Hood
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I would need bigger than that I reckonAre you going to randomly stick them on the **** of your strides and the seat to keep you on the bike
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Tangledfeet
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A friend gave me some spalted beech a while ago and rather than just make a bowl (which I could still do...) I thought I'd have a go at doing something different different with it; it isn't a stool but a small side table for drinks and remote controls, etc. Made the steelwork a while ago and finally got round to painting it; tried Hammerite and a brush a few days ago and made such an **** of it that I ended up just taking it all back off and using Hycote etch primer and matt black spray cans - made a much better job of it.
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Tangledfeet
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My Old Landy
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The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Or you designe and build a wood oven to dry it out for us all.It would be worth my fuel to hook up the trailer and pay you a visit @8obwaiting the 10 to 15 years while it dries out may be a problem though!
My Old Landy
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I did think about that, I watched a Canadian chap on YT make one from an old upright freezer and incandescent lamps.......Or you designe and build a wood oven to dry it out for us all.
8ob
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It would be worth my fuel to hook up the trailer and pay you a visit @8ob
When I had the Woodmizer sawmill we used to slab everything to 50mm ish, thats good to go in about two years if you keep it under cover. Its about an inch per year so bigger beams do take a long time, that said most guys like to work with green Oak
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My Old Landy
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Wow, they are beautifulWhen I had the Woodmizer sawmill we used to slab everything to 50mm ish, thats good to go in about two years if you keep it under cover. Its about an inch per year so bigger beams do take a long time, that said most guys like to work with green Oak
I am lost for words!! What do you do with the stuff now if you no longer have the mill?
8ob
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Wow, they are beautiful
The mill went because it couldnt cut anything bigger 32" diameter, the gear on the trailer was about its limit, the stuff in the lower pictures are typical of the size so we either needed to get a much bigger mill or stop so I got rid of it. If a huge mill turned up for the right money I would get back into it, for the meantime I sell it on.
Some of these bigger boards had to be cut using a chainsaw mill, thats no fun
Other Daniel
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The mill went because it couldnt cut anything bigger 32" diameter, the gear on the trailer was about its limit, the stuff in the lower pictures are typical of the size so we either needed to get a much bigger mill or stop so I got rid of it. If a huge mill turned up for the right money I would get back into it, for the meantime I sell it on.
Some of these bigger boards had to be cut using a chainsaw mill, thats no fun
Some lovely looking slabs there.
brewdexta
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I've been pratting about with the energy sensor I bought recently and have it somewhere close to useful now. The sensor fits over the flashing LED on the electricity meter, the LED flashes once for each Wh used so a 1000 flashes is 1kWh. This counter is queried via a raspberry pi where I can put the value into a time series database which can then be displayed in a graphing tool. First attempt showed cumulative use, I need to sort out the Y axis as its just using the very growing counter values.
Then I looked at showing what was happening throughout the day, so messed about with the graphing tool for a while and got this. The peak is where I turned on the dishwasher.
The combined them into one dashboard, you can see how the peak lines up with the cumulative graph getting steeper. It will be interesting to see what happens when we charge the EV. I still have a bit of checking to do to make sure the graphs are showing what they should but they are looking promising.
I have some current sensors coming in a couple of weeks that I will clamp onto the main incomer to the consumer unit and another on the live to the workshop. There's also a voltage monitor, these go into a raspberry pi using a daughter board like this so I can compare what is being used to what is being metered plus separate the house power usage from the workshop usage and also add Irms, Vrms, RealP, ApparentP, PFactor.
I know, I should get out more
Then I looked at showing what was happening throughout the day, so messed about with the graphing tool for a while and got this. The peak is where I turned on the dishwasher.
The combined them into one dashboard, you can see how the peak lines up with the cumulative graph getting steeper. It will be interesting to see what happens when we charge the EV. I still have a bit of checking to do to make sure the graphs are showing what they should but they are looking promising.
I have some current sensors coming in a couple of weeks that I will clamp onto the main incomer to the consumer unit and another on the live to the workshop. There's also a voltage monitor, these go into a raspberry pi using a daughter board like this so I can compare what is being used to what is being metered plus separate the house power usage from the workshop usage and also add Irms, Vrms, RealP, ApparentP, PFactor.
I know, I should get out more
Years ago I took a spare 'pre-payment' coin meter that I had removed from a bed sit that was in the house when we bought it in 1984, gutted the coin mechanism and put an opto sensor on the disk. Then the buffered and opto-isolated output from this was wired to an interrupt input on a microprocessor development board (years before PCs!) . I wired this meter in series with the boards meter and for many years plotted electricity (and water) usage with this system.
That extra meter was still in place when we sold the house in 2007 and never once was it's presence questioned despite numerous meter readings, electrical condition reports and surveys !
That extra meter was still in place when we sold the house in 2007 and never once was it's presence questioned despite numerous meter readings, electrical condition reports and surveys !
DennisCA
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I've also done some monitoring, I fitted a temp sensor to one of my fresh air vents to do some calculations. I have got a heat recovery ventilation system where the whole houses air is run through a heat exchanger, which heats the incoming air and cools the outgoing air. Doing some math I get that the heat recovery is 60-65% efficient, which is less than I had hoped. The ideal range is in the 80% range.
I am going to have to do some fiddling of the system. I will start with cleaning the heat exchanger and try and swap in new filters. It's a sensitive system apparently, the fresh air vents (placed in bed rooms, livingroom, sauna) have to be in the right proportion to the extracting vents(kitchen, mudroom, bathrooms), and the total result should be a slight under pressure in the house. I got the original plans where it's all calculated so I can use that for a reference, but I would need an aneometer to diagnose it properly.
I am going to have to do some fiddling of the system. I will start with cleaning the heat exchanger and try and swap in new filters. It's a sensitive system apparently, the fresh air vents (placed in bed rooms, livingroom, sauna) have to be in the right proportion to the extracting vents(kitchen, mudroom, bathrooms), and the total result should be a slight under pressure in the house. I got the original plans where it's all calculated so I can use that for a reference, but I would need an aneometer to diagnose it properly.
have one here if you want to borrow it, small hotwire . You sort postage there and back, and you can borrow it easily enough. Old analogue scale, airflow developments TA6000 but works fine.
let me know if that's of interest.. .
