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The Learning Studio hosted a workshop organized by Michael Swaine and Amy Franceschini, in which 12 local artists were invited to make tools that expand our natural perceptual limitations.
Looking up the MIllers River at Athol, MA with the the Starrett Tool plant in the background of all the trees at their peak.
Photographed on Kodak Ektar 100 film using a NIkon F4 with a Nikkor 28-85mm lens.
Al-Magor, a well established manufacturing company, has developed over the last decade a line of original, patented hand tools for punching holes into irrigation pipes of all sizes for insertion of drippers and sprinklers, and also insertion tools for this purpose.
You'll need small and medium flat screwdrivers, needle-nose locking pliers (generically known as "Vice-Grips", though I used Craftsman this time), a second pair of pliers (preferably needle-nose), a Phillips screwdriver, a fairly heavy pair of wire cutters (yes, you can use a Dremel motor tool with a cut-off wheel if you have one), and a old butter knife.
Because spring steel can be brittle (especially 40-year old spring steel!), you probably should wear safety glasses. Gloves, too, if you are accident-prone.
The replacement spring will be made from a length of generic repair spring, available from most hardware and home improvement stores. Seems like Lowes has a different brand and selection every time I go. I use springs about half an inch in diameter made from ~1mm wire. The original spring has a diameter between 5/8" and 3/4", but it seems like all the repair springs that size range are MUCH thicker wire. Five dollars will get you enough material for at least a dozen hip springs.
Success! Sort of...
I have managed to make an orb tool but the lights were so faint it almost wasn't worth bothering.
The circuit comprised of 8 2.2v led's connected to 2*9v batteries. I was pleased with the construction but the lights were so damn dim it wasn't worth the bother (and it took a while for an electronics fool like me!). No resistor was necessary (I think?) due to the led's in the circuit.
Photos of construction are in the link - www.flickr.com/photos/repeater1/sets/72157626908216867/wi...
Presumably I need brighter lights? However, I am already running against 18V - how do increase brightness without increasing this?
Cheers
Steve
I went to the hardware store yesterday to get a fan. While I was there I thought that I should grab one of those plastic tool shelf thingies and use it to get the tools off my workbench.
"It will look bare and forlorn", I thought, "but at least I'll be able to find the tools for a change!"
So I came home, installed it on the pegboard I'd previously (8 years ago) attached to my workbench, and started picking up tools and putting them on the shelf.
And picking up tools and putting them on the shelf.
AND PICKING UP TOOLS AND PUTTING THEM ON THE SHELF.
AND.... running out of room on the shelf and I've still got tools lying around on my workbench.
Siiiiiigh.
So I need to get another pegboard and another one of these plastic tool shelf thingies, get the rest of the tools off the workbench (I should make the pegboard freestanding, because when I'm cutting tubing the entire workbench shakes and I'd hate to vibrate this shelf loose) and then sort through the tools and stuff the duplicates (and triplicates, and quadruplicates) into a storage container for my heirs to deal with 30-40 years down the line.
Every morning I boil eggs and make tea. 10/11/13
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I'll let you know once I get it fired up and figure out all those buttons today. Either way, it is exciting! My imagination is going non-stop.
(40w laser engraver/cutter)
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A rose pruning gig... its a little late, and I have never done it before... but I think it came out alright.
YEA MY TOOL BOX !..I keep it in my "station" at the Tattoo Shop it securely hold the tools of my trade..The outside is a mish-mash of magnets & magnetic photo holders...helmit stickers ,bumper stickers n decals of all sorts and a couple oddz n endz.....O.K. so it a fridge to most (yes ,it works but I do not plug it in)
~my flickr friend "Patchworkgandalf" (& Her trusty side-kick "Pasta")...invited me to join a flickr pool called "Addiced To Fridges" so heres my submission , not your avarage fridge...errr ahhh *tool box*~