Helene is only a tropical storm right now with peak winds of 45 mph but heading right this way and already we're hearing "Category 3 hurricane" for Thursday evening. I just got back from trying to fill up the generator gas cans with ethanol-free. The only station for miles around which sells it was...
Last Post By: Pat Germain Today, 4:06 PMWhen the grid needs an additional gigawatt of generating capacity it can build solar and wind facilities, which is good. But these are intermittent and somewhat unpredictable. For the near future storage at grid scale is impractical. So don't they have to also build a gigawatt of gas fired capacity?
Last Post By: Bill George Today, 4:40 PMIn a Master ( and only) Bathroom in the house...where all the wood cabinets are real wood...with raised panel doors.....these are to be changed over next.. Butt jointed corners, surrounding flat, plywood panels...20 coats+ of white paint ( Lead?) was supposed to be 4 doors here, until someone...
Last Post By: steven c newman Today, 2:29 PMMy chisels are LN A2. My plane blades are LN A2 and LV pmv11. I have a full set of shaptons. I do not like them. I'm back to my oil stones. I grind at 25, sharpen at 30 on my medium india and then put the smallest micro bevel at 35 on my hard black. I erase the micro bevel each time I...
Last Post By: les winter Today, 3:19 PMI replaced a regular outlet on the porch with a GFCI one that has a built in LED night light. Thinking about it latter I am not sure how it gets it's power. It maybe be downstream of the kitchen GFCI inside and very close by. When they remodelled they added four GFCI outlets in the kitchen...
Last Post By: Maurice Mcmurry Today, 8:49 AMYES - One of my most used (Votes: 4)
YES - and I use it often/occasionally (Votes: 24)
YES - I wanted to have the whole set of bench planes (Votes: 4)
NO - don't see myself needing one (Votes: 11)
NOT Yet - but open to buy one (Votes: 2)
Any decent drill press can do the job, a simple v-block type clamp would do the job.
Edward Weber Today, 6:26 PMGod, I love dried pears. Didn't get a crop this year to dry, and I'm going to miss them. Did get our first ever Northern Iowa peaches and dried a
Steve Demuth Today, 6:10 PMThat's a lot of hole relative to the wood you're trying to leave. I'm really curious why you're doing this, given the obvious fragility of the end product
Steve Demuth Today, 6:07 PMI have a set of these
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Actually no. Engineering is not about intuitively coming up with an answer, even the correct answer, without backing it up with calculations that others
Doug Garson Today, 5:37 PM
Time for some levity
Thread Starter: Dave Anderson NHWith all of the negativity and political stuff going on with the Covid-19 virus it is time to look at the humorous side of things. Feel free to add more, but keep it clean or it will be deleted.
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