Not all firewood is created equal. If you have ever tried burning wood that
is too green; too long for your fireplace or woodstove; or too full of bugs,
detritus, or sap, you know this already!
Know the length you want your pieces of firewood to be before cutting or
purchasing firewood for
Tom, great article, definitely a keeper.
Bill Stephan
Kansas City, MO
(816)803-2469
William Stephan
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From: Tom Fowle[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 8/24/06 2:39:40 PM
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.comblindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] re: hand held
Hi Folks,
I spend a lot of time drilling wholes in metal for a variety of reasons and
applications, and I feel like I have a pretty accurate system of getting my
wholes straight.
How are you guys doing it? Virtually everything I do is with a 3/8 or 1/2
hand held drill motor.
Interested to hear
I have several home made guides that snap to a magnetic bar I fabbed up out
of a couple of magnetic wrench holders.
I position the magnetic bars near where I want to drill. I then attach the
appropriate sized drill guide to the magnetic bar, center it over my center
punch mark and go to work.
Thanks Dale,
I am going to check this out. For the price it seems hard not to buy and
see if it works.
I did get my first cutting board done. I ended up making a feather board
about 6 or 8 inches wide to hold the strips against the fence. I clamped
another board to the fence obove the path
Larry, the thing is about 6 inches long by 3 inches high. It has 2
movable jaws which move from about .75 of an inch out to 2 inches or
so. So, if I can't clamp it to a surface, I rest it on the surface
and drill. It has 4 or 5 holes of different sizes. A couple of the
holes have bushings
Thanks Ron, always good to have several options for doing this stuff.
Bill Stephan
Kansas City, MO
(816)803-2469
William Stephan
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From: R S Enterprises[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 8/24/06 4:51:25 PM
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.comblindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Subject:
Dale, I think it was you who suggested one of these to me for use with a jig
saw. I built one with 3/4 inch birch plywood and masonite, and as you say, it
works remarkably well. I hadn't really thought about applying this to a circ
saw, so thanks.
Bill Stephan
Kansas City, MO
(816)803-2469
The trick is to keep the bowed edge of the board you want straight from
following the fence and creating a parallel bow on the saw edge of the
board. Another way seems to be to attach the board to a piece of something
like plywood with a factory edge and run that factory edge against the fence
Lary,
It's a rather older direct drive unit, and yes, it has rather a
wide footprint, but I think my system makes accuracy pretty
good, the Sandwich' guide is pretty long so that helps reduce
sideways torking.
I really havn't used it all that much since I
built it.
tom
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Thanks Dale for the excellent posting on all those buzzing critters. I'd
like to add, as many of you know all of these hornets-bees or whatever
present a problem to us as blind handy folks in the sense all of them
do not make a loud noise until we find them with fingers or tools when
doing
Boop, might I add that installing any kind of swimming pool would be
helpful for both Tom and you. Not many bees or hornets swim underwater.
Install a fence around your pool but when working in the yard a good
handyman or handywoman would leave the gate open in an attempt to
outrun any
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Brother Wilson, as a practicing attorney it seems shocking you would
give advice on Killing by starvation to critters which only want to
inflict pain by biting, if you would the hind quarters of a human. Well,
now that I have thought this over, in a court of law, I would suppose
this could
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