rrmccabe wrote:
9 hours ago, rrmccabe said:Yea only “little people” around my shop look like this.
Oh do tell please, or did I miss something?
We live on an acreage and have raccoons for friends!
The one in picture is Buddy. We bottle fed him from a baby. Unfortunately he is no longer with us, but he thought we were his parents. See my avatar.
But currently we have at least 3 that show up every night for cookies.
Thats awesome, I have raccoons that dig up the mulch in my yard constantly looking for grubs. Skunks come through as well. I’m in Los Angeles but less than 1/2 a mile from the Angeles national forest. Its not uncommon to see coyotes on my street after dark. There was even a bear a while back getting an escort through the streets from the sheriffs dept.
Maybe I should make friends with the raccoons and they will stop digging my yard up.
We have never had any damage from any of them with the exception of Buddy who would often steal my tools and I would have to chase him down to get them back.
This is him about a week after we got him
And this was him 3 years later just before getting hit by a car.
Absolutely the best pet ever. He kept us laughing ALL the time.
Slow process but got it 80% done. Have a half dozen or so more tools to mount.
Will remove all the mounts to apply poly and then put them back on.
And build a dove tail drawer. Not sure If I am doing one large or three small.
Looks great. I’ve been hankering for a tool cabinet the past 24 hrs. Doesn’t help I just purchased another plane online today and hoping for another one tomorrow. Need a good place to put these!
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rrmccabe wrote:
4 hours ago, rrmccabe said:Slow process but got it 80% done. Have a half dozen or so more tools to mount.
Will remove all the mounts to apply poly and then put them back on.
And build a dove tail drawer. Not sure If I am doing one large or three small.
Beautiful work Rich, looks fantastic.
Looks good dude, Raccoons in these parts are far from pets lol but hey man whatever offers companion ship, they are very clever creatures
Well time to tear this thing back down and do the final sand and polyurethane.
Finished the tool mounts last night. Have some extra space on inside sidewalls for the new white rubber mallet and two rasps I have coming but can add those after its mounted on the wall.
I need to get some materials to make the small drawer(s) , but that’s another day.
Progress and setback.
The progress was I got the first coat of poly on the tool cabinet and all the tool mounts.
The setback back was my Jorgensen clamps showed up today. The six small 6″ clamps were fine and are Jorgensen brand as they were supposed to be this time. However, the five 24″ clamps I ordered are apparently a “HD” version which is not really a bad thing but the bar is about 20% thicker and the fixed head is taller and deeper.
So, I had shorten one section of my clamp rack and now rebuilding a deeper section with 5 wider slots to accommodate the new heavier clamps. As I type this I just got thinking I better check the width as well as I might have to stretch the spacing out which will involve moving the rest to the right a few inches.
Now tell me, how much fun would it be if every plan rolled out perfectly? Your doing a great job, walk it off and start over….lol
Haha, its all good and looks like the spacing is OK. I have another block cut for these 5 clamps. After dinner I will go out and sand it and give it a coat of poly and should be ready to screw in place and hold clamps tomorrow.
I think they call this the money shot. I need to pick up some wood to build the little dovetail drawers and have a couple more tools to build mounts for but this thing is “in service”
And the Sketch up drawing. Having everything in CAD saves a lot of potential screw ups along the way and the completed project usually looks just like the drawing.
And redid the clamp fingers so the new “HD” version of the Jorgensen clamps would fit. As you can see the very left five 24″ F clamps are a lot bigger than the next three. My fault for building something without the product in hand.
sweet deal looks really good, but I have to ask…..is the camero at least a big block?
No, pretty sure the Camaro is not a big block. Its actually dealership advertising artwork from 1967. Based on the trim I would say its a 6 cylinder or 327 small block.
I used to be into vintage Camaros and actually owned a legit 1967 Z28/RS.
I kinda figured because of the hub cabs. I was a big block chevelle guy myself and also a 1956 chev nomad, that I raced competition bracket with, hence the screen name comp56……I actually got the name from John Force…….I was pitting 3 or 4 stalls across from his team @Brainerd International raceway in the mid 1980’s, he walked over after a run and said hey nice run there with your Comp56……so it stuck
Well that is a cool story on the screen name !
I have had lots of big/small block stuff over the years but have pretty much gravitated to small blocks.
Now its LS powered stuff.
PS: Just noticed it has the nose stripe on it and is a SS. So probably a SS 350 car.
Few close-ups of the tool mounts. Just have a rubber mallet to build a mount for.
Nice Rich! Love those Fastcaps too 🙂
Yea its hard to beat their tapes for shop use. The owner of the company is a good friend of mine so keep up on their stuff 🙂
Working on the final step today. Drawers.
Done. Next project 😉
nice job, funny my 6 or 7 tape measures all gather at my computer desk along with all pencils……that’s why I got my wife to sew me a tight fitting pocket on my apron for remote for dust collector a lot easier to find apron, I would misplace that in about 8 minutes…..
Well today I finished up the little mounts for the recent purchases. It appears I need to buy one more plane to fill in the blank spot 🙂
That’s a sweet setup nice work