In the office, I use regularly the expression “Mind Like Water”
from the book: Getting Things done.
I have used the concepts many times and feel it is worth sharing.
For me, my “restful” picture in my mind is a large powder field which I have either just been down or about to rip. It requires complete attention to only one thing and clearing everything else out of your mind.
Because I had a severe accident skiing in the past, clearing my mind before a steep slope and enjoying the moment is very powerful.
Last week, the return to the office from a week’s holiday was not great and these images were very helpful to keep me going. They do not make me happy in themselves, just remind me of the state of my mind that I should be in.
What is your mind image?
Been trying to consider how to replace my 2D Maglite battery powered to a modern Lithium 28650 – 5000mah.
2D Cells was 2X1.5V=3V total
2X 28650 Batteries give 2X4.2V=8.4V at full charge, dropping to around 7.6V when flat.
Had to replace the led bulb with a new one, made a couple of battery holders to keep the Lithium cells in the middle of the torchlight, used a 3 X 8mm disk magnets to connect everything together and then had to make a new end cap spring to accomodate for the new length of the batteries.
It all works and it is substantially brighter than the previous setup.
Bu
ilt this with Now during the weekend. It is a training tool for making wheelies without pedalling which are called “Manuals”…so this is a “Manual Machine”…
It is made so that it can be dis-assembled easily to put in the garage.
There is a single nut to hold the balancing arm, which we 3D printed.
The Berkel slicer is very nice and very precise for cutting thin slices of ham, however it is a pain to clean as there is some sort of nut which is difficult to remove.
Here comes 3D printing to the rescue. Made a few versions of a removal tool and settled on the final simple design of a “Captured” nut.
It works very well and the white PLA print, looks appropriate for food and “white goods”.
In the background some paper “thinking” about a manual machine for Noe ! Soon to be built ….
Tonton qu’est fou had to do a memorial for Leo…as he is now…6 feet under.
I really like the brioche that my mum makes when we go on holiday in France during the summer. It is just a pain to wait 12 months to have some brioche! Decided to get a new bread maker from Panasonic (the old one still had an American plug and we have been back from the USA for 8 years now…)
The Brioche recipe is very good and works very well with the automatic bread maker.
Ingredients :
How to make :
Fishes have moved house during the garden refurbishment…they now live in the garage…it was not easy to move everything and keep the carp in the bucket!
First drive, ever, in first car, ever, ….is it really necessary to be a Lambo…or was it a Jag…growing too fast
I am continuing my experiments with spices and cooking temperatures, as well as with methods such as sous vide or slow roasting, etc…
Latest is normal roast in the oven with a temperature probe inside the ham to check “when” it is done rather than relying on weight etc…Target temperature was 63 Celsius.
Interestingly, once the ham was removed from the oven, the temperature continued to rise for a little while. As a consequence, a 63 degrees Celsius in the oven ends up being more like 65/66 once out. This is very different from sous vide cooking, which only cooks at a single temperature.
In the oven, the “180 degrees” outside of the ham slowly makes their way to the centre until the centre is at 63 degrees. [Update: After several experiments, I have found that it is better to have a lower oven temperature to let the heat enter the meat more slowly. So 140-160, depending on how fast you want to go. Also, it is VERY IMPORTANT to desalinate the ham in a bowl of cold water overnight to prevent it from becoming too salty.
In sous vide, the whole ham will cook evenly to 63 degrees.
This ham was coated with spices and 2 tablespoons of brown sugar. Delicious…
About to go on holiday but feeling blue with all the rain in the UK and 50 years birthday bash coming soon….
Some Temperatures for sous-vide cooking from a couple of books.
Happy I can still race down a track…loved the family racing all together!
Made a new Trivet design, inspired from some Pinterest boards I had visited months ago…
Laser cut from 3mm Bamboo, then glued together to make 9mm thick, then sanded to 2000 grit to give nice feel and sheen.
The fit could be better, I did not take into account the Laser Kerf in the design and also I might have botched the laser settings in terms of focus and therefore beam thickness.
Compared to the “3 Branches” version, this one would be more expensive to produce as more cuts and trickier fit. The “design look” is nice but probably does not warrant the extra effort to produce compared to the 3 branches one. Still, I like it.
I should sign it.
Made a complete project with my XCarve. It all started with a friend who was trying to repair a second-hand child bicycle trainer.
The handlebar was broken and glue was never going to work.
The part is not very complicated but needed some smooth curves and a recess for the connection to the steering mechanism.
I created the fusion 360 3D model, then created a CAM setup, then posted all this to several G-Code files on my home network, [one for the pocket and the holes, one for the contour] then went to the garage and ran the G-Code on my X-Carve with a 10mm router bit at 16.000RPM, 3mm cut depth, 600mm/min feed.
It all worked perfectly ! for once…No broken bits, No burning or parts, No flying wood parts in the garage…
My friends were very happy and the fit is simply perfect.
My first true design of something for the Xcarve. There has been a few mistakes along the way and still have not managed to get a final product from the machine yet…
I am close.
The router bits, feeds and speeds are something that you must acquire and work to make test cuts etc…until you get a clean cut that does not destroy the router bit or the machine.
I have had a few crashes and also made some part of the wrong size.
I am getting close.
I could have made this simple stool using traditional techniques in a lot less time but I want to be able to get to a complete project where I know, I could simply put a large sheet of wood and press “Go” on the computer and it would cut all the parts needed to make this simple stool.
I designed it in Fusion 360, then created all the tool paths for the X-Carve in the Cam environment.
I am now using a Dewalt router, which is better than the previous Bosch Colt for which I destroyed the collet. I re-built the X-Axis as well to give it more rigidity when I installed the new X-Controller.
Wood is 18mm thick
Router bit : 10mm
Cut depth :3mm
Router Speed : 16000 rpm (dial setting 1)
Feed : 600mm/min (500mm/min works as well with less heat generated in the router bit)
Plunge : 150mm/min
No lead-ins or lead-outs.
