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  5. New Shop Underway....Part Deuce!

    in In The Shop

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    With those two table done I will now have room on my floor to actually work. I should have a new picture to post with a clean shop after I run some errands with my Family and get some more shop time thanks to my beautiful Wife taking care of business with our beautiful Son and our Daughter that’s on the way on board...😇

     

    I know the shop shop is a mess but it was really cool cutting down 3/4 ply with an outfeed table...I missed that. Small space but it is a okay, I love this shop.

  7. New Shop Underway....Part Deuce!

    in In The Shop

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    Haven’t been getting much done because of a lack of room and no outfeed table. Last night I made two new shop tables from plywood. One is a mobile outfeed table, the other though as of this writing is not quite done (I have to add the lower shelf) is a rolling sanding and storage station.

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  15. Heating the garage...

    in Pub Talk

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    7 hours ago, Jronman said:

    Would an electric heater be a better option in a room that can't be ventilated?

    I think it would be much safer. I had thought about one of those kerosene stationary units but I remember responding to a terrible fire with one of those and would never risk having one in my shop. Our new home has an unheated basement but this one seems to stay a little warmer getting in the upper forties on the coldest days. I have a Milwaukee heated sweatshirt and a hat for shop time then.

  16. Heating the garage...

    in Pub Talk

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    On 1/15/2018 at 1:21 AM, regopit said:

    This is what I'm using out in the garage. I was out there most of the day. 25 degrees outside and 70 inside.

     

     

     Dyna-Glo 75K BTU Kerosene Forced Air Portable Heater

    I’ve got the exact same one, used it in my basement shop for a couple of years with the bulk head open. Fumes sucked but they weren’t too bad with the bulkhead open, got the shop toasty then I’d shut it down for and run it again when it started to cool. I would not recommend doing this to anyone, but it worked for me.

  17. What tools did you buy today?

    in Power Tools

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    1 hour ago, rrich1 said:

    Purchased this yesterday. It was my grandfather's who sold in back in '11 before Alzheimer's set in. 1931 Ford Model AA. Inline 4. Whopping 40hp and pretty much top speed of 40 mph. And I will love all 40 of it. It's currently a few hours north of me right now. I went to Chicago for a Lie Nielsen hand tool event and drove 40 min to see it. I paid the man and got the title in hand. He will trailer it down to me when it's nicer weather. The lettering on the side is from when my grandpa had it. It's dark green with black fender and radiator. He purchased it around 1980. Due to his Alzheimer's I can't ask him for sure.

    It hasn't been ran in over a year so I will need to do maintenance on it. Hopefully I will be able to get it running prior to July. My grandpa and I took it to the truckers jamboree truck show at Iowa 80 truck stop for years. 7167e48e8523e2d7505013ec4940b624.jpg631f2f3c5c3f9309343e137dca2b8846.jpge532251ad21bc53298d5a7824aa4af08.jpg

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    Congrats bro, that is awesome and what a great memory to bring to your kids!

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  19. Are Forums/Discussion Boards Dying?

    in Pub Talk

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    9 hours ago, fm2176 said:

    I think I'm just a bit too old and cynical for social media, in philosophy if not in age (I'm 40).  I have a Facebook but primarily use it to keep up with military friends.  Otherwise, I prefer the relative anonymity and hands-off nature of forums over social media, which in my mind only feeds the habit of being constantly connected to our mobile devices these days.

     

    Even so, years ago I was a member of various Yahoo Groups, and while I fondly recall the days of participating in those discussions, they lack the nostalgia of forums such as these.

     

    I know that this site isn't going anywhere any time soon and hope to see an increase in activity.  Then again, maybe I'll have more time and a more positive view of social media after retirement.

    Old....40....hahahahahahahaha

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  21. Are Forums/Discussion Boards Dying?

    in Pub Talk

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    Nope. I wishe there was but alas...I’ve bounced a lot of spammers including the one you just cited. If you see stuff like that in the future give us a shout though. Thankfully like you, I am on many times a day and caught it quickly but even today I bounced a new member / troll.  A lot of negative commentary has been populating posts and we are dealing with that too but that very commentary causes new members to not get involved. Prize giveaways have always been a part of the forums but unfortunately those have dried up as well and until sponsors are able to get more involved it probably won’t change. Like @regopit states, the new social medium is not Forums but social sites. I remember a couple of years ago Dan started to do these video posts on Snapchat or something like that with giveaways being done there and then involvement really nose dived here. Unfortunately TiA has really been hit by movements to popular apps like that.  TiA has changed a LOT as has membership over the last couple of years, too bad really but...we are still here 🤪

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