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Thursday, January 5, 2017

Baby, It's Cold Inside

I got home from work, ready to rock'n'roll! Only to find the inside temperature of my house at 46 degrees! I'm seriously going to take a cutting torch to my furnace one of these days. It's four freaking years old!! It has broken down four times!!! I'm not a happy camper. This also meant some lost shop time. Here's what I actually accomplished.

Grinding dust and sanding dust are part of my life. The problem is that I have a beard. Dust masks and respirators don't work so good with beards. I'll be damned if I'm going to shave!! Enter the Resp-O-Rator. Giving this thing a test drive. It takes some getting used to, but I like having HEPA filters!


Copper liners bonded to mahogany scales. Ready for drilling and shaping.

Holes drilled and counterbored.


All of this needs to be put together. However, I lost time to my furnace situation. I have some shaping to do before these get installed on the blades. It will have to wait until tomorrow evening.

I wanted to get this canvas laid up into a block of micarta tonight as well. I have a strange, sneaking suspicion that it won't happen before I go to bed. If I'm a good boy and get up early, I can get it into the press before work in the morning.

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  1. Ralph BoumenotJanuary 6, 2017 at 3:57 AM

    I don't know of any epoxy that cures to good at 46°F. Good luck at getting heat back.

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    1. markJanuary 6, 2017 at 5:51 AM

      You're right, Ralph! Epoxy doesn't like doing its job below 60 degrees. Luckily, by the time of writing last night, the house was warming back up.

      Mark

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