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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 ! :(
 
Just curious, we just replaced the bulbs with the equivalent dimmable LED bulb. Same look and no installation.

Why change the fixture?

D :cool:
I tried replacement bulbs, but something about these cans has them running hot and failing early. I gave up.
 
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?
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.
 
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.
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".

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.
 
Travis at Wroughten Art dropped off a laser cut package for me a little bit ago:
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My welds putting it together are embarassing, but adequately structural. The design is nice - all the tabs have little cut-aways, so your welds are automatically recessed. You know, except for those I *really* screwed the pooch on. Hope to get some legs on it tomorrow or Tuesday.
Progress has generally been slow with all the effort going into the cabin kitchen renovation. That's been an adventure of a barge for the cabinets and appliances, a landing craft for countertop installers, daily crossings with the various trades, and enough spicy weather to delay things about 2 weeks in total.
But I cooked in it today, though there are still a bunch of finishing things to do.
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But for fun, my next day of kitchen work is a corner-mounted pot rack to sit to the right of the rightmost window. Slow and steady wins the race.

Paul
 
Looking great. I'm told I have a kitchen to do this year too....Been ducking it for years, but it's time.....
Yeah. Kitchens have changed. Nowadays you need a designer who can generate the CAD to drive the CNC panel cutter/edge bander, and an installer who can scribe panels to your walls accurately. And then shell out a fortune to the quartz cutters.
The pricing gets more uniform though that CNC machine has to pay for itself.
I foolishly didn't get pictures of the janky telehandler work we had to do to get the boxes, appliances, and countertops up to the second story where the kitchen is. There's no way that could have come up the stairs.
 
I'm on the fence about building myself the old fashioned way (I really want to, as I do for everything), or just going the easy Ikea route....It's not a big kitchen, so building myself wouldn't be too challenging, but I gotta say, as much as I really want to build everything myself, the Ikea route looks pretty tempting....

When we first moved here, I had a big drive to do all of the renovating myself, as I thought this was our forever house. I no longer think that, and really want to move in the next 10-15 years. The demographics around here have changed so much in the last couple years that whoever buys this place will surely knock it down, and build a mansion on it. Any reno's from here on out will be minimal effort, and money involved.....

I'll get to build my dream kitchen someday, but it won't be here.
 
I've installed three Ikea kitchens for family and I'd happily put one in my house. They go together quickly if you have a couple of people build the boxes and another pair to install.
One person doing it all is a total drag because the task switching really reduces efficiency.
 
For the cost, Ikea wins. And its not cheaply made or all made in China either. Things like hinges from Italy, door fronts USA (ok, not happy about that anymore :() and parts from other European countries that I can't remember. Also, as I was doing mine on the cheap a custom laminate countertop through Ikea was made locally and for less than I could do by calling around.
 
For the cost, Ikea wins. And its not cheaply made or all made in China either. Things like hinges from Italy, door fronts USA (ok, not happy about that anymore :() and parts from other European countries that I can't remember. Also, as I was doing mine on the cheap a custom laminate countertop through Ikea was made locally and for less than I could do by calling around.
My previous kitchen in that space was Ikea, installed by yours truly. Didn't know enough to scribe it right, and I never liked the kicks, but if *lasted* and it was *cheap*. I mean, $6000 included the ceramic on steel double bowl farmhouse sink, which we're re-using, a gas range and range hood, and a $1200 store credit to fill the cupboards with.
This is 14 years later in a very different financial circumstance, with a change in layout as well. What's the kicker that made the renovation happen? The bamboo floor we put in at the time died due to accumulated water damage. By the time you replace the floor...
Paul
 
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