#sidequestsunday — Public Fediverse posts
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#SidequestSunday! Making a trailer hitch for the lawnmownster.
You can buy those, but they are made of cheese and have some weird hitch that only fits the matching cheese trailer and none of mine.
Getting to play with the new cold cut chop saw. It really doesn't like long flat cuts and you can't clamp the piece rotated when cutting mitres. The solution is to clamp it with a spacer so the workpiece ends up further out on the curved part of the blade.
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#SidequestSunday! Making a trailer hitch for the lawnmownster.
You can buy those, but they are made of cheese and have some weird hitch that only fits the matching cheese trailer and none of mine.
Getting to play with the new cold cut chop saw. It really doesn't like long flat cuts and you can't clamp the piece rotated when cutting mitres. The solution is to clamp it with a spacer so the workpiece ends up further out on the curved part of the blade.
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Sidequest today: Make a keyboard, because I'm always fishing around in the pile of keys to find the right one.
Some planks salvaged from that 1988 beehive. Nothing fancy, pull out the rusty nails, cut off the rotten ends, two angled cuts along a guide. Glue and nail, patch some holes.
Then melted some of the ancient honeycomb to experiment with hot wax [disable safety advice]. Poured it through a t-shirt offcut to filter and applied it hot onto the wood. This worked until it cooled down too much, so I fixed that with the heat gun and hooray, the old wood glows.
A keepsake from the old beekeeper who has been dead a decade. I hope to take up her beekeeping some day, but far too many projects at the moment.
#DIY #SalvagePunk #Recycling #Beekeeping #Homestead #Woodworking #SidequestSunday
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Sidequest today: Make a keyboard, because I'm always fishing around in the pile of keys to find the right one.
Some planks salvaged from that 1988 beehive. Nothing fancy, pull out the rusty nails, cut off the rotten ends, two angled cuts along a guide. Glue and nail, patch some holes.
Then melted some of the ancient honeycomb to experiment with hot wax [disable safety advice]. Poured it through a t-shirt offcut to filter and applied it hot onto the wood. This worked until it cooled down too much, so I fixed that with the heat gun and hooray, the old wood glows.
A keepsake from the old beekeeper who has been dead a decade. I hope to take up her beekeeping some day, but far too many projects at the moment.
#DIY #SalvagePunk #Recycling #Beekeeping #Homestead #Woodworking #SidequestSunday