Rust. Never. Sleeps. It can, however, be smacked upside the head, thrown in the trunk of the car, taken down to the river, and left to fend for itself for a little bit. (more…)
It was time to replace my home firewall. This website is hosted on a server at home. Proper procedures dictate that it sits on a network segment apart from the other computers in the house. This (as most people reading this know) would be a DMZ or DeMilitarized Zone.
Coming up with the idea for a part is 5% of the battle…actually making the part is another 10%…getting it to work as expected is the other 75%. Use of the handlebar risers in this article, we discovered they were a 1/4″ too short, interfering with the gas tank. So we decided to iterate, this time in aluminum:
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A really good friend is making a Bobber out of an 80′s Yamaha. He wanted to replace the handlebers with something a little cooler, I said I could help him out, especially since he was working on a Mad Max kinda ethic. I can’t do shiny. (Well, I _can_, I just don’t think I could do two equally shiney parts!)
More will be posted when we recover.
It’s together, but not running yet, and I needed a place to drop the pics to talk to people about what I screwed up.
I’m in the Men’s room, answering the call of nature. I’m reading the news on my phone. (more…)
Don’t mistake a lack of updates for inaction. This summer has been chock-a-block with geeky stuff:
DEFCON:
(Both servers were operating!)
Determining the value and condition of an Oxy-acetylene rig…verdict: In good shape, much more expensive to REPLACE than you’d get if you sold it…I suspect I have a winter project here.
The Tesla Coil project continues…I needed a signal generator to perform the tuning, so I made this CanaKit kit:
Belfry, the 1966 Cadillac S&S Vicoria Hearse needed some brakework:
I had an oddball cut or two on the bandsaw:
I’m working on a bit o’ dynamics for a halloween prop. (This is a cam follower, more information will be forthcoming)
And even took a night shot of the herd:
