Silver Beatle - She's now with an old friend!

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Postby Juneaudave » Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:26 am

Fergittin all the grief we've given you...what's this clamp thingy (my ignorance) I haven't seen one and it sure looks useful...

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Postby aggie79 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:14 pm

2bits wrote:I like the insulation on the garage doors! :thinking:


I wasn't too sure about the "bubble-wrap" radiant barrier insulation, so this was a test to see if it works. So far it does seem to buffer the temperatures in our garage. When the cold weather hit recently (or "cool" to everyone north of the Red River) the garage was warmer than outside.

I think this stuff needs an air space to be effective.
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Postby aggie79 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:31 pm

Juneaudave wrote:Fergittin all the grief we've given you...what's this clamp thingy (my ignorance) I haven't seen one and it sure looks useful... :oops: :oops:


It's just a regular ole Bessey bar clamp. There's a better picture of a couple of them below. To layout the curve of the teardrop profile, I stuck wood blocking to plywood with double-stick carpet tape. Then I curved the batten around to the blocking and held it to the blocking with the clamp. Once I was happy with the curve, I traced a line along the batten.

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Some Progress

Postby aggie79 » Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:39 pm

:D Finally got around to making sawdust. Here's the template for the profile:

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And here it is with some holes in it:

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:worship: Aargh! Now time to cut the door opening. I hope my jury-rigged router/compass creation works:

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So far so good.
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Postby peggyearlchris » Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:50 pm

Wow your doing a great job. I love the compass. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Peg
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Postby 2bits » Fri Dec 26, 2008 10:21 pm

Holy Moley, that's swwweet.. I just drew a line and tried to aim real good! :lol: Nice creative work! I like the profile alot too!
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Postby reiltear » Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:57 am

Craftsman cabinet-makers table saw with a Bismeyer fence?... :awesome:


Now, where's the emoticon for "jealous"?... :x :fb :crying2:


Your build looks really great!!! :applause:
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Postby aggie79 » Sun Dec 28, 2008 1:15 pm

reiltear wrote:Craftsman cabinet-makers table saw with a Bismeyer fence?


It's no Powermatic or Unisaw, but I've been real happy with it. A few years back, Sears had it on sale, and at the same time that there was a Craftsman Club coupon that you could "stack" on top of the discount. Out the door, it was $679.

Thanks for the compliments on the teardrop.
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Postby H@nk » Sun Dec 28, 2008 2:10 pm

2bits wrote:I like the garage! :thinking:


Me too
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Postby aggie79 » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:30 pm

:applause: Had some garage time today. For the most part, I am using Grant's plywood wall construction method. The only difference is that I am using a 1/4" mdf template for layout and final fitting. Here is a piece of plywood (actually it is 3/4" mdo) with the template on top. Next step is to trace the profile and "lightening holes."

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The outside profile is cut and now onto making plywood swiss cheese.

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One down, one more to go.

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Postby aggie79 » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:33 pm

2bits wrote:Holy Moley, that's swwweet.. I just drew a line and tried to aim real good! :lol: Nice creative work! I like the profile alot too!


Thanks Thomas. I hope it looks half as good as yours.
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Postby 2bits » Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:19 am

aggie79 wrote:Thanks Thomas. I hope it looks half as good as yours.


Wow! Well just get good at hiding mistakes like me haha that's the true worth of a good carpenter!
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Postby aggie79 » Sun Feb 01, 2009 11:27 pm

Finally got back to some construction, but not a whole lot to show. (By the way, the CFO exercised her naming rights and has named our teardrop "Silver Beatle" as a tribute to our all-time favorite rock group.)

Door openings were routed in the plywood wall framing and "mortises" routed for mortise locksets. (The mortise will be formed by the interior wall skin.)

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I then constructed some boxes for in-floor storage. (And now know why many say don't bother - a whole lot of work for not much storage.)

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Next on the list was to cut the framing for the insulated floor. I didn't get the floor built as I had planned, but everything is sitting on the plywood cart ready for assembly hopefully next weekend.

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Gig'em,
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some more progress

Postby aggie79 » Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:19 pm

It seems like I only get in the garage every other weekend. After wasting time building floor storage boxes, I nixed that idea and started on the floor.

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The intial framing passes inspection.

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Framing finished.

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Insulating the voids.

:thumbsup: Gig'em, Tom
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Postby Miriam C. » Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:23 pm

:applause: :thumbsup: Sounds like you will be ready to camp before summer. :thumbsup: You have some really neat looking framing. :applause:

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