@MakersHour Hi folks! This week I've been massively procrastinating the things I should be making, by making other less important things instead. So, standard week really.
Currently about to start on this random wooden #JigsawPuzzle because it's been a stressful day.
@thegiddystitcher
We do enjoy a good jigsaw when we are on holiday (and have the table space).
Enjoy, and I hope it is a good stress reliever.
hi! I'm Alex, and my dayjob supervisor is away this week, so I've had some nice downtime in which to have brunch with a friend, look for quotes for movers, and get some tidying done.
I'm also five rows from the bindoff on that shawl I mentioned last week; maybe I'll even get it done for my check-in with the designer on Saturday.
@MakersHour thanks! Will post another photo when it's done.
I had a new experience today: I told the mover's chatbot I wanted a virtual home assessment. It booked me for in person, and I'm going with that because it'll be more accurate and it's an incentive to keep cleaning.
Reasonably certain it was an LLM that forgot my answer to the first question by the time we got to the 4th question.
@WizardOfDocs
Ha, that is bizzare, to have a chatbot offer a virtual home assessment. I can just imagine having to carry the laptop around each room so it can see what you have.
@MakersHour I like to think it would schedule me a call with a human, but probably for the best that we're doing it in person
I have had virtual assessments before where we were on a video call and I just gave the guy a walkthrough tour of my apartment
Q1: Say hi, and tell us what you’ve been doing this week. #MakersHour
Hi! This week has been mostly sorting stuff to clear out, but I did also adopt a small horse on wheels, and start cleaning him.
Q1: Say hi, and tell us what you’ve been doing this week.
A1: Hiiiiiiiiiiii! Quiet one this week. Lots of rugby on Saturday, so I was watching that!
I feel I was doing something on Saturday morning, but I can’t remember what.
Also, in no way whatsoever did I receive a couple more railway lanterns…
@Andy
Ha! I can't see any new lanterns, at all, no way. I am sure they are just cats on the window sill.
@MakersHour Q1 A1 I am Jeff, calling in from rainy Cascadia near the saltwater glacier carved inlet of the Pacific between two mountain ranges.
Craft-wise mostly gathering material (felt scraps from Seattle ReCreative) and trying to decide how to start the newsboy cap which I did a paper mock-up of some weeks ago.
And trying to not have my lower extremities seize up by under-use. The new job has no convenient two bus transfer commute so I have been cultivating neighborhood walks.
@jmeowmeow
Well done on the neighbourhood walks.
A1 hi. I'm Quixoticgeek, a maker in the Netherlands.
This week I've been working on my next big project, which has involved cutting a lot of steel to the right sizes. Still have two more packages of steel to process before I can get the high temp hot glue gun out and start welding it all together.
@quixoticgeek
I do love a bit of high temp hot glue.
This week I TIG welded a stainless steel trowel back to its handle for #RepairCafe. But for lack of stainless steel filler rod I used a stainless steel cable tie!
I was surprised that it worked so well.
@quixoticgeek
I learnt to weld properly at college about 30 years ago (first welding over 40 years ago, but self taught) and I didn't get on with TIG at first, but I did like Oxy- acethelyne. Eventually I realised that they worked in very similar ways and so I chanced upon a second hand TIG machine in a junk shop and have been using ever since as my workshop machine.
@quixoticgeek
I feel it is very much one that needs a teacher. You can 'figure it out' from YouTube, but a teacher really makes a difference.
I found it a really good way to mellow and slow down a bit when welding. Can't do it if you're feeling all jittery and hyped.
@quixoticgeek With high temp hot glue, I'm not sure if you mean MIG, which does feel like that, or actual glue.
I've helped an artist who does hot glue his metal sculptures first, and then after patterns are adjusted to satisfaction then he welds -> https://www.instagram.com/spooky_epiic/p/CcMXI7UJmF_/?img_index=3 later became https://www.instagram.com/spooky_epiic/p/CiMZZ2Yrv_N/?img_index=1
@MakersHour Hi everyone,
Apart from work, i have been busy converting an old cistern buried in the garden into an irrigation system for my veggies, connecting to a roof nearby and some drip lines.
I planted shallots and potatoes today too.
Have a nice evening,
@oleastre
Nice being able to set up your rainwater harvesting and putting it to good use.
@drfootleg
Oh heck!
I hope the repair work goes well and your house can be stable again.
Enforced decluttering can be such a catylist, though.
@drfootleg
Oh that's good news.
Hopefully it will stay in it's new position after the redecoration.
I guess climate change is going to cause more of these little issues.
@MakersHour Q1: what's up?
A1: Hello. Last weekend I worked on some support structures for a ceiling for my cyberpunk corpo bar for #Neotropolis. The structure needs to be transportable and storable, and while assembling it, I realized my design would be bulky. So I need to redesign a little so it to collapse more.
@tschundler
Design iterations are fun, especially when it needs to fit certain parameters for transport.
I have one to do, too.
@MakersHour oh, yes. There a a number of dimensions of this project are based on van I'll be renting to transport it. No flat panels bigger than 1.5m x 2.75m. No beams longer than the diagonal of that.
I have ~16h for setup and ~6h for teardown. I have to consider order-of-operations and what those operations are. I might be adding ~24 bolts. Can I reduce that? Would it be better to do two loads and transport those parts partially assembled and only fully disassemble for storage? We'll see.
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