Friday, December 21, 2018, What’s on your Patriot Woodworker agenda?

[Stick486]

16 minutes ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

Spend some time devising a mock up

nice..

but did you include bushings for the all-thread through and throughs...

[Gunny]

29 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

but did you include bushings for the all-thread through and throughs...

Not on the mock up.  But had started a parts list of things like that.  Planned on making it out of some mild steel I have and working off my wooden template / mock up.  

[Gunny]

Did finally finish my V groove jig for drilling round pieces.  Have a lot of call for this and finally broke down and made what I needed.   Like any other tool it needed a home, made that too.  

[DAB]

16 hours ago, Stick486 said:

you left out bigger freezer ready...

that's a rookie mistake many make.

 

i can't possibly eat 9 reindeer at once, much less in one  year.  so i might harvest the fattest of the herd, but the others i'd keep around (tied down so they don't fly away!), fatten up, and if i'm lucky, find some girl reindeer and start a little ranch.  breed them, fatten them up (cookies work great), and then i'll have reindeer burgers as long as i want.

 

and if can calm them down, i might even be able to get them to fly for me, under my command, and then i'd have the world's coolest Uber experience.  landings are the hard part. very few passengers want to be dropped off on top of a roof.  but i have time and patience.

[Grandpadave52]

4 minutes ago, DAB said:

fatten them up (cookies work great),

always worked well on 'er for me.

5 minutes ago, DAB said:

i'll have reindeer burgers

start a fast food drive through restaurant....call it Bambi Burgers

[Stick486]

22 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

.call it Bambi Burgers

bambi ain't reindeer...

[DAB]

23 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

always worked well on 'er for me.

start a fast food drive through restaurant....call it Bambi Burgers

our burgers are flying out the drive thru window!  hold on tight to that bag.

[Grandpadave52]

6 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

bambi ain't reindeer...

true but is a deer so close enough...besides McDonald's doesn't serve real beef, but the clown still sells it like it is.

[Grandpadave52]

9 minutes ago, DAB said:

our burgers are flying out the drive thru window!  hold on tight to that bag.

children's meals could be called Rudolph's Round-up with little boxes that light up.

[Grandpadave52]

23 minutes ago, DAB said:

our burgers are flying out the drive thru window!  hold on tight to that bag.

Dasher Dozen Deal...Prancer Party Pack...Blitzen Big Burger...Donner Daily Deal...I better stop before I frighten someone plus I'm getting hungry

[Gunny]

8 hours ago, DAB said:

and if can calm them down,

 

Yeah okay.  You have a better chance talking to my ex wife and getting her to stop contacting me.  Bloody impossible!!!

[Stick486]

8 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

true but is a deer so close enough...besides McDonald's doesn't serve real beef, but the clown still sells it like it is.

world different...

reindeer are very picky eaters as where bambi is a garbage disposal...

it tells in the venison...

[Cal]

20 hours ago, DAB said:

that's a rookie mistake many make.

 

i can't possibly eat 9 reindeer at once, much less in one  year.  so i might harvest the fattest of the herd, but the others i'd keep around (tied down so they don't fly away!), fatten up, and if i'm lucky, find some girl reindeer and start a little ranch.  breed them, fatten them up (cookies work great), and then i'll have reindeer burgers as long as i want.

 

and if can calm them down, i might even be able to get them to fly for me, under my command, and then i'd have the world's coolest Uber experience.  landings are the hard part. very few passengers want to be dropped off on top of a roof.  but i have time and patience.

 

But y'all have left out the "problem" of this witness to the carnage...the fat man.   What to do, what to do.  A couple options come to mind:

1.  Keep him around as a stable hand - being a resident of the North Pole and an illegal immigrant he would work for next to nothing, right?

2.  As a slimmed down and buff stable hand he could be the next spokesperson for a new chain of exercise clubs and diet books.  What old woman wouldn't be dreaming of her own Santa like that?

3.  Keep him all jolly & fat as a spokesman for "Bambi Burgers".  Maybe he could get some of those "height impaired" workers to come work for low wages at the burger joint too.  Our northern border is pretty easily breached I understand.

4.  Or we could just have him deported as an illegal.  Who would believe him that he flew in under the radar without papers with flying deer?

[Gene Howe]

Loving this Tucson weather. Yesterday it hit 80 degrees. Got down to 43 overnight. 

Our son, Kevin found a "pole vise"...that's what he calls it. It's a big vise on a tapered steel rod with a 3/4" steel ball at the bottom. He built a stand for it. I've never seen anything like it. Pictures later. If, I can figger out how to get them from the camera to this Kindle. Otherwise, they'll have to wait till we get home. 

Went to a neighborhood Christmas light display, last night. About 6 square blocks of some fantastic displays. It's a Tucson Christmas tradition. There are so many sightseers that, for the last several years, they've blocked off the entire neighborhood to automobiles. You either walk or, they provide (for a price) jeep drawn trailers with seats. We rode. Each trailer holds about 50 people and there were 20 trailers fully loaded that snaked their way through the neighborhood. Took about an hour. They run every hour from 18:00 to 22:00. Quite an operation. There were huge crowds of walkers, too. No admission fees for them. It was a joy to see the faces of the little ones as they took it all in. 

Today, we're going to an All You Can Eat Shushi bar, for lunch. Tommorrow is TBD.

Catch y'all later.

 

 

 

 

[Grandpadave52]

2 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Loving this Tucson weather. Yesterday it hit 80 degrees. Got down to 43 overnight. 

Rub it in, rub it in...Hoping it gets to 40^o for the HIGH today. 

2 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Our son, Kevin found a "pole vise"...that's what he calls it. It's a big vise on a tapered steel rod with a 3/4" steel ball at the bottom.

Does it look something kinda' like one of these? They are cool...a great uncle willed me his. I need to get it restored.

   

 

 

[Gene Howe]

@Grandpadave52, that's it. Looks identical. Heavy duty thing. 

[steven newman]

Wait until you have to ship one of them.

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Complete tear down, just to box up...

Paid $5 for it...sold it for 20x that...

[Grandpadave52]

6 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

@Grandpadave52, that's it. Looks identical. Heavy duty thing. 

They were something in their day...can't buy that kind of cast iron/steel anymore.

They could be finger pinchers if you weren't careful. HIGHLY collectible today...a lot of them have been scrapped

Good to hear your son has caught the old 'arn bug...we need the next generation pursuing this endeavor.

[Gunny]

Anyone give me some guidance on this clamp?  Was part of a box of assorted stuff someone dropped off.  Most of it was screws and nuts and bolts.  Check this clamp out though.  

 

Repairable?  Seems doubtful to me.  Could be turned into something else?

 

Edited December 24, 2018 by Woodbutcherbynight
learnng curve

[Stick486]

1 hour ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

Repairable?

yes..

warm it up..

twist to the right angles...

while it cools rapidly run the thread in and out...

Edited December 24, 2018 by Stick486