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- M2aestro commented on woodbywright's instructable Make a Spokeshave
- M2aestro commented on Dustman0042's instructable How to build a DIY Micro Camper
That too struck me as a dangerous practice, and possibly not legal. Even with many louvers a slight leak could trap a critical vapor:air ratio and become a real bomb. Any specific suggestions out there for how to fix that while still providing a vee-nose? ....perhaps with bottom open frame and side of vee vents?
Yup, Jeff; my comments were heavy on the keyboard; and that about mpg being important to an Xterra driver came from my gut reaction to the low mileage that the rugged Xterras deliver, a highway efficiency even lower than the abysmal mileage delivered by my Tacoma 4WD.
I would be uncomfortable with cooking near my propane tank unless the tank were removed for cooking time and had a sufficiently long hose.
View Instructable »Yup, I accept the criticism, for I was most undiplomatic in my comment about the aerodynamics of the product...and perhaps that aspect is not of much concern to this enterprising builder, who has certainly crafted a visually attractive package. BTW, he is planning to make a V-nosed conversion, not necessarily as I suggested, but likely something he had considered from the outset. From what I read, the interior was designed to be very efficient with the space available, and that becomes somewhat more difficult as one approaches other geometries with curved surfaces and vee noses.
- M2aestro commented on mrehan.elshehawy's instructable Make your own mini studio
Cheap LED strap or tape material should only be used where needed for unusual lighting, and offers absolutely zero color balance over conventional CFL and LED bulbs that are made for lamps. The reasons are that #1, the quality of LED strap or tape material tends to be much lower, that is, have shorter functional lifetime, than the bulbs mentioned, and #2, the bulbs are available in a nearly complete range of spectral qualities, that is from around 2600 degrees K equivalent to about 6100 degrees K equivalent. Where the tape or strap lights might have an advantage is in distribution or diffusion of the light where you might have made a poor diffusion method choice, or where you might wish to have a weak (but diffused) spot slightly emphasized. I see in the illustration a box that is whit…
see more »You can get that depth of field with the larger numerical aperture (smaller actual aperture) and the light shown from her box setup by merely extending the exposure time, of course, if the camera gives you control of both aperture and shutter. More light is not the only way to the desired end.
Not all cameras allow you to adjust color temperature (if yours does, it would be a menu item), for many point and shoot cameras attempt to do this for you in an computerized automation, sometimes with good results and sometimes the opposite.
View Instructable »mach1950 is essentially correct and giving good advice for the hand-held shot; more light does in fact allow you to use a smaller aperture (larger f number), which gets you a greater depth of field. A point and shoot camera will automatically adjust to the greater light flux and in some cameras, also correctly sense equivalent light temperature to give you proper color in many situations. We still find automatic mode sometimes fails to give proper color for flowers and scenery on a new camera, almost as much as good digital cameras made a decade ago, but your chances today are pretty good. You can adjust this post-shoot in some phones and cameras, and use free-ware to adjust many color problems in photos via freeware in your computer when the color problem is global for the picture.
- M2aestro commented on botzendesign's instructable D.I.Y Ultra Quiet Shop compressor from a refrigerator motor (compressor)
No; refrigerator compressors are terrible compressors for air brush supplies without a specialized oil and moisture removal filter set. Read the other comments before you get too excited about that misapplication of hardware!
I am sorry, but I must acknowledge to all that no matter how cool what I described as a coolant chiller in one application and as an air drier (identical basic device before accessories) as the second device might be, I can no longer provide photographs of the devices and systems because we did not save the documents after about 10 years had passed. The last one was executed about 25 years ago, but the basic technology hasn't changed.By the way, I second whole-heartedly all of the comments about how using refrigeration compressors for air supply pressures is a very poor idea, both because of lubricant mist contamination of the air, and because of the low delivery volumes. It is not difficult to find very good mist removal filters, and I have even seen one ;that used a roll of toilet pap…
see more »View Instructable »See my other post, please, on how long ago this was (25 years). We have no surviving pictures.
- M2aestro commented on Gursimran Singh 425's instructable Wireless Electricity Transmission (Simple things required to be collected from scrap)View Instructable »
Anybody who knows this history should understand what we would be dealing with here, and that this hardware does not need to be very complicated. Most of us knew of the Marconi work first, I would venture to say, and that work should show the tinkerer easier ways to do what is discussed here.The first time I tried to use the EM waves to power at distance was in an attempt to make an amplifier that required no battery for operation and was supposed to amplify a crystal detector's AM output signal, using tuned AM circuits detecting a powereful area transmitter to power one of the first cheap audio frequency transistor amplifiers. I'm not certain that I got more than a few dB boost, if that. It wa fun, however.
- M2aestro commented on Yonatan24's instructable How to Build a Wooden Drill-Press Vise | DIY Woodworking Tools #3
Yonotan; keep your eyes peeled for short sections of railroad track. They make very good anvils, I've found. BART track, the worse track around for supporting a train, because it is square on top with respect to the flange side, rather than angled with a crown as standard wide gauge track is, would be handy for anvils and fixtures if you ever had the opportunity to obtain a short section. I have not, but have a track section about 14 inches long that is great for metal beating and the like. I have seen some track that was re-ground to have a horn at one end. Just keep your eyes open, for there is much useful stuff out there for very elegant fixturing and solutions for productivity.
View Instructable »I prefer to use a short actuation of the vise and to get the large capacity for width by use of alignment and clamping pegs in holes bored into the bench. This way I don't have to have the jaw reaching far from the bench for some jobs. Of course, some jobs do require that you have the work off the bench, but remember, please, that in many cases you can extend your clamping capacity by having the vise aligned such that the work sits in it at bench surface height, rather than above the bench. Another thing that you can do with very good dowels is to use eccentric bushing cams on bench dowels to clamp work. This is very handy for work that is very large or has non-parallel sides. You can sometimes use a cam in place of very slightly tapered shims for non-parallel clamping.Lastly, I woul…
see more » - M2aestro commented on Yonatan24's instructable Top 10 Vise Hacks!
I have never used a vee thread split nut clamping device, but I can attest to the fact that Acme thread and truncated Acme thread split nut clamping devices, vises included, can be great labor savers. Remember not to have the split nut on vee threads held by too weak a radial constraint or it might actually jack open the radial restraint. This is a case for using a cam as ThomasK19 suggests, instead of a weak snap ring that locates onto a grooved exterior of the nut.
The screw-adjusted office chair just might also have a slotted screw with a partial nut that allows one to make a fast vertical sliding adjustment for chair seat height, and then a fine adjustment height before locking. This kind of screw can be the best for rapidly adjusted bench wood vices, for you can quickly change from thin to very thick or from narrow to very wide clamping needs without turning the handle more than one turn. If you have the opportunity, then use that kind. My very best vises have that quick adjustment feature. Also note that one can make vises with rabbited jaws that accept inserts to fit special requirements.
View Instructable »I don't see a great number of Phillips head screws on hardware around here, except for some wood screws and on some electrical components (for which the Phillips head screw was invented, I believe). I'm a great believer in using hex head machine screws (such as cap screws, for example), which are available in inch and metric threads, coarse, fine, extra fine, and some obsolete sizes. I avoid only the relatively weak 6-32 threads in things I design or build (That size has a small root diameter to outside diameter ratio, and is usually used in electrical fixtures where strength is not an issue.) I guess I should add that although I have some size 14 machine screws left over from repairing antique hardware, I'd never design that size into anything new.
- M2aestro commented on Von Malegowski's instructable How to Pick a Lock (Basics)View Instructable »
While I find keywizard's article informative, I take issue with the stated tolerances, and suspect that nobody is producing home locks with tolerances closer than 0.0001 inch (a ten thousandth of an inch), rather than the 0.000001 inch tolerance given ( a millionth of an inch.) As a person who made parts fit in tolerances measured both in ten-thousandths of an inch and in millionths of an inch, I can attest to the differences in cost of manufacturing. I do recall, however, that, starting about 1937, hydraulic lifters for Cadillac V8 engines were manufactured that used gauges that read to the nearest 0.00005 inch, or 50 millionths of an inch. You can buy balls and pins that are matched or round to single digit millionths of an inch, but I suspect they never end up used in these locks, ev…
see more » - M2aestro commented on botzendesign's instructable D.I.Y Ultra Quiet Shop compressor from a refrigerator motor (compressor)
I did something a bit different with a refrigerator compressor; the cooling path was used with air only flowing through it at high pressure after running that same air through a simple stainless heat exchanger radiator, such as used in automotive oil cooling. A condensate trap was placed between this device and the refrigerator cooling double wall tube, such that it ran through the outer tube, and thence to air compressor receiving tank. The air with reduced oil vapor content through the cooling loop on the refrigerator compressor, with a thermostat set 4 degrees above freezing. This delivered fairly dry air to the receiving tank, to be more specific about that detail.This gave me very dry air with negligible oil vapor so that air bearing parts would never have condensation between the …
see more »View Instructable »I did this for a high precision machinery job about 26 years ago. I no longer can recall where I might have placed pictures of the hardware, although I do recall that I photographed them (drier setup and cooler/temperature stabilizer) with film. What hardware there is out there today would be different, I suspect. The refrigeration compressors were about 200W, I think, had a significant current surge at start, and had a pressure gauge on the refrigerant line. I can't recall much more specifics on them, other than they were on small vibration isolators, but I added fluid pulse dampers to the pump lines and mechanical damping to the connecting hardware to avoid transmitting detectable vibration to the equipment, and the fan on the compressor with the cooling double-wall tubing connected …
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I suspect that most of today's beginning woodworkers have never held a spokeshave unless when visiting a very well furnished shop, or when perusing items on sale in a woodworker's specialty store, or as fortunate as I was, when, despite being enrolled in an academic program during the 8th grade, 60 years ago, was instructed on the use of the spokeshave and the drawknife. I suspect that I won't likely need one unless I eventually build the great wooden clock movement that has one very large wheel which would look much more elegant with spokes. None-the-less, if I were to find a suitable very small iron, I would pick it up. I had enjoyed carving odd things back then, including two wood chains, a combination lock, and a few years later, a walnut capo with band of very heavy monofilament a…
see more »I suspect that most of today's beginning woodworkers have never held a spokeshave unless when visiting a very well furnished shop, or when perusing items on sale in a woodworker's specialty store, or as fortunate as I was, when, despite being enrolled in an academic program during the 8th grade, 60 years ago, was instructed on the use of the spokeshave and the drawknife. I suspect that I won't likely need one unless I eventually build the great wooden clock movement that has one very large wheel which would look much more elegant with spokes. None-the-less, if I were to find a suitable very small iron, I would pick it up. I had enjoyed carving odd things back then, including two wood chains, a combination lock, and a few years later, a walnut capo with band of very heavy monofilament and peg of carved walnut for my guitar.