I'm starting to get a decent collection of tools! Advice for projects?

[CoventryCat86]

How about you post some pictures up of that cigar box lamp of yours?

Okay, you asked for it. LMFAO!

[CoventryCat86]

Here's a clock I spent MONTHS on:

[CoventryCat86]

Lamp = clock?

LMAO! I gots to learned how to pays more better attencion to treads.

[chefchris]

Come on now, let's see the back of that lamp. We gotta know how you did it!

[CoventryCat86]

Come on now, let's see the back of that lamp. We gotta know how you did it!

Ya know, I was going to include that before, I'm so glad you asked!

[ggiese]

Oh, another fantastic tool is an ORBITAL "sawzall" (reciprocating saw). I have an older Milwaukee regular Sawzall and I borrowed a friend's Porter Cable orbital reciprocating saw and WOW, what a difference! Here's the one you need. model 6536-21:

I'm a huge fan of Milwaukee brand power tools, it's pretty much the only brand I buy. My 3/8" drill, my 1/2" D-handle drill, my palm sander, rotary hammer drill, Sawzall are all Milwaukee brand tools. I will admit though that I have a Porter Cable power planer (door hanging kit), a Porter Cable 3/8" right angle drill, a Freud biscuit jointer, a Skil worm drive circular saw (model 77 I think?) and a Ryobi palm sander (which is a piece of $hit) and a couple of Craftsman sanders (which also suck). My cheapie router is a Porter Cable, it's "okay" it does the job.

Speaking of Milwaukee... Tossers at the Turner Ball Room on St. Patrick's Day! I'm going - are you????

[CoventryCat86]

George you bastid. I don't think I can make it......

Kenyth, as I mentioned earlier, I have a cheap-a$$ed "Chicago Electric" (Harbor Freight's cheap-a$$ed line) chop saw that pretty much does the job. I think we only paid about $40.00 for it almost 20 years ago.

If you want to go the inexpensive route, here's a good deal for ya:

http://surpluscomputers.stores.yahoo...0mitersaw.html

Here's a picture:



It's only $80.00 + shipping. It looks like the head rotates so you can do compound angels which mine doesn't do. Heck, I just may toss my Chicago Electric hunk of junk and replace it with this!

[chefchris]

Beautiful

[badwhale]

Man, that's some funny shit.
Every time I look at the "back" shot, I laugh my ass off.

Will

[BigMacFU]

You know what's a lot cheaper than a wood fence if you put it in your self...invisible fence. So, if you only need the fence for the dog and not for privacy, invisible fences are great. The only tool you need is a shovel.

[Corvin]

You know what's a lot cheaper than a wood fence if you put it in your self...invisible fence. So, if you only need the fence for the dog and not for privacy, invisible fences are great. The only tool you need is a shovel.

I've always wondered, what happens if the dog is chasing something across the yard? It gets up to speed, gets zapped by the fence as it goes through the "invisible fence" but doesn't have time to stop. Now your dog is stuck on the other side of the fence and can't come home because of the fence.

[bigwhiteash]

... I saw that movie... doesn't the dogs head explode if it goes past the fence??


Great work on that clock, can you make one from a koheeebah Esplendeeetos box?

[BigMacFU]

I've always wondered, what happens if the dog is chasing something across the yard? It gets up to speed, gets zapped by the fence as it goes through the "invisible fence" but doesn't have time to stop. Now your dog is stuck on the other side of the fence and can't come home because of the fence.

I had a giant schnauzer (85 pounds of muscle) and she would never break through the fence whilst chasing someone off the property. She only broke through the fence if we were on the other side and strangers (door-to-door salesman, mormons, jehovah's witnesses, just plain weirdos) approached us. Then she'd sit next to us growling and showing the teeth. We took the collar off for her on our way back home. Casey didn't like getting near the fence, if she was chasing something/someone, chasing them off the property was enough.

The best way to have fun with the invisible fence is to install part of the line indoors and then get gullible friends to walk over it while holding the collar.

[chefchris]

[Kenyth]

Man Bill, you have the setup! From the looks of your clock and lamp, you do beautiful work!

Actually, I think my next purchase is a mini grinder/polisher to finish off the multi purpose work bench I made. It has a little rotary tool attachment that looks handy. I need a place to sharpen those lawn mower blades you know. I can then call that particular project finished.

By spring I should have the knockdown sawhorses, knockdown worktable, and saw guide finshed. Hopefully I'll have some storage shelving taken care of as well. Then I'll be ready for the chop saw and the spring/summer projects.

Though I don't NEED it, I'd really LIKE to get one of those little Makita, Rigid, Milwaukee, etc. 18 volt impact drivers. My friend has one and it works awesome! My drill bogs down on three inch screws, but those newer impact screwdrivers power them in and coutersink them. I have a screwdriver attachment for my air impact (I just turn down the power), but it's pretty clunky and the compressor is barely powerful enough to run it.

[Kenyth]

By footer I mean a strip of concrete where the 4 x 4 laying on the ground would go, like a house foundation, just not as robust. IMO, harder to do, but better result and you don't have the wood rot to worry about.

OK, that's what I thought. That's probably one of the best ideas, but I'd like to avoid concrete work considering I'll be mixing in 5 gallon buckets. I was thinking that I could do kind of the same thing by sinking some posts at the corners with concrete and starting the frame from those using some 2x6 stock as joists. I'm not sure what would be best and easiest.

Considering I'm going to be in 3/4 time college until Jan 2010, I may have to let this project slide until next spring. The only thing that absolutely has to go up this spring is a fence, kennel area, and dog house.

[bard]

When you get ready for the fence, price out metal posts. Well worth it IMHO.

[Kenyth]

When you get ready for the fence, price out metal posts. Well worth it IMHO.

Yeah, those are the most resilient to the ravages of time and rot, but the subdivision by-laws frown on it.

[here'sjohnny]

I've always wondered, what happens if the dog is chasing something across the yard? It gets up to speed, gets zapped by the fence as it goes through the "invisible fence" but doesn't have time to stop. Now your dog is stuck on the other side of the fence and can't come home because of the fence.

My dog used to chase the mailman and break through our invisible fence often, and you're correct once across (at least on our cheap-o model) she could not get back across.

[Kenyth]

Well, the fence is finished. My hands still aren't right. By the time I was finished they had swelled up. The inflammation irritated the median nerve in my left hand (I'm left handed, so it gets the most work), giving me all kinds of pleasurable sensations. It's mostly subsided, but something to think about before the next project. I'm sure the small post hole digger casued most of the stress.
Now my wife and I get to fight about the location of the dog kennel. I wanted it put in an unused corner of the back yard, close to the house. She wants it unseen from the front, and wants me to put it up behind the garage, directly on top of the landscaping I spent hours putting in a few years back. That area would also require removing or rerouting three sprinkler heads, the sandbox and the playhouse, not to mention the flower bed that contains nice muddy conditioned soil covered by fabric and trim, thorny rose bushes, and a half ton of river rock. You would think these facts would deter her, but since she's not the one who has to deal with it, she's unimpressed. My comment that she could get back to me after she finished the demolition and sprinkler rerouting doesn't appear to have gone over too well. So, now were at the understanding that I can put it where I want, but unless I put it behind the garage, she won't be happy about it.

Lord, give me strength!