Where is everybody? Answered

Well you have one of the most important parts and if someone who wasn't very good at building was making them it may not work.

yeppers, I had to make them because I was the only person in the whole group (5 people) who knew how to make gearboxes (like had experience). I tell you, mating up homemade wooden gears is a nightmare. a ratchet gear (for the winding mechanism) snapped, so I had to super glue it back together and now my hands are all wierd, fun...

It must be extremely difficult making every tooth exactly the same as all of the others and then having to make it match another gear!

well, we made gear templates and they all match up pretty well, not perfectly and you have to file down some parts. Making the tiny 10 teeth gear is scary with a jijgsaw.

I would be too worried that I might mess them up.

Our group was like that in the begining, but after the first one was really easy. For all the gears (except the tiny 10 tooth) we used a bandsaw. Cutting a crude circle around the whole thing, and then cutting little triangles into the gear. That way there's no really sharp turning. we got good at it (but boring), eventually about 10 teeth a minute.

BTW, Kiteman, now would be the time to release all those great ibles that you have lying about.

Alas, I also have new-term-itis, so I'm restricted to weekends for major jobs. I've just had an idea that will have to wait until after Easter because I need the weather, and other things high on my to-do list are also fairly demanding time-wise. I'm bracing myself for the coming speed contest, though.

LV is around, I saw something from him, somewhere, about a week ago. I'm busy with school, I never would have figured going full time would actually be harder than going part time and working full time, but it is. I've mapped out a great new project in my head I'm going to try, nothing groundbreaking, but cool and cheap. Cheap now being the operative word since I'm unemployed.

from now on, we shall call dropping off the face of the earth "pulling a KillerK"

I've got a science review to do that covers everything we've done so far, followed by a test.

_{Oooo it just stopped raining! I should hunt for meteorites!}

Pat

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I think that there are so many slide shows lately, not because of the contest, but because now everyone knows how to take better pictures.
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it wasn't that your work was bad..... just that it was nothing more then some pics.... not even an explination as to what it was or what it was about........ but its all good......pain meds will do that

Yea, I added it here instead.

What was your slideshow about?

I've been bored out of my mind today. I must have searched the house ten times over for something to make an instructable out of, just to pass the time.

Ugh, I forgot about my homework.

lol

ANd I just got up not to long ago.

I never sleep....lol. well thats not really true... i just worked a 12 hour night shift and now I'm off for 4 days.... so I'm trying to stay up until tonight so I can sleep at night and enjoy the day time.... and switch my system back to days for next week....... stupid shift work

That must suck. Good luck!

Wha?

some people are haven a hard time in life right now. ( i just got over trying to kill myself like two days ago.....) life can be hard....... im still f***ed up in the head right now....

I don't think LV and Lemonie's disappearences caused the slow down, since we're talking about a slow down in the last few days... not months. And same goes for the slideshows. (Personally, I don't feel they're effecting the community's talkability much at all)