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Re: Anyone with a lathe?
After years of turning and owning six lathes, I have two that I take on the road. One is a Sherline mini-lathe. Older and pretty plain, but does a great job with the miniature versions of everyday items. Best thing is using found wood, where ever I am. My second lathe is an older Record compact. Heavy enough to do some nice bowls and spindle work, and with the swivel head it works great on even larger work over the side. It does require tying it down, but there is always something to be used as a base, concrete picnic tables work fine. The issue is to down size the pieces you make. I keep a buck saw for trimming burls from trees. Roughing out greenwood blanks keeps me sharp, and gives me some interesting pieces with good stories.421Views0likes0CommentsRe: Wrong RV furniture
You are buying the rig you looked at and signed the contract for. Any brochure or comments from the manufacturer are outside the four edges of the contract. If you didn't want it the way you saw it, you are beyond the negotiation line when you "Agreed to buy". Besides a few trips and some use, you will not care about the "color" match.160Views0likes0CommentsRe: Early road closure in Yellowstone, after Labor Day
Matt_Colie wrote: That was good to get but bad to hear news.... Well, That kind of destroys this year's plan to finally get to Old Faithful. It adds about 100 miles to the "Old Faithful" day. We will have to either by-pass a lot else of miss that. I am at the age where I have to make every excursion count. This may be the never was one. We have been planning this for eight years. (More like forty actually.) Now, with our years of savings being "redistributed", it has taken us a while to not quite recover from the loss of decades of saving and scrimping to have it stuffed. Oh Well, maybe better luck next life. I'm going to pour another and maybe... Matt You should rethink this. Whatever you are keeping in your schedule had better be a lot more important that a trip to Old Faithful. There will be a few hours additional travel and a hundred miles or so added distance, but after forty years are you going to let a road project bump you off the road???:h422Views0likes0CommentsRe: How do you patch holes in the RV wall?
Repair can get difficult. Do you have the same paper in a closet, or cupboard wall that you can "borrow" enough to do the patching? Match the pattern with the patch and place them together. Cut both pieces at the same time, and you have a good match. I always make the patch irregular in shape to hide the outline.(Like doing a wood veneer repair). A simpler and more eclectic solution is to add a decorative molding or patterned cover over the damaged area. Higher contrast and covering all window sides, makes a "custom look".261Views0likes0CommentsRe: Did We Run Out Of Cows??
It's way too simple. FEED. Hay, grass, grain, takes water and good growing conditions without extremes of heat, cold, wet, etc. Check the weather and look back three months and check what was predicted to happen. They are shipping feed from Idaho to California right now, with a one or two cut reduction in production this season. Like milk, pay the price, like beef, pay the price, they are both more expensive than other food basics, and are now reflecting that cost.231Views0likes0CommentsRe: Custom bumper assembly
Take your rig to a custom hitch builder and get his opinion after looking at the undercarriage. Many bumpers are simple add-ons without support to the true "frame". Extensions for the coach are often smaller than the chassis frame. My Chevy frame is a unibody and not real strong the custom hitch I added tied the frame with the extensions and the bumper, it still will only handle about 750 pounds weight, but pulls over 7500lbs. Think of the five pound weight held in your hand tight to your body and then extend your arm out. Heavier? No, but dynamically you are pushing the connection a lot more.(That may be a weak analogy, hope you get the point). The farther you extend out from the main frame, the less weight you can carry. It also could beat your frame to death.454Views0likes0CommentsRe: Horizontal Propane Tanks
Contact a propane distributor for specific information. You may not be able to use them on an RV because of their ratings. As I remember, they must be steel and certified for mounting on a vehicle frame. Even then, a good propane store can use the tanks, and advertising them may locate an end user.267Views0likes0Comments
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