OT: crafting other than metal, need a project
Don Foreman
as my three miles for today, I spent most of the short daylight hours
watching TV. Our DVR hovers at about 20% remaining capacity, now it's
about 25%. Not ennui though I did enjoy a Mary-made quilt cover
while enjoying mindless drivel movies with lots of explosions. Mary
is over at son Dave's and probably will be until Saturday because of
the winter storm. I regard Dave as a son and he regards me as Dad, but
I get bored there after a couple of hours. Mary 'n Dave understand
and accept that with no problem.
This evening I'm reading a John Sandford novel. Can't think of
anything I want to make in the shop or I'd be making it. Daughter
Karen, in town from NYC for a quick visit, has an artistic metal
project in mind and that'll be fun but it'll be a one-day project, two
days at most. Her projects aren't "do me, Daddy", she's a hands-on
gal. Some readers may recall that the last Karen holiday project used
some gunpowder.
I noted the book sales at Borders and recalled the movie "Julie and
Julia" which sounds like a chic flick but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Tellya whut, the beef bourguinon (basically a beef stew easily
distinguished from Dinty Moore) mentioned in the movie had me
drooling. I only say drooling because applying the term "lust" to
good grub may convey an impression ... that would be accurate, what
the hell, and screw y'all if you can't take a joke. <G>
Once we get dug out from current snowstorms and get a few other
matters dealt with, I'm going to go to half-price books and buy a
copy of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" -- and if they don't
have a copy which they probably won't then I'll continue up to the
Borders in Coon Rapids and buy one there.
Then I'm gonna do some cookin'.
I am aware that I may be at risk of domestic discord. I have the key
to the cabinet where Mary's guns reside but the scarey-sharp blades in
the kitchen are right there in the knife block. Risk attends
adventure.
Mar and I are teammates, soulmate partners and purely love each other
to death but there are high-risk sits like hanging wallpaper and
cooking. Example: Mar thinks that enough pasta to feed an A team
can be prepared in a boil in a canteen cup, I think that preparing
pasta for two requires at least half a gallon of rolling boil with a
bit of olive oil on the boil. Both approaches result in al dente
pasta. Her approach should not work, but it pretty much does.
Mine is better. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
But look at this recipe, found on the web. Look at the ingrediments:
how could this be anything less than ohmyGod-to-kill-for
eyeball-rolling orgasmically jean-starching yum?
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/beef-bourguignon-recipe/index.html
There is some art and craft to the prep that isn't addressed in the
on-line recipe, but I think it is taught in Julia's book. Hope so.
I'm pretty sure we have a dutch oven.
Hooaahhh!
Andrew VK3BFA
>
> There is some art and craft to the prep that isn't addressed in the
> on-line recipe, but I think it is taught in Julia's book. Hope so.
> I'm pretty sure we have a dutch oven.
>
> Hooaahhh!
Gawd - sounds like terminal boredom Don......can I suggest a
woodworking project, ie make up some nice stands for your HSS lathe
bits - you've probably got a few after all these years. A piece of 4
by 2, nicely finished, chamfered, holes drilled (precisely) to hold
the bits. Or carve a block for your oilstone. (With a cover) Make a
nice storage bar for your test bars and rods, all sorts of things
spring to mind - most of them could be done with the aid of a milling
machine....
I plan to do this in January - going over to my cousins in Tasmania,
he has a HUGE collection of nice timber, most of which he has cut,
milled, and air dried for years himself. Birds Eye Maple would be
wasted on a workshop box, but he has lots of nice, knot free radiata
he grew himself over a 30 year period....
Andrew VK3BFA>
dca...@krl.org
wrote:
> Once we get dug out from current snowstorms and get a few other
> matters dealt with, I'm going to go to half-price books and buy a
> copy of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" -- and if they don't
> have a copy which they probably won't then I'll continue up to the
> Borders in Coon Rapids and buy one there.
>
Getting out of the house is good sometimes, but for books I always
check ABE.com Just copied and pasted
"Mastering the Art of French Cooking" and found new copies for about
$11 including shipping. You do have check that they have priced some
things reasonably. I found a bunch of used books on ABE priced higher
than Lincoln Electric sells the new ones.
If you want another book to read, I recommend " Most Secret War " by
R. V. Jones. Paperback copies available on ABE for less than $4
including shipping.
Dan
wolfgang
All this talk about food is making me hungry...
Me, I'd settle for a REALLY simple, but tasty, receipe for beef stew.
Merry Christmas to Y'all and don't overdo the digging .
Wolfgang
Snag
The secret is in the searing . Gotta get it nice and dark brown , just
short of burning . I like to season the meat while searing , onions ,
garlic , a bit of salt and pepper . Then add the raw veggies and just enough
water to cover 'em . Simmer 'til the veggies are tender , then add one can
of beef broth with a half-cup (more or less ...) of flour stirred into it
for thickenin' .
--
Snag
taters an' carrots an' shrooms
oh my !
JR North
right time to fill the void. Windshield started steaming up in my 70
F250 Wednsday. Heater core time. Pulled the HVAC; this truck has
factory A/C, not a pleasant or quick task. Tore it down, Pressure
tested, found the core leak, and soldered it.(heater core is totally
NLA) Refoamed the air doors and reworked the linkages so they moved
more freely. Pulled the HVAC control; cleaned/lubed the cables and
unit. Had everything I needed on hand in the shop. Just finished it
this afternoon; about 5 solid hours work.
JR
Dweller in the cellar
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in most of the time or at work and snowed in...
He built handy carry boxes. A basic 3 sided box - rectangle making a
tray. But the ends are more like a house end with a peak. Square with a
triangle on top. In the rounded tip of the triangle - end is really 1 piece
of wood - is the handle. I use them on the job all of the time - sort stuff...
I have them in all sizes from 3.5' to 9" long.
Now for the chair stuff - the lounge but still working stuff...
Each end - is adorned with a Penn-Duch Distlefinch if you know what I mean.
Line drawings - can be anything -- do them and transfer by way of carbon paper
or heat (if laser printed)..
He did this in the 70's and I use them in the shop. If you make the drawings
on the ends - crystal coat over them to keep them from running in water...
If interested, I can send pictures.
Martin
Michael A. Terrell
Snag wrote:
>
> The secret is in the searing . Gotta get it nice and dark brown , just
> short of burning . I like to season the meat while searing , onions ,
> garlic , a bit of salt and pepper . Then add the raw veggies and just enough
> water to cover 'em . Simmer 'til the veggies are tender , then add one can
> of beef broth with a half-cup (more or less ...) of flour stirred into it
> for thickenin' .
I use instant mashed potatoes to thicken stew. :)
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Greed is the root of all eBay.
mike
Your a pretty handy guy, do you work on Jettas too? Mine only runs on
full speed....
Mike
Lewis Hartswick
Don, I think you are on a "slippery slide". Be careful.
:-)
...lew...
Larry Jaques
<junkjas...@bigfoot.com> scrawled the following:
>There always seems to be a project that pops up for me at just the
>right time to fill the void. Windshield started steaming up in my 70
>F250 Wednsday. Heater core time. Pulled the HVAC; this truck has
>factory A/C, not a pleasant or quick task. Tore it down, Pressure
>tested, found the core leak, and soldered it.(heater core is totally
>NLA) Refoamed the air doors and reworked the linkages so they moved
>more freely. Pulled the HVAC control; cleaned/lubed the cables and
>unit. Had everything I needed on hand in the shop. Just finished it
>this afternoon; about 5 solid hours work.
You're pretty quick, JR! Now try it on a Crown Vic. (Dad sold his to
my BIL instead.)
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REMEMBER: The sooner you fall behind,
the more time you'll have to catch up!
Bruce L. Bergman
<dfor...@NOSPAMgoldengate.net> wrote:
>I've been stagnating a bit lately. After snow removal which I counted
>as my three miles for today, I spent most of the short daylight hours
>watching TV. Our DVR hovers at about 20% remaining capacity, now it's
>about 25%. Not ennui though I did enjoy a Mary-made quilt cover
>while enjoying mindless drivel movies with lots of explosions. Mary
>is over at son Dave's and probably will be until Saturday because of
>the winter storm. I regard Dave as a son and he regards me as Dad, but
>I get bored there after a couple of hours. Mary 'n Dave understand
>and accept that with no problem.
>
>This evening I'm reading a John Sandford novel. Can't think of
>anything I want to make in the shop or I'd be making it. Daughter
>Karen, in town from NYC for a quick visit, has an artistic metal
>project in mind and that'll be fun but it'll be a one-day project, two
>days at most. Her projects aren't "do me, Daddy", she's a hands-on
>gal. Some readers may recall that the last Karen holiday project used
>some gunpowder.
Is she married off yet? ;-P I'm always keeping my eye open for "a
girl just like Mama", and she answered to "Rosie" when her country
needed her. And had a knockout figure till we came along...
(Insert "Send picture of bass boat" joke here. I'll spare you.)
>I noted the book sales at Borders and recalled the movie "Julie and
>Julia" which sounds like a chic flick but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
>
>Tellya whut, the beef bourguinon (basically a beef stew easily
>distinguished from Dinty Moore) mentioned in the movie had me
>drooling. I only say drooling because applying the term "lust" to
>good grub may convey an impression ... that would be accurate, what
>the hell, and screw y'all if you can't take a joke. <G>
Cooking is Chemistry, where you can eat the successful experiments and
bury the failures.
(WARNING: If you mess up prep making Fugu, add a big dash of
Everclear instead of Cooking Sherry, or experiment with Wild
Mushrooms, the Cooking can bury you instead...)
>Once we get dug out from current snowstorms and get a few other
>matters dealt with, I'm going to go to half-price books and buy a
>copy of "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" -- and if they don't
>have a copy which they probably won't then I'll continue up to the
>Borders in Coon Rapids and buy one there.
>
>Then I'm gonna do some cookin'.
Time to look for that dutch oven is NOW. If you don't find one go
haunt the thrift stores on your route, young people who don't know
better toss cast iron without a second thought.
>I am aware that I may be at risk of domestic discord. I have the key
>to the cabinet where Mary's guns reside but the scarey-sharp blades in
>the kitchen are right there in the knife block. Risk attends
>adventure.
Remember the knife thrower tricks on Johnny Carson? ;-) Build a
backstop "range' and get her some practice on a silhouette target
before she gets the urge to try live fire.
>Mar and I are teammates, soulmate partners and purely love each other
>to death but there are high-risk sits like hanging wallpaper and
>cooking. Example: Mar thinks that enough pasta to feed an A team
>can be prepared in a boil in a canteen cup, I think that preparing
>pasta for two requires at least half a gallon of rolling boil with a
>bit of olive oil on the boil. Both approaches result in al dente
>pasta. Her approach should not work, but it pretty much does.
>
>Mine is better. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
>
>But look at this recipe, found on the web. Look at the ingrediments:
>how could this be anything less than ohmyGod-to-kill-for
>eyeball-rolling orgasmically jean-starching yum?
>
>http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/beef-bourguignon-recipe/index.html
>
>There is some art and craft to the prep that isn't addressed in the
>on-line recipe, but I think it is taught in Julia's book. Hope so.
>I'm pretty sure we have a dutch oven.
>
>Hooaahhh!
The one thing they don't teach in the books that Guys Just Don't Get
is the art of making an elaborate meal in sequence, with only two
little dirty mixing bowls left to wash when you are done. We usually
end up leaving it looking like the After picture of Dresden - and then
get killed by SWMBO for making a mess in HER Kitchen.
I'm still irked for her picking the cooktop and not listening to me
before - four 12K sealed burners. Looks beautiful, BUT...
Not near enough horsepower for a Wok where you need one double-ring
Volcano Hot Burner to actually stir-fry things in meal-sized batches,
and no little simmer burner for making a small pot of anything - even
when it's turned all the way down things still burn.
--<< Bruce >>--
Bruce L. Bergman
>> There always seems to be a project that pops up for me at just the
>> right time to fill the void. Windshield started steaming up in my 70
>> F250 Wednsday. Heater core time. Pulled the HVAC; this truck has
>> factory A/C, not a pleasant or quick task. Tore it down, Pressure
>> tested, found the core leak, and soldered it.(heater core is totally
>> NLA) Refoamed the air doors and reworked the linkages so they moved
>> more freely. Pulled the HVAC control; cleaned/lubed the cables and
>> unit. Had everything I needed on hand in the shop. Just finished it
>> this afternoon; about 5 solid hours work.
>
>Your a pretty handy guy, do you work on Jettas too? Mine only runs on
>full speed...
Check the blower motor resistor pack, the Usual Suspect when you
start dropping speeds in stages from slow to medium to high, and only
have Full Blast left.
They are wire wound open resistor coils that look like a bathroom
heater, and they burn out and go open from age and usage. Cheap
enough at the dealers, because you can put a junkyard used one in and
have it start failing on you within weeks. Then you'll have to go get
a new one at the dealer anyway, and repeat all the crawling around
under the dash...
And check the amp draw on the motor while you have it all apart.
Might need to take apart the blower motor and oil/grease the bronze
bushings, if they get dry the amp draw goes high and kills the
resistor. (They are too cheap to use ball bearings.)
--<< Bruce >>--
JR North
JR
Dweller in the cellar
James Waldby
> Here is what my dad did in North Dakota (almost in Canada) and snowed in
> most of the time or at work and snowed in...
>
> He built handy carry boxes. A basic 3 sided box - rectangle making a
> tray. But the ends are more like a house end with a peak. Square with
> a triangle on top. In the rounded tip of the triangle - end is really 1
> piece of wood - is the handle. I use them on the job all of the time -
> sort stuff...
>
> I have them in all sizes from 3.5' to 9" long.
...
For 50 cents at a garage sale, I bought a tote tray somewhat as
shown at <http://gabijack.com/2008/12/sheet-metal-tote-tray/>,
but with a handle made of 1/2" conduit, attached at each end
with a junction box conduit fitting. A compact and strong
way to attach a handle.
Most of the stuff in the tray wasn't valuable, but the half-dozen
unused 14" x 1.25" hacksaw blades were nice.
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jiw