[TheForge] bolt thread repair tool

Chris Caswell olayers at sover.net
Tue Feb 24 19:39:38 EST 2015


Nope!  The Willys is in the garage, and the bubble sextants are in the 
basement shop.  Just finished making a tiny spool and winding with 36 
AWG magnet wire to repair a relay in the averaging system.......after 
about 10 tries.

Chris Caswell
Colchester VT

On 2/24/2015 7:27 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> Multilevel?
>
> On Feb 24, 2015, at 3:41 PM, Chris Caswell <olayers at sover.net> wrote:
>
> Wow!  That is quite a shed!
>
> I'm thinking of having the shop rest very near to the ground, with some crushed stone underneath as the land is not flat.  No power hammers (a treadle hammer) and no large projects.  I have all the equipment I need, and will be using the shop mostly to make things I, or others, need.  I also am restoring WWII A10-A bubble sextants, a 1953 Willys CJ3B jeep, and teaching myself celestial navigation.
> Besides, I like to work small.....
>
> Chris Caswell
> Colchester VT
>
> On 2/24/2015 6:25 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>> If it ever does thaw, I hope to build a new 12' x 12' shop in the
>>> backyard, on concrete columns (sono tube)......any thoughts on that?
>> I have a friend who lived for many years in College, Alaska, not far
>> from Fairbanks.  When I last saw him, he was contemplating retiring
>> to the hills of western Massachusetts where "it's warmer", viz. rarely
>> gets colder than 20 below and only a week or two of never-above-0F.
>>
>> He was building a cabin a bit bigger than you envision, maybe 16'x16'
>> with 8" studwalls, bays to filled with insulation.  Then over the
>> whole thing, a light outer weather shell spaced 12" out from the
>> structural wall, that space also to be filled with insulation.  I
>> think he meant to heat it by lighting a kitchen match every now and
>> then or perhaps a candle in the very dead of winter.
>>
>> I agree with lynn: 12'x12' isn't big enough.  When I started out, I
>> had a woodshed that was ca. 12' x 8' [1] It was okay when all I knew how
>> to make was little hooks and weenie forks but even then, half my gear
>> was outside. When I lucked onto more gear, it ended up in the
>> kitchen. Note vice, punch, power hammer. work bench and stock storage
>> in the pic.
>>
>> As for concrete columns: My woodshed is like that, about 18" above
>> grade.  Everything has to go up or down a ramp including 7 cord of
>> firewood.  Where there's ice & snow you'll need a piece of 1/4"
>> expanded metal on the ramp to ensure decent footing in winter.
>>
>> - Mike
>>
>> [1] http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/temp/shed.html
>>
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