What did you do today

[pchast]

I'd shift the lathe onto the cart before moving the bench?

[Tom&Shelly]

I'd shift the lathe onto the cart before moving the bench?

It's pretty heavy. Think I'll try sliding the table with it on there first. I suspect the cart will hold it, but it would take the two of us to lift it back to the bench.

Tom

[pchast]

Why if you shim up(blocks) the top shelf to the same level of the bench top?
Any racking support for the posts of the cart?

[Tom&Shelly]

Why if you shim up(blocks) the top shelf to the same level of the bench top?
Any racking support for the posts of the cart?

No racking support (after the three inch wide strips of 1/4" plywood). After all, it's modeled after the Harbor Freight design!

Tom

[Tom&Shelly]

Shelly designed and made some plastic supports for a 1 1/4" dowel to hold her filament against the cabin wall of her work area



I'm beginning to realize she's getting into this 3D printing fad!

Tom

[Tom&Shelly]

Meanwhile, I ordered a Kreg router lift, just in case I want to make a router table one of these days.



I'd heard Interweb rumors that it is made by the Canadian company JessEm, and also that it is made by Woodpecker. The AI chat bots are helpful, telling me it's made by both and neither, in the same paragraph, citing various unsubstantiated opinions from various woodwooking forums. Don't want to add fuel to that fire, but the Kreg lift is made in Canada



So now we have substantiated that much in this, not quite a woodworkers, but close, forum.

This lift has an aluminum plate, and is probably about 3/8 inches thick, so it shouldn't sag like the budget lift we had. It was phenolic 1/8".

While I was down at Home Depot picking up the lift, I decided to check out their 70% off bin, and found some great deals. Not to sound ungrateful, but it's really not much worse than their full priced lumber.



It might even be cheaper than fire wood around here, particularly since we've had unusually cold weather lately and prices are up. I take the best parts of boards like these to make tool holders for the shop walls, using the rest for kindling.

Tom

[Tom&Shelly]

Don't want to add fuel to that fire, but the Kreg lift is made in Canada

25 years ago it was a pain in the neck to look up US patents. Not so anymore! Googled the numbers and all three are assigned to JessEm, so I'm going to say that's who makes Kreg's router lift. (Probably doesn't really matter, although if the AI bots really had I, they would have considered this.)

Tom

[MickinOz]

I stayed inside today. It's a waste of a good long summer day, but it was still 42C at 6pm.
That's about 107F.
Still, over the last couple days I've marinated 2 kilos of chicken wings in sweet baby ray's buffalo wing sauce and extra cayenne and packed them in freezer, and I came 4th in the 200 yard shoot at the range on Saturday, so the weekend hasn't been a total waste.
Still haven't finished repainting my trailer, but the paint needs to go on at less than 35C.

[Tom&Shelly]

We're having an amazingly warm week, with highs in the low to mid 60's, so I decided it's finally time to hang some peg-board in the garage we built to shelter our teardrop and some other equipment. I had three sheets left over from paneling the workshop a dozen years ago so that's what went up. For the garage, I cut them down to 5 feet across to match the metal studs, and reinforced the sheets with some strips of pine from the straightest of the 70% off one by's I bought from Home Depot last month.



I carefully built some stands to hold each sheet up parallel with the floor while I screwed them in, but the floor turned out not to be perfectly level, hence the slight triangular gap between sheets. On the other hand, it was a bit breezy this afternoon, so an alternative explanation has it that I was three sheets to the wind...

I do have room on either side to hang an additional sheet each if we need it, which, of course, we always do. Also have two more walls if it comes to it. BTW, I used to date a lady named Peg Board. She ended up marrying a real tool.

Anyway, we'll see how it holds up



Tom

[tony.latham]

Me? I sent my ninth manuscript off to my editor. I've lost track of when I started this, but it's been a few years–-the third in a three-book mystery/thriller series.



It'll hit the shelves before the grass in Idaho turns green. :thumbs-up:

Tony

[Tom&Shelly]

Cool! Looking forward to reading it Tony.

Tom

[MickinOz]

Today, we joined some friends at a local pub for dinner.
This place is quite a popular eatery, but on this quiet Sunday night there was only about 2 dozen diners.
Their pizzas are quite popular, so I thought I'd ditch the calorie deficit diet for just one night and indulge.
Ordered "The Boss's Special", with the optional olives, chili and anchovies listed on the menu.
After a bit of a wait, a lady came out with a pizza and said, "I forgot to put the optional extras on your pizza."
I said, "that's OK mate, I'll eat this one."
She said "Oh no, this is just to keep you going while I have the remake cooking."
OKaaay?!
She put it on the table, I had a slice to tide me over and 5 or 10 minutes later she brought out the new pizza.
Took the old one away and put it in a box for me to take home.
I said, "Thank you but I would have just eaten the first one. This isn't coming out of your wages, I hope."
"No, no, I run the place, it's all good"
And that is how I came home with a free pizza.

[Modstock]

Now that's customer service. Chili on a pizza, did I read that right ?

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[bdosborn]

And BOOM, just like that they (probably) have a life long customer for the price of a pizza.
It's too bad that the corporate bean counter types don't get that customer service matters.
Bruce

[MickinOz]

Chili on a pizza, did I read that right ?

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Why yes, yes you did. Chili is a vital ingredient in a Fat Aussie pizza.

It balances the sweetness of the pineapple and the saltiness of the olives and anchovies, and cuts through the grease from the pepperoni and slatherings of cheese, you see.