Increasing radius screw chunker?
GC
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Yes 
I need to try one, building wood processing machines are fun 
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I was going to guess Op Art. I guess itās because you kind of have that bohemian look about you.
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What thickness are you going to use for the flights?
GC
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Good advice SteveU, not that im burning books often, it feels wrong in some way, but sometimes itās good to save the energy contained in a bad, cheap, paperback.
I remember the trouble iāve had trying to burn old telephone books, almost impossible if done the wrong way. But that is no problem anymoreā¦ no wall-connected phones around here anymore, and no telephone-books since long time.
Only my father is upset sometimes, there arenāt any telephone-books in the mail anymore.
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Tom, i take that as a half-insult, im no friend of lazy, bohemian artists 
Joke aside, sometimes a little artistic genetics could be good, for example: appreciate the beauty of a perfect weld.
By the way: i see my homemade engine as a kind of artwork, because it doesnāt fill any needed function, just to see and listen toā¦ so, maybeā¦ 
Well, no, i will NEVER wear a dress, or a beret, so, no im no bohemian artist 
Im not perfectly āunprejudicedā eitherā¦
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Hi Garry, im going to use 6mm (close to 1/4") Hardox steel, itās what i have on hand.
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You are working on your new patented frisbee design for your frisbee golf league. Flip it one way and it has a hook, flip it over for a mean slice. Perfect for getting around trees or shrubs or other obstacles.
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GoranK. I am with your father upset by no more thin paper telephone books.
Two months into COVID lock-ins back in February, March of 2020 the stores had evolved down to rationing the purchase of toilet paper to one single small package. Too often that was a single one roll package.
Our locked in household was two minor girls; their mother; my wife, and myself.
We were using up one roll of toilet paper a day. That was not my complaint.
It was that the two adult women who gone out shopping would forget; or not see the need to get that one allowed "package"of toilet paper.
Using my old-man Seniors-Only, special early two hours store availability I would aways bring home at least one roll, or a two pac, every time.
So I hauled out an old thick set-back telephone book I been saving. Pages tore out. And crumped -smoothed - crumpled; again and again until somewhat softened.
āGirls and Ladies this is what we have and will be down to using until we can get a more reliable supply of the good stuff.ā
Even now stores shopping my wife still only buys six-pac of T.P. And this when we are down to one roll left in each bathroom.
Iāll go find the 18 and 24 pacs and drop into her cart. She complains. I want at low point minimum of 90 rolls in the household.
Top-Down, over ed-u-ma-cated, know-better elitist Dictators you fooled me once.
Never again will I be such an easy fool.
S.U.
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Today i finally put some effort on my lead-acid battery charger, no super fix, just so it serves me some more.
This charger is of superior quality, it handles enormousamounts of abuse, and still works, made in Italy if i remember correctly.
I picked it from a dumpster at the workplace i was before (the car salesmen throw it because it was to heavy for them-sissysā¦)
Iāve used it for around 15 years, and really havenāt been nice to it: Iāve run over it-twice, and wife one time, iāve forgot it and drove away, dragging it in the wires through the town.
Iāve forgot it outdoors, in rain and snow, multiple times, longest period a year.
Iāve dropped it in used motor oil, and so onā¦, it just keeps working, but some stuff happens, handle broke first, some switches broke, the fancy electronic amp and volt display broke down slowly, one digit at a time.
So, now, after shocking me a couple of times (it wanted to tell me something) iāve re-done the wiring, taken out the burned automatic electronics,
And put on a more āanalogueā amp-meter.
And a new switch between 12 and 24 volt, no more guessing.
It also got a very fancy weather protection roof.
Now, maybe i should design like a āroll-cageā out of thin pipes, to protect the ampmeter, and act as a carrying handle?
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Goran,
Thanks for the battery charger story. You are quite a character.
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Happened to me with a bush of Oleander. Didnt notice anything. Why wife saw an empty spot in the garden and phoned me. After inspecting the van I found it. Roots almost worn away 
. 3 ml/ 5 km drive. But how did you not notice anything? Loud music?
Btw. Better make the protection pipes now, before you have to
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Gƶran, I couldnāt help but noticing - under your charger you seem to keep your sockets and drill bits in numerical order - same system Johan showed us the other day 
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Well, it was the old Chevy, it makes some noise, and pretty loud pipes, and it was in the springtime, so probably some good old rockānāroll playing too. 
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Yes, itās a storing system i invented, every man could keep stuff in order, but it needs a genius to master chaosā¦or somethingā¦
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Totally correct. I am not that clever and want to keep the shop clean.
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No one is going to steal your socket set, it will take them hours to find all of them a then steal them.
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Most burglars will probably turn around and walk away, just after a peek into my shop
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I have one area that looks like that. Then one day when I couldnāt find something for the hundredth time I went out and bought all new sockets in cases. Now if I neglect to put one back in itās place I have to bang my head real hard against a wall. Self imposed punishment. So far itās working but I havenāt done any big jobs lately for a real test.
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I know all my northern friends donāt want to hear it but the temps down here have been in the mid 70s for about a week .
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