Finally got back to working on some old dressers I picked up on freecycle

It's been about a year since I picked them up. Katie had to come out and kick my butt to work on it. We need to get it done so we can move dressers around so the kids have the ones we currently have in our bedroom. Its a lot of work to sand the …

I am looking into picking up some pretty heavy stuff with my trailer

I need to get the stuff on and off of the trailer.This picture is what I dreamed up. I think it's called something like a shear leg crane or somesuch. The trailer can only hold 1200lbs, so it doesn't have to be too heavy duty.  The crane frame components would be part of the side …

The force is strong in this one

I printed a large Yoda < http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:12288 > for a coworker in white PLA. Aspects of it make this my best print yet, and yet it looks pretty bad in some ways. First, it took 3 different slices and about 10 starts before I could get Yoda to stick to the bed. Lots of issues, …

My wife needed a flyswatter

With the recent heat wave, they seem to covet my AC and have invaded. Instead of getting into the hot car, driving to buy a swatter, I printed one. I found it on Thingiverse – http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:9518 . Took about 3 hours to print in white PLA at .1mm layer height. I think it's pretty awesome! …

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