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What's Paul up to?

You dont trust your welding but you can work on the f*****g electronics for the space shuttle!!!

I can weld inside out but i struggle to even plug a usb C cord in my samsung smartphobe ! :(
 
Tecnico said:
Just curious, we just replaced the bulbs with the equivalent dimmable LED bulb. Same look and no installation.

Why change the fixture?

D :cool:
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I tried replacement bulbs, but something about these cans has them running hot and failing early. I gave up.
 
wmetfab said:
Nice work on your shop btw.
Very smart idea with the plywood. You will enjoy the 10' cieling.
Are you going to fill the drywall yourself?
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Was much easier to pay someone to deliver and put it up. Didn't cost that much more than just getting the board delivered. Two guys walked in and they were done in 3 hours.
I haven't bothered to tape/mud.
 
It's been a really busy start of the year with very little shop time - most of it has been going into the kitchen renovation. But there are a few wins this week.
First, chimney is finally up for the forge. I had to make up a collar to support the chimney against the roof purlins. It's a simple band with two clips welded to it and tapped to accept set screws. Those clips rest on angle iron that spans the purlins. By bolting one end of each in place the placement of the other end sets the side to side plumbness of the chimney, and the clips and set screws set the fore and aft. No, I didn't get any closeups because I flat out forgot. It's a long way up there.
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Second, the kitchen renovation did me a favor. We've decided to dump the propane stove in favour of induction. And the cooktop is a bit of a beast - it wants 7.4KW, which is just on the edge of what the solar inverter could provide. So I used the kitchen renovation as the opportunity to add a second Sol-Ark inverter to the setup and we now have 75 amp service! I should have done this two years ago. 2HP single-phase motors now start without a hitch. My welder doesn't cause the inverter to shut down at high power. And my induction forge can now pull full power! Oh, and we'll have a nice induction cooktop too.
Third, my 1898 vintage Reynolds bandsaw is up and "running". Which is to say, I have a 2HP motor running at 1725RPM and some v-belt running on top of the 10" flat belt drive pulley. Not great traction, but enough to do light cuts. Resaw work awaits a larger motor and some flat belts belts. Jack Forsberg is helping me out on the belts side and I've dropped a request under "Classified" to see if anyone can help me with a motor.
I also made up some nice blade guards for it. I'd been running plywood abominations for a long time and I happend to have some nice 12ga in an L profile left over from the workshop construction. Those look much better. I even painted them! Who would have thought that black-on-black photography would be difficult?
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Anyhow, first fire in the new chimney setup will be this afternoon, as soon as I cut around the insulation that I realize I left rubbing against the double-walled portion. Unlikely to cause grief, but I'll clear it an inch away as it should be.
 
PaulL said:
It's been a really busy start of the year with very little shop time - most of it has been going into the kitchen renovation. But there are a few wins this week.
First, chimney is finally up for the forge. I had to make up a collar to support the chimney against the roof purlins. It's a simple band with two clips welded to it and tapped to accept set screws. Those clips rest on angle iron that spans the purlins. By bolting one end of each in place the placement of the other end sets the side to side plumbness of the chimney, and the clips and set screws set the fore and aft. No, I didn't get any closeups because I flat out forgot. It's a long way up there.
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Second, the kitchen renovation did me a favor. We've decided to dump the propane stove in favour of induction. And the cooktop is a bit of a beast - it wants 7.4KW, which is just on the edge of what the solar inverter could provide. So I used the kitchen renovation as the opportunity to add a second Sol-Ark inverter to the setup and we now have 75 amp service! I should have done this two years ago. 2HP single-phase motors now start without a hitch. My welder doesn't cause the inverter to shut down at high power. And my induction forge can now pull full power! Oh, and we'll have a nice induction cooktop too.
Third, my 1898 vintage Reynolds bandsaw is up and "running". Which is to say, I have a 2HP motor running at 1725RPM and some v-belt running on top of the 10" flat belt drive pulley. Not great traction, but enough to do light cuts. Resaw work awaits a larger motor and some flat belts belts. Jack Forsberg is helping me out on the belts side and I've dropped a request under "Classified" to see if anyone can help me with a motor.
I also made up some nice blade guards for it. I'd been running plywood abominations for a long time and I happend to have some nice 12ga in an L profile left over from the workshop construction. Those look much better. I even painted them! Who would have thought that black-on-black photography would be difficult?
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Anyhow, first fire in the new chimney setup will be this afternoon, as soon as I cut around the insulation that I realize I left rubbing against the double-walled portion. Unlikely to cause grief, but I'll clear it an inch away as it should be.
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Perfect opportunity to take those pictures you forgot. :rolleyes::p
Things are certainly shaping up nicely. :cool:
 
my 1898 vintage Reynolds bandsaw is up and "running".
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Aha! so that's the saw we've been talking about! I see another (1910 vintage) about that size on marketplace in Princeton BC). There was one in Uclulet for a long time but I don't see it listed now. That wouldn't be the one you have?
 
I don't think it's that same machine. This one came out of a machine shop in downtown Victoria some 25 years ago. It had been abandoned when th space was repurposed as a kayak shop. The owner was easy enough to track down and it came home where I ran it with a 2HP motor for a while, though that's way under power for resawing.
 
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