14” Bandsaw – First wheel first flange

Continuing on from the previous session a week ago, Crikey got side tracked with tech stuff like phones, tablets and the Windows 10 Creator Update...we will continue with mounting the bearing flanges on the bandsaw wheels. Yes...this early stage is a time consuming and critical process that must be done in a particular order.

We are ready to mount the first bearing flange.

Christmas shopping trip

Another shopping round trip - Scoresby, Knox, Stud Park and Springvale. Finally home and pooped out.

  

Christmas present for a family member and a pizza spatula for the BBQ oven box.

Garden gazebo water barrel feature - continued

With everything removed this is the Japanese water spout, the roots of the water lily had completely filled the inner plastic tub liner and even engulfed the water pump. I had to use secateurs to locate and cut free the water pump - LOL

When I made this project I blocked all the drain holes with bits of plastic, each one pushed into a bed of silicon.

The raging water lily with roots trimmed back will need to go into it's own pot.

This one here, as before I've blocked the drain hole.

This was another water plant in the barrel, now in a larger pot and like everything in there was also suffocated by the roots of the water lily.

New barrel from Bunnings for $31 bucks.

Windows 10 Creators Update - Sbtle changes.

Taskbar network icon now has a Wi-Fi dropdown box which is good but even better for me is the Mobile hotspot - to easily connect to my Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro during power outages.

Bunnings shopping trip

Wanted to spend my 70th birthday Bunnings gift cards (pooled) on a Ozito Multi Purpose Saw and also get a 30cm wooden barrel to repair the Bamboo Water Spout feature in the gazebo area.

Unplanned purchase - this is the BBQ Pizza Oven Box we bought from Bunnings today. They had a staff person giving cooking demonstrations and ET managed to sample TWO slices of pizza

Garden gazebo water barrel feature

Made this some years ago when I had a bamboo fad for making water features.

It’s a classic bamboo water spout powered by a water pump that sits inside a modified plastic tub all of which then sits in a decorative wooden barrel with some water plants.

Here is a video clip of the water feature in the front porch, later on I moved it to the back yard gazebo area.

Badly needs attention, looks like the water lily has strangled everything.

Windows 10 Creators Update – Win+X ???

After updating this morning and getting familiar with WCU 1709 through the day, inevitably I have come across a change I don't like - but not a big deal.

Microsoft has removed the traditional Control Panel from the Win+X menu, that's the one you see when you right click the Start button from the desktop - bugger. Anyway I just searched for it and pinned to the Start.

Anyway…pinned a Control Panel tile.