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A Jeep turned upside down on a 25 mph street in a quiet neighborhood in Traverse City, Michigan on Election Day November 3rd, 2020. Never seen anything like this. Probably didn't have anything to do with the election but who knows.

The storm we got on December 11-12. Watch to the end and you can see me move the snow. It was very hard to move, very heavy and gouging up lots of dirt with the snowblower.

This is my foundry sand aerator. I got the idea from olfoundryman from his video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASTMlwUil5Y

I'm pretty frustrated with the whole fluorescent-tube to LED transition that seems to be in progress. Here I convert an 8-foot fixture to use individual old-fashioned (but yes, LED!) A19-style bulbs.

I got this camera drone at Walmart for $25. You can pair it with your smartphone for a live view, still picture taking and video recording. The resolution is DVD (720x576 pixels) and 25 frames per second. I've had lots of fun with it so far. I do NOT play Call of Duty -- it is a brand that is unfamiliar to me. The reason for buying it was the price/feature combination and I like to fly quadcopters.

I found this video: https://youtu.be/FT9JXzeG6I0 and thought it was a good idea for mixing oogoo. If you've ever mixed this stuff you know it can be messy and smelly. Being contained, all of those issues can be addressed. BUT... it didn't work. The turbulator was wrong and the bike inner tube coupling was wrong, it bulged. I went back and watched Grant Thompson's (The King of Random) proto-putty mixing method, and it's really not so bad after all...

I started out last Saturday making the molds and melting metal to pour a square skillet that a friend made a pattern of. The furnace's burn tube failed, which occluded the flame from reaching the chamber. I end up the video showing the new firebrick flame tube interior. I used some hard and some soft firebrick. I suspect there will be more to this story, as I don't know how long the soft firebrick will last.

Here I review a cheap Chinese $32 dash cam. When I went to download some test footage, I found that the camera must have gotten accidentally turned on in the factory. (It seems to be the packaging/shipping department.)

I'm demonstrating my stitch and glue kayaks to an interested buyer. He bought.

I'm selling this. Upgraded to a bigger one. I have two electric heaters plugged in, one is 1500 watt the other is 600 watt. Partway through I unplug both of them to show the idle-down feature.

Getting ready to build another plywood stitch and glue boat, and needed to make a new set of jointing jigs. I'm running bCNC software on a Raspberry Pi computer, and the router is running GRBL 0.9 firmware on an arduino.

I'm a freelance programmer for over 13 years now. Sometimes I find bugs on web sites. This one was a winner.

This is from the "East Meets West" record. Can someone translate, I believe it's Slovak language.

Finally the lake test of the 4-stroke boat motor! This video was taken back in May 2019. Part one is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7dxx95qn3o Part two is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kDExnFkDBw With two adults on board, we got it up to 15 mph by pulling on the governor to get full throttle. I may put a greater-pitch prop on it in the future, to allow slower revving.

There is a bug (or is it a feature?) where it shows black blocks with green binary 0's and 1's until you tap them. Digtron doesn't work right either, uses way too much fuel it seems.

Starts on first pull and smokes a little bit.

Getting on with the 4-stroke outboard: mounting, shaft adapter, electrics, and barrel testing! Part one is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7dxx95qn3o Part three is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPHr4y_Hek Chapters: 0:04 Introduction 1:33 Encore of the Pour 2:26 Shaft coupling detail 3:30 Marking points 4:00 Testing in a barrel of water 4:55 Shifter detent operation 5:33 Wiring and throttle 6:35 Servicing lower drive 7:03 Junk find

UPDATE: Part 2 is here: https://youtu.be/-kDExnFkDBw UPDATE: Part 3 is here: https://youtu.be/TsPHr4y_Hek The adapter plate for the 4-stroke Boat Motor Engine Swap is done in my foundry in cast aluminum. In this multi-part series, I show the patterning, molding, and casting processes: Chapters: 2:30 Ramming the core for the false drag 3:38 Ramming the false drag 6:20 Pressing the pattern into the false drag 7:33 Ramming the cope 10:29 Ramming the drag 11:58 Cutting the sprues and gates 15:04 Closing up the mold 15:29 Starting the furnace 18:40 Degassing the melt 19:35 THE POUR 22:49 Shakeout 25:23 Test fit

I evaluate the power consumption of the Harbor Freight ultrasonic cleaner to determine how much power goes to the ultrasonic part, and how much to the heater part. Only about 72 watts is going to the ultrasonic transducer driver.

Open Source Ecology stickers arrived today. I like stickers as you can tell by my dumpster laptop.

Yup, it leaks. My wife turned on the pump briefly to show where the water was coming from.

Fixing a leaky pressure tank. Well I didn't fix it. I actually removed it because it's redundant, there is another pressure tank elsewhere in the system.

Not an oil gusher, just water. My well sprung a leak today and needed some repairs

Some closeups of the homebuilt welder wiring. This might help you understand the schematics better.

Piano for sale: https://nmi.craigslist.org/msg/d/stroud-player-piano-working/6281635377.html