Hi,

I built the Martin House a few years ago.  Well....I should call it the sparrows, wrens and chickadees house.  Nary a martin in site.  Oh well.


But I also looked out this AM and saw a squirrel....bastages!!....go in 1 of the holes.  How would you prevent this?


I was thinking about looking around for SS washers that have an ID that'll fit the birds, but not the rats that can get through.  McMasterCarr maybe?? (of course I'll check the Cornell School of Ornithology to get the correct ID beforehand).  Since the individual doors are curved somewhat, do they make large size washers that are slightly curved?


Anyone else built it?  If so, how are you keeping the bastages out??



(It does look much better in real life...the snap of a .jpg file seems to wash out some of the colors)

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this one is in the upstairs bathroom.  Combination tube and shower so has a diverter.  When you try to divert water to the shower, the valve is only half closing, so water still comes out the tub spout. I think the valve needs to ber replaced.  I tried calling Kohler twice, there was a 15 minute hold both times.  I have a vague memory of replacing o rings or something in in this shower a few years ago.    So, replace just the valve or replace the entire valve body, fixture, etc?  If I replace everything I assume I will have to go in through the wall on the other side again?

I posted this design quite a while ago (probably more than a year ago) and got a lot of good advice that I implemented.  I am now finally in the process of building it.  I am wondering what would be the best mechanism for joining the head board and foot board panel assemblies to the legs/posts.  

I built John Teneyck's horizontal router mortiser and am thinking that loose tenons is my best option, but wondering if I am overlooking something that might be better. 

The wood is cherry.  The legs/posts are 3/4" boards glued into a 3 1/2" square using a lock miter bit.  I have machined the leg/post boards but have not glued them up yet so I can still add something to the inside of the post if needed (like maybe a threaded insert or something). 

I do not own a Domino.

If I did loose tenons would 1/4" (easiest) be enough or should I go 3/8" (requires an additional set up step and extra pass or buy a new 3/8" bit).  Also would you only put loose tenons in the top and bottom rail, or would you put a couple in the outside stiles of the panel assembly?

How would you attach the panel assembly to the posts?  Thanks in advance for the advice.

   

   

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Have a 24 yr old Burnham oil fired boiler. Last week it decided to stop working.  My “go to guy” (he is the go to guy in this county) discovered a bad slider joint on the backside of the circuit board which had opened the neutral. We soldered a jumper wire on the circuit board and got the furnace running. This same thing had happened about 8 years ago discovered & fixed it the same way. Eventually replacing the original board when we got a replacement (current board now)
My problem is the T&P valve is leaking. He got a 30 PSI relief valve to me and I replaced the old one. It leaks, since I noticed the PSI on the furnace going above 30psi. Think before hand it ran around 20+psi, Temp is 170 F. 

I would call him , but tomorrow he has shoulder surgery, last Thursday his mother passed away with funeral last Monday. He got me the relief valve Monday night. Just not going to bother him— small rural town where everyone helps everyone. Wife and I spent most of day helping serve luncheon at her funeral.

Need some ideas as to what to do. 

Thanks for any help.
 Don C.

Here's an osage orange and bird's eye maple carving mallet I made for my brother

It's about 3 1/4" in dia at the head, 1 1/4" dia at the handle, 10" long and weighs about 24 oz.

The shape is based on a mallet shown in Wood magazine from about 10 or 15 years ago. When I made my first one, I made a paper template and bonded it to some hardboard. I must have turned 8 of these so far out of various woods.


For this one I had a nice chunk of Osage that wasn't quite long enough. So I searched through my turning stock and found a suitable piece of birds eye maple. After I roughed them to a cylinder, I turned a 1" dia x about 3" long  tenon on the handle and drilled a corresponding hole in the head. Then I epoxied them together. After the glue dried I turned it to the final shape and then added my name and date to the handle with my woodburning pen.


The finish is several coats of TruOil gun stock finish. When the finish cured, I buffed the entire mallet to give it a nice glow.

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I've had these for quite some time and I've never used any of them because I spent so much on them and they're too nice for my work lol. I've finally decided to part ways with them and free up the space in my tool cabinet. All the chisels have handles made of wood no longer available from Blue Spruce with exception to the Ray Iles mortise chisel.

1. Blue Spruce mallet (I don't remember if its the large or the small) - figured maple head, African blackwood handle.

2. Blue Spruce bench chisels with African blackwood handles - 1 1/4", 1", 1/2", 1/4", 1/8"

3. Blue Spruce fishtail chisel with African blackwood handle - 1/2"

4. Blue Spruce paring chisel with cocobolo handle - 1"

5. Blue Spruce marking knife and awl with African blackwood handles

6. Ray Iles 1/4" mortise chisel 

7. Texas Heritage chisel roll, has a couple cuts in from getting blades snagged going in some of the pockets

I haven't used a chisel in the lot and all are sharp from factory and in perfect shape with a wood and can no longer get and would cost a fortune to get nowadays.

Asking $950 + free shipping to the lower 48 for all of it.

This 11.5 x 3in segment bowl was made from some Red Cedar that we had milled a few years ago. The bowl features an inlay of the great lakes that was cut out on the FoxAlien 4040 XE-pro CNC router which was then filled with Alumilite amazing clear.

2 Honing Guides
    Tylor Tools Eclipse Honing Guide  rarely used  
    Rox  Eclipse Honing Guide NEW

Both for $ 10  plus discounted shipping

Norton  India Combination stone  150 and 400 Gritts   
Norton Crystolon Combination Stone   120 and 320 Gritts

Both are slightly used, but they are flat They are oil stones.

Both for $ 25  Plus discounted shipping

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