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You could bury a rare earth magnet on the inside and make a turned handle with the matching magnet in the end to "pull" open the pull out.

Yes, 6 hours to be exact. 5 miles round trip, 2.5 straight up and 2.5 straight down.? I am not saying I am not going to get out there, just not going after the super strenuous stuff.

A couple of weeks ago my wife and I took a trip to Northern California with my youngest daughter and her family. Our may objective was visit Mt Lassen National Park and a State Park called Burney Falls. We stayed in an AirBnB home in the town of Redding which was about an hour from each park. First time using a AirBnB home but after this experience I think any time we stay in one spot for any length of time we will do this again. It was less then have the price of a hotel per night and you have the place to yourself and a full kitchen if you want to save money eating out. Redding has a glass foot bridge that goes across the Sacramento River that is 710 feet long but the unique feature of the bridge is the tower that holds the suspension cables is a working sundial. This is the tower. Here you can see the white arc of hour markers. Close up of the Noon marker. Burney Falls is a small state park with camping and a lake but the main attraction is this water fall. The two large flows of water you see come from a river above but all of the water you see come out of the rock face is fed by hundreds of under ground springs and flows like this constantly year around. The big physical adventure of the trip was hiking to the summit of Mt. Lassen. It last erupted in 1915 and is still considered active. The trail head starts at 8500 feet in elevation and the summit is 10,476 and the trail is 2 1/2 miles to the summit, so you gain almost 2000 feet in 2 1/2 miles which is a pretty aggressive hike. In this picture you can see the summit on the right and the last set of switchbacks on the left. The switchbacks top out on the summit ridge and leave you with a little more than a quarter of a mile to the summit. This is about 200 yards from the summit. My wife and I having been to the summit about ten years ago and have the pictures to prove it, stopped here and the rest of the group went on to the summit. Were I am standing taking this picture is pretty much the rim of the volcano. Mt Lassen is what they call a plug volcano. In the foreground is the rim that I am standing on and on the other side of the snow is is the plug. After an eruption a plug of molten rock starts to push up and seal the crater. They say that this happens so slow that you could stand there and watch with out being harmed... I'm just going to take their word on it. We took our masks off for a group picture close to the summit. Actually we only wore them when passing folks on the trail. Thats me in the back with my head cut off then left to right my Grandson's girl friend, My youngest daughter, my grand daughter, my wife and my grandson. Missing from the picture is my son-in-law who tweaked his back moving an ice chest in the their Jeep the night before, so he stayed behind. I did learn one thing, I have been to a lot of summits but at 68 I think this sort of hard core hiking is behind me this one was a chore for the grand parents of the crowd but glad we did it with the youngsters.

Also a lot of the warning points at WTO get issued to drive by posters they rarely come back to see their prize.

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That is the trick to shop time. Do projects for the family that the TRUE head of the family wants and do them the way that she wants and your reputation as a good listener and follower of directions should provide you personal shop time as payment. ?

Great job. Simple projects can be satisfying.

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I find it interesting how different we all are in getting to the finish line on a project. I have never used calipers in the shop but I do tend to mill like parts at the same time. If I am shooting for a 1/2 thickness and it ends up being 7/16, as long as all the parts that are doing like tasks are the same thickness I am good to go. I lean very heavily on relative dimensioning, it really limits the amount of unwanted scraps. But having said that, Fine Woodworking, on their Instagram feed had a "tip" from one of their readers were he uses playing cards as feeler gauges to fine tune a setting on his table saw fence. And then somebody responded to this by saying they keep a feeler gauge in their apron for the same purpose because he found playing cards to be too inconsistent in thickness. All I have to add to that is these two people need to find a hobby because they are taking the accuracy of woodworking way, way to seriously.

The infeed side folds up no problem but on the out feed side if you have it permanently plumbed for you dust collection the DC fitting gets in the way.

When I attached mine they both went on pretty naturally to end up looking like you out feed table. I always figured they were meant to be this way to help with snipe. And because I never get snipe I never attempted to adjust them any other way.

I am just now getting to this issue and was looking at the Becksvoort article. It is a really cool concept, it makes the two drawers look like they are floating in air. I have put this on my list of things I really want to try. I wondered how it would look in the middle with nothing on either side of the drawers, it would really look to be suspended in the air. I am also going to give his rocks as drawer pulls a try.

This one - What Time Is it? You Mean Now? And this one - When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It. These are the two I have read.

If you haven't read his book you should, its a hoot.

I have a garage for my Drill, Driver and jigsaw with the charger on one side and my oscillating spindle sander on the other.

I have them on mine, they came as part of a kit with the planer. I can't say whether they help or not as I have always had them and never tried it without. I wouldn't think they are necessary my old delta lunch box did a pretty good job with proper technique, just a hint of snipe and it was shorter then my DeWalt.

Bad decision, really bad.

Yea I was going to ask the same thing. I always use the Chicklet size dominos in panel glue ups for alignment.

That really did come out nice. If she starts to relapse just let her know that pallets a sprayed with pesticides and other bad things numerous times in their life.

Its looking pretty good Drew.

The PEC double squares are the ones you want to look for at Harry Epsteins. The PEC's don't have any plastic on them and where the one in you picture is black, the PECs are Blu or Blue-Gray. I have 4 of the PEC's and they are solid, three of the four inch and one six inch.

I would probably take it down some then sticker again for four or five days. Then do your final thickness and start construction. Once you are down to final thickness if the parts are going to set for a day or so with out being assembled just stack then or lay them flat, don't sticker them and don't leave them on any cast iron surfaces. Cast iron can be like a sponge and suck moisture out which may cause the wood to still move some AND rust the cast iron... Go ahead, ask me how I know this.?

That is pretty cool. Creates a legacy on the new bench. I am looking forward to seeing that.

Then I think that is what you should do.?

Federal criminals at that because it would be a crime across state lines... Go Big or Go Home. ?