Was going to try to get the rust off my father’s crappy old hand plane (since restoring it would get me out of having to buy a hand plane of my own for now), but it doesn’t look like I’m going to get that far this week. Spent a couple of hours moving books around to clear some shelf space instead.
Reattaching my towel rack to my wall. It was held in with drywall anchors but those have failed so will either repatch and reattach or glue it back on. Depends on how done with it I am
Ideally yes… This is a previous owners mistake I’m fixing. My options here are: reattach back using another drywall anchor (not my preferred option). Anchor one side into a stud and if the other side reaches it the other side into another stud and patch the holes or glue it back in place (again not ideal). I’m leaning towards option B here.
That’s a big help, thank you! I spent some time on it today and I think I figured out what’s actually leaking, but this kit should make it easier to just repair it
What helps me to do a project efficiently is to focus on limitations first: be it the budget, size, materials or tools. If I have the everything ready to create a prototype right off the bat, I do it and iterate on mistakes.
This structures my mind and makes creation process to be more challenging/rewarding
CAD software is probably want you want to look at, I used FreeCAD for woodworking and floorplans some years ago, not sure how good it is for 3D printing/modeling since I regrettably haven’t gotten into either of them but I did get a lot of use out of it for 2D designs.
You can register for a free hobby license for the scaled down version, or a free educational license of the full version. It has good CAD capabilities and on the CAM side can generate g-code for 3D printing and CNC, or else allow you to export STL models direct to a slicer.
That sounds awesome. I’ve never used CAD software but I might as well start, and also I have access to a 3d printer, so I might as well learn something for that as well. I’ll give it a try!
I’ve used sketchup in the past, and it works great, but for more recent projects I’ve moved over to blender.
I don’t go into crazy details for projects, so mainly I just need real world measurements and units, and the ability for my wife to be able to visualize the project as a whole. She usually designs everything and I just make it work.
If it’s really complex I start making a process for it, start to finish, if it’s moderately complex (rebuilding a car for example) I just write out a checklist of everything that needs to be done to finish it and cross it out as I go.
If you mean actually designing the thing and making sure all the parts would actually fit together? I just draw it up in Solidworks. Easier said than done if you’ve never touched CAD software before but plenty of incredible things ngs are also made without this kind of planning, sometimes it’s best just to plow forward and solve one problem at a time.
What do you mean by “cleaning” the hardwood floor? What needs to be cleaned off them? Is the contractor going to sand the floors and recoat them with something? If it’s just a matter of tearing up the carpets, I wouldn’t pay $2700 for that. If the floors need sanding, I absolutely would never do that myself. (source: I used to own a floor sander and realized I shouldn’t do that myself.)
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