The Grand Tour...

[K9CCH]

I lied. Duplicate thread. Please delete.

[NQ6U]

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/shack7-13.jpg

The current iteration of my shack. It seems to change rather frequently.

[K7SGJ]

Hey, where's the band saw, lathe, drill press, table saw, wet saw, mortising machine, edge bander, and wood glue?

[NQ6U]

I'm more of a metal kind of guy. I was standing on the bed of the lathe and propping the camera on top of the mill when I took the picture.

[K9CCH]

Well... should I put the OP back? LOL

[NQ6U]

Maybe one of the mods can do a thread merge.

[K7SGJ]

Maybe one of the mods can do a thread merge.

Would they need to be a seamstress? Or maybe belong to the seamsters union?

[NQ6U]

Would they need to be a seamstress? Or maybe belong to the seamsters union?

No, I'm a metal kind of guy, remember? I was thinking maybe 1/4—28.

[K7SGJ]

No, I'm a metal kind of guy, remember? I was thinking maybe 1/4—28.

Well that's fine. However, I always figured you as being a coarse sort of loose screw. 1/4-20, or maybe even 1/4-18.

[NQ6U]

Damned wood guys don't know nothin' 'bout no treads. I've never even seen a 1/4-18 screw.

[K7SGJ]

Damned wood guys don't know nothin' 'bout no treads. I've never even seen a 1/4-18 screw.

I make my own, which goes to show, I'm not to old to cut it. I sure hope Bob doesn't come along, feel left (hand thread) out, and wind up putting a thread lock on this one. He'll probably want to show us his nuts.

[kb2vxa]

Speaking of which, here on the Island we have a box full of nuts and I feel like the only bolt in the lot. Will somebody PLEASE toss in a washer? <cough>

[Bubba]

Is that a DIY patch panel, looks pretty cool. Where is the wood chipper ?

[NQ6U]

Is that a DIY patch panel, looks pretty cool.

Yeah, it's a piece of aluminum cut from an old road sign with a bunch of holes drilled in it using a step drill for the barrel connectors. I've discovered that the aluminum used road signs is excellent for that sort of thing, very easy to work with.


Where is the wood chipper ?

It's out back, but I need to hose it off before I take a picture. Corpus delicti, statute of limitations and all that stuff. If you expect to be Pope, you have to be willing to get your hands dirty.

[kb2vxa]

There are places (like Texas) where road signs come pre-drilled.

[WX7P]

hey cuguzz...

Is that a Sirius/XM radio stuffed in there?

[NQ6U]

hey cuguzz...

Is that a Sirius/XM radio stuffed in there?

Nope. If you mean the thing directly below the S-20R, that's an old Sony CD player that someone pulled out of their car and gave me as busted. I fixed it, now it's the shack FM BCB receiver. Stays more or less permanetly tuned to the local NPR station.

[WX7P]

Nope. If you mean the thing directly below the S-20R, that's an old Sony CD player that someone pulled out of their car and gave me as busted. I fixed it, now it's the shack FM BCB receiver. Stays more or less permanetly tuned to the local NPR station.

Ok, THAT'S why you're a dirty commie. I get it...

Yes, you got the right radio.

[K7SGJ]

I'm more of a metal kind of guy. I was standing on the bed of the lathe and propping the camera on top of the mill when I took the picture.

It did look like a run on the mill photo.

[NQ6U]

Ok, THAT'S why you're a dirty commie. I get it...

Yes, you got the right radio.

No, you've got it backwards tovarisch—I'm a dirty commie, that's why I listen to NPR.

[W7XF]

Speaking of which, here on the Island we have a box full of nuts and I feel like the only bolt in the lot. Will somebody PLEASE toss in a washer? <cough>
Here ya go:

10012

[KG4CGC]

No, you've got it backwards tovarisch—I'm a dirty commie, that's why I listen to NPR.

National Programming of Russia.

[K7SGJ]

Here ya go:

10012


Careful, your going to get a tit in the ringer.

[kb2vxa]

S'okay, it's just the telephone, but if a tit gets caught in the wringer it'll give Jesse something to do. That reminds me of my aunt in Pennsylvania who had one of those in her basement garage, she still had both tits.

[NQ6U]

Decided that the bare aluminum patch panel with paper labels was perhaps a little too declassé even for me so I painted it yesterday afternoon.

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/patchpanel.jpg

Looks a little better. Believe it or not, I actually had a can of wrinkle-finish black paint that I purchased for another project but never used. The labels were printed onto 60lb cardstock with the laser printer and covered with transparent packing tape before being cut out.

There's room for two more radio connections and four more antenna jacks.

[K7SGJ]

Decided that the bare aluminum patch panel with paper labels was perhaps a little to declassé even for me so I painted it yesterday afternoon.

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/patchpanel.jpg

Looks a little better.

Yeah, it looks great, but, WTF has that got to do with tits and wringers?

[VE7DCW]

Here ya go:

10012

When I was 5 years old my mother used this type of washing machine to wash our clothes..... I snuck into our laundry room one morning and was having a gas fooling around with the machine and got the wringer going and promptly stuck my left hand into it and it dragged the rest of my arm in...... I really busted up my hand with that wringer and to this day I still have the scars on my left hand to prove it! ........ we got a new automatic washing machine very quickly after that :yes:

[K7SGJ]

When I was 5 years old my mother used this type of washing machine to wash our clothes..... I snuck into our laundry room one morning and was having a gas fooling around with the machine and got the wringer going and promptly stuck my left hand into it and it dragged the rest of my arm in...... I really busted up my hand with that wringer and to this day I still have the scars on my left hand to prove it! ........ we got a new automatic washing machine very quickly after that :yes:

My grandma had one, very similar to the pictured. Of course, all of them looked pretty much the same, but I digress. She had hers out in the detached, one car garage where grandpa did his re-upholstery work. One day, I decided to see what would happen if I put a piece of the thin black silky sort of stuff he put on the bottom of couches and chairs into the rollers. I really thought it would be too thin to go through. Ha! I finally got the ringer running, and fed in a bit of the material. The stuff promptly went through, and wrapped itself around one of the rollers. I tried like hell to pull it back or stop the machine, but couldn't. This medieval monster pulled off every bit of the material and jammed everything but good. At the time, I would have sworn the material was miles and miles long, not just several shityards. It seemed like it took weeks for all that material to go through. Needless to say, when I was discovered trying to pull that shit out of the rollers, and dragging that machine all around the garage, they were pissed. That was the point where I discovered that all that blather about grandparents being loving and forgiving and always wanting to have the grandkids over for the weekend, was a bunch of horse shit.

[VE7DCW]

Those damn machines had a way to interfere with kid's lives! ......... :rofl:

[K7SGJ]

Those damn machines had a way to interfere with kid's lives! ......... :rofl:

Aint that the truth!

[kb2vxa]

Radios interfered with my life, without them I'd have grown up normal... whatever that is.