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10 Dec 04
10 Dec 04
Originally posted by StarValleyWyAre you familiar with the "Stop saw" technology that this one man is trying to get the tool companies to implement? Basically, the blade can read the composition of what it is cutting and if it detects "finger" it cuts off in about 3/1000 of a second which is faster than a human can react. The tool companies are rejecting the technology so far. Do you have all your fingers?
A master carpenter is one who has worked as an apprentice (in my case for ten years) and then perfomed carpentry of all types every day for 25 years.
I am a master carpenter.
Any questions? What do you need to know?
I guarantee I can answer your questions.
If you want or need.
10 Dec 04
Originally posted by kirksey957Giggle. Yes. I have my fingers in spite of several thousand hours in front of a Delta Unisaw.
Are you familiar with the "Stop saw" technology that this one man is trying to get the tool companies to implement? Basically, the blade can read the composition of what it is cutting and if it detects "finger" it cuts off in about 3/1000 of a second which is faster than a human can react. The tool companies are rejecting the technology so far. Do you have all your fingers?
With all it's glory and power.
Because. I ...
1 - Removed the safety cover and safety guide.
Because I bent a board and almost cut off my hand in 1965 using a "Safety Guide".
Lesson number one. Watch "norm". He removed the "safety guide". Because? It is dangerous. Eyes and fingers and hands and arms are all you have. It (safety guide) removes your mind from the moment. There is no "safety guide.". You screw up, you lose a finger.
Stop Saw ® is a feature that reads the laser light and stops current flow just as your garage door stops it's action in case of intervention.
My suggestion is that if you really need "stop saw" you need to reevaluate what you are doing.
Saw On.
Wood in place... with thought.
Hand on wood. What is going to happen if I hit the wood too fast? Bind? Tear? Lost finger.
Hand well away from cut. Strong. Power. No finger has ever been lost to strength. Only to a wimpy wrist. If all that power hits the board and the board is "unsupported"... I want my hand to be stronger than the saw.
10 Dec 04
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Originally posted by Paul Diracyes. I can answer all the wall board question. for example... to bid a wall board job for material ... you should multiply the square footage by 3.716.
I don't have a carpentry question. I have a wallboard question. Did you rub shoulders with those folks at all over the years?
This gives you the board footage to order.
Then? Labor? It is dependent on if you get a professional or a tech student graduate.
And where you are in the world.
My first successful computer product was a "house estimateor" that did all this automatically. By the square foot. 79 cost categories.
10 Dec 04
Originally posted by Paul DiracYes.
I don't have a carpentry question. I have a wallboard question. Did you rub shoulders with those folks at all over the years?
By necessity. If I can't frame it, they can't hang it. I had to get all 2450 houses right for them. and for the sparkies and the sh*t smeller fellers.
10 Dec 04
Advice to home buyers: turn it down if it has polybutylene pipes. They develop one slow leak after another. I am ready to replace a run or two of pipes at my place with copper. Is it best to keep my strip of removed wallboard completely between joists? (I hope "joist" is the correct term for the vertical 2x4s or 2x6s or whatever they are, about 16 inches apart--or is it 24 inches?) And in that case, with no joist to hammer the piece onto when putting things back together, do I use the lathe & screw method to re-attach the piece?
10 Dec 04
Originally posted by kirksey957Sorry guys. I lost em' all to a mean old carpenter long ago. He was "mr. petersons lead carpenter in Rigby".
Since you put it that way, I don't think he has any fingers left. 🙂
Mystery.
But ... there was a man who helped me. Build myself. And build his boat. And therein did I build myself. One help amongst many.
His name was and is Dick Shumacher. I relied on him. Even though he hated kids. Every day for three months I showed up in the garage of 3577 Sunnyside Road, Ammon Idaho.
And he told me to "set and be quiet". I did.
Then on a fall day he asked me to "lean here as hard as you can", on a piece of 3/8 inch ext. AC plywood.
I did. With wonder.
I had for the first time.... "done something" good.
10 Dec 04
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Originally posted by Paul DiracPaul, you say that your plumbing is in plastic?
Advice to home buyers: turn it down if it has polybutylene pipes. They develop one slow leak after another. I am ready to replace a run or two of pipes at my place with copper. Is it best to keep my strip of removed wallboard completely ...[text shortened]... ogether, do I use the lathe & screw method to re-attach the piece?
That was a fad that caught on during the Carter administration because it saved the wonderful resource of "copper".
So.
If you can isolate the leak, tear off the walls and just replace the plastic plumbing.
If you can't isolate it, then hire a professional plumber.
To replace the plastic, I recommend just stripping out the wall finish (plaster or wallboard). Then redo all the plastic into copper. God rest our souls for the energy that Jimmy Carter saved by his mandate.
Then re-rock/plaster and go on into the future. Knowing that when the next big Comet hits earth... you are as dead as the rest of us... You are good until it leaks again or you die. Which ever comes first.
10 Dec 04
Originally posted by Paul DiracIt is still legal. As is aluminum wiring. Another Carther 'save the earth' measure that only burns down 300 houses every year.
My house was actually a Reagan baby. But we can blame that plastic on Mr. Carter if we want to!
But.
That being said.
Blame... schmame.
What to do? Yes?
10 Dec 04
How does a person begin to build a house?
With a hundred foot tape measure and a mind.
Drive stakes at the outermost measure of you plan?
What? don't have a plan? Then draw one. At a quarter inch per foot. Or at a tenth inch per meter. Who cares. Scale is scale. A distance as measured by you in your mind. I assume you have one.
So we have stakes at fifty meters by thirty-five meters. So?
Go from left top to Right bottom with the hundred meter tape.
Then from right bottom to Right Top.
What do you get?
Move the stakes (markers in the dirt) until you get the same value.
Pause.
Pause.
If you did this... you are a carpenter. All of carpentry is "getting it square".
Period.