last week’s accomplishments
Aug. 5th, 2020 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kellan_the_tabby
or, In Which I Sort Of Failed To Post Any Progress Stuff Last Week
I got the back wall clearcoated. It really brought out the colours in the wood — look at the difference above!
Having accomplished that, I figured I’d start on the back window. Tyvek tape to keep water out of the walls:
I found a cool pallet board with some of the bark still on & used it for part of the frame:
Et voila, a window frame! Or at least as far as I got that day before the rain really started to pish doon.
It rained pretty much all day the next couple days, so I didn’t get back to working outside until Sunday. At which point … well, there was still water to work around.
Really not a good time to be working with this board here.
But the pallet boards I’d pulled for the window frame were dry, so I got that done & then clearcoated it.
That’s as far as I can get with that window without taking off the plywood over it, which I don’t especially want to do in the middle of the monsoon. Not like there’s any shortage of other stuff to be done, such as making the side door better at keeping water outside.
Look, weatherstripping!
Look, it’s filling the gap between the door & the trim! Also, now nobody can peek! At least through that bit.
Having accomplished that, I set out to get the mail & a couple more salvaged boards. Here’s where I’ve been getting the ones I used for the back wall:
It’s such gorgeous wood, I can’t just leave it there to rot.
On the way back I stopped to check another abandoned house, & found TREASURE:
Hell YEAH I’m going back for that with the van. & another pair of hands. Maybe two.
I grabbed these right away, though. Who wouldn’t?
I’m keeping one, & the other’s going to a friend who can’t use power tools. Rockin it old school!
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I’d REALLY like that.
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Date: 2020-08-06 01:49 am (UTC)DAMN, and now I'm envious of that pillar drill!! That's a real find! Decent model too, 50's vintage I suspect, but with a turn table plate and a hand-cranked rising mechanism. Decent ratcheting bit and braces too. Those are like thirty bucks each, and the pillar drill you'd be lucky to get for under two hundred on ebay.
Oh, and snag all the drill bits you can find, they're not much each but a full set will run to hundred bucks sometimes. Might as well get them if they're free.
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Date: 2020-08-06 01:54 am (UTC)& yeah, I'm digging everything useful out of there that I can. Anything I can't use, _someone_ will surely want!
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Date: 2020-08-06 02:00 am (UTC)Think of the mountain of favours you can trade those goodies for, or all the good will it'll earn...
I wish I had that kind of good luck! But that drill will make construction a lot easier. Check around for end mills or other milling tools. Looking at it, that machine has been modified, or is a factory mod, so it can be used as a mill as well. The sort of thing that's very good at cutting fancy edges to timber boards, or slots for tab&slot contsruction etc..
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Date: 2020-08-06 02:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-08-06 02:10 am (UTC)Well, I've researching the subject a bit lately... kinda hoping to buy one at some point, probably a while from now.
I'd check if there's an X/Y vise as well, looks a bit like the one on the table there, but with extra knobs/wheels so you can move the object. Might look something like this
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Date: 2020-08-06 01:37 pm (UTC)Oooh, such treasure! Nice finds!
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Date: 2020-08-06 02:50 pm (UTC)That vise is really nice! Fab find! Gratz!
Personally, I'd hang up one of those drills on the side of the finished wagon and tell people that was one of your major tools for doing all your work. ;-)
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Date: 2020-08-07 04:35 am (UTC)& YES I will make a spot on Tyrava for whichever drill I decide to keep!
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