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A Frankenstein variation of this:

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Something to store cordless drills, tools, and batteries. Mine is a bit taller...has 3 shelves spaced father apart, and made out of whatever scrap wood I could scrounge in the garage. A couple of the shelves are made from the "wings" of a 75 year old drop-leaf table, some parts are from a 20+ year old sheet of plywood that's been used for a couple different applications, some pieces of cedar, siding, etc. Fugly as hell...but it works.
 
Once I get my garage insulated my first project is a wall to wall shelving/cubby hole unit so I can store all my tools. I will finally be able to organize myself better and have a proper home for every tool and all in one place. Right now it's chaotic and not every tool has a place to go and they're not even all in one place, so every time I starts project it takes a couple hours just to find and gather the tools I need. Usually involves a trip to Home Depot to buy a tool that I can't find. I own at least 7 hammers, I know where about 2 of them are and don't even get me started on screwdrivers.

Once I have that space to work in and heated it will open the door to many other projects too to further organize. Eventually I also want to design some storage boxes for all sorts of misc stuff from electronic parts to random hardware as I'm not very well organized for that either. Something like this:

 
BoomerD said:
A Frankenstein variation of this:

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Something to store cordless drills, tools, and batteries. Mine is a bit taller...has 3 shelves spaced father apart, and made out of whatever scrap wood I could scrounge in the garage. A couple of the shelves are made from the "wings" of a 75 year old drop-leaf table, some parts are from a 20+ year old sheet of plywood that's been used for a couple different applications, some pieces of cedar, siding, etc. Fugly as hell...but it works.
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I printed hangers for some of my battery tools and the battery's. It's handy being able to use the underside of a shelf.
 
We had some close family and friends over tonight for Christmas Eve. After dinner we played a couple rounds of pictionary which was great fun and is always good for a few laughs.

After that we teamed up and built some gingerbread houses. This was something new we tried this year and as you can see some took it more seriously than others. Overall it was a great time.

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I was using some Samson Treemaster the other day to yard some logs. I knotted the rope to make an attachment, and couldn't get the knots out. Treemaster doesn't like giving up knots once it's loaded. It's a nasty gnarly line. Difficult to deal with in every respect, but it wears like iron.

I cut the knots out, and spliced eyes into the ends. I *can not* splice Treemaster worth a damn. Ugly splices, but they should hold, and the eyes will be useful.

The oak slab the stuff's on is from the MD champion white oak. I got to climb it a few years ago. Dead wood got cut out, and I kept some of it.
 
Chaotic42 said:
I am horrendous at knot tying. Probably best I didn't follow my advisor's footsteps and go into knot theory. 😛
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My friend I work with is terrible at knots. He knows just enough to do the job. I try to teach him stuff, but he just doesn't get it. I guess it's the way his brain's wired. He's a fantastic climber though. When we work together, he's in the tree, and I do the ground stuff. It's the most efficient setup.
 
Failed making water glass - I didn't use enough lye - and ended up with Sodium Metasilicate crystals, which look neat even though it's very caustic

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Chaotic42 said:
I am horrendous at knot tying. Probably best I didn't follow my advisor's footsteps and go into knot theory. 😛
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Please go into knot theory. I want to understand why cords of differing thickness always entangle whenever they come into proximity of each other. It's a field effect, contact isn't required to initiate entanglement.
 
lxskllr said:
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I was using some Samson Treemaster the other day to yard some logs. I knotted the rope to make an attachment, and couldn't get the knots out. Treemaster doesn't like giving up knots once it's loaded. It's a nasty gnarly line. Difficult to deal with in every respect, but it wears like iron.

I cut the knots out, and spliced eyes into the ends. I *can not* splice Treemaster worth a damn. Ugly splices, but they should hold, and the eyes will be useful.

The oak slab the stuff's on is from the MD champion white oak. I got to climb it a few years ago. Dead wood got cut out, and I kept some of it.
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Have Red send you some of his hair. Dwarf hair never fails.
 
I made what seems to be a really nice carving wax out of a 3:3:1 by weight mixture of low melt paraffin / high melt paraffin / HDPE pellets. Seems really workable, but still quite strong.
 
Regular bread recipe, but I made the dough and put it under +20 PSI of argon as it rested. Ended up making another 2 PSI or so of CO2 as it offgassed. I lowered the pressure over about 30 minutes and baked it as normal. It's considerably more sour than normal and has a much softer, fine texture. The GF was very skeptical, but said it's solidly better than normal. I may try something like +40 PSI next time.

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Chaotic42 said:
Regular bread recipe, but I made the dough and put it under +20 PSI of argon as it rested. Ended up making another 2 PSI or so of CO2 as it offgassed. I lowered the pressure over about 30 minutes and baked it as normal. It's considerably more sour than normal and has a much softer, fine texture. The GF was very skeptical, but said it's solidly better than normal. I may try something like +40 PSI next time.

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That looks very tasty. I'm a sucker for a loaf of fresh baked bread. Although I can't say I've ever had one put under 20 psi of argon.
 
New to the whole 3D printing thing, I printed out these desiccant holders to put in the AMS earlier today to help with humidity.




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Here is a pic of the humidity without having them in there and this has been pretty constant. You can see the AMS reads 30% and the hydrometer reads 33%.

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Here's a pic of them all installed which is super clean.

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And here is a pic of the humidy readings like an hour later.

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So it's a pretty significant difference and immediate. Right now the AMS reading is 11% and the hygrometer is still 10%.

I plan on making more holders to put in the middle of each spool in there so it should drop it even more to help it be as dry as possible.
 
Chaotic42 said:
Ooh. I'll be curious to see how you like it. This might be the year I pull the trigger on a 3D printer.
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I've had it a week and it has been running non stop lol. Either toys for my kids or "3d printing stuff" like those above, and I even created a little tray in Tinkercad that we put our kids silverware in in our silverware drawer, as well as a piece to put behind our silverware tray so that it just puts something in the void of space that would make the tray slide back when you open the drawer.

I will post a pic when I'm completely finished but I am also printing a rack to store filament on and it also has drawers to store stuff in. It's modular so you can make it as little or as big as you want. I'm going 3x3 with it, and 2 of those slots have 2 drawers each.

Currently I am printing out a paper tray for my son because he loves drawing and he would just grab paper from a pack of printer paper. But I'm just going to print this paper tray for him to put on his little drawing table with all the paper in it.

Oh and I also found a 11x15 frame model I found and modified it to be 12x16 for these things my son wanted to hang on his wall, in a frame and not just the picture itself.

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