WIGO? What Is Going On. And this morning the answer is “Oh, nothing much – just Joe Biden’s Depression getting organized. No – not a political assessment – just what our charts over on the Peoplenomics side of the house are hinting at. Let me run it down for you and you will catch on very quickly. First: … Read More
Several items on the Sunday morning coffee list. You pour while I muse. IQ Versus MQ The couple up the “mountain” from us became parents a couple of months back – as we were reminded when a post card of their ‘work product’ arrived this week. Cute kid. While Elaine and I talked about the … Read More
Got up early this (Sunday) morning and a few minutes before sunrise, had a successful “test firing” of the new Harbor Fright Dust Collector: Not terribly noisy – and the old (small) unit will remain installed in a through-wall set up. It will be plumbed to move the 3D printer odors outdoors. I may upgrade … Read More
Earlier this week another “Tool Project” came home: The radial arm saw. To be sure, it will be a bit of work getting it into 100% to my standards of readiness. There may be some paint, a few rust spots to be “cured” and lots of elbow grease. Plus, a missing elevation crank has been … Read More
If you haven’t deduced it by now, Ultra-Make.com is likely the main deliverable nearing the end of my next book “The 100-Year Toaster.” The book is a critical view of the wrong-headed globalist resource squandering of the past 150-years and what we can do about it. Spoiler alert: We need to redenominate. Because everything together … Read More
IA&O means Improvised, Adapt, & Overcome skill. Yet they are simple as pie to hone. It’s just that most people are too damn lazy and wouldn’t recognize a chance to increase the surrounding world’s conveniences and comforts if it smacked them in the face. Last weekend, I “invented” something I call “Shopaulettes.” And with that, we’re into … Read More
Cast Members Only time: We covered this (and more) in a recent Peoplenomics column about how we are “Imagineering” our home. That discussion also went into the “Imagineering processes” used by “Walt Disney Imagineering” (WDI) and how those processes can be applied easily to business model design. Today, for the less drill-down oriented, I wanted … Read More
A simple rap today on the fine art of table saw improvement. The table saw, especially when you match it up with a good set of Shark blades and a nice dado kit, is one of the more useful saws in the shop. This week I went through the process of getting mine set up … Read More
In the Saturday report we got into the basics of restoring an old transmitter. Like restoring an old car, what could be so hard, right? Well…Let’s sit back and take a look at the radio chassis after taking off the front panel: This is after taking the sheet metal off from around the “tuning knob” … Read More
My late friend and colleague, Don Stoner (W6TNS, sk) had a marvelous saying about ham radio. “Ham Radio is the King of Hobbies….” There was a good deal of truth to that. Few realize, for example, that King Hussein of Jordan was a very active ham and if you snoop around YouTube, you can find … Read More
Def. “Tool Slut” A person of any age or gender who can’t resist having just the right precision tool for every task, regardless of how obscure. As in this example: I don’t know about you, but seems to me that it’s the time of the year when we can begin to eye Big Projects we … Read More
Surplus stores have dried up across America and it has resulted in something of a problem for those of us who are “makers” – that is, people who can pick up bits and this and that and turn it into something useful. My first experience with surplus stores came on Saturday in Seattle in the … Read More
There are many joys of working with your hands…the pride of bringing something back to life being foremost among them. Unfortunately, there are many problems with “restoring” and “refinishing’ so we thought it would be useful to pass-along some of our lesser-known tricks. Let’s begin with paint: It can be miserable stuff to remove. However, … Read More