http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:20147 I had to leave half way through the print, so I paused the job and powered down the heaters. The print finished ok when i powered the heaters back up, leaving a big blob where the nozzle had sat. Need to lift the nozzle off of the part or something. Last time I tried …
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I had a rough week this last week, so I decided I needed to build something. So I built a bell siphon for an ebb and flow grow bed (also called Flood and Drain grow bed_ for the 75 gallon fish tank in the living room. This will allow me to grow plants using the …
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Saturday, I was helping some friends move. I must say, this was the best ‘hard move’ I have ever helped with. There where stairs and hard corners at both locations. A lot of big, heavy, and fragile stuff. We filled a cattle trailer and several vehicles with stuff. What made it so easy was that …
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Sorry for the delay in posting this. I had put the bedframe up on legs a while ago, gosh the photo claims on the 8th!. Here you can see the legs. Nothing fancy, and I really don’t like them. They didn’t sit down as square as I would have hoped. No bother, they can be …
The floor joist brackets want to stay too far open for my taste. So I made a jig to hold it closed using a peice of scrap 2×4. The jig is just two screws set so that the stringers are held closed against the 2×4. I also added a centerline mark on the 2×4 so …
