2026

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2: Water main break at duplex.
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6: 8" Sewer reline - sleave - Steam heat fires the embedded resin.
7: 8" Sewer reline - sleave - Steam heat fires the embedded resin.
8: 8" Sewer reline - sleave - Steam heat fires the embedded resin.
9: 8" Sewer reline - sleave - Steam heat fires the embedded resin.
10: 8" Sewer reline - sleave - Steam heat fires the embedded resin.
11: 8" Sewer reline - sleave - Steam heat fires the embedded resin.
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13: Buds opening early
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15: Portrait of Jamie by Hockney
16: Nightmare job - Steel pegs in aluminum - electro--welded due to water in frame.
17: Chuck spun on MT2
18: Early Fruit flowers - will they drop on a freeze?
19: Tulips are up
20: 3D printing night mare - turns out that the Z offsets changes the config.. Does auto-leveling off not follow the off setts? Why would you adjust at 0.1mm at a time?
21: Stripped thread on 3D printer head - they used the thin wall - I redid it with the thick wall and a longer grub-screw.
22: Chuck spun on arbor
23: Chuck spun on arbor
24: This Cushman is good
25: Spalling was on the outer limit - I just turned a big chamfer to get rid of the bad part.
26: The 3D gods are fighting me. Print nozzle was leaking- over tightened - swapped for a differnt hot block, new hot block had shorted thermistor - wire for the thermistor cable broke.
27: Getting closer - reinforced - formed strain relief with Goop-glue - waiting for glue to dry - turned on bed heater to warm things - speeds it up a bit.
28: Part of the old railroad that was combined with the route to Overbrook
29: Metal finding in the yard - found a shot-put
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31: 0.4mm PSD nozzle - makes a big difference - highly heat conductive.
32: Setting up the hot-end
33: This stone wall was in/near the path of the old Lawrence Carbondale railway
34: Found more of the 1887 railroad bits - the plates were for fastening the end of rails together - the broken off square bolts were part of that lash-up.
35: My cat finds things that smell like me
36: Finally did something on the mill again
37: Turned out nice..
38: Finally cleaned the big bench
39: 4 types of high fire glaze - White, White-gloss, light-blue, blue with speckles..
40: I can't remember who made which ones?
41: Norma wants to look like a duck?
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43: I ordered M1.4 - they sent me M1.6 - but it measured M1.8
44: I ordered M1.4 - they sent me M1.6 - but it measured M1.8
45: An attempt to unscrew a broken tap.
46: Instead of welding - I brased the back rest back on my chair - the tube is very thin walled.
47: Had to cut and flame polish a bit of tube.
48: Milled out a broken probe end - then drilled and re tapped the hole.
49: Milled out a broken probe end - then drilled and re tapped the hole.
50: Tiny taps and die.
51: Had to modify a chuck key.
52: Had to modify a chuck key. - this is a 1/4" Cushman made in Japan
53: I added a lens to the little wifi video camera so it focuses close.
54: Here it is with the spindle at 100RPM - works like a charm.
55: It has a magnetic base so it sticks to tool holders
56: Grohe faucet
57: Grohe oddball faucet.
58: From the bottom M15-1.0 thread - unobtainium
59: Sample thread
60: I made this plug on the lathe out of some hex bar stock.
61: Bad garbage disposal - leaked all the way down into the motor.
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63: Making bar for hanging photropter
64: Photropter hanging in shop
65: Trying to figure out way to mount the tracks for the front of the fume hood..
66: Nissan CVT pan before cleaning
67: Nissan CVT pan after cleaning
68: Circuit board of Sewer Camera - could be this board or the processor board that has the fault?
69: Circuit boards of Sewer Camera - The darker board is probably the processor board. Either board could have the cable length counter fault.