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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 22, 2011 - 11:53pm PT
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Brandon, of course it was Japonese! How many do I have? Five!
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Dec 22, 2011 - 11:59pm PT
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so hawkeye
picture yourself executing pull-ups on that big beam.
(no 2x4 joists necessary for our analysis).
picture that those (2) skewed 2x4's reaching for the sky as rope.
as you hang from the beam,
the two ropes go taught, and the load from
your dead weight (no offense) is carried through
the ropes up to their high anchor.
their high anchor is at the rafters.
so the rafters then capture that load
and pass it (thru their inertial moments) to their supports,
which is the ridge board up high and the bearing wall down low.
now that every potential energy is grounded
and thus robbed of hope,
we can carry onward.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I knew this crap would come in handy some day!
A 16' 4x12 @ 15% moisture content weighs about 300 pounds!
That's why I've a sling back-up to the four lags.
One down, so to speak, with the easier one to go.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nice work Homes! That Plumber's Tape with two nails is gonna work really well!
Especially the one that is 1/16" from the end!
Whaddya think, will this hold some sheetrock up?
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Vosser
Trad climber
reno, NV
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some of my forking art
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Vosser
Trad climber
reno, NV
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some of my metal art
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Vosser
Trad climber
reno, NV
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I made this piece out of a old chunk of bullet proof glass from a bank. Bent a metal shelf with a cherry wood top and added some metal accents
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Euroford
Trad climber
Louisville, CO
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Jan 12, 2012 - 12:31pm PT
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i'm building a hovercraft!
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Jan 12, 2012 - 12:41pm PT
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^^^^^
Nice Vosser!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 12, 2012 - 12:42pm PT
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I agree with eKat, that is sum kinda nice work Vosser!
But yer on the wrong thread, dood, you belong on the 'Art' thread.
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Jan 19, 2012 - 10:05am PT
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Shortly after I got the Rav4 using a cash for clunkers discount the plastic skid plate tore off while backing up in drifted snow. Shown here is the aluminum replacement with a bumper and winch. The $134.00 4500lb Wal Mart Champion winch can drag this vehicle uphill with the bakes on. The rollers allow for pulling backwards.
Now that I use synthetic dynema winch cable the upper roller could be removed. The dynema synthetic cable easily glides over the 22 degree bend under the oil pan when pulling backwards. The Champion supplied regular steel cable would eventually dig into this bend, seize and the winch would pull the cable apart.
The kludging door hinges allow the lower skid plate to unfold forward for under engine maintenance when the vehicle is up on an open hoist frame.
Results: There are many scars on the skid plate. On one instance a big rock rolled under the skid plate and flip on edge (apparently) and collided with the gas tank. The tank gauge now stops changing at 1/8 full, the 50 miles to go until empty warning light doesn't come on and most inconvenient the fuel pickup line is higher resulting in less mileage per fill up.
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Euroford
Trad climber
Louisville, CO
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Jan 20, 2012 - 10:22am PT
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awesome! so clearly you plan to get stuck with that truck :)
I have a chunk of steel sitting in the garage earmarked as my winch plate, but generally speaking its not something i worry about. This is my recovery system.
My buddy nicks TJ, D60 axles, LQ9 Motor, Atlas, King coilovers, bla bla bla bla
Gunna help him redo the fuel system next weekend.
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Dingus McGee
Social climber
Laramie
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Jan 20, 2012 - 11:43am PT
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Euroford,
back in the early 90'I was in a canyon south of the Masa Back trail rim west of Moab and seen some people using their articulating axle Jeeps traversing some boulder fields and washouts. The air around where the action reeked of raw gas. I had installed Holley add-on fuel injection on my vehicles and did not have the tilting carburetor bowl flooding problem any longer. So for me no engine stalling due to flooding caused by too much tilt for the carburetor.
Do the engines you intall in these CJ3's have fuel injection?
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Euroford
Trad climber
Louisville, CO
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Jan 21, 2012 - 01:08pm PT
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Mine does not, i have a pretty standard manual choke 4 barrel carb on mine. i'd like to swap to an FI setup, but frankly i've never had to mess with the carb, have never had a problem with it, and its always run great regardless of angle or elevation. i've had it over pretty much sideways without any problems. so messing with that is very low on my priorities, and might not ever get done on this particular jeep. We intend to keep this one pretty old school, and fancy engine stuff will likely be saved for the next project.
Nick's TJ up there on the other hand, has a GM Vortec LQ9, so its the full setup from a GM truck, emmisions equipment and everything swapped in. even passed Boulder County smog and 100% legal.
more and more guys run propane these days. being a compressed gas, those will run upside down.
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Happy Idiot
Trad climber
Santa Fe
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Jan 21, 2012 - 07:18pm PT
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I've got nothing on some of the real craftspeople in this thread. My house is held together by hippy technology.
But so far this winter, my efforts from last fall at paving the north side of my house with flagstone have really paid off. I tried to lay something down with minimal gaps between stones, to enhance the ease of snow shoveling and to drain melting water from the roof away from the foundation faster. Plus, this is the pathway along which I carry firewood to the porch, so it's much better than the old muddy walkway!
In-progress views from Thanksgiving weekend.
I'm a cheapskate, so it's entirely built of granite and marble countertop remnants (1" to 1-1/2" thick) that I salvaged from a local fabricator.
It would have been a real beauty if I could have laid them with the polished side up, to reveal the gorgeous colors in some of these stones, but that would have been a slippery deathtrap to walk upon. As it is, it's sort of like a sampler quilt.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jan 23, 2012 - 04:54pm PT
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Here's a question for you woodworkers (I'm a lowly carpenter), has anyone had problems with Freud dado sets?
I ask because I just picked one up for a built-in I'm working on and when I ran some test cuts, one of the outer blades seems to be cutting around 1/64 deeper than the chippers and the other outer blade.
My saw is in good shape, so it's not the arbor.
Any ideas?
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Urizen
Ice climber
Berkeley, CA
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Jan 23, 2012 - 05:32pm PT
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Brandon,
Are you sure it's only a problem with Freud blades? I'm wondering if you've observed this problem with other dado sets, because I certainly have. Much more expensive--and, on the whole, much better--sets than the Freud ones I've used. And I ran a shop that was busy enough to have several sets and have them sharpened pretty regularly. This problem was noticeable with both new sets and re-ground ones, and if you think about it for a moment you'll realize that to some extent it's not ever going to go away. The situation is that, generally, the outside blades are bevelled on the tips of their teeth, and the chippers are not. So the manufacturer, or sharpening shop, has the choice of making the chipper diameter match the heel of the bevel (which means that the toe will cut deeper, as yours is), or the toe (in which case there will be a small unexcavated ramp corresponding to the slope of the tooth downwards towards the center of the dado stack. I suspect that more companies opt for the former rather than the latter, because it only affects appearance at the ends of the cut, as opposed to the fit of the joint and, in turn, the dimensions of the assembly. In short, on the basis of my observations over the years,if you really need a flat-bottom cut, then use a router.
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kennyt
climber
California
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Jan 23, 2012 - 05:34pm PT
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jan 23, 2012 - 05:42pm PT
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Thanks for the response, that does make sense. What gets me is that I was recently at a friends house and we were using his cheapo dado set and the cut was totally smooth, no waste left to remove.
I have a nice router and a table for it, so I may just end up using that.
Any tips on routing/ dadoing MDF to avoid chipping? I'm planning on taping my cuts.
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