I made something.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 10/04/2016 at 11:56 • Filed to: None

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I could buzz off to Home Despot and buy a steel bracket for $10, or spend an hour making a bracket like this one. Nice grain on that tuba-foe, no? Select/Surface Dry. The tuba-foe is milled to 1-1/4 x 3-1/4 net. I was too lazy to install the dado blade in the table saw, so just used repeated passes to cut the groove. My theory is that this will also provide more surface for the glue to purchase. I’m going to pick up some water-curing (Gorilla) glue for the two other brackets I need to make.

Maker, I am.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/04/2016 at 12:06

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Nice. I can’t saw a straight line.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 10/04/2016 at 12:08

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Thanks. Closest to art that I will ever come.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/04/2016 at 12:39

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Anything you make with your hands, and take the time to make it well, is art.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/04/2016 at 13:47

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Nicely done! That sucker is a hell of a lot stronger than anything you could buy!

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/04/2016 at 14:00

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What’s it going to hold up?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 10/04/2016 at 15:04

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Thanks. It’s a a bit on the over-buff side, but it was my first such attempt.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheRealBicycleBuck 10/04/2016 at 15:04

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Sheets of plywood on edge. There will be three of them, widely spaced.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 10/04/2016 at 15:05

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I try to make each item a bit more elegant than the last, and they’re all functional things.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/04/2016 at 15:19

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Nothing wrong with that!

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/04/2016 at 15:21

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It’s sort of like the difference between Russian and American planes. They both fly and drop bombs, but US planes look better doing it.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 10/04/2016 at 15:27

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To my thinking, too much material makes it less elegant.

Last night, I cut the pieces for three copies of the bracket and now I can hardly wait to finish the day so I can to assemble another one. (I made a jig and the glue has to set in the jig...)

I think of myself as a fabricator, rather than a carpenter. I’d work with metal if I had the money to take up welding.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 10/04/2016 at 15:29

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Less can be much more.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/04/2016 at 15:31

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Said Robert Browning, and stolen by Mies van der Rohe.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 10/04/2016 at 15:47

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Go ahead, ruin the ride.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/04/2016 at 15:54

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Didn’t mean to.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/04/2016 at 16:02

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True, but I think these have a just right amount.

Learning to weld is something I desperately want to do. My wife and I were going to take a course in it together, when she got preggo. Now there’s just no time. Someday!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 10/04/2016 at 18:24

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You didn’t; I was kidding.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 10/04/2016 at 18:25

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Maybe in about 18 years...

What do you teach?

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/04/2016 at 18:46

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Maybe 17 years now :)

I teach middle school shop, woods, CAD, and basic sheet metal fabrication. We put things together with rivets instead of welding though.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 10/04/2016 at 21:30

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I did all of that in high school and it made me the maker I am today. And we’ve gotten almost completely away from it. We used rivets that we pounded flat with hammers. Today, pop rivets are a favorite of mine, whenever I can use them. I did machine shop, also...

When I was in high school I was assigned to two homerooms and one of those was a SPED homeroom that met in the metal shop. The teacher, Mr. Sharon, would give me passes to class whenever I cut, no questions asked. Got me through my senior year.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/04/2016 at 21:46

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We use the old school rivets that you pound flat with the hammer. I tried using pop-rivets for one certain part that was hard to get to with a hammer, but quickly learned that middle schoolers are not responsible enough to take the stick from the last pop river out, BEFORE jamming in the new one. I got really good at disassembling and reassembling those rivet guns those few weeks.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 10/05/2016 at 13:32

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You must have good middle schoolers. Mine would have taken out the pins so that they could throw them at each other.

Do your boys do the Water Bottle Challenge?

Have you worked with the brown water-cured glue at all? I like it, but it’s messy

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/05/2016 at 14:07

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They are good. Not just boys though. It’s a required class, I get every single kid in the school.

We don’t do the water bottle challenge. What’s that?

I pretty much stick to regular wood glue. Hasn’t done me wrong yet :)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 10/05/2016 at 14:35

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The water cured stuff foams and fills in a textured surface and gets lots of grab. I have a thing about adhesives...

How’s that LT bomber wagon doing?

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/05/2016 at 17:21

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The wagon is running great, and I love it, but the rust is getting worse and worse. I have it listed at a “let’s see if any one is dumb enough to pay this” price on craigslist. The answer is no, not even the spammers have contacted me about it :)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 10/05/2016 at 18:20

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Paste the link. Or send it to oliphant.chuckerbutty@gmail.com

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/05/2016 at 18:37

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http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/cto/5809234909.html

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/05/2016 at 22:56

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I found something I wouldn’t mind replacing the Roadmaster with, a Police Tahoe, so I lowered my price tonight

http://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/cto/5792173502.html

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 10/06/2016 at 00:46

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Chicagoland, eh? I lived in Oak Park and attended Horace Mann Elementary. We had friends in Wheaton. My mother lived in Sandwich and Plano.

That Tahoe looks pretty nice. I own a ‘97 GMC Safari, and that Tahoe is so late-nineties . Buttons, seat cushions, et cetera.

I noticed that the CL posting for the Roadsmasher didn’t say anything about demolition derby or autocross... Or the A/C evaporator that was extracted by a tree branch...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 10/06/2016 at 00:56

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I didn’t mean to suggest that your class had only boys, only that my boys to the water bottle flip challenge

The boys come into my classroom and start throwing their water bottles around and it’s one of those things that drives me nuts. So I throw away five or ten water bottles a day.

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shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/06/2016 at 07:25

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Ohhhhh, no they don’t do that.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 10/06/2016 at 07:29

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I think moving from the mid 90's to the late 90's would be good be me. There’s an ‘05 Tahoe PPV also for sale in my budget, which by many measures is better, but I already have an ‘06 Sierra with the exact same dashboard.