I had been putting off buyer some ladder stabilizers for some time, waiting for a sale, etc. but my wife is insisting the gutters be done and I don’t want to damage the eave trough, so I bought some …

I didn’t “need” these right now but I had broken a few of my others and they were on sale …

Miamicuse wrote:

JimDaddyO wrote:

Miamicuse wrote:
I would remove the ballasts and just go with LED tube bilbs

I cherry picked all the best units for the shop. There were a bunch of T12 units I pitched. The T8’s are relatively new, not used often, and might as well use them up if they still work as is. They’re free!!! My original plan was…

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Working on the renos at my wife’s family camp, I need to put some sort of flooring edge (quarter round or equivalent) however the cost of natural wood trim lead me to buying a molder head and and some local pine for way less and of a higher quality. I am going for cove style quarterround.

I am looking to build a base cabinet to match my arcade cabinet, so I had to buy a slot cutter for the T-track (I had previously borrowed one), I ended up going with the shaft and slot combo from Freud.

Deck rail and gates picture for the other week.

With my Grandson around, I need to add a rail to my deck with gates, that I never did when I built it as it is low off the ground, but a toddler needs to be fenced in – the cedar was more expensive than the entire deck build – sheesh …

A couple of weeks ago I was removing an old floor using my Fein multi-tool and I needed a shorter blade to get in the toe kick, well I was shocking how much they wanted for blades, fortunately this kit was on sale for what 3 blades cost (it had 4 of the type of I was looking for …)

That was clearance rack vinyl flooring 🙂

Some pictures of my week+ work … I had help on the start day – Saturday- then the others had to leave 🙁

When doing the plumbing at the camp I needed something to hold the PEX tools and extra fittings, so my wife found these (Duramax Pro bag) at the dollar store ($4 Cad) with my Milwaukee drill /driver bag for comparison … I sent her back for 2 more 🙂

For the past 10 days I have been at my Wife’s family’s camp on a river with no internet access doing renovations, including work outside my skillset / comfort zone … I will try and post some pictures of the various projects which included: plumbing (40ft of pex replacing broken copper), removing the entire water damaged floor (~640 ft2) a new…[Read more]

I also bought some Wago 221 connectors for a small electrical modification to my shop extension, anyone ever use them?

Fixing a cabinet door at my niece’s new rental place, likely the former tenant started or broke the door but it would likely impact her damage deposit, so I guess I get to fix it. Challenge is to fix the split rail without glue on the floating panel, and not have to remake a matching oak rail with teh ogee etc. it appears as there was very little…[Read more]

I am also planning to do some reno’s at my wife’s family camp on a river 5 hours away, so as I gather tools up for the trip/reno I can’t find my medium pry bar have to assume someone has borrowed it – so I went and bought a new one.

I bought some cam clamps for use with the T-track on my little CNC, the piece that engages with the T-track seems to be a little thick so I will have to sand / grind it down … oh well, maybe only 1/64″ or 0.5mm.

So more of a funny story today, I got to work and I usually take a thermos of coffee to fill up my camelbak mug throughout the day … today my thermos rattled, but I needed the coffee so I went with it. Come to find out when my wife filled my thermos my grandson helped … by adding rock and a key chain, oh well.

Two small things, I couldn’t find a simple compass or scribe in mt small town, I had to go to staples to buy one, and the tint ordered for my spalted wood epoxy coasters came in , I will wait for a warm day to do it so my shop if the correct curing temperature.

theamcguy wrote:

GTokley wrote:
Once I opened the door for the guard for the pulley. I saw that the key was missing from pulley. Someone had a bolt thread in the key way.

That was not very nice. Keyways are not that hard to find. If you can’t find an exact fit buy a bit bigger and hand file to size.

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I ordered a full face mask respirator a while ago, but it finally arrived, I decided to go with the (way) more expensive 3M brand instead of a knock off, even if I’d use the same 3M cartridges