[KAP]

Don't I get anything normal anymore? Insulator standoffs. Some guy wants 300 of them. I'm getting paid to figure out how to make them and give him the price for the prototype.

And then figure out the price per each and see if he wants to pay for them.

Here's the "turning process.

Then the stages of them in progress. If they want them in anything other than Pine I'll have to make a jig for threading them too. 4TPI with a taper from 15/16 to 1 1/8" over a 2" span. No die for that unfortunately.

Here's the progression with some of the real versions.
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And what they look like with the insulator on them
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That's simple...

No wait... come to think of it... it's custom...

 

[META]

Speaking of wives. Mine took a header as she walked out the front door Friday afternoon. Stepped on aboard wrong & lost her footing. HO was building a timber frame bed under the front awning. Wife cracked her head on the bed as she went down. Recoil made back of head hit the concrete step. Had to take her to urgent care for half dozen stitches above her eye.. Didn't get a damn bit of work out of her Saturday. Damn slacker.

Hope she has a full recovery, that sounds rough.

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[KAP]

Little shack we been working on this week. 2500' of mixed hardwood random width. Mostly hickory, but some red & a lot of white oak mixed in. All the wood came off of his property, including trusses, shiplap on walls & ceilings. All we done, is sand & finish the floors & offer advice along the way. Retired builder done most of the work himself. Love doing rustic stuff like this.

When I got there last week, the floors had some serious gapping & a lot of open knots. He said just leave them. Told him his wife would kill both of us if I left all those dirt catchers. We spent 2 half days with epoxy & wood wise patch quick filling gaps & open knots. Really proud of how this one's coming together. I'll try to get some more pics tomorrow before we put top coat on floors. The stairs are really cool too.




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Man I love wood...

Hope your wife is OK and recovers quickly and doesn't milk it too much...

 

[tjbnwi]

Best to your wife, hope she’s healing well.

Now get your a$$ to work, you need to carry her end for awhile.

Tom

 

[pinwheel]

Put final coat on everything today & got paid. Best part of the week.

Best to your wife, hope she’s healing well.

Snapped a couple pics of the live edge walnut stairs. First time using shark grip in the finish.


Now get your a$$ to work, you need to carry her end for awhile.

Tom

Blasphemy. You don't understand how all this works. I gave her Saturday off, that's enough.

She's actually doing well. Still a little tender when I poked it today.

 

[Leo G]

Playing with the slab. Filling the wormholes with epoxy along with the check in the middle of the slab.

 

[Robie]

What's that going to become?

 

[Tinstaafl]

More whining about sanding.

 

[Leo G]

More whining about sanding.

Well.... Get me some cheese old man....

 

[Leo G]

What's that going to become?

Slab counter. You can see the other slab underneath the one I'm working on currently

 

[Seven-Delta-FortyOne]

I like these. After a larger remodel, managing multiple subs, a quick little one day in and out is relaxing. Work by myself, no customer selections, no job trailer……

And these are pretty lucrative for me. Now I just need to convince the entire county they need one. 😳🙄

 

[TxElectrician]

After our ice storm a couple of years ago, I was selling those interlocks and power inlets like hotcakes.

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[Leo G]

And then there were 2

 

[Platesurfer]

Big ol' house. Moving along nice.

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[Dirtywhiteboy]

What's that black all over the beams?

 

[Seven-Delta-FortyOne]

3 phase commercial feeder pull.

120’ and a little 30’. 4-3/0 copper and just me and one helper for a couple hours.

Im tired. 😥 500’ of 3/0 is heavy.

 

[Platesurfer]

What's that black all over the beams?

Paint

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[TxElectrician]

3 phase commercial feeder pull.

120’ and a little 30’. 4-3/0 copper and just me and one helper for a couple hours.

Im tired. [emoji26] 500’ of 3/0 is heavy.

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Get a puller, best investment I ever made. Got a maxis, I believe, uses a corded super hawg. Works great

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[Seven-Delta-FortyOne]

Get a puller, best investment I ever made. Got a maxis, I believe, uses a corded super hawg. Works great

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Yeah don’t know why I’ve still never gotten one.

I’ll have to check that one out. 👍

 

[David-Remodeler]

You guys have already heard a bit about my ceiling adventure but here's a few more photos including some of my ventilation set up and the new spray rack I made for pre-finishing