Chooks - Heating the coop

Way back in May 2011 when we got some new little Pekins I provided them with some heating in their temporary dog house quarters. This winter the weather is so cold I decided to heat the coop in a similar way.

May 2011 – new chooks need to go through a integration period where they are separated for a while from the current mob. On this occasion I made use of a wooden dog house to house the new chooks and for heating suspended a reptile lamp from the apex of the hinged roof.

Scroll saw blades

Bought some spare blades for the Work Zone scroll saw that I grabbed last week from ALDI reduced to $55 bucks.

ALDI – Workzone Scroll Saw

While shopping in ALDI came across a solitary scroll saw – interesting. They were on sale a few weeks ago and thought about getting one but gave it a miss. This one looks like a return, the box has been opened and it’s got a hand written price tag of $55 down from $99.

Checked inside and none of the plastic bags had been opened – it’s all there. Wonder why it’s been returned let’s buy it and check it out I can always do the same myself.

Bandsaw 44 - Table update

As posted earlier when I fitted the new table to the saw I neglected to make sure the blade was correctly tensioned and aligned in the blade guides, so when I did setup things correctly the table ended up to the right of the blades true position - bugger. This in turn threw out the alignment of my freshly made insert so I had to butcher that to make it fit.

Wait there's more, then I noticed yesterday the table was also not parallel to the front of the saw - skewed to the right a bit. This morning we are going back to fix all that.

Bandsaw 43 – Guide arm skewed

In this post I am rectifying something that is the result of my previous effort to rectify something that was overlooked originally when I was building the saw last year that should not have slipped past me but it did so I failed to rectify the original stuff-up - confused now !
With regard to the last fix I noticed the the blade guide arm was skewed to the right with respect to the main frame and in fixing that I noticed today while cleaning the saw that the same arm was now not at right angles to the table but angled back a bit - hmm.



The blade guide arm which slides up and down for cutting height mates with that length of timber with the four screws. All of that had to come off to fix the skew issue and and when I fitted that bit of timber back I neglected to drive the screws back into the original holes. I lined up the top screw OK but failed to notice the timber was not parallel to the tension block (to the right a bit at the bottom) so the bottom screw ended up to the right of the original hole.

Telstra BigPond cable usage

Half way through current cycle and we've used 56GB of 500GB - LOL. Hey that's a fair amount for a retired couple but not from computer usage, mainly from the T-box with Foxtel and Presto.

Unpacking the new TV

Lugged the beast up the stairs by myself into one of the end bedrooms to unpack and setup. DO NOT do as I do, this is a two person job! However...if you've been doing TV stuff from the sixties then you can exempt yourself - like I have.