Hefty Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 Here you go, David! Sorry, couldn't resist! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 Now that’s good! Certainly made me laugh out loud. (Not sure that it will help with supporting the jig block though.) Keep it fun, David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 A coworker showed up in my office with some copper pipe from a plumbing repair. I’ll take it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lary Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 On 10/26/2023 at 11:56 AM, Irondragon Forge ClayWorks said: Looks to be in good shape. All it should need is lubrication and a nice turned wood handle Well, that is all it took. Functions like it should. Can't complain for $50... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.J.Lampert Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 picked this nice brush up the other day for $free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 This bottle was setting in an old house I bought earlier this summer, I was up there meeting with my contractor and I drug it out an threw it in truck just a little while ago took it to get it filled am buy a cap for it lucked out an it still was about half full so didn’t even cost all that much to fill up!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 That's an expensive bottle, but at least they threw in the house for free! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 Lol we’re finding all kinds of odds an ends there lots of newspapers from over a hundred years ago are among the coolest things so far! the bottle will come in handy, I’ve got a around 8 of the grill size bottles but they don’t last very long with my heaters the girl who fill this one up says it hold around 24 gallons and the grill size holds 4.7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul TIKI Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 I love old houses, the history is so cool. Projects can get wonky though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 That ain’t no joke!!! It’s definitely a learning experience!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul TIKI Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 My house was built in 1920, so I do understand completely. things are almost, but not quite square. Choices were made that make you think "What the heck were they doing". We recently decided to insulate the attic. Prior insulation was about a half inch of dust. On the other hand. I'd rather pay for improvement projects than pay a bank on a loan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 OOOH Vintage antique insulation! I'll bet you could sell in online. To quote P.T. Barnum, "There's a sucker born every minute." Of course dust is nicer than if not as good an insulation as a solid layer of rodent droppings. A high school friend's attic where he stored his Grandfather's Trans Oceanic radio. The radio didn't work but every supermarket had a tube tester and once we strung an antenna we got to listen to the whole world on that old receiver. It's funny what brings back good memories sometimes. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 My great-grandfather wrote in his memoirs about using a cat-whisker radio at the mission in Alaska. He was always amused at how much better he was informed about European politics than were folks down in the lower 48, since he was listening to the European news broadcasts that came in clear as a bell over the Arctic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 I made a crystal radio from a kit when I was maybe 10 and you could listen to folk from all over the world. I assume it was from all over, many spoke languages I couldn't recognize let along understand. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yt12 Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 "tube tester"--------oh my--------feeling my grey hair.........what few i have left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimW Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 i had a torpedo heater and a somewhat rusty but solid axe follow me home. pretty sure both are older than me but seem usable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul TIKI Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 I wonder at the treasure trove we left behind when dad passed. All because of flat ignorance and dad was an electrical engineer. I kept a few things because I thought they were neat as a kid, but I have no idea what they are. I remember as a teenager using the CB radio a few hours before dawn, in front of a friends house, we could pick up California truckers with atmospheric skip. friends house was stucco, therefor it had a chikenwire shell. that made a difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 Everybody I knew had a CB and that was before single sideband was the norm so we only annoyed folk fairly close. Breaker 1 9 got your ears on Tiki Torch? Hey all you ratchet jaws out there, 10-5 Frosty's 10-20 and tell the Tiki Torch to get back! Good Grief I couldn't remember much 10 code so looked it up and HOLY MOLY is there a lot we never used or knew about! No wonder we got yelled at for making up our own 10 codes! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 We had a mechanic at a dealership I worked at that was a CB fanatic. He had a linear amplifier connected to his CB in his truck that would boost the power to something like 1000 watts. That was in the early 70s when ECM computers were new technology in cars. He could drive down US 1 key the mike and shut down any car near with an ECM. I can't control the wind, all I can do is adjust my sail’s. Semper Paratus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 The FCC was death of linear amplifiers to the point they started setting up trackers to ID amped up CBs. The fines were pretty hefty as I recall. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rojo Pedro Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 I had a coup!e suits from the FCC visit the job site and made me shut down my GPS base. We had to update our old and now restricted frequency range. Thought it weird because this unit didn't transmit more than a mile or 2 and they discovered it somehow. Was in town so I figured it something to do with aircraft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 20 hours ago, Frosty said: you could listen to folk from all over the world. I assume it was from all over, many spoke languages I couldn't recognize let along understand. There was a point when I was younger where my guitar amp started picking up shortwave radio. It was really freaky at first. Something did end up going wrong with it and I got it fixed. No more phantom talking out of my amp after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 Those of us who remember LP records may also recall how the older amplifiers would sometimes pick up CB broadcasts, often at quite startling times. My dad had a story of one lazy afternoon in his youth as he was listening to some soothing piece of classical music when he was jerked awake by his stereo barking out, "OKAY, SANTA CLAUS! TURN AROUND!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 That's be an attention getter. A school friend elementary through high school, Ralph was a proven genius but his Grandfather was smarter with 40+ years experience. We launched balloons with radio trackers and electronically controlled cameras, launched model rockets in the desert, in general had a blast from Jr - senior high. Ralph started drifting away from the gang and was as far as I know the only high school kid with his own ruby laser. His Grandfather was a pretty high level laser researcher. His Grandfather basically examined, tested and pointed out mistakes he didn't so much as make suggestions. He also liked telling stories about radio weirdness like receiving signals through dentures, old AM receivers, etc. He was an inspirational guy. So, Ralph built a bread board laser and when he discovered that shining it on TV antennas disrupted the reception he figured out how to build in a transmitter. We'd sit in his "attic" bedroom workshop with out telescopes while he'd play blooper or worse recordings on other people's TVs we could see through windows. The "messages from above" were often the best. His Grandfather straightened our misinterpretation of the law out as soon as he found out. We thought FCC couldn't charge us because we weren't "broadcasting." That turned out to be wrong and we were flirting with Federal charges and so ended the fun. That fun anyway. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hibbert Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 I went to an auction this morning and got a small (50 lb?) Vulcan anvil and a largish sledge with a straight peen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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