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FINALLY got the planer back to working order. So, it will see some action. Still got stacks of walnut that needs planing. 

Edited August 10, 20205 yr by Gene Howe

Too hot/humid to do much over the weekend. 

 

@John Morris, Nice photo of a 1940's/50's shop class. The TS is either a Walker Turner 1180, or 1180B.

Love that Shop picture! Reminds me of this one-

 

Vocational shop class when I went there.

Larry, that picture of the guys standing round the table saw looks like my high school days in southern California from 51 -54. Mostly loafer slip on shoes. Lots of flat top hair does but no one ever wore a belt!!!. Mom and dad got by very cheap on my school clothes for white tee shirts and Levi's were the only thing any guy would wear.. Well cheaply except the Levi's were the highest priced genes there was...loafers was in the middle to high priced shoes back then also. And in my ten years living in southern California there was no reason for our folks to have to buy winter clothes. I don't think I ever owned a coat while living there.

  This picture of the guys standing there would be a good caparison to the same group in todays high schools. You could almost say all parents back then unknowingly used the same rules to raise their kids...eating and sleeping and all the other regular habits had to be close to the same. You were lucky or un lucky if you ever seen a fat kid. Hardly ever happened in both grade school and high school I was in. And the best thing that hadn't happened yet were drugs. It seems like the sixties would get famous for that era...

Waiting for more pen part components to arrive contemplating on buying a pressure pot on Wensday, plans are for more pen barrel turning and a possibility of more recording.

Ahhh, @Smallpatch them were the days! Gotta find me a DeLorean...or a Tardis.

Andrew, I been meaning to ask you a question... What ever happened to the blow dryers that guys still use to take the bubbles out of epoxy pours. Why go the expensive route?????

51 minutes ago, Smallpatch said:

Larry, that picture of the guys standing round the table saw looks like my high school days in southern California from 51 -54. Mostly loafer slip on shoes. Lots of flat top hair does but no one ever wore a belt!!!. Mom and dad got by very cheap on my school clothes for white tee shirts and Levi's were the only thing any guy would wear.. Well cheaply except the Levi's were the highest priced genes there was...loafers was in the middle to high priced shoes back then also. And in my ten years living in southern California there was no reason for our folks to have to buy winter clothes. I don't think I ever owned a coat while living there.

  This picture of the guys standing there would be a good caparison to the same group in todays high schools. You could almost say all parents back then unknowingly used the same rules to raise their kids...eating and sleeping and all the other regular habits had to be close to the same. You were lucky or un lucky if you ever seen a fat kid. Hardly ever happened in both grade school and high school I was in. And the best thing that hadn't happened yet were drugs. It seems like the sixties would get famous for that era...

A few years before my time. I was born in 58.

 ...Might explain my "Cousin Itt" look. 

42 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Ahhh, them were the days! Gotta find me a DeLorean...or a Tardis.

My old machines do my time travels, can't afford a Delorean, and @lew is hanging on to his Tardis. 

1 minute ago, Larry Buskirk said:

and @lew is hanging on to his Tardis

It's in for an oil change and a new weewahh for the thitchmahitchet

1 minute ago, lew said:

It's in for an oil change and a new weewahh for the thitchmahitchet

...I didn't know they still make weewahh's for the thitchmachitchet's? 

@lew,

Did you see this?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/country-manor-where-doctor-who-was-filmed-goes-on-the-market/ss-BB17N6y2

Cool!

 

In case I'm not around, the keys are under the mat.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4921374,-0.1928784,3a,75y,291.8h,71.14t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sc9UMhWP_MWm9U0L48xEjYw!2e0!3e5!7i13312!8i6656

Found 'em. See ya in 1957. 

1 hour ago, Smallpatch said:

Andrew, I been meaning to ask you a question... What ever happened to the blow dryers that guys still use to take the bubbles out of epoxy pours. Why go the expensive route?????

I took a class in epoxy pours and the guy used a lit propane torch.   It was my understanding it was the carbon dioxide and not the heat, but I could be wrong.

@Smallpatch, for small but thick pours, like pen blanks, heat will distort the mold.  If you're not very precise with your mixtures, the heat from curing will distort plastic molds. Also, embedded wood will release bubbles until the resin is totally cured. Pressure or vacuum will eliminate the need to hang around, popping bubbles.

Thanks Gene, I never had a hankering to make pens and didn't know for sure that plastic molds were used.. Just figured metal would last longer and keep their shape better. Learn something ever minute I'm awake...

Wow 1958 was a sole searching time for me. This was the year I volunteered for the army...But that was only after I received that famous letter every one was getting as they turned draft age from the president...but the word greetings started that letter so right there I figured it being a trap or not, I had to go.

Not sure...looked just like the Class of 64, when I was in school...instructor had since gone on the be the Science Teacher....

 

Monday....I think I got something done over the past weekend

we weren't allowed to wear jeans to school and t-shirts had to be under a dress shirt.   only place you could wear gym shoes was in the gym and no hard-soled shoes on the gym floor.   if they caught you with horse-shoes they would peel them off your shoes (and didn't care if the whole heel came with it).