Category: DIY

• Balanced load

  Used 10 in table saw

  jedreynolds

  February 24, 2018

  Cycling, DIY, Photos

  cargo bike, Table saw

• Table Saw Sled

  This saw could be better. This sled could be better. It needs a wedge to square it up.

  jedreynolds

  February 19, 2018

  carpentry, DIY, fun, Photos

  saw, shim, sled

• Bungie Too Big

  It took me a few tries to figure out how to use get the bungies around these pizzas. Bungies were too big, but not if I took up the slack by placing the pizzas atop to bungies and wrapped them around the top.

  jedreynolds

  February 19, 2018

  Cycling, DIY, fun, Photos

  bungie, cargo bike, pizza

• Made it Fit

  This is a Digium card, clearly intended for a 1U or ATX case. One of my goals is to reduce the number of high speed fans in the lab, so I repurposed my Lanner chassis. Using a typical twist drill bit is a poor choice for the job of an end mill, but it came…

  jedreynolds

  February 19, 2018

  computing, DIY, fun, Linux, metal shop, networking, Photos, sysadmin

  asterisk, digium, machine shop

• Silly bike upgrade

  Ugly but it works

  jedreynolds

  February 13, 2018

  commuting, Cycling, DIY, Photos

  bike, Cycling, DIY, lights, pvc

• Feeling Clampy

  jedreynolds

  January 27, 2018

  carpentry, DIY

  bookcase, Clamps, furniture

• Hand punch stand

  I purchased this deep throat metal punch from Grizzly and it took them six months to get it to me. Well, that indignity aside, I mounted it to the side of the work bench with some leftover 2×6.

  jedreynolds

  January 23, 2018

  carpentry, DIY, fun, Uncategorized

• Tracing a drilling pattern

  This was my brain wave today. I need to remember to do this the next time I want to make a bracket.

  jedreynolds

  January 8, 2018

  DIY, fun, metal shop

  Bracket, gasket, tracing

• Bike fenders

  Up cycled license plates are a perfectly reasonable piece of metal to re-purpose.

  jedreynolds

  October 14, 2017

  Cycling, DIY, Photos, sustainable living

  Bike​, DIY, fenders

• Lost street sign gains purpose

  Traveling through the desert, one only has to look out your window to find items clobbered and freed by high winds and storms. I found a speed limit sign with not one… But two creases and a cut in it in my father’s reclaimed pile. Ironically, it measured 15mph. A thousand miles away, I regularly…

  jedreynolds

  April 7, 2017

  DIY, family

  aluminum, bending, fence, metal, reclaimed, wheel