Let’s see……Wife is still at her mom’s, whatever she does her mom tells her she’s doing it wrong, and her sister keeps coming up with more things for her to do. Me Missus is close to having a nutty, and coming home. I told her she’s welcome anytime. Tomorrow’s storm is forecast to dump 8-18 inches where I am, and I believe it’s 18-28 where AlB is, with wind gusts of 70-90 MPH. So maybe the heater gets installed in the shop, maybe it don’t. As long as we don’t lose power, I’m in chill mode for the next 4 days. (Took Mon, and Tues off, vacation days) Travel may be banned on Sunday, and I may have to go to M-I-L’s and do snow removal there. Scamp and me gonna watch some football. His Bengals are still in it. (My personal belief is their season ends Sunday, but I’m not gonna tell him that  ). Ah well……Time to switch over the laundry LOL. 

Ken that brings back memories as a kid in my dads shop building supers and frames. He was a beekeeper all his life. For me this weekend I am closing in on finishing the ceiling in the media room. I will hopefully get time to start and maybe finish the base for the new bandsaw. 
Paul

@Artie (9:00 PM. Just stepped outside. Except for the cold, looks like a calm peaceful night, like the calm before the storm. Barring a power outage, I have no plans to step outside again for the next 12 + hrs. Thanks for your offer of help, but I think you'll have your own issues.

 

Edited January 29, 20224 yr by Al B

Had a interesting day today. Learned my lesson " don't burn on windy day". Went down to son's property to burn a brush pile. It was windy and it got away from us. Had to call the fire dept. Burned over 2 plus acres and cleared some brush. So tonight we are both wore out. The good part is the trees we planted yesterday still had green leaves.

14 hours ago, JimM said:

Trust me, they didn't.  We spent 5 months last year helping our grandson "attend" remote 1st grade.  Asking a 6 year old to stare at a computer screen for 45 minutes is ridiculous.  He has two sets of grandparents - I felt bad for kids with a single parent who had to work.  And the teacher's job was impossible.  All the little non-verbal class control techniques weren't available.  Remember your teachers moving around the room or standing near you while never missing a beat? 

I work in the computer industry and interact with a significant number of professional adults who can’t/won’t figure this stuff out.

They simply refuse to take the time and energy to set up a professional video conferencing studio with proper lighting, camera(s), and audio.  It drives me absolutely batshit crazy so I can only imagine how well this works with small children.
 

Double post sorry

Edited January 29, 20224 yr by StaticLV2
Double post

10 hours ago, Artie said:

Me Missus is close to having a nutty, and coming home. I told her she’s welcome anytime.

@Artie We must be in parallel universes - exactly the same here.

Welp, I should have listened to @Grandpadave52 a few days back and saved myself some aggravation.

I noticed an oil slick under my truck the other day, ok - maybe just a spot of 10-12".  And I know that really wasn't a lot of oil to cause it, but I had to look.  Pretty evident to me that when the oil & filter was changed the oil just got all over the plastic splash shield between the front bumper and front of engine.  Enough that it collected in a low spot and then dripped out onto the driveway.  And all the steering components up under there also had a nice shiny coat of oil to boot.

Just real sloppy of them to not clean up the spill.

So I got an appt for Friday morning.  My thoughts, there are only a few screws holding the splash shield on.  Remove ss, clean it off, wash it down and clean up or wash the underside of the truck at the front.  Nope, all they did was take a rag and wipe off the ss.  Lesson learned.  There are plenty of other places to take it for service.  I'm hoping to get one of those follow up surveys from Nissan...

On a side note, the first oil change was done in Columbus last spring while we were visiting our son.  Oil change, tire rotation and a complimentary wash (!!!) all done for much less than our local dealer where the above occurred.

 

Rest of the weekend.  Cold & windy today.  May take a trip up to Macon to look over some auction items.  If'n I don't have to, I ain't spending much time outside.  Probably download and start doing taxes too.

Today, Saturday, I was going to work on the box but being cold I am hesitant…what are y’all views on cutting and gluing when it is 18 outside? When it warms up do you think it would cause a greater amount of wood movement? Also, need to replace my travel shaving it. My current one was snagged by someone in Miami. Sunday hopefully just do some grilling for the wife’s dinner for the week. No LD travel this week just gotta head to Nashville. 
 

I hope everyone getting hammered in the NE is safe. 

When's it 18º outside, I always glue up indoors where it's at least 60º. Seriously, I don't worry about the outside temps when doing glue ups...as long as the furnace in the shop is working.

I would agree with Fred inside only for glue and temp at least 60. Wood movement should not be any different with temp if proper joints. Maybe someone with unheated shop will chime in.

On 1/28/2022 at 9:55 AM, lew said:

On another PC note, the TPM plugin chip to upgrade my mobo hade the wrong pinout. You would think there would be a standard.

 

 Twelve or fourteen pin? 

37 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

 Twelve or fourteen pin? 

11.5

I'm in the midst of wiring a new 200 amp service panel for the workshop. Going "nice and smooth" so far. 3 weeks ago we notified the building inspector that the meter base, and circuit box we in and ready to be inspected and power supplied to them but it wasn't a huge rush for us so do it on a warm day (like those exist this time of year in WI). 2 weeks later and he forgot us. ok they decide to inspect and connect on the coldest day (-12) of the year. there was a question for the utilities so no meter that day, oh well tomorrow it should be there, end of the week and "OOPS" that was handed off to so and so guess they forgot. He'll be there Monday to get it in. 
well atleast I still have the old service so I can run some tools but no dust collection, and I can only run the saw or planer by themselves. Oh well such is life, we're not under pressure for getting any products made this week so it isn't upsetting in the least. 

 

1 hour ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

 Twelve or fourteen pin? 

12 pin. Researched the heck out of it. Ordered one. Keyed pin in the wrong location.  Reordered one from another supplier. Fit! Took a few tries to find the correct combination of settings in bios. Finally got it working. 

@John Hechel...great to have to posting again. Sorry to hear about the electrical service debacle. Hopefully you'll be up & running soon.

8 hours ago, KevTN said:

what are y’all views on cutting and gluing when it is 18 outside

Simple for me Kevin; if it's 18 outside, shop temperature probably 10° colder so I stay inside on a coffee IV. Rule of thumb (OK tongue)...if your tongue sticks your tools, too cold to be in the shop.

Not a "good" day today....( shop has it's own register from the furnace) when I was trying to level one last corner on the lid..it flipped over and fell to the floor.....So...today's activities or on hold until the glue dries..

Sitting here in the clamps.  Had to re-square things too...grrrr...took it out on those 2 chisels sitting there..

Both are now quite sharp...

Dug out the cordless pilot hole drill, too..

As for a finish if and when this box gets done?

We have ways..

May check on the "repair" after bit...if not, there's always tomorrow, eh?

Started the weekend off on the wrong foot.

I have an old delta jointer that I have been refurbing and today it got a trial run which was disappointing as all get out.

It planes basically the first 4” of any board and no more.  It looks like the outfeed side isn’t coplanar with the infeed.
I suspect there is some sort of shimming process needed but until I figure that out, it is going on the back burner.

 

Moving right along, I started working on some little shop projects for hanging up aprons and ear pro.  30 seconds into that I managed to break the blade on my bandsaw.  This kicked a whole bunch of things into motion, the first of which is rationalizing to myself why I have 3 bandsaws in the shop and what the purpose of each one is going to be.  The Jet is going to be set up as my primary bandsaw so I picked up a nice 3/4” rip/crosscut blade for that one. I will eventually pick up a really good resaw blade for that one as well.  Shopsmith #1 is going to be my detail bandsaw and it already has a nice 1/4” blade and cool blocks so that will work.  I need to find a good metal cutting blade for Shopsmith #2 at some point and that one will be similarly dedicated but that is way down the list of things to get done.

 

Last but not least, I picked up a coupling so I can finally hook up dust collection to the table saw mostly hardline.

 

With that done, I finished up the projects I originally started on and got my little hangers cut out, sanded, and installed.

 

3 hours ago, John Hechel said:

I'm in the midst of wiring a new 200 amp service panel for the workshop. Going "nice and smooth" so far. 3 weeks ago we notified the building inspector that the meter base, and circuit box we in and ready to be inspected and power supplied to them but it wasn't a huge rush for us so do it on a warm day (like those exist this time of year in WI). 2 weeks later and he forgot us. ok they decide to inspect and connect on the coldest day (-12) of the year. there was a question for the utilities so no meter that day, oh well tomorrow it should be there, end of the week and "OOPS" that was handed off to so and so guess they forgot. He'll be there Monday to get it in. 
well atleast I still have the old service so I can run some tools but no dust collection, and I can only run the saw or planer by themselves. Oh well such is life, we're not under pressure for getting any products made this week so it isn't upsetting in the least. 

 

Separate service for the shop? I’m envious!