Ton to go over this morning.
First, though, a useful think, or two, about the fall’s economic calamity to come.
Even if you’re not subscribing to our Peoplenomics newsletter, do be aware that even though a “hard down” is likely in the US economy this fall and into early spring, there’s a case (in the charts) for a massive (>10%) increase in the rate of inflation in 2022.
Couple of reasons for this, but the falling value (and repatriation of) U.S. Dollars could drive it.
So while we could have a “nominal” (reported) new all-time high next year, it’s all part of the on-going sleight of hand making it appear we are in good times. Pretty tough to argue that since we’re only at mid-2017 total employment levels.
But, like Mark Twain once said, “A good story is halfway around the world before the Truth has gotten out of bed in the morning.” Or words to that effect. We smear that on hot asset plays and crypto-currency hype.
Patch School
Ever have to rip out a piece of dry rotted sheet goods? Repair the drywall in a rental where a sleazy tenant put a fist through the wall? Easy to do, but until you see the steps there’s a kind of mystique to it all.
Let’s begin the project with a hole. Hand me an exterior wall, would yah? One with a hole in it, please…
Now, off to the shop to fetch scissors and a pen.
We make a (very) rough outline of the patch. Paper is easy to deal with.
Now you cut out the paper and ensure it will fit.
Next, use the paper, draw a fat black marking pen either directly onto sheet goods (7/16 inch pre-painted siding, in this case). OR you can use cardboard if you keep smashing the paper because you have all the artistic skill of a carp.
Next, we will go back to the hole and do some measuring. Turns out a 7 1/2-inch piece of 1 by 4 will be a good backing piece.
You put the backing piece in with glue on the behind surface. Yes, that’s right, Johnny. Waterproof glue like TiteBond. The backing board also is attached with screws (truss head are nice and wide and hold well in weak material).
The backer used should generally match the patch material. So since this is wood siding (composite, ultra cheap) a 1-by-4 is good. The backer could be a piece of plasterboard if patching a wall hole. Or, scrap sheet steel if you’re fixing rusted- out floorboards in some classic electric vehicle you’re restoring.
Having demonstrated the idea, we then hand-off the project to our charming assistant.
“You REALLY want to screw in there?”
I hate it when the senior OJ Trainee notices there’s a wire run behind the top of the patch hole.
Um…hand me that… I have insulated work shoes on.
(Non-union crew, what can I say?)
Miles from perfect. The more Bondo, the merrier. Actually slapped on some DAP Alex and called it good. This will eventually be under new siding.
But, when pappy was teaching me this (and a million or two other firefighter off-shift home building secrets) the main one that came into play was “Next: Select 1/8th, 1/4, 1/2, or 3/4 inch spackle. Install and smooth…”
If you slap a coat of paint on it quickly, you can still see where the patch was. I could have mixed up a batch of Durham’s Rock-Hard Putty and done an arty job of covering all this up, but with the new deck (like a mirage, it keeps coming and going…never sure where it will end up…) hiding sight of this area. I don’t get too thrilled about fixing the concrete and river rock wall (which was put in wrong – stuck out too far) in order to position the ledger board absolutely horizontally.
It simply doesn’t matter. Life’s too short to keep “making the round hole rounder.” Cuts into beer drinking time and we’re almost out of hot weather. So there’s urgency on the beer front.
That, patchy student, is the basic idea of hole-filling.
Now install new siding over this whole end of the house…
New Tool!!!
Yes…another prize has been landed. A Brand New Old Stock SEARS CRAFTSMAN 925251 ROUTER CRAFTER. There’s a Vintage Tool Review on Youtube here:
(If you’re blocking graphics try (1) Vintage Tool Review: The Sears Craftsman Router Crafter (Router Lathe).)
I had two lathes until a year, or two back. The 9X20 gear head for metal and a 40 inch Hardboiled Freight that; last heard from was taking up space in OM2’s son’s basement.
After a while, I felt the need to be turning things, besiodes “over in bed.” So, I picked up the smallest (arguably the most overpriced for its size) Wen wood lathe. Problem with it was it didn’t do any neat tricks.
Fine, if you wanted to turn large teacups, or turn pens…but seriously?
No. We like BIG (this is Texas, ain’t it?) and cheap. (I don’t need to repeat, do I?)
Picture a router that is attached to a rail that moves along horizontally at the same speed. Like a geared head lathe, except much more wood-oriented.
It will be here around the end of the month, but should be a lot of fun getting acquainted with the new tool.
Super Antenna on the Rocks
Super interesting (although laboriously involved) critique of the latest Super Antenna (7 Magic Wires?) ideas posted here a while back.
The technical discussion is here on QRZ.com.
The consensus is that my “breakthrough antenna” will not result in molten holes in the F2 layer, as I’d been hoping. Instead, I may have simply “solved for the maximal error” in how closely spaced wires are treated in software. A few dB on a few lobes on 20.
Notwithstanding, it’s my intent to go through with actually building the damn thing since maybe the software IS right and then, how would we know? This is precisely the kind of project where the math geeks come out of the woodwork and proclaim their usual superiority over visually oriented thinkers who live in the world of non-scaled dimensions.
Sometimes, you’ve just got to print the .STL file for the special spacers, build it, and try to see what’s up.
Besides, if humans really are creating the world based on intension and expectation, can’t I use this physicality crutch to pick up 6 dB on 2o meter CW?
Magic is still there…but we’ve lost the art of looking for it.
Week Ahead
Fed meeting begins Tuesday. Fed non-decision and dance class as the Chairman may get questions like “Shouldn’t all your Fed chiefs null/give back their trades which were made in companies drinking from the public well?”
Of course no one will ask. Even if they did, it could be a career-ender. So strong is the bias against Truth-seekers.
I’ll be spending the day going through the “untouchable topics” if we want to be optimally monetized around here (though we could give a shit):
- No questioning of the Climate panic.
- No question gender confusion marketers.
- No questioning CRT because that sets up Repatriation: Money Games II U.S. Edition)
- No questioning how come illegals aren’t a risk but isolated Citizens are Typhoid/Covid Mary’s?
- Why hasn’t Milley quit or been quitted?
This is why I spend weekends in the shop. Trying to make sense out of the world.
I may have to change my work schedule to spend another day in the shop. World’s requiring that much effort to understand, anymore. Allows more late-season beer consumption, too.
Last good Hierarchy Fail was Rome...or the Weimar, wasn’t it?
So much history. So few readers.
Zeus Says…
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
I have smoothed some concrete driveway/sidewalk cracks and upheavels
that my snow shovel catches with these, could work on your foundation that stick out to far
https://www.amazon.com/sansheng-Concrete-Grinding-Diamond-Grinder/dp/B09BCXNQC8
https://www.amazon.com/Bosch-1375A-2-Inch-Angle-Grinder/dp/B00004SUOU
Great find on the grinder wheels – got a 4 pack on order now!
I am sorry, I did not point out the ones from Amazon are low cost but require the damn spacer washer(5/8 to 7/8″) on the arbor. But they are included. I used Amazon because I know you use them a LOT. I avoid Amazon purchases like the plague. I like these from flea bay because they have a 5/8 threaded arbor, but at twice the cost, still darn cheap for what they do
https://www.ebay.com/itm/162112634904
I got one in the past from Menards sale display, wore it out. Your blog today pushed my memory button, I ordered 3 more today also. More concrete cracks to smooth over. Darrel likie smooooth
(Chuckle) How to tempt a tool slut…
“Bias against truth seekers” – might be Ure biggest understatement of the year..so far.
This bias is just like the greatest spectacle in college sports – White Out in Happy Valley.
A truly “Powerful” environment – that is nigh impossible for opponents to overcome.
So perhaps this is the “Age of Truth Outs”… stopped being interesting times about 12 months ago.. We have collectively entered the “Grinder”…think Attrition..
– Negative Supply Shock-covert19 = 1) lower growth 4 longer. 2) increasing inflation 4 longer.
When Ure kids, grand kids ask what happened to Santa in 2021 – U can just tell em the Truth – traitor-general miley ordered the Sleigh,Reindeer and Santa hisself “REAPER Droned” – Thats right, the traitor in the pentgram SLAUGHTERED the jolly Elf.
Still hope for the ether bunny magic in Spring 22, at least until miley Solamanis’ the bunny later this year during Easter egg hunt at wh..
Always remember folks, what ever irks us today are the effects of OUR cumulative choices that each and everyone is making on a daily basis!
Move on — nothing to bitch about ;-).
Morning George, thanks for the video on the Craftsman Router Wood Turning Tool.
It just so happens I have one of those brand new never used in the rafters over the
carport. Forgot I had it. Bought it new years ago, and life got in the way, so I’ll be
getting the ladder out and dragging it down to play with it. I had lots of idea’s
when I bought it and now maybe I can really use it around here. ;-))
Might wait a week or four, Rog. High today in Tucson is 97F – and us old men on ladders do better in the low 80s….
Really unfair of you to work on one. I’ll be embarrassed, humbled, and shamed! At least give me 10-years to learn the machine.
(Reg-lar readers don’t know Roger’s a retired machinist who can make more with a tool than any 12 normal mortals with too much time in mahogany foxholes and not enough time in the shop. My machine tolerances are generally measured in feet; his in ten-thousandth’s… )
I own an old Craftsmen router crafter. I made some spiraled columns with it decades ago. I am bringing it to the farm so when my son finally sets up his lathe, he can use it. Working length is like 34″, so to make the columns, I had to center hole each piece and glue them up. They turned out nice and are still holding up a front porch in N. Louisiana (cypress is great for staying power). Also made several hollowed out lamps using it too…
We are putting up hardy board siding here in the burbia home. There is T-111 on it now, but it is approaching 50 years – so it has warped and some patchy places like yours. Where the weather has crapped it out, we just cut out sections and went back with 5/8″ CDX pre-primed. This is NOT what the siding guys want to do – they want you to rip down the old siding and go back with OSB. Having experienced what OSB does when exposed to water or high humidity, I wasn’t in favor of that.
So, we used deck screws to “de-warp” the old T-111 and secure it, and pulled the wire staples out where they had worked loose. I had the siding guys just put the hardy board over the T-111, as after 50 years it was still 90% good as the only wall material, my thinking was it is unlikely to suddenly become less weatherproof when behind the hardy board. That saved us quite a lot re-using the existing siding rather than ripping out and buying OSB – which is basically an inferior product when compared to CDX plywood (the old siding).
Why does it always turn out that the spouse find the fly in our ointment? God probably watching out for us I reckon. Your construction elf is looking pretty good my friend!
Climate panic and Covid panic ‘feel’ similar to me – driven by social media and news readers.
Gender confusion has not hit home for us, even though the bride is part of the USA Diversity thing. Most kids do not get confused (M-O-S-T) – but their parents often do. And there is an element of social popularity and attention seeking in many things that make the news feeds.
Milley is not going to quit – they will just bury this fiasco and off to the next thing.
As for the mess at the border – when the local newspapers are NOT covering it (Texas Observer/Tribune/etc) – that should make normal people realize it is even worse than the news that is being reported. If these illegals manage to do some bad shit (I should say worse, because the MS13 bunch has consistently repeatedly offended and murdered in our state for years), then Texans are likely to start banding together to stop it.
I scan the Texas Observer and Tribune to see what the media is pushing out on us. Every other article is Covid, so it’s easy to sniff out their agenda. Same with border stuff – if there is little being run up their flagpoles, then it is likely a much bigger deal and Covid being used to NOT cover it.
We have open carry now – and most of my friends working the RGV and Midland are exercising that right, primarily because there have been ‘incidents’ which are not making the news due to locals quashing it (mainly Chamber of Commerce types).
This may be the wedge that starts the process of separating Texas from the rest of the country. Cali and AZ are wide open and their folks don’t seem to care. So my vote is to get the dang fences and walls up. Think of it as a few months to “slow the spread” – at least that’s how I would put it to the fedgov types…LOL
I’m doing major rehab on my quadriceps muscle – weeks of PT ahead every other day. Hoping to be back in the swing of things an 2-4 weeks….
Glad to know about the router/crafter. I figure OM-2(lite) could burnish up that Harborfright lathe and use it to rough out big diams for the crafter – hell, can you see how great a house would be on “feet” of such things?
Love to see a snap of that cyprus turning if you had one aroound.
Yeah – E’s quite remarkable for 78…I hope to look half as good as her when I get there. Most folks tell me that’d be on the high side of optimistic…
Lots of C and Vit d and some lysine for the healing – some delta-8 might help, too, but not if playing with he-man power tools.
I felt like shit Sat AM so after the column took some d8 and didn’t have two useful thoughts in a row all day. But, gawd, I felt great. Well, cept for “OK< what am I doing sitting on this tractor with the engine running...I know there was something I had to do... E says hi and drop by next time ur up thisaway. Let me know in advance to cool some branch water down.
…non-sequester, but might be predictive. FWIW.
15,000 Hatians currently ensconced under a bridge in Del Rio,
for the shade would be my guess. More coming every day.
“under a bridge…” It looks to my uneducated eye like the
bridge passes over a wide arroyo — a dry river bed, that only
fills up in heavy rain. Looks also to my eye like a hurricane
would “fill ‘er up” quite handily, should one come along.
We are in the middle of the peak season for hurricanes.
Could become… …inconvenient, maybe.
It’s a non-sequitur. The Biden Administration had no problem, sentencing 281,000 Americans and Afghans to likely death, and to this point has shown no remorse. I have no reason to believe the death of 10k-20k Haitian peasants would much move them. ‘Tis a sick bunch of scofflaws who are currently running our excuse for a government…
I want to carve some soft wood. Do you have a set of carving tools you recommend? Do I need a no cut glove?
I am SO itching to get my new antenna built and tested. But the elder care has turned into a multi-month ordeal without relief from a sick sister to relieve us. Yeah, antenna theory and modelling can go far, but you never know for SURE until you build the darn thing and test it. So the race is still on to see which of us gets a new antenna built first. Remember: “Electromagnetic Waves do not propagate”.
Time slip the past 2 hours ?
I don’t want to be the messenger, but has anyone been watching Cumbre Vieja? That’s the volcano in the Canary Islands that’s thought capable of triggering a transatlantic tsunami? It’s rocking and rolling and spewing a lot of lava. Monday we have a full moon and Wednesday we have the Fall Equinox! What could go wrong?
I hope this remains a just a spectacle. IMHO, this is not a good combination.
Ya see, the reason they wipe your memory before you come back here, is. Because you see your life as it will be flash before your eyes. Actually the process of coming here does it. Hard to explain. Hmmm
August 19, 2088 at exactly 1300 military time. I exhale my last breath. I will be exactly 118 years old. To the minute. I know exactly what I’m wearing for clothes. Exactly what page of the Bible I’m reading days. Where I’m at. I have a self rolled cigarette in my left hand and a cup of black coffee in my right. And I just got done singing happy birthday to myself. I know exactly who is present when I die, exactly where I’m sitting. If it’s sunny it cloudy. I know exactly what it says on my grave stone. I know exactly who is at my funeral. All that. I know exactly where I go after I die and who takes my soul there. It’s not heaven or hell. Lol.
I am Andrew Steenberg, I have had 12 NDE’s. From 6- #12 I see the exact thing I just wrote in living color. Right before I got back in my body. Every single time. ;)
So if you think for a minute. I’m worried about getting the Rona or anything else? Well. Y’all best talk to THE DUDE who runs both life and the otherside after death. Because what I just wrote about when and where, I die. THE DUDE showed me that. And aint nobody round here on this planet or off it it, or anywhere else, above HIM.
I know when alot of ya die on this site. I can see it on some of ya. I’m not sad for ya tho. George has a while to go. That is forsure. And Elaine too. Most dont want to know when it’s there time to go. I told a few in my life their d date.
Its more of a comfort to me tho. Does that mean I know everything? Nope. But that what I wrote about when I die. That I seen many times. Not here. But on the other side. :)
So, good luck to us all. We all have a roll to play here. Play it well.
AOC ‘tax the rich’ dressmaker a tax deadbeat: Report
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/19/aurora-james-aoc-tax-rich-dressmaker-tax-deadbeat-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
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Newsom Signs Housing Bills That Limit Single-Family Zoning – Advocacy Group Says Law will ‘Help Narrow Racial Wealth Gap in California’
The new law will make it easier to build housing projects in suburban areas zoned for single family residences – all in the name of equity.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/newsom-signs-housing-bills-limit-single-family-zoning-advocacy-group-says-law-will-help-narrow-racial-wealth-gap-california/
Please remember:
Equality = equal opportunity = freedom
Equity = equal outcome = totalitarianism
IMO this will be the first of many local laws designed to separate common people from their Right to own Property. For us to become communist, we must shed our property rights, because they are the antithesis of socialism & communism.
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Biden humiliated by ‘Making Taliban Great Again’ billboards in a state he supposedly won
https://www.wnd.com/2021/09/republican-humiliates-biden-putting-making-taliban-great-billboards-along-pa-highways/
Oh, well…
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Is This What Global Respect Looks Like? France Recalls Ambassadors From U.S.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/17/is-this-what-global-respect-looks-like-france-recalls-ambassadors-from-u-s/
IMO The Aussies got a much better deal. The French subs were, well French, and diesel-powered. With that said, I’m pretty sure the French could’ve been included in the deal — There was no reason to slap them in the face the way the Biden Administration has done. You don’t treat friends and allies like that. As socialist as the cheese-eaters have become, especially under Macron, they need the money, too…
They did not want the French involved because their plans for a sub would have included a balcony with a screen door. LoL.
The balcony was fine although the engineering somewhat dubious. Where the Aussies balked was at the white flags permanently etched into the fo’c’sle…
Note for Zeus: Yes, “climate change” or just the wet weather in August caused a bloom this month of grass and mice! I found a very healthy looking mouse nesting in a 250 amp service box here!
I have leftover cans of cat food and catnip if Zeus cares to visit and exterminate the rodents! Traps are no match for a good mouser. There are no dogs here for him to be concerned with. We both agree that dogs are loud, clumsy, and fail at toilet training.
On another subject, have you considered external foam insulation and stuccoing the entire house? You have a perimeter foundation, so there’s no MH frame loading. I don’t know how well stucco holds up in your climate, but it’s as close to zero maintenance as it gets out here. The real trick is flashing details done right so that you don’t get water infiltration. A good stucco person can do that right. Stucco might(or not) help with your fire insurance rate.
From the desk of Zeus:
I am semi-retired. Seriously? You gotta get a little pussy for your place. I don’t do house-or ranch – calls.
If the mouse is big enough, the geezer here will use a trap and a subsonic 22 round on em. But have an electrician advise on aiming around the service box.
Z