Corona Virus Projects

[Irving]

Right when you finish, he's going to announce he's into Digipets now and all the stuff fits in your pocket!

[Frac]

Simple, elegant, clever.

Nice work! That?s going to be a fantastic cabinet! It reminds me of one by Dad built for his collection of router bits. Unfortunately, evil stepmom decided she wanted to keep it and never use it.

[VDW]

Looks better than anything I’ve ever made with wood! Except maybe my children...

[Irving]

I plan to get this running. I'm going to start by draining the fuel tank. The 2-stroke tank is dry. Then I'm going to remove the carb and make sure the jets are clear.

[Irving]

Well, I put 2-stroke oil and fresh gas in it and it started on the second kick. It works. On paper it says that this old yellow bike has twice the horse power of my newer blue bike. It's definitely faster and has more usable gearing for the street.

[Great-Kazoo]

Well, I put 2-stroke oil and fresh gas in it and it started on the second kick. It works. On paper it says that this old yellow bike has twice the horse power of my newer blue bike. It's definitely faster and has more usable gearing for the street.

those clutch plates free up after running a few?

[Great-Kazoo]

needed a thin 1 1/8" wrench for the dillon 1500 trimmer. Standard wrench is too thick, so i made my own. 1 hr later
Rough cut and it was a tad too wide so i built it up with some welding. then hand filed to fit







added a handle and eyelet to hang on back board

[Irving]

those clutch plates free up after running a few?

Yep! Finished product on that wrench looks good by the way.

[Great-Kazoo]

Yep! Finished product on that wrench looks good by the way.

thanks, i'm happy with the finished product. Buying 1 to fit would have cost more in s&h than the scrap materials i have, plus welding consumables.


Eventually i'll start practicing with the tig welder.

[JohnnyEgo]

Contemplated the look of the face of the cabinet the other day. Solid plain looks pretty traditional, and would be quick to execute, but I think I might like something with a little more character. As I don't feel like screwing up any of my existing pieces yet and having to buy another plank of cherry (though I am sure that moment is coming), I figured I'd try out the look and solve some construction mysteries with a small-scale prototype in pine.

First, cut down a 1x8 pine firring strip into a couple of test pieces:


Then ran the blanks through the router with a 1/8 radius beading bit until I found a profile I liked:


Then sit there and stared at them for about 20 minutes contemplating how I was going to join them:


The case ends were easy enough. Simple 45? miter joint. I use what is known as a 'donkey's ear', which is a jig that holds the stock at 45?. I could have cranked my tablesaw over to 45?, but then I would have to crank it back if I wanted to go back to cutting straight 90s. The donkey's ear lets me make more consistent cuts without that hassle.


The center rails were more of a quandry. Didn't want to miter the width of all the pieces, because that would make for a really weak joint on the cross pieces, and they will need to support a lot of weight. So right or wrong, I decided I would just miter to the depth of the bead. Couldn't think of a better way to do that than with a chisel and the world's easiest jig; a scrap of board butt-jointed to another scrap of the same board with super-glue, with a 90 degree notch carved into it.


Couple taps with the chisel and then pare out the waste.



I got better at it as I went along. The notches are actually the easy part. I can align them across multiple rails, and I can cut them out at about 8 per hour with a couple of breaks and one resharpening of the chisel. The vertical pieces are the challenge, because you have to get the length just about perfect to fit them. I screwed that up a couple of times in the prototype, and some of the joints are a little sloppy. They could be filled with sawdust and glue, but it isn't easy to sand these tight profiles. So I will have to be very careful when I cut them. The good news is that being on the short pieces, I have enough material to recut at least four or five of them if I really mess up.


Liked the look well enough to mill the cherry rails: