I had just brought my brand new, Illinois Industrial Tools© cordless drill and driver home (it only cost me a few dollars from the Ollie's chain) and in trying to find a place for it to rest until needed, and yet be easily accessible for use and charging. Not having a solution, I ended up with a problem. I hadn't thought about storage.
The next day, as I walked in the front door, I saw several segments of ornate garden fencing laying on the front porch and (of course) asked my wife if she was going to use them or discard them. With her blessing, I took one of the segments and started to work on creating a rack.
This is the process I used to get from pretty piece of fence (but of little use functionally) to a functional albeit ugly, drill rack.
The next day, as I walked in the front door, I saw several segments of ornate garden fencing laying on the front porch and (of course) asked my wife if she was going to use them or discard them. With her blessing, I took one of the segments and started to work on creating a rack.
This is the process I used to get from pretty piece of fence (but of little use functionally) to a functional albeit ugly, drill rack.
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This is crucial to success, in that, one can ruin a lot of pieces with trial and error, if one doesn't plan ahead a bit.
So, I grabbed a bit of scrap paper and started to draw about what I wanted the product to do, and how it might do it. This is, by no means, a FINAL plan. Only something to get things going.
So, I grabbed a bit of scrap paper and started to draw about what I wanted the product to do, and how it might do it. This is, by no means, a FINAL plan. Only something to get things going.
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On that link check out Gmoons posted link to the boy that built a nuclear breeder reactor.
Almost built, but the only thing that got red hot, luckily for the world, was his backside.
I thought it might have been you Visper
Seeing the temperature here is mostly 17-plus, I am okay for a while, but shivers, yesterday, it was 10 at 2-pm. PS, we use the Celsius scale here in NZ
Goodhart, dont you think centimetres are a odd unit? Everything is based on 1000ths.
Its only because people want to have a unit like an inch that we have a cm.
(and kitting?)
Kitting, from whence did you get that? I haven't built a Kit (only from scratch, home made) for eons. (or if you mean Kittahs, I don't use that term much either ;-)
As for question re mm, I just recalled you lot still work in inches, which is why NASA programmed a Mars orbiter to orbit below Mars ground level. Oops!
As a example for you, we say 330-mm plus 1-metre equals 1.33 metres. (And not, "One metre, 33 centimetres")
I did not say we only used mm, but I did say the cm was a odd ball measurement, some people get the cm and mm confused.
When talking about lengths of Kilometres, the mm is no longer needed, being too small a unit.
Then, for example 330-metres plus 1 Km equals 1.33-Km
I have to admit I began my working life working in inches and feet, in a sawmill, I still see timber in inches, as in a 4 x 2, but when I buy timber now, the youngsters at the timber yard only know what a 100 x 50 is, yet they are the same thing. (Aren't they? :-))
Switching to engineering 2 years later and operating a lathe both at work and home, I used units of 1 thousand of an inch, mixed it with fractions of an inch, number drills, wire gage, metal gage, pounds ounces, etc.
Today, I think a lot in inches, when planning a project in my head, but when writing down the final dimensions I switch to metrics.
But, 1967 was when NZ got smart, got rid of 12 pennys to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound and went to dollars and cents. Luckily just in time, before electronic calculators came out, otherwise we would have needed one for calculating costs, a second one to total up materials.
otherwise we would have needed one for calculating costs, a second one to total up materials.
They Could have designed a calculater that started at base 12 (duodecimal, I believe) and then have overage spill into a base twenty system. But that would get hard to read I suppose.....like a Hexadecimal clock is.
If you knew about our taxing system, you'd know that it is very hard to have a calculater or computer "calculate" taxes.....one has to use tables and such (for sales tax for instance) or it will be wrong sometimes. The govmnt wants its extra penny when it can get it ;-)
BTW: I remember hayfever.....when I was younger, I had it so bad I could hardly walk, for the sneezing and running nose. I am glad I "grew out of it" :-) (mostly)
Did not know you had to calculate your taxes, I though you handed over all your money, and got a penny back?
my last job was in a new factory built 1980 but the company began in the early '30s. Some of the paperwork I did, began in the '30s too. The accountants were scared to tell me to stop, just in case they missed something.
I wanted to reduce my paper work load, so I stopped doing certain reports, one by one, nobody moaned at all.
In fact, the front office clerks told me they were pleased to not have to file my reports any more after NOBODY read them.
Might not that be an answer to your tax problems?
NZ is a good place to hide, if my idea does not impress your IRD
I was, of course, referring to Sales Tax. In my state, it is 6%, most of the time. But like I said, if you go by that, the tax table will ask for an extra penny now and then (the tax man ALWAYS rounds up).
These taxes are taken at the POS (point of sale). You pay or you don't get your merchandise :-)
When that came in, there had to be a gap after the old various sales taxes got stopped. We had 4 weeks of bonanza, no tax at all on purchases.
Our GST began at 10% since it was a nice round figure,but soon it became 12.5% and governments, if they try increasing it, know they are on the way out.
if bending 3/8 inch steel is "knitting" then I guess so....
Another knitting project
L
It will help me avoid it being pushed off the desk accidentally, for sure :-)
L
*chuckle* if that had been the case for me, I'd be more worried about it, but that's just me :-)
L
The biggest problem with this kind of fencing though, is when it has been out in the weather for a few years (and this had been), the spot welded joints tend to rust and it only takes a little extra enthusiasm to break apart the joints, or break off an entire "leg".