Frivolous At Heart

This time, for the whole family. Getting the whole family on track and in better health than when I left them 😉 I use to juice a lot when I had my own place but school took over and I moved in with others and put my most valuable machine away for a period of time. Now it’s out of hibernation and ready to rock!

Just for fun with the Worx 18″ Saw. This saw is a beast – without any gas mixing – torque on demand with a squeeze of the trigger 😉

My lovely cousin needed a box to set her new printer on top so that it doesn’t sit on the floor. I had some time and a lot of scraps sitting around – I quickly threw something together – I’m not a carpenter by all means but I made it work! She absolutely loves it so I’m happy 😉

A box fan can be had for around $300 – I can’t justify spending that kind of money on a circulation fan – so I made one from scraps and a circulating fan we found in the attic! This thing pushes some serious CFM!

Just a simple box I threw together along with chicken wire and some electrical work. This cost me roughly $50 to make because I bought the wheel kit and the extension cord.

In this photo, you see the on/off switch? Well a few months later, I added an extra outlet to plug my drill in or my charger etc. It was a convenience factor for when I’m working near the table saw and I need to plug in my jig saw or something..

I’m helping install an I-Beam that is 30ft in length. No one has ever installed one before and so I naturally took the job onto myself and installed it alone. The beam roughly weights 2000lbs. It wasn’t hard to install – the only time consuming part of the ordeal is and was in the PREP work.

I had to make support pillars that would hold the beam to be winched up slowly – 2ft at a time. Here are some photos of my weekend 😉

It’s up and sitting on two 6×6 pressure treated beams. It was fun! The house looks incredibly more spacious after the beam was installed!

Pulling the beam through and setting it on the wall was also tricky but with a winch, you can move mountains!

I’m making a new portable colloidal silver generator and so far so good. Using a 1 gang electrical box and stuffing all the electronics inside. I got a cigar box magnetic stirrer off of eBay for $50. The reason I’m making this portable generator is because it will be powered by the ubiquitous micro-USB phone charger that everyone seems to have around the house. Inside I’m boosting 5v to 30v w/ a 1k ohm resistor to run the generator at 30mA. Then I’m stepping down the voltage to 12v for the magnetic stirrer. Seems to be working nicely. The power supply must be 2A max to have enough power to power the stirrer.

Don’t you hate it when the sink is clogged? I specifically asked the ladies of the house if they had ever dumped oil down the drain – yeah yeah… Shouldn’t even ask because there won’t be an honest ănswer. I tried the conventional way of unclogging it – snake – didn’t work out so well. I just dog it up and ran new piping like a BOSS

I bought a table saw from a guy for $75 bucks (saw + some blades). Saw ended up being $35 or something like that. Took it home and made a cart for it a year later. It was a great deal. Now I can rip sheet goods 50″ wide. The saw was made in 1982/1983 – can’t remember. Nice craftsman and buttery smooth! Can’t complain!

I had always wanted a way to save my oil after frying a batch of fried chicken wings and used a funnel and napkins to do so. I came up with an ingenious idea of doing so. I used two food grade containers and an aluminum strainer purchased from Amazon.

This thing was tiny and I could see good use of it if you were frying eggs or meat and wanted to save the oil. I deep fry so I use massive amounts of oil compared to frying eggs. I needed a way to do so.

Took two containers (Rubbermaid 7J72) and cut one hole inside the bottom of one container and the other hole in the lid itself. The containers snap together so it was convenient to choose this route. The aluminum strainer fit perfectly into the cut out. Works extremely well.

One of the things I like to eat while drinking some Budlight is Muc Kho.

I got tired of making it on the electric range, gas range, and on a fire.

So a few weeks ago I started using a bread toaster. Figured why in the heck not?!!! Come to my amazement, it worked great!!! I hope this catches on. Makes life so much easier b/c I can put the toaster right underneath the rang hood and it sucks all the foul smell from burning squid! Cheers