What did you make today?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Aw Steve, really? You're too young and vital for two olives.

[SteveDallas]

I didn't realize there was an age <-> olive correlation.

[Gravdigr]

What did you make today?

A sinkful of dirty dishes.

[footfootfoot]

A small amount of acid hardens gelatin. At least the gelatin on film.

I washed and sterilized a couple hundred bottles, then bottled up two different pale ales. I have a Russian imperial stout that is ready to be bottled right now.

Working on a new recipe for a pale summer ale similar to a cream ale or Ballantine XXX from the pre-prohibition days.

[glatt]

Last weekend I was volunteering at one of those work on a needy person's house things. And I had a little trouble keeping track of my tools. I had one tool box and a couple of buckets. And other volunteers kept borrowing tools out of the buckets without my knowledge. So I've been looking online at the cost of tool boxes. Then yesterday, I went to the monthly Arlington flea market and picked up two brand new tool boxes for a song.

So now I have 3 tool boxes, but they are all different colors. So I wanted to personalize them with a distinctive mark. A while ago I read about the origins of the Steal Your Face logo, and thought I would try something similar. I cut a stencil from an old Wheaties box in our recycling bin, and found a couple nice colors of spray paint on our shelves.

Slapped this together pretty fast, and it looks a little amateur, but it's very distinctive.

[monster]

Now you just need to mark all your tools nice work..

[xoxoxoBruce]

Amateur, smamateur, it works and that's the bottom line. If it looked all professional like it came on the box, it wouldn't convey the message that it's somebody's personal box. Good job.

[footfootfoot]

Bottled the stout last week and made a batch of pale ale this weekend.

[glatt]

I needed a drum sander to sand a bunch of brackets I made. So I got out my two hole saws and cut up some maple scraps. Glued them together. Put a bolt through them. Chucked them in the drill press to sand them smooth. Cut a slot for sandpaper held by a nail, and then viola.

[busterb]

Dude. That's cool. I got my junk at Harbor, but it works sometimes. I only need a drum sander sometimes .

[xoxoxoBruce]

Well done, the nail hole to anchor the abrasive is a clever detail.

[zippyt]

I agree but i would be worry about the balance ,, ,
think about using a dowel ,
it would be lighter and do the same thing ,
plus it would hurt less if it flew out ,
just my 2 centovious

[glatt]

Dowel is a good idea. The first piece of sand paper tore fairly quickly because I had it spinning pretty fast. I used a shorter piece of sandpaper the second time to save paper, and put the nail in from the bottom side of drum where it can't fly out because the bottom of the drum is surrounded by the sacrificial table top. But a dowel is still a good idea to cut down on vibrations with it slightly out of balance.

[Griff]

Smart move.

I installed two nucs in our beehives yesterday before our dash to greater Philly and back, so tired.

Off topic Dropkick Murphy, Volbeat, and for that matter Jason Bonham's zep tribute were all terrific.

[footfootfoot]

Try a flat bar of aluminum. If the hole is slightly eccentric, the bar will grab the paper as you turn it a 1/2 turn and pull the paper tight. If you want to get really tiny with it, you can cut a section of cheap camping pad, (the kind with the weave pattern, not egg crate) and contact cement it to the sander.

Impressive job, btw.