rustyJul 5, 2024

#Projects #woodworking, #3dPringing

On the 3d printing side, I finished printing the QFA core as shown in https://youtu.be/OJy-XjGYlGw?si=4rvkDhRt5Xt9jwlm . My first time through, it separated from the bed within 30 min of finishing the print, but the reprint stuck, so the print is complete. Just ordered the parts, those will show up over the next couple of weeks.

On the 'woodworking' front, also involving a visit to pick up some tools, I completed a minor project that's been sitting in the queue for a long time. \

"Build an Amazing QFH Antenna : Here's How!"

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Show threadrustyJul 5, 2024

In some ways, I'm reluctant to call it woodworking, but plywood is wood, and using a jigsaw (cordless hand held, does marginally qualify as woodworking, right?

In any case my sister-in law has a butcher block kitchen island that still needs bolts tightened up so it doesn't wobble as much, but the people who made it initially decided that the bottom should be a set of slatts with about a 6 inch (150 mm) on center spacing, that means you are likely to drop some things through.\

Show threadrustyJul 5, 2024

Several years ago I built a 'Mostly 3dPrintedCNC and once built I picked up some 5mm plywood from the local Home Depot. (I'm guessing that 1/5th of an inch is close enough to 1/4 inch, that ...

I have had some left over. So I brought a sheet of 2 foot by 3 foot that I'd had cut out of the 4foot by 8 foot sheet, marked it for cutting down to fit between the legs, then spent way too long getting the right jigsaw blades for my jigsaw, ending up buying new ones, and cut the platform out. It fits.\

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Perfect? No, I marked the hero side, should have picked up a plywood blade for a circular saw, and used that to to the long cuts, sanded and sealed the entire surface, added some sort of a rail to flatten it out a bit more, and so on. All that said, it works. One thought I had after was that I should have made a vorona STL< and laser cut that pattern so that if someone puts something that needs air circulation from below.\
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Show threadrustyJul 5, 2024

That still is an option, but I haven't used the laser cutter in 5 years, and it's been a flat surface accumulating things that really need a better home. So another project to address.

Speaking of things needing a new home, apparently the Ryobi 1800 watt inverter generator that was in the back of my pickup has found a new home. When I want out to do the plywood cutting, I found it was no longer in my truck, and my canvas drop cloth was lying in the alley. My fault for not locking it up.