I wanted steak for dinner last night. So I wandered over to Publix and had David cut me a peice of meat. This 1.66lb hunk of steak was on sale for $5.99 a pound.
I had read online that if you coat your steaks in salt like this and let it set from 15 minutes to an hour and then wash the salt off and pat the meat dry, it will tenderize the meat. Boy did it ever! I ended up with the juiciest, tastiest 13oz steaks I have ever had. I had sauted mushrooms, baked potato and steamed brocoli and cauliflower with a white (mozerella) cheese sauce.
A few weeks ago, I saw a hammock chair for sale for something like $40. I thought that I could make one for less than that. Turns out I can make one for about $6. All that is needed is a special tool, and some cord of some sort. I ended up making the tool out of a peice of scrap plywood I had from building the folding kayak. I just carved it up, and sanded it down according to the pictures I saw of people making fishing nets. The cord I used is actually Cat Fish Drop Line, what ever that is. It’s rated for 4 hunded pounds. I have 24 strands of it holding the hammock up, so I don’t think I need to worry about the hammock breaking anytime soon – that is 9600 pounds, well over 4 tons.
I takes a bit of practice to get going, but with the shuttle and guage stick, it’s actually quick simple. Once you get the rythm to it, you can make quick work out of making this. I am not quite happy with this one, as it’s currently a bit uncomfortable, but I knew the first attempt would be less then perfect. I am actually surprised at how well it did turn out. I think a lot of my problems is with my tying it to a single support beam. I might try to pick up some good hooks and fiddle with how I hang it.
Here is the first shelf I had finished. I had to put a piece of backing board behind the short wall to support that end. luckily that section of wall was accessible from the inside of the closet.
I leveled the shelves up, side to side, and also along the wall, the curved corner dips about an eighth of an inch as for some reason, when I tighten the metal brackets down, the shelves wanted to have the outside edege about a half an inch lower than the wall side. I haven’t figured out why. I tipped the shelves back level when I screwed the bracket on the short side to the wall.
I had a lot of trouble shearing off the screws mounting the hardware to the red oak shelves. I ended up drilling the hole 1 drill bit size larger, and soaping the screws before I put them in.
I picked up a Diana RWS 34 Panther Spring Air Pellet Rifle. I wanted to make a safe and silent home made pellet trap. I bit of searching online found what I need. Use Plumbers Putty as ballistic putty. A couple inches of this will stop pellets from an air rifle.
So, I wandered over to Lowes to pick up some plumbers putty. They where out. I drove to Home Depot. They had some in stock. I bought all five 5 pound buckets that they had. There was a run on Plumbers Putty in Lakeland that night!
So anyway, I also picked up a galvanized metal tray to put it in.
Here you can see what 5 shots look like. They penetrate about an inch and a half. They are stopped with less noise then the pellet rifle makes firing the pellet.
Here you can see what a pellet looks like when it was caught by this pellet trap.
