The machine is older than me, but appears to be a later model in this production run judging from the color. I have found one broken part, the capture nut to hold down the tooling block. Now I need to get the rest of the tools needed to use this correctly and learn how to …
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She is blogging her cooking. This is one of the recipes she's blogged about already. Creuzer’s Kitchen: The Best Spagetti Sauce I got this recipe from a friend, CVS ( not the store). Before I always used canned spaghetti sauce. .84c a can was worth not making it. Until he came over and made this!! …
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I went home during lunch so I could see what my Solar Hot Air panel on my garage was doing. The indoor/outdoor thermometer I put into the panel died today, and putting in new batteries didn't help. I had to scrounge around for another thermometer and found a candy thermometer in the kitchen. I put …
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Yesterday and today I made a 60 cubic foot Solar Hot Air panel to heat my garage. I spent a total of $7 on it – most of the parts where salvaged or found or freecycled parts. A hot air solar panel is probably the most efficient way to draw energy from the sun. The …
