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An impromptu jig to hold a pusher boss in place when brazing it to the seat tube.
It's made from the handle of a broken faucet wrench & an offcut of ⅜" tubing from rackbuilding, with a steel plate sandwiched between them.
Bolted together, not brazed, because (a) the faucet wrench was aluminum, and (b) it's clamped to the BB shell, so I need to be able to shim to compensate for wider/unfaced BB shells.
But this way I don't have to play games with fitting a pusher to locate where the boss should go, then position the frame at an angle so the boss won't slide away when I'm shovelling heat so I can glue it to the seat tube.
18.07.2019
Building on the five-year vision of Addressing Europe’s Unfinished Business, Tools For Changemakers strengthens its training component while embarking on a three-year journey of exploration of the link between personal and collective identities in Europe, the rise of populism and nationalism in different European regions, the need to belong for old and new community members, unaddressed collective traumas, and the urgency to work with these issues in order to build more trust and cohesion in Europe.
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Photo: Paula Mariane
A left hand glove with the palm and forefinger re-covered (it wears out holding nodules or flakes being worked with the right hand).
From the left: 1. A big bopper for testing cobbles in the field. 2. A big bopper purchased as scrap metal with 3. a small bopper or percussion flaker 4. a percussion flaker 5. an Ishi stick 6. a small flaker 7. an edger 8. a dull flaker and 9. another notcher with peachwood handle. 10. tire pad for flaking and 11. a thick leather pad to keep your left pant leg from shredding. 1, 4,5,6, 8,9,10 made by Jewel Pollard
We took a look at the Brompton toolkit to see exactly what it's all about. We found it has an array of excellent tools useful in repairing your Brompton bicycle.
Built by the Carriage House at Cylburn Arboretum with help from friend and classmate Fernando Guerra. This simple rustic structure is a component of my final project for the Maryland Master Naturalist program, an educational & volunteer opportunity created by the University of Maryland Extension Program.
For my project, I utilized my scenic design and set building skills to create a semi-permanent modular play area in which children can experiment with and discover natural building techniques and materials. It is intended to be offered alongside conversational curriculum about and physical examples of animal and bird nests and how they are an expression of the ecosystem.
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We were given three posts of about six feet in length, a spade shovel and post-hole digger as our basic components to work with. I also bought a roll of sisal twine for this project, and local bamboo was harvested. Other supplemental tools used included a pruning saw intended for outdoor work, a Japanese-style pull saw (probably intended for indoor use, but which cut through bamboo much faster and more precisely than the pruning saw) and a Makita Lithium-Ion screw gun, and a pocket knife by Kershaw to cut twine. In the foreground is a 99 cent Arizona Iced Tea raspberry flavored...
Même au milieu des endroits les plus tordus, il arrive parfois qu’un lieu se détache du lot. Au milieu d’une ile d’acier froide et cruel, se trouve une cuisine, chaleureuse et accueillante. Un petit havre ou l’on pouvait créer et produire, le genre d’endroit que l’on retrouverait dans une école ou dans un hôpital. Dans un réfectoire ou chaque homme ne mange que pour se sustenter, ni plus ni moins. Une équipe bienveillante d’homme et de femme s’afférait à préparer un repas décent et honnête, a toute cette racaille ingrate.
Ce petit intermède nous rappelle que même sur la route de l’enfer, une fleur peut me faire sourire.
I have been collaborating recently with the multitalented, ethically conscious, conceptual artist Elana Langer who’s brand What I Live By or WILBy creates consciousness raising ethical sweatshops to educate us on our buying habits and a plethora of other interesting goodies that promote living a better life, embracing ourselves and treating the world better.
The project that we have been working on is about the Tools of Life, a concept inspired by her grandmother. Elana writes:
My grandmother was a real lady. I don’t remember a time when her hair and nails weren’t done and she wasn’t dressed impeccably. In the last year of her life she, like many others in her condition, lost the ability to walk without support. And although she had a strong will to live, the idea of using a walker in public seemed unbearable to her. The force of her vanity had come up against the limit of the body. Life compromised didn’t seem as worthwhile living.
My cousins and I were in her kitchen about to have lunch while I suggested going out to her favorite restaurant right across from her home. She refused. We all looked at the walker.
"We can bedazzle it!" I exclaimed. "We can make you the most beautiful walker in the whole city."
My cousins laughed. My grandmother didn’t. In fact this brought on the first and only fight I ever had with her.
"You are making fun." She stared at me coldly.
"True, I am trying to make this situation more fun. What’s the big deal with a walker? And think of how many other people are like you. We could make a whole business. This would make it something to be proud of like jewelry. We can make walkers for weddings, special occasions, one to match each outfit…you can be our model."
My grandmother didn’t laugh. She didn’t see the condition of necessity as something to be played with.
I never made the bedazzled walker for her and I never stopped thinking it was a good idea. We need to have fun within these places that cause social discomfort. To be able to embrace and play with our desire to adorn and enhance ourselves in both actual necessity (like a walker) and chosen necessity (like make-up, nails, hair, clothing…).
These items and pictures are the result of that. One tool of enhancement, like clothing or jewelry, doesn’t have to compromise another tool of enhancement like the ability to hear or walk with greater ease. Both are enriching our experiences in the world and both are admitting that we need and want help with the conditions that exist within us at any given moment. When used to enhance joy and enjoyment, these are all equally and differently tools of life and living well.
I loved my grandmother deeply and I miss her in this world and I hope these pictures would make her smile.
These are the "student" anvils we made by mounting 14" long sections of railroad rail to wood stands.
You will need ribbon, a measuring device (I used a sewing ruler), sharp scissors, pins, and a sewing machine (which is not in this photo for obvious spatial purposes).
this is my environmental still life for phase 4.
took a bit of time to set up but my dad really helped out on this a lot!
(This explanation written after jcoterhals wrote his comment).
I was attending a two day workshop on how to conduct team reviews after companies have ran its development dialogues. Then my colleague Thomas suggested to use a simple tool for feedback on the quality of the training. The tool works fine in brief meetings as well.
1. Ask all meeting participants reflect for 30 seconds on the quality of the meeting.
2. Participants must choose one or two of the fingers' topics.
3. Take the round.
There are five fingers to choose from (suprise!):
Thumb: What was good? What did you find really useful?
Index finger: What was mind provoking, making you reflect or see things from a different point of view?
Middle finger: What did you not like? (as in "sod off")
Ring finger: What kind of new network or relations to people did you gain from this meeting that you value?
Little finger: What was you hoping for in this meeting that you didn't get?
Result: The person having chaired the meeting takes out at least some impression of the value of the meeting as experienced by those attending.
Ruined and forgotten in the middle of a housing estate in north Leeds, is the Corn mill, Horsforth's oldest mill.
Built between 1772 and 1787 by William Wright out of the local sandstone, it would originally have been water powered by Oil Mill Beck. Like much of north Leeds, the land was used for agriculture, and this place would have played an important role in the milling of corn from the nearby fields.
By the 1980's however, the mill had long ceased to be used for its original purpose, and was used for storage for Dickinson's Auto Spares, an island in a sea of scrapped cars and rusting metal, something that continued until 2002. Much of one part of the mill has been carefully dismantled, each stone being numbered and labeled, leaving behind the remains of a wonderful stone flagged floor and ornate cast iron pillars.
Inside is dark and shadowy, scaffolding poles shore up the building from inside, and the floor is littered with the remains of its days as an storage for scrap: windsreen wipers, and a petrol cap lie part buried in the dirt.
The building is Grade II listed, and is a very rare example of a corn mill of this period. It is believed that some parts could even date back as far as the 14th century and have been built by the monks of Kirkstall Abbey, a mile or so South East.
Today it stands as a ruin, contrasted by the new housing development that has grown up around it, waiting to be rebuilt, block by block and bought back to life.
English
Image of a dragonfly taken with a PackshotCreator photo studio by Creative Tools AB.
Swedish
Produktbild av en trollslända tagen med en PackshotCreator fotostudio av Creative Tools AB.
A view of the Tools Department of Sears at the Neshaminy Mall. In the shot tools are just piled in the middle of the aisle because there is no place to put them.
Neshaminy Mall in Neshaminy, Pennsylvania was built in 1966 and officially opened in 1968. One of the original anchors in the mall is Sears which is a double level store. The store has a few unique assets with a very interesting design for the entrance.
18.07.2019
Building on the five-year vision of Addressing Europe’s Unfinished Business, Tools For Changemakers strengthens its training component while embarking on a three-year journey of exploration of the link between personal and collective identities in Europe, the rise of populism and nationalism in different European regions, the need to belong for old and new community members, unaddressed collective traumas, and the urgency to work with these issues in order to build more trust and cohesion in Europe.
www.iofc.ch/experience-caux-forum/main-events/tools-chang...
Photo: Paula Mariane