and were not slowed down any either.

About the brass hammer, my father in law gave me a brass punch that he had cut off the shaft of a commercial dishwasher motor. It works just fine for tapping seals in, probably better than a hammer would.

Enjoy your day!

 

[drivesitfar]

ANDY: i'm sneezing and coughing and now smiling as i'm reading more of your thread. it's hard not to read it daily so i don't miss anything. i still need to read the entire thread like some of the members have recently cause i'm sure it's got some great stuff in it.

so with your router table (yes that was me asking what your router or shaper's set up was for you work you do on the windows and trim) do you maybe have several routers set up with different bits to exchange them as needed since i don't see screws holding the aluminum plate down? even if you don't it's a great idea to not bolt it down so you can get access to the router if you need to change a bit or depth.

i love the hand whittled hammer handle and guessing it's made of a piece of oak?

lastly in case you don't live to 113 or longer can you maybe trade a tractor for parts to fix another one or two or three? not that you don't have the cash to just buy the parts, but maybe instead of you trying to restore all the tractors in a 500 mile square area having another guy doing the same thing with one of yours might be motivating and maybe fun?

lastly what is your cold remedy? don't tell me it's just not to get SICK which i've avoided for years now, but feeling terrible today!!

 

[oldironfarmer]

Don't worry about cleaning up before you snap the shot. There is a message board to tell you what is out of place.

I know only too well how sharp eyed the good folks on this forum.

I am going to have to start looking around for some bois d'arc, and I am glad you gave the common names. I had always known it as hedgeapple and later on Osage orange. Many years ago my wife's grandfather had me get him some hedgeapples to put in his garage and basement to keep spiders away. We were there a few months later and I asked him how they worked for him. He said he threw them out after there were spiders under most of the ones he had out. I asked if they were dead and he told me in no uncertain terms that they were not dead and were not slowed down any either.

My dad always referred to it a simply hedge. Bois d'arc is harder to write but is shorter to say than the other forms, except hedge. The French name means bow wood, Osage orange refers to the Osage Indians, and hedge apples because the trees with their big thorns were planted in hedge rows to keep livestock in.

Do you live in Kentucky?

About the brass hammer, my father in law gave me a brass punch that he had cut off the shaft of a commercial dishwasher motor. It works just fine for tapping seals in, probably better than a hammer would.

Enjoy your day!

I make and keep brass punches around for working on equipment. Also have a few brass hammers and have made a few.

ANDY: i'm sneezing and coughing and now smiling as i'm reading more of your thread. it's hard not to read it daily so i don't miss anything. i still need to read the entire thread like some of the members have recently cause i'm sure it's got some great stuff in it.

Sorry you're sick. That's no fun. How long until the wedding? Got to be well for that!

so with your router table (yes that was me asking what your router or shaper's set up was for you work you do on the windows and trim) do you maybe have several routers set up with different bits to exchange them as needed since i don't see screws holding the aluminum plate down? even if you don't it's a great idea to not bolt it down so you can get access to the router if you need to change a bit or depth.

I inexplicably only have three routers. The DeWalt I use most, a Craftsman mounted under the router table plate, and a Craftsman trim router. I've just never got around to screwing down the mounting plate and it has never given me any problem. It sits about 1/64" proud of the Formica. Unfortunately with it's handles the router will not come up through the opening in the bench.

i love the hand whittled hammer handle and guessing it's made of a piece of oak?

I just brought that in from the broom loom sock knitting room. It has dried enough it is time to wedge the handle in and start using it. Bois d'arc wedge, of course.

lastly in case you don't live to 113 or longer can you maybe trade a tractor for parts to fix another one or two or three? not that you don't have the cash to just buy the parts, but maybe instead of you trying to restore all the tractors in a 500 mile square area having another guy doing the same thing with one of yours might be motivating and maybe fun?

They just don't need many parts to fix, just labor. Which is time.

I just can't see either the motivation nor the fun in having someone else mess with my tractors. Maybe if I knew someone who was good at it. But my preference is to keep them original, and that means reusing old parts if they can be re-vieux'd instead of re-place'd.

lastly what is your cold remedy? don't tell me it's just not to get SICK which i've avoided for years now, but feeling terrible today!!

You guessed it, prevention. One important preventative is total avoidance of hand sanitizer. It is amazing the people who will get angry with you for refusing sanitizer. And I lick door knobs to keep my immune system up.

Well maybe not the door knob thing.

Thanks for stopping in guys. I enjoy the visits.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Pretty good day today. The broom loom and sock knitting room is just about finished so I sorted some junk. Found some soap patterns. About 04 my wife wanted to start pouring glycerin soap and asked me to find some molds. Long story short I started making patterns then using them to make silicone molds. The pattern is carved by hand in a casting wax. One of our most popular soaps were the six inspirational words on these.

They say "Love One Another" around the edge on one side, and "Trust in the Lord" on the other edge. These were cast from a master mold made off the original pattern with a blank face but the words around the edges.

While we were staying at MD Anderson in Houston for my wife's treatment in 07/08 we gave away at least 600 of these soap bars in the hospital waiting rooms. (We took our soap making supplies and made soap in the hotel room)

Then we started making wedding soaps. Bride and groom's names and their wedding date. Made those for most of the old folks in our church.

Larry is a high school friend of mine who lives in Cincinnati O. We made the soap bars in a variety of colors and fragrances.

I also found a caliper I made for measuring saplings in the woods. When making natural broom handles with the bark still on I found it hard to estimate the size out in the woods. I kept cutting stuff that was too big. And a tape measure was not handy pushing through brush. This works pretty well, just a piece of wood with the tick marks at the tangent points of each size.

Moved my chopping bench into the corner and stored the wedges under it. Don't know when I'll need to split another log, but I'm ready.

You might remember my desk and black shelving unit in the corner. A bit cluttered.

The black cabinet is actually a side file with roll out shelves. I had one loose cover but forgot that all the covers were there. I managed to get everything put away except for the canvas covered work boards for clay molding.

Last thing I wanted for the broom loom and sock knitting with splitting wedges room was a shelf in the corner over the warp frame.

I have nothing to put on it, but it is a flat surface, after all, so something will show up!

I kind of like the look of the old salvage pine boards so I made two small shelves for the planer room to get some stuff off the floor that I had no good place for. Part of the design was to have pegs to hang freshly washed brushes for drying. I have a larger stainless steel sink I stole out of a junk trailer (where JB's wood stove came from) but I did not have the energy to build a stand for it. That may be another year, this sink is OK.

This room is almost cleaned up, just needs some shelves along the wall and it is time to tackle the wood shop

 

[krcoomer]

You guessed it. Kentucky so far. Never know where the future will lead though. Heard about a guy selling lots in Oklahoma......

The brass punches are worth their weight in brass at least. Wish my FIL had cut a few more sometimes. Had to buy a small one to strip a pistol a few years ago. Used it once, but kept it.

You nailed it about the forum having some sharp eyed folks. Next time I lose something I may take a photo of where I think it is and post it. By the time I can go to the mailbox someone will probably find it and tell me where 3 other missing things are.

I agree about the hand sanitizer to a point. I keep a squirter of it around because I work in a lot of rental houses and I don't want to think about what my hands have touched because I see how people live.

 

[Guster]

Gotta be averaging about 3-5 posts a day if I'm not mistaking and that is with all the stuff getting done. Is every day a Saturday around there?

WOW! A butane leak would have shut the process unit down and may have caused a fire. While refineries are well suited to contain small leaks and fires such as this, it is obviously very desirable to avoid them. You can see that thickness measurements on the side of the elbow and on the outside radius missed all the damage. Obviously the injection nozzle had fallen off.

Boy that’s a keeper… I’ve seen some interesting pipe damage in the days my dad was doing QC in the mining industry but that one is all kinds of interesting.

Took my wife to town in the blue car, and dined at a high class place.

OK, high class for me.

No idea about the dining experience but that is a real classy ride for sure!

… and some real classy trim!

All class today Handy Andy!

 

[1/2 Cup]

Looking great Andy

 

[oldironfarmer]

You guessed it. Kentucky so far. Never know where the future will lead though. Heard about a guy selling lots in Oklahoma......

Yeah, and you don't have to buy lots, you can buy just a little!

The brass punches are worth their weight in brass at least. Wish my FIL had cut a few more sometimes. Had to buy a small one to strip a pistol a few years ago. Used it once, but kept it.

Not to be contentious, but I think they are worth much more than their weight in brass. "used it once but kept it" are there options to that? More tools!!

You nailed it about the forum having some sharp eyed folks. Next time I lose something I may take a photo of where I think it is and post it. By the time I can go to the mailbox someone will probably find it and tell me where 3 other missing things are.

Good plan, I found my DeWalt drill that way, in 1/2 Cup's yard!

I agree about the hand sanitizer to a point. I keep a squirter of it around because I work in a lot of rental houses and I don't want to think about what my hands have touched because I see how people live.

I think soap and water is better...

Gotta be averaging about 3-5 posts a day if I'm not mistaking and that is with all the stuff getting done. Is every day a Saturday around there?

Oh no - every seventh day is a Sunday. But the rest are Saturdays!!

Boy that’s a keeper… I’ve seen some interesting pipe damage in the days my dad was doing QC in the mining industry but that one is all kinds of interesting.

I've got both halves of the ell, and the radiograph. I intended to mount them one showing inside, one outside, and the film with a light all in a wall frame. The priority of doing that diminished after I left the refining business.


No idea about the dining experience but that is a real classy ride for sure!

Many thanks!

It's about my favorite car
And my wife's favorite by far
And so I chose it for
My forum avatar


… and some real classy trim!

All class today Handy Andy!

Thanks again!!

Looking great Andy

Thanks for stopping in!!

On my way to see the accountant today. Not much shed time

 

[krcoomer]

Andy: Soap and water is better, but sometimes the water has been shut off....Oh the joys of renters. At least I don't have any of my own any more. Gotta hit it. Have fun at the accountant's today.

 

[Guster]

Hand sanitiser discussion reminded me of my trip to the local building supplier to pick up a few bags of fast set concrete last weekend. Went through the drive-thru and loaded about 25 of them by myself. The young male staff are usually standing around flirting with the young female staff so I am quite used to loading by myself. As a result ended up with black hands from the concrete dust and there was nowhere handy to rinse them.

The trade desk teller gave me a reprimand for my dirty hands and offered me a squirt of hand sanitiser. I wasn't going to justify the logic(or lack of) of mushing concrete dust around with a mixture of hydrogel and alcohol. The look on my face must have been self explanatory because the remainder of business was transacted in silence.

Just like Bob I would really like to practice that facial expression a lot more as I find it increasingly more useful as I get older.

 

[Finallygotit]

Just like Bob I would really like to practice that facial expression a lot more as I find it increasingly more useful as I get older.

Please post a selfie so the rest of us can practice "the look" and have it at the ready the next time we need to use it on "them".

 

[krcoomer]

I have a friend who is an attorney. She asked me one time if I could go as her associate and sit in a meeting, keep my mouth shut and look p----ed off. I told her I could do two of the three, but I doubted I could keep my mouth closed. She took her husband instead.

 

[Guster]

Please post a selfie so the rest of us can practice "the look" and have it at the ready the next time we need to use it on "them".

Hehehe... might be a generation thing though I have a feeling that the state of mind to "hey, I should selfie this" is a polar opposite to the one I employed to produce "the look". They might even cancel each other out. In fact I almost know this to be true as the instinct to selfie includes the need to pout or pull a duckface from what I have observed.

My 6 and 8 year old test subjects can provide empirical proof as to its effectiveness. However they seem to develop a natural immunity over time to which I need to practice to increase the volatility yield of "the look". My wife on the other hand exhibits a natural immunity and an even stronger innate ability to cancel mine with a stronger version of her own. Hers even induces feelings of guilt, inadequacy, sometimes fear and a need to retreat to the dog box or couch for the night.

 

[oldironfarmer]

Andy: Soap and water is better, but sometimes the water has been shut off....Oh the joys of renters. At least I don't have any of my own any more. Gotta hit it. Have fun at the accountant's today.

I have driven to some fast food restaurants with very dirty hands

The accountant went to lunch with me (she is my Zumba teacher, after all) and we had a great visit. She said she would get to my taxes when she is good and ready.

Hand sanitiser discussion reminded me of my trip to the local building supplier to pick up a few bags of fast set concrete last weekend. Went through the drive-thru and loaded about 25 of them by myself. The young male staff are usually standing around flirting with the young female staff so I am quite used to loading by myself. As a result ended up with black hands from the concrete dust and there was nowhere handy to rinse them.

The trade desk teller gave me a reprimand for my dirty hands and offered me a squirt of hand sanitiser. I wasn't going to justify the logic(or lack of) of mushing concrete dust around with a mixture of hydrogel and alcohol. The look on my face must have been self explanatory because the remainder of business was transacted in silence.

Just like Bob I would really like to practice that facial expression a lot more as I find it increasingly more useful as I get older.

I was looking the other way, did you just say "like Bob"? Don't know I've ever heard that.

Please post a selfie so the rest of us can practice "the look" and have it at the ready the next time we need to use it on "them".

X4!

I have a friend who is an attorney. She asked me one time if I could go as her associate and sit in a meeting, keep my mouth shut and look p----ed off. I told her I could do two of the three, but I doubted I could keep my mouth closed. She took her husband instead.

I had the same offer, except the attorney told me my natural face looked like I was pissed (American pissed, not inebriated, give me a break!)

Hehehe... might be a generation thing though I have a feeling that the state of mind to "hey, I should selfie this" is a polar opposite to the one I employed to produce "the look". They might even cancel each other out. In fact I almost know this to be true as the instinct to selfie includes the need to pout or pull a duckface from what I have observed.

My 6 and 8 year old test subjects can provide empirical proof as to its effectiveness. However they seem to develop a natural immunity over time to which I need to practice to increase the volatility yield of "the look". My wife on the other hand exhibits a natural immunity and an even stronger innate ability to cancel mine with a stronger version of her own. Hers even induces feelings of guilt, inadequacy, sometimes fear and a need to retreat to the dog box or couch for the night.

I had a client lady give me "the look" in a meeting. I told her if she had to go to the restroom we would wait on her. She was the only one not amused. Did I tell you I don't work there any more?

Thanks for the visits!

No shed time today, but I did a little shopping to get welding supplies (including an argon bottle) and a high pressure regulator for my propane tank supply to the melting furnace burner. I may have to interrupt this show for an excursion into foundry work. I'm really ready to melt some aluminum (aluminium if you're upside down)!

 

[Craptain]

No shed time today, but I did a little shopping to get welding supplies (including an argon bottle) and a high pressure regulator for my propane tank supply to the melting furnace burner. I may have to interrupt this show for an excursion into foundry work. I'm really ready to melt some aluminum (aluminium if you're upside down)!

That should be fun. I never got further than melting lead or solder. Well except for welding but that's different.

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[Guster]

I was looking the other way, did you just say "like Bob"? Don't know I've ever heard that.

Yes... just like Bob as in Bob Heine.

Bob often refers to practising on perfecting his crazy old man look as a step up from what he currently uses to dissuade people from whatever they are doing. His latest attempt mentioned something of using "the look", in combination with the creative use of a hammer, that he keeps in his car for such special purposes(if I recall). That would definitely dissuade me. Especially as I know that when Bob swings a hammer you have to wonder who(or what) is holding the steering wheel.

No shed time today, but I did a little shopping to get welding supplies (including an argon bottle) and a high pressure regulator for my propane tank supply to the melting furnace burner. I may have to interrupt this show for an excursion into foundry work. I'm really ready to melt some aluminum (aluminium if you're upside down)!

You are saying all the right things, sweet-talker Andy!

 

[bolensboneyard]

Andy everything is looking good. Keep up the good work.

 

[oldironfarmer]

That should be fun. I never got further than melting lead or solder. Well except for welding but that's different.

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I can melt about everything except the heart of a hard hearted woman. But the trick is containing the melt and walking away. And after you can walk away, to walk away with something useful is a bonus.

Yes... just like Bob as in Bob Heine.

I was all over you, but what you said could have been interpreted as you like Bob Heine. I was having trouble digesting that.

We all like Bob, and for different reasons.

Bob often refers to practising on perfecting his crazy old man look as a step up from what he currently uses to dissuade people from whatever they are doing. His latest attempt mentioned something of using "the look", in combination with the creative use of a hammer, that he keeps in his car for such special purposes(if I recall). That would definitely dissuade me. Especially as I know that when Bob swings a hammer you have to wonder who(or what) is holding the steering wheel.

I am 100% sure Bob can steer perfectly well with a knee. When I first got a VW with a sun roof it was fun to stick both hands out the sun roof to wave at friends as you met them on the highway. And we all know, if I can do it Bob can do it better. Just look at his fancy footwork installing brake lines.

You are saying all the right things, sweet-talker Andy!

Oooh! You make me melt...

Andy everything is looking good. Keep up the good work.

Thanks, Bobby! Still looking for pictures of sawdust at your place.

And thanks to each for visiting and commenting when appropriate, or not!

 

[drivesitfar]

ANDY: even when i'm not feeling well (almost recovered from this damn cold now) i'd read your comments and smile and laugh out loud.

i wonder how many of us drove our cars when we were young (and maybe still do) with both arms out the sunroofs or windows?

speaking of BOB driving or stopping next to somebody and breaking their glass maybe even while going 100MPH doe BOB know he only has one arm. i think not for some reason he does things i can't do and i have two good arms. that BOB is somebody i'd love my little girl to meet some day. they think alike.

well i've got TO DO LISTS to catch up on and just wanted to stop in and say i love how the BROOM ROOM is getting SPIFFED UP and if anything the title of your thread is now ringing true.

cheers and hope you Zumba gets to your paperwork sooner than later!!

 

[Bob Heine]

Guster, Andy and Drives, in my defense I don't have to practice the look anymore. My avatar is from 35 years ago and this is me now (holding a hammer in your armpit can make you grumpy):

As to the "knee steering" days of my youth, smoking a cigarette and drinking a cup of coffee in a 4-speed manual transmission car took a lot of concentration. I always put the coffee down to signal a turn and then execute said turn. I was very careful because none of my cars had cup holders -- signaling and turning while holding a hot cup of coffee in your crotch is a great incentive to be careful. My commute only involved a couple of intersections so most of the hands-free driving was on straight roads. I was never able to attract a car pool for some reason so I was always alone in the car.

Ten years after my train dive I broke my elbow. I was mostly recovered and returned to work after two weeks at home. A co-worker asked to car pool to a meeting in an off-site location. By "mostly recovered" I mean the elbow did not hurt when it was resting or in tension but compression hurt a fair bit -- I don't recall passing out but there was a spectacular sparkly light show whenever I pushed against the joint. When we arrived at the off-site meeting location I had to park the car. I passed up several empty spaces on the left, so my passenger pointed to the next one on the left. When I explained how painful making a left turn was, he didn't respond. He also didn't return from the off-site meeting with me.

To be fair, all my current cars are in compliance with my license. Last time I renewed it, they put "automatic transmission" in the restriction section, without even asking. When I asked about it, the clerk said I could take a full road test if I wanted to prove I could drive stick. Remembering my road test in Sydney 20 years before, I quietly left the building.

Being more safety conscious in my twilight years, I try to think ahead. My newest addition to the fleet is the Cadillac CTS-V. I can put the automatic transmission in "Manual" mode and row through the six gears with the gearshift lever but that means hands-free steering. Instead of using the shift lever, I change gears with the paddle shifters on the steering wheel. When the traction control and stabilitrack are turned off, it's good to drive in "hand-full" mode because the rear end tends to wander under hard acceleration (sometimes necessary for motorcycle safety training).

 

[xtremek]

My wife just told me she's seen that look on my face. It's the one I have when the bathroom is full and I have to take a dump.



Sorry, I just couldn't pass that up.