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Bones:
Monday night update continued
Bones:
Monday night update continued.....
All along my intention was to completely finish the top of the CP (CPO down and wired), then build the box for it to fit into.
I have now decided to build the box first. With everything attached it is simply going to be too difficult to throw it around and work with it. I imagine the chances of damaging it will also be increased, this is the right decision but I am so itching to start the wiring process. I heard a voice in my ear and it said - Patience young bones.
I roughly marked the underside of my CP where the frame and locking supports would go and realised the next thing I needed was more wood.
I lost my car keys and spent about
Bones:
Final thoughts after 3 days of construction
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: BrokenBones1 on April 25, 2005, 07:12:52 am ---
I really need to do something about this mess, I spend 5 minutes at a time looking for a pencil or drill bit.
--- End quote ---
It's funny you should mention that. I've found a solution to the pencil problem, and also the key problem, but they require foresight and planning, realizing you WILL lose them if you have even the slightest need for them.
The keys first. I have one place, and one place ONLY that my keys get hung, and the only reason I have EVER lost them is when the wife lays her paws on 'em because she can't find hers. For the most part, I have broken her of this habit, but obviously it still happens from time to time, although WAY WAY WAY WAAAAAAAY less than it used to. Gentlemen, take note. I have had to spend 9 years of my life getting her to this point. Cats are easier to train. Women will take YEARS to train properly. Do not undertake this project unless you are positive you have the patience and dedication to do so. It is not for the faint of heart.
Losing pencils. That one's easy. Having a kitchen full of cabinets, shims, scrap wood, filler strips, saws, drills, etc crap in your way ;) is the perfect camouflage for a pencil. We solved this long ago. We buy carpenter pencils by the 50 count box. When we start a project, we set a few in any windows, put a handful around the floor, a handful in the garage (normally where the new stuff is stored) and 2 inside each cabinet we will be installing.
When we are done with the room and cleaning up, the pencils go back in the box for the next job. Somehow, that method has returned a complete box of pencils 99% of the time, and we get far less frustrated that the pencil we set down and turned our back on for 5 seconds somehow managed to become mobile without a visible set of legs and disappear from sight at the most inopportune time.
Sometimes ya gotta spend money to make money avoid pulling your hair out at your own stupidity! ;DWas moving the clamps the thing that took you all that time? Here's a tip for anyone doing this. Put a few buttons in. You'll have to clamp far less spots, meaning far less clamps to move, and you won't have to worry about realigning it in case it moved on you and you're worried it won't work.
There's more to it than that, but unless you have a brad or finish nailer, it ain't worth 'splaining.
Bones:
Cleaned garage yesterday and still.....no keys. Drove to work with spare set. Then wife rang me at work today to say she found them a few hours later.
I left them in the closet when Alyssa cut her head and I was searching for a washer to clean her up. I don't loose keys, I misplace them in one of 3 places, obviously in the stress of the moment the keys were the last thing I was conscious about.
Drew, good suggestion with the pencils. I intended on buying a pack tonight but forgot. Will get some tomorrow when shopping for wood if I remember.
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on April 25, 2005, 08:58:12 pm ---Was moving the clamps the thing that took you all that time? Here's a tip for anyone doing this. Put a few buttons in. You'll have to clamp far less spots, meaning far less clamps to move, and you won't have to worry about realigning it in case it moved on you and you're worried it won't work.
There's more to it than that, but unless you have a brad or finish nailer, it ain't worth 'splaining.
--- End quote ---
The buttons would have made it easy for sure but again I am working with the wrong tools for the job. My two horses are of different heights by a few inches. Therefore I have another piece of wood between the horse and my work.
It took longer than it should because I kept stopping and checking and going slower and thinking I heard something and stopping etc etc etc. I believe if I was to do it now once the clamps were set up we are talking all of 3 minutes work.
Anyway....
By the light of the enormous full moon, the boy became a man.