Cliff

he's ok. It's Earthquake friday I guess. I mentioned that horrid bronchial infection. The missus & I had it but then she was stricken by campylobacter and salmonella at the same time.. It's been a months of touch and go with her. Thought I was going to lose her, but she's on the mend.

well it's been 9 days for my lovely missus she was looking better and better and today she wasn't able to get out of bed. I'm still congested still having those horrid gagging coughing fits but other than that I'm fine.

the flu is rampaging here on the east coast joisy, philly & nyc. My lovely missus spent almost 4 days bed bound. it lasts longer too I'm on day 8 improving but still gagging on crap in the lungs.

Accepting this great honor I have to thank the nuns at the children's orphanage where I was raised "Sisters of Merciless Cruelty" and my best friend Gomer, my manger, and trainer Billy Jack, and my pet cat pookie who always had a dead mouse for us, Oh and Donald the Duck for teaching me to quack and and and I have to thank all the little people (you know who you are) for being such helpful stepping stones as I climbed to these great heights leaving my cleat marks all over your bodies, And of course no awards ceremony would be complete with out ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ and on and on and on and on ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

long ago I learned not to make big decisions based on the presumptions I have about the potential conduct of others.

nope, you'd need their signature and still, it's up to the jury. Generally speaking: No written agreement is enforceable against a party who hasn't signed it. terms of contract can sometimes be enforceable based on other things such a conduct of the parties over time , the verbal agreements etc but as to an injury I think you'd be out of luck.

Armed with a judgement I am able to surround the judgement debtor's home with sheriff's tape I can being a locksmith, a sheriff, an assessor, and an auctioneer and sell of all of the debtor's assets ( everything he owns) leaving them usually just the wife's wedding ring set and all the costs of the sale are also taxed to the debt. The judgement won't pe fully paid from a meager household so the debtor will carry the debt into the future forever never being able to get a loan and every employer and potential landlord able to do a simple records search to see the fact of an unpaid judgement debt. The debtor can leave the state the record follows them there are ya a very few nations on the planet that don't have treaties with the USA that encompass the recriprocity of judgement enforcement. Brazil is one. So My advice to anyone who wants to go into business is while the sun shines and you are not under threat of suit: Start an LLC. Sell (or lease on paper) all your equipment to the LLC, and pay the lease fees from the LLC bank account you want the money trail of checks and receipts. Pay yourself a salary from the LLC. Rent the physical facilities (your garage or cellar to the LLC and be absolutely faithful about collecting rent and don't store personal things in that space keep only those things the LLC owns or leases in that space. Be faithful about keeping that space separate. Build a wall if you can. Have a bank account for the LLC and be deadly serious about never intermingling funds with the LLC keep it bright line separate from all your other accounts funds and assets. See about insurance and use a lawyer. Piercing the corporate veil relies on the business owner having made the terribly easy mistake of having been a little slothful and intermingling funds and or assets. Be furiously faithful about never intermingling and you should be good. Some reading Don't use the LLC as an Alter Ego. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=LLC+as+Alter+ego&t=brave&ia=web Don't comingle https://duckduckgo.com/?q=LLC+and+comingling+assets&t=brave&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=LLC+and+comingling+funds&t=brave&ia=web If you want to make yourself judgement proof and don't want to do the above: Have all your retirement funds deposited in a dedicated bank account and don't co-mingle those funds with any other funds. Retirement pension payments and SS are Off Limits to debt collectors. Keep your other funds in another account because only retirement funds are off limits every other penny is subject to seizure. No joint account. Have your wife keep her funds in her own separate bank account under her name. Put your home in the name of your wife and get your's off the title. Sell your shop, your truck, your guns etc., to your wife and pay her lease fees to use them and do it all on paper & title your truck in her name. Before you pay for insurance have an attorney review the paperwork. Give your wife your money and have her keep it in her named bank account and keep very little in yours.

I am a lawyer, retired. I've taken part in product liability litigation. In general, it is lose lose lose for the manufacturer. The reason? Juries see the sympathetic injured party and they do exactly what you might think they would do ; they take from the rich and give to the poor and facts and law are usually tossed out the window. Example Utility lineman wanted to change the bend of utility pole (don't ask). He went through a slew of measures all of which were forbidden in his effort and he admitted doing them in open court. Eventually the 63,000 pounds of force in the hydraulics snapped the rope he had tied to the top of the pole. He had failed to use his harness and admitted to that as well. When the ambulance arrived to find him laying broken on the ground he was hopelessly paralyzed. His young softly weeping wife and infant child were in the courtroom through out the entire trial. The jury returned a verdict against the utility, the truck manufacturer, the lift bucket company, and the rope maker. It is unlikely that your cutting-board will injure someone until that instant when little billy gets carried away and smacks little suzy in the skull with it. Or it skids across the counter in a pool of grease and some dummy cuts his or her own finger off. Then all bets are off. In law school you learn about supervening / intervening causation breaking the chain of causality this relieving the manufacturer of liability. But if you have been watching the news lately you see people suing firearms makers claiming they are liable when some insane person uses their products to do harm. I can't count the number of times I've seen all the legal norms, laws, and standards tossed out the window by sympathetic juries. There aren't you glad you asked?

I built myself a band saw guide a while back and bot chinesium bearings from ebay. They have since blown up. Little pieces melted and shattered bearing balls etc. So I went shopping for good bearings Mind you they are little R6Z bearings. I need five of 'em. SKF is $33 @ Misumi is $20 @ PNG and other Chinese ones on the flea bay range from $1.50 to $9.75 I'm going with the Japanese Misumi bearings Arrggghhh

Well it's free if one normally disposes od the components I bought a 47 Horse Kioti tractor a few years ago. It takes 11.5 gallons of hydraulic oil, and runs on diesel. I have a dust collector, I could just use dry arborist wood chips if I needed to Mix the sawdust with oil and diesel to form a light fluffy but well treated sawdust. It doesn't need to be dripping. You can use any oil. even vegetable. Scoop some of that right on the logs and light it. That's it. No more making kindling. I learned this from a Filipino on the interwebs somewhere.

Spring is coming got your early blooming bush selected and the sprayer and Bifenthrin or other pyrethoid?

cutter for making belting from leather

crusher for malted barley to make beer

if the wegotorocks guy is to be believed then the conventional way of storing a bandsaw blade is a bad idea if one wants quality cuts. Cos there's no way I can coil a blade and never drag the teeth against each other or the blade. so my 162" blade would have to be stored flat when not being used. But it does appear that the blade I use would do the best.

I got a slew of 'em for my Agazzani but I'm looking for something in particular. I want the finest finish off the saw that I can get. Glueline quality. Do you know a blade, pitch, tooth, geometry, that is good like that? Mostly I run a 1" lennox carbide tipped woodmaster It's pretty good and I may use that but I want a finer cut, really smooth

3" x 6.75" a wide variety of grits I got a bunch of these stones with the idea of building a better sharpening station unlike the big DMT stones they are not on 3/8 steel plates. They re on a thin but sufficiently stiff steel plate with a moderately stiff foam backing. The grits are very thickly laid and consistent across each stone no odd spots. The sharpening experience so far is as good as I get with DMT. The price OMFCOASWHBBBH the price is like unbelievable I bought 240, 320 , 600 1000, and 1500 and guess what I paid. Come on guess. I bet you can't. I paid $21.70 a lousy 21 bucks and 70 cents FOR THE WHOLE ORDER~!!! They are under $5 each here is the link https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256802256770736.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.4.36f718028jMlca&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa

I forget what I paid for mine it's all aluminum and o-rings. BUT it did not come with a rotary vacuum joint and I had to make my own. so think you are golden

that part's easy I've just never glued up this thick before and I want seams so tight that one can't see 'em.

What have I got to lose? A little effort is all. Yah I'll go for it.

yup

This is more of a recommendation If ya gotta get a prostate yanked or other major urological surgery , consider taking the trip to Philadelphia, Temple U hospital to Dr Daniel Eun's office. He does robotics so it's a lot easier on you and he is one of the top few on the planet so your recovery will be remarkably fast. I got a prostrate and all attendant vesicles etc yanked. I was home that afternoon (2 hour drive). pain was totally bearable no meds. No incontinence issues. I had a bag for just a couple weeks. No recurrence of the cancer so far. I am back to normal in all those ways no one talks about in public. Surgery was march 2023 I've been good since mid summer. Every one else I know who has had that operation was incontinent for weeks even months and had plenty of other post surgery issues. In his surgery there will be people from all over the world. He's that sought after. If you do go to philly stay in the center city The Notary Hotel it's a marriot hotel. They have a contract with a private livery (C J Taxi & Limo) who will get you to the hospital on time. Do not try to drive Philly on your own. The place has turned into a war zone the likes of mogadishu but with more illegal drugs. The hospital staff will tell you how to get in and out. DO NOT USE GPS~!!! GPS will get you murdered, your organs sold, and your skins turned into lampshades.

I must have posed the question badly/ I am concerned about the small imperfections in the edge jointing and the impossibility of pulling very thick lumber together. I have pieces that are over 2" thick and 8 or so inches wide ( based on a ratio derived from the norm of 3/4' thick and 3" wide boards) I'm somewhat concerned that no amount of clamp pressure will move that much wood. but I ant to build the table up from those pieces.

thanks girls, I am going in reverse now younger every year. This business of growing older is the original extreme sport.

Figure-8. That's it weave a figure 8 and there will be no entanglement you can still do the coils around the whole thing to finish it off. It is tighter and easier to store than the crochet loop style for larger cords I built a winder a board with room for tall-ish 1" dowels spaced about 18" apart glued in place You could leave one loose and drill extra holes for different winds. You can just use your hand and forearm but it's a skosh clumsy. It is especially helpful for little cords like phone charging cords and earbud cords Just use your fingers Physicists have studied this phenomena.