new circular saw!
Jan. 29th, 2021 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kellan_the_tabby
[ A red Milwaukee circular saw, sitting on a table along with a steel ruler, a green pen, & random boards. ]
Innit purty?
Also means I can DO things, so Wednesday I went outside & Did things.
First I hadda mark the circular saw as mine, though. I tried putting my SCA badge on my first couple Milwaukee tools, but it’s too complicated for such small spaces, so I designed this mark, which I can do with a sharpie.
[ Drawn on the handle of the circular saw is a circle with a cross in it, with three lines on each side that look like whiskers. ]
Witness my highly technological recordkeeping technique! (It’s since been rained on.)
[ A hunk of 2×4 with two numbers written on it in green ink. Also a rusty metal ruler and a green pen. ]
Usually I do my sanding sitting down, but my chair still had snow on it, so I hadda work at the sawhorses.
[ A pair of sawhorses, with two lengths of board on top. Sitting on them is a cordless drill with a flap wheel attached. ]
Standing & working in front of me hurts after not too long — my spine is sure a Thing — so I didn’t get a LOT done, but there was progress! & then Thursday I got more done. It’s nice to FINALLY have enough time — & brain & energy — to be working on Tyrava again. There’s just been WAY TOO MUCH.
But check this out — I finally finished up this wall section next to the side door! That means this side is halfway done!
[ A fairly narrow section of Tyrava’s inside wall, which is now covered in reclaimed wood all the way to the top. ]
… & then I ran out of boards, so that was ANOTHER trip, but more about that later.
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Date: 2021-01-30 06:05 pm (UTC)This is my recent tool acquisition:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-10-in-Compound-Miter-Saw-with-LED-TS1346/306939211
We needed to do a bunch of 45 degree miter cuts, and I absolutely must do some board replacement on our decks, and it wasn't that expensive. I thought I'd bought a battery-powered one, and was ready to take it back, but when I saw how the AC one had a much longer reach and was a lot less expensive, I kept it.
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Date: 2021-01-30 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-01-30 07:28 pm (UTC)The cool thing about this is that you could do mitered 45 degree angled cuts, so that the upper boards could overlap the lower boards.... You might also need a good 3-prong extension cord, if you don't have one already. And you might want some clamps to lock it on to your work table.
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Date: 2021-02-01 09:31 pm (UTC)OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Date: 2021-02-01 10:16 pm (UTC)Interesting idea, eh? Takes a little mental twisting to visualize, and might take some practice cuts to get right.
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Date: 2021-02-01 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-01 10:29 pm (UTC)Just DON'T CUT OFF ANY DIGITS! Very important to maintain very good situational awareness with this puppy! Your circular saw is one thing, this is an entirely different class of dangerous! It does have a good lamp to illuminate where the blade will travel. When I use it, before I turn it on, I pull the blade out and check where my holding hand is at in relation to the blade path.
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Date: 2021-02-01 10:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-01 10:46 pm (UTC)I am a very big fan of people having an appropriate number of digits and not decrementing that number! Especially those who live alone and a long way from emergency services and other means of health care!
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Date: 2021-02-01 11:13 pm (UTC)that said sometime this summer I will likely have roommates again, or at least, that's what we're PLANNING
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Date: 2021-02-01 11:22 pm (UTC)Just be very careful and practice on scrap. And since you scavenge a lot of your lumber, be sure to inspect it for nails before you use it, I expect you’re doing that already. I have an experiment I should conduct and if it’s successful, I might send some stuff up to you as a nail detector…. It might take a week or three to do this….
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Date: 2021-02-01 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-01-30 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-01 09:32 pm (UTC)