Al's Woodshop - kids tricycle repair

I've been given a kids wooden tricycle to repair. I feel like I'm running a community men's shed.

The damage is obvious, the handle bar was made from a softwood so no surprise the thing broke off. Here I'm knocking the pin out with a pin punch.

Bandsaw 42 - Update oops

Seniors moment during construction - last year!
Noticed today while using the saw that the whole upper blade guide arm assembly is skewed with respect to...err...everything else! How did that happen? with a good eye for true & square even before I pick up a square that should not have slipped past me!

Backtracking dismantling stuff to find out where the skew problem lies.

Square drive screws

While at Bunnings today finally got some 30 and 45 mm square drive screws (driver bit included), something I've been meaning to do for a while. Boy...they screw right in with no need for pilot or countersink - much better than the common Philips head type.

Telstra BigPond cable usage:

Our usage for half way through the current billing cycle - LOL

Telstra for Tuesday 5th May - possible interruptions.

No problem if needed create a Hotspot on my Samsung Galaxy for the WiFi tablets.

Bandsaw 41 - New table update

In the previous workshop post I routed a track down the table for cross cutting, here I've done another track across the table for rip cuts.



This is where I finished the previous session with a track down the table…

Bunnings – BBQ purchase is unsafe.

Bought some sausages yesterday to try out the new BBQ (see previous "Jumbuck 2 burner floor sale" post) for lunch today and noticed something when hooking up the bottle from the big 5 burner BBQ. The regulator is missing the O ring !!! Off to Bunnies to fix that and the guy on the returns counter informs me that anything on sale off-the-floor is sold - AS IS. Proceeded to cut him down, regardless of the type of sale the item/product MUST be sold in safe condition so he backed off and rang to get someone from that area down the back. The rest was plain sailing, lovely lady from down there found and gave me a $7.50 Gasmate twin-pak (see picture) along with a no-charge docket – happy with that.


Above: The O ring is missing, I should have noticed that right at the start.