@Br3nda
Have you tried following #makershour? On Thursdays at 8 pm GMT ( I think) but also mirrored 12 hrs later. I pretty consistent group of folk who make all kinds of things. Pleasant community to follow. See @MakersHour for weekly questions.
7: Verglasung restlicher Flächen
Am Freitag kamen endlich die Polycarbonatplatten an. Heute haben wir sie montiert – so sieht das Ganze jetzt fertig aus. Es fehlen nur noch ein paar Details wie eine Regentonne und die Beleuchtung.
First coat of danish oil done. Second coat will have to wait until tomorrow.
I wrote a blog post about building a small portable apartment scale workbench. Might be of interest to people here.
Introducing the OiCatStopStealingFood-2000
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I need to let the glue go off fully and then I can put some danish oil on it.
Today I felt better,
So loaded up some tools.
We went to the community workshop,
Via shopping at The Range and Lidl.
It was really warm again today,
Such a change from yesterday.
I finished building the swing out board storage (see video),
And was happy it worked.
It was really awkward to install,
What with all the stacked wood in the way.
After lunch I modified a kitchen drawer,
The back was too low.
Then I did some TIG welding,
It is so much cleaner than MIG (Throw molten metal everywhere!) welding.
Did caretaking,
And all the bins at work.
Settled down to #MakersHour,
And felt so much brighter and more active through it.
Tired out now,
As I should be.
Amser gwely,
#NosDa
@cybervegan @mike @MakersHour @makershour@a.gup.pe @iFixit
I bought a pack of cheap (stainless steel? They have never rusted.) filler knives, like these. and they were so nasty I cut myself on the burrs on the edges getting them out of the packet.
They sat unused for a while.
Then I drew on some shapes, long triangles, tear drops, rounded points, etc. and cut them out with an angle grinder.
I sanded all the edges smooth and rounded them over so they were safe and smooth.
Sometimes I can two slipped into a gap in a thing, and then push a screwdriver between them for extra leverage without damaging the appliance.
They get used a lot, and lent out a lot....
....And I need to make some more soon.
I'll edit in a photo of the ones I have left, in a mo, They are in the workshop.
Photos edited in: These are the ones I have left, mostly they were random (this could be useful) shapes. And I also have 3 stainless steel guitar plectrums from when I used to play.
A5: Everything I make is based on other people’s prior work and ideas. #MakersHour
@MakersHour @makershour@a.gup.pe A5 #MakersHour stop!!! You all know my big shame! 
Thank you all for a marvellously fun #MakersHour tonight.
I hope to see you all here again next week.
Don't forget, you can submit questions (please) to the #MakersHourBank if you want.
Thanks again, and have a good night (day or whenever).
@makershour@a.gup.pe Q5: Do you have any Maker dirty secrets? Projects so bodged together that fill you with shame? Dirty hacks that you don’t speak about? Share your secrets!
A5: It’s not bodging, it’s overcoming and adapting. Learning from mistakes is a good thing. It builds resilience! Some of my creations have “extras” on them which may or may not hide various imperfections. When I built a display case, I could not get the corners to match up nicely and there were gaps, so I pushed some 2mm wire into the gaps and turned it into a feature.
@andy_warb @MakersHour @makershour@a.gup.pe
That's always a possibility! 
@andy_warb @MakersHour @makershour@a.gup.pe
It looks fairly well trapped in place though.
A1: quilting and crocheting right now. I gave “quilt certificates” to six young adult kin, and the orders have started coming in; and I’m making a “book blanket”, crocheting squares for every book I finish this year. Here’s the latest, for “The Death of Vivek Oji”: @MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe #bookblanket #makershour
@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe
A5 on advice of counsel, I decline to answer...
@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe A5: here is my dirty secret. I built this workbench recently… uses 2 massive chunks of lumber with heavy cross braces and big slab of mdf for the top. Screwed together with metal brackets… but the whole thing is just sort of balancing on top of the shitty ikea drawer units underneath. Not screwed in, not attached to the walls, just floating (it does have rubber grips to stop it sliding around). It feels solid but fills me with shame #makershour
@hammerhand_workshop @MakersHour
But when it is all done, no one will ever know (except us lot).
@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe
Q5: Do you have any Maker dirty secrets? Projects so bodged together that fill you with shame? Dirty hacks that you don’t speak about? Share your secrets!
#MakersHour
Nah, I am a perfectly well behaved maker and have never bodged a thing! 
A5: I think my R2 might be the thing that best qualifies for this? Certainly the bodged-together part, sometimes the shame part. I started him around 2005, and at that time I got in at the tail end of a "run" of blank domes that I think only cost $45 or something. I feel like it was a transition point between people using whatever dome they could get their hands on (weber bbq grills, squirrel baffles, security camera domes, etc.) and laser-cut domes that were all the rage before the current era of 3D prints. So I had to meticulously measure and cut all the dome panels by hand. I did an ok job, far from perfect. Thus, my R2 dome will never look "factory fresh". I made his main eye from folded sheet metal, and his holoprojecters from fence caps and Christmas ornaments.
His body frame was cut and assembled by myself and my nephew from Baltic Birch plywood, and there are various 3D printed parts from various modelers.
The plan at the moment is to get my nephew back into the workshop with me to get R2 in shape for this year's DragonCon.
