Archive for the ‘Shop’ Category
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Today I ran the "Big Ass" cable to the main electrical panel that powers the house. Let me tell you, aluminum cable does not want to bend at a 90 deg. angle (see conduit to the left of the electrical panel). I had to make two of these bends. ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The ceiling is finished at last! It doesn't look pretty but I no longer have to worry about "popcorn" falling down on a freshly applied finish.
A few things I learned when priming and painting a ceiling that has had the popcorn removed. Make sure that you do not leave a ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Just wanted to let everyone know that I am still here and that I apologize for the lack of new postings. My shop is in a total mess right now as I am still dealing with the upgrades that I had posted earlier. I guess I underestimated the time that ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Literally, I have gotten this stuff in my mouth, eyes, hair and other places. Almost done though. Just have to get to a couple hard to reach areas. After that it will be time to repair some jointing tape that has come loose and remud the joints in the drywall. ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Would somebody please tell me why you would want to put popcorn texture on a garage ceiling.
When I first moved into my house 8 years ago, I thought it was odd that the previous owners put the popcorn texture on the ceiling of the garage when it was added on. ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Got the bike back together today. Now it's time to get started on my shop. Where to start? Oh yeah, I made a list on one of my earlier posts. Guess I will check that.Played around with the bandsaw. Resawed a piece of red oak to 1/16 of an inch. ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
I misjudged how long it is going to take me to get my bike back together. Not that it is hard but trying to find the time to do so. (Lazy?) In all honesty, it doesn't look like I will be doing much woodworking in the near future as I ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
As much as I wanted to try out my Pocket Hole Thingamajig, I had to put it off due to my 16k mile service check that was due on my bike. I had been putting it off for a couple of weeks but decided to go ahead and do ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Some would say that putting a new shop together would be exciting. I guess it would be but I am finding it to be confusing, frustrating, expensive and yes, exciting.I was going to start my day off at Woodcraft 'cause they were supposed to have a free Demo of workbenches ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
OK, I know this may not seem like an upgrade to most, but let me explain what is going on.My wife and I have kind of adopted two cats. My wife is allergic to these two cats so they stay in the garage. Well, I'm not real fond of litter ...
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