Laser Air Assist Upgrade
Mark Bronkalla The cuts with the laser can be greatly enhanced with air assist. This consists of basically blowing a compressed air stream out the nozzle below the lens. The laser comes…
2021
Laser Exhaust
The laser is located in the basement shop. The nearest way out of the house is through the closet behind it and up and over the basement block wall through…
Laser commissioning / to do list
With the laser in and basically running, there is still more to do to get it ready for “production”. I did the first pass beam alignment but did not check…
Laser Day(s)
After months of research, reviewing the Facebook laser groups and basically overthinking the decision, I purchased a CO2 laser cutter / engraver. I had analyzed the type of work to…
Hot Pepper Paste
Our bountiful harvest of ripe hot peppers continues. Some of the other folks in the Facebook Cured Meats : Charcuterie group have been making pepper paste to use for sausage…
More Fermented Hot Sauce
We have been making fermented hot sauce for a number of years. This has been what we refer to as “Cold Snap” hot sauce as it is made after the…
Recumbent Tike – Improvements II
If you let an engineer build something and use it, it will get tweaked over time. Now that the new seat is on the trike and I have been riding…
Plum Jam
We have some cherry plum trees that I have grafted larger varieties onto. The yield is highly variable, but this year we have a lot of the smaller plums. So…
Recumbent Trike – New Seat & Improvements
I have had the recumbent trike for a few years now. Returning from a ride and cranking up our steep driveway I heard a cracking noise and with each pedal…
Garage threshold fix
Our driveway had sunk down in front of the garage doors. In some spots, it was a 2″ rise. This was a trip / fall hazard and did not look…