Blistex posted:

Hmmm, search function must be down. Two Ghostbuster references and Boomerjinks hasn't spammed this thread with his car.

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When I was three my father made a rocking horse for me out of scrap cedar. I loved that thing and would wear out the carpet from my excessive riding. Fast forward 12 years and mom was having a yard sale. She put the rocking horse out on the lawn and $5.00 later it was gone. Fast forward another 10-12 years. I'm driving along a street three hours from where I live and I see something out of the corner of my eye. It's that rocking horse. Some people said they picked it up at a yard sale a few streets over, and those people had picked it up off the curb an hour before the garbage truck rolled up. It had been sitting on their porch for a few years and looked pretty bad due to a few winters and a lot of sun.

I told them that it was actually my old horse and they were a little dubious. I told them to wait a second and had my wife dig up the photos from the album I had scanned and she emailed it to me on my phone. The people couldn't believe it and sold it to me for $5.00

I decided that I would fix it up, repaint it, and put it in the the living room of my new house. What's even more amazing is that the old paint was still in my parents basement, and it was still good! I used the exact same paint from ~22 years earlier that my dad had used to paint it.



Can't wait until my kids are old enough to ride this thing. . . once they're born that is.

Blistex posted:

Hmmm, search function must be down. Two Ghostbuster references and Boomerjinks hasn't spammed this thread with his car.

Content:

When I was three my father made a rocking horse for me out of scrap cedar. I loved that thing and would wear out the carpet from my excessive riding. Fast forward 12 years and mom was having a yard sale. She put the rocking horse out on the lawn and $5.00 later it was gone. Fast forward another 10-12 years. I'm driving along a street three hours from where I live and I see something out of the corner of my eye. It's that rocking horse. Some people said they picked it up at a yard sale a few streets over, and those people had picked it up off the curb an hour before the garbage truck rolled up. It had been sitting on their porch for a few years and looked pretty bad due to a few winters and a lot of sun.

I told them that it was actually my old horse and they were a little dubious. I told them to wait a second and had my wife dig up the photos from the album I had scanned and she emailed it to me on my phone. The people couldn't believe it and sold it to me for $5.00

I decided that I would fix it up, repaint it, and put it in the the living room of my new house. What's even more amazing is that the old paint was still in my parents basement, and it was still good! I used the exact same paint from ~22 years earlier that my dad had used to paint it.



Can't wait until my kids are old enough to ride this thing. . . once they're born that is.

Blistex posted:

what is wrong with that guy. Am I to assume the conversation went like this?

You: Hey, you in Austin or New Braunfels?
Him: Austin, why?
You: My GPS and Google are giving me two different results.
Him: AHHHHH! gently caress you retard! You're never getting my speakers!

Or is there something we are missing? He's like a man who talks in Youtube Comments.

Either way, that is a sweet looking cabinet you have. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Bad Munki posted:

Also, gently caress MDF.

Iskariot posted:

Cut it outside. I don't think I've been more troubled by MDF dust than other dust but I cut all of it outside due to the health risks. Once you've set up drywall everything else dust related is relative. Hell, I've killed vacuums on drywall dust.

anaemic posted:

I use a 3M half mask respirator and I really, really love it.



In the UK they retail for around £35 normally, but for some reason arco has had them on their website for £4.99 for months now, and even if its a pricing mistake, they're still shipping them out at that price, and I can see nothing wrong with mine.

edit: as a quick note, these are the same respirators (with different filters) that my girlfriend gets issued by the NHS in case of infection breakouts in hospital. They are really good quality.

Sober McNulty posted:

Iskariot posted:

Yeah, I'm wearing a mask and various other protection gear more frequently nowadays as most of this stuff will probably kill you in the long run. Those dry, white boogers you get from sanding drywall probably means your lungs are covered in it too. Maybe the stuff itself isn't dangerous but I'm pretty sure that poo poo isn't healthy.

I've been meaning to hunt down a good mask with detachable filters but the selection is pretty slim in the regular shops here. Anyone got any good recommendations? Something that's meant to last and I can find filters for a couple of years down the line.

dreesemonkey posted:

What are the specs of your computer running MAME? We have a really old P4 2.x GHz laying around and I'm hoping it will run the bulk of the old games.

anaemic posted:

I use a 3M half mask respirator and I really, really love it.



In the UK they retail for around £35 normally, but for some reason arco has had them on their website for £4.99 for months now, and even if its a pricing mistake, they're still shipping them out at that price, and I can see nothing wrong with mine.

edit: as a quick note, these are the same respirators (with different filters) that my girlfriend gets issued by the NHS in case of infection breakouts in hospital. They are really good quality.

Thumposaurus posted:

The filters are sealed from the factory. When you open the filters and use them after you are done seal them back up in a zipper baggie, or vacuum pack if you can. It will make the filters last longer.

ant mouth posted:

As for the disc brakes, we'd love to have them but our current budget doesn't allow for it to happen. One of our other bikes has a front disc and it inspires a lot more confidence.

Sun Dog posted:

I don't know from disc brakes, but I saw these while browsing DealExtreme and thought of you: ZOOM Hollow-Out Bike Bicycle Mechanical Disc Brake Line - Red + Silver
Price: $49.10 free shipping It looks like a pair, too, not just one.

c0ldfuse posted:

I've been meaning to get this project accomplished since I moved into my new place in January. I finished it last night, took about a week of working on and off. I don't know how people refinish houses while they live in them--I had a week of sawdust everywhere and I was happier to clean my place then finish the shelf by the time I was done.


I saw something I liked at Minneapolis Art Institute. I can do this. The black support in this is i-beam, but I'm planning on substituting wood because I don't know how the hell I'd stick it to my wall using the metal.





I taped off the wall and let it sit for about a month while I thought about the project:





I fit all of this wood in a Camry, got a new blade for the skill saw too.





I think my neighbors hate me now, I made probably 75 cuts inside a small apartment building because it was 5F outside at the time. These are the covers to hide the support system.

Additionally, none of the support system is the studs. I spent a long time on the front end trying to find them unsuccessfully. I think it's been skim-coated so many times the plaster is 2-3" thick.





So this is how I planned on supporting the structure, I took a 2x4, drilled 4-equidistance holes halfway through it along the 1-ft section, put in a 3" screw to the wall. Then I screwed the 1x12 into the 2x4.







Here is a better quality image than the final version, but an idea of how it looks with the covers on it.




Completed shelving





I think I'm going to oil the shelves and stain the support covers a dark walnut to get the colors closer to the original design. I've never oiled wood before, only stained/varnished. The shelving is very strong despite not having any support pieces into studs. A small child could climb it. I'm really happy with how it turned out though I'll need to replace one of the 4ft sections because the board is warped enough to be visible in person.

DavidAlltheTime posted:

I'm building a goat house!

two_beer_bishes posted:

That's really cool! Out of curiosity, how are the raised boards attached to the posts?

Liquid Communism posted:

How deep did you sink those posts?

DavidAlltheTime posted:

insetting the raised boards into the posts would have taken little time, and added much to the structure, methinks.

Liquid Communism posted:

how deep did you sink those posts?

Guitarchitect posted:

and why aren't they on footings? not worried about rot?

Guitarchitect posted:

you would have been better to set them into hangers, or lag bolt them in their current configuration (rather than just nail).

DavidAlltheTime posted:

Lag bolts would have worked too, you're right, and I've joined cedar posts to each other with them before. Not sure why I didn't think of it for this. How would the hangers have worked for joining a board to the side of a post? Or would the board hang directly between the posts? That would give me no room for insulation, no?

Liquid Communism posted:

Huh. You must be someplace drier than Iowa. 3 foot deep wood without pilings tends to rot out in a few years here because of the snow and rain.

Slung Blade posted:

Cedar's pretty rot resistant from most soils, provided it's not already infected with fungus, especially when upright. Something about water collecting in the wood fibres I think.

Guitarchitect posted:

yeah, cedar will essentially form its own protective layer as it weathers, which prevents full penetration of water + rot. a similar thing happens with Corten Steel, which rusts enough to retain its structural integrity but not enough that it rusts straight through... for some reason I didn't pick up at first that they were cedar

Liquid Communism posted:

Me either. Now I feel bad.

DavidAlltheTime posted:

No worries, it's a valid comment. My hopyard has a mix of cedar posts with and without concrete footings, and I'm interested to see how they far as the years go by.

So I used reclaimed tin for the goat house roof today, and had it in the barn patching it with some subfloor glue I found lying around, and I'm telling my buddy who works in construction that I'm worried about missing the rafters when I'm screwing the tin in, and he asks why I think I need to hit the rafters, and I say 'what else would I screw into?' and he explains these cross pieces of 3/4 inch wood that usually get laid across barn roofs to attach tin to. Thank god I talked with him! I used some leftover flooring pieces I still had near the goat house. It made it so much easier to work with, and despite crazy winds trying to blow me off a ladder, we got two 10x3 sheets on before supper. Super stoked it's taking shape!