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@luvdunhill - I've just been using standard pellets (whatever I have on hand) in the tray with some chips on top. I usually hit it with the torch at the start to the point where it's burning comfortably on it's own and difficult to blow out. That seems to create enough of a smoldering fire that it will burn through the pellets and chips at a nice steady rate. I really only care that it burns/smokes well for the first few hours.

This thread has gone far too quiet. I converted the Genius to 27.5 mode for the winter so I could run as fat a tire as possible. I'm currently testing a pair of 45NRTH Wraithchild studded 27.5x3.0 tires. Today's ride, before the impending Christmas monsoon, was a success. Now to decide if dropping 4 bills on tires is worth it.

Happy Birthday!

I'm pretty sure that Justin used those Vampire RACs on multiple products. There's a chance that I have a pair downstairs and if so, I can send them your way for prototyping. I used them on multiple projects (KGSS, Exstata, etc.).

Nice lamp, Doug. Me: I've got two nephews that are budding YouTubers so for Christmas we made them fake Creator Awards for them. I've got three coats of gold paint on them and they look acceptably funny. Here's what they looked like unfinished.

^^^ We've used a shopvac w/ my dad's Dewalt planer for going on 10 years.

Annual right of Xmas - sugar cookie day. I made the dough yesterday so it'd be easier today.

Unpictured - the Jonokuchi has been coaxed back into life. B+ is running high so I'm going to talk with Pete about the best way to knock that down some without over complicating life but it was nice to have music coming out of both channels again.

^^^ That thing is going to be a beast.

About the same here. My parents, just an hour north, got two feet.

I'd recommend finding a friend instead. While it'll be pretty simple for a routine user of a table saw it's certainly not something that I'd take on as one of my first. Given your use of metric dimensions I'm going to guess that you're not in the CONUS or some of us might be able to help.

I would have liked to hear the resulting great kitty meow/hiss after the bonk.

Happy Birthday!

I'm with Doug, there's no good or easy way to do this with CNC and it's definitely not required. I drew this up in CAD real quick just to rough out some of the missing dimensions (thickness, heal and toe angles) and I think you could make this out of a single piece of rough sawn lumber. I'll defer final species recommendations to others but finding 6" wide 5/4 oak might not be a bad place to start and not horribly expensive. To me the hardest part is figuring out how to do the bevel on the heal - best thought there is with a router after using a dado blade to hog out the underside. But with a finished thickness of ~6mm (1/4") it's going to want to flex/deflect. I'd have to play around with it in real life to figure out any better solution. About the CNC solution - the real challenge is the two-sided nature and true 3D requirement. A lot of machines and affordable software are really good at 2.5D (translation in purely the vertical when cutting in the Z direction) but struggle when it comes to shapes like what you have described in your image. Also, some quick Googling yielded results very near what you are asking for - No Endorsement Implied - a more focused search would likely yield better results. Me - I'm working on fixing my Jonokuchi which had developed a problem with one channel. I opened the chassis hoping to easily spot the problem and did. Two caps in serious distress (one blown) and two resistors torched and failed open. Replacement parts ordered last night due to be delivered tomorrow which will likely get deferred to Friday but hopefully repairs can be accomplished this weekend. I've spoken with Pete and we don't think there's likely anything else at play other than one of the resistors drifting driving current and voltage up in an escalating fashion that resulted in the cap expelling its magic fluid filling.

8-12" here, snow blower is gassed up, so is the generator, and there's bacon in the fridge.

Thickness? I'm also trying to figure out if there is perspective in that drawing above or whether or not I'm looking at a flat plane (hence the graph paper background). Is that a section cut through the threshold? The view from the top? Side? Basically, I need more info.

Post some dimensions, I doubt it'd fit on my CNC (roughly 40" x 40" cutting area) but not really sure CNC is the right tool for the job regardless. Thresholds are usually quite simple and I'd think you'd just want to do the corner like a picture frame since there's almost no chance that there's a big enough piece of hard wood to mill that 'J' shape out of. EDIT - and to answer one of your original questions, yes, it's a pretty big ask for a commercial wood shop to take on a small job like this. It's all risk, very little reward. You probably won't be happy about the price, strike one, if something goes wrong they're out all the setup time for a one-off, strike two, they're probably busy and have no idea how serious you are about actually doing this, strike three. You'd be better off finding your local makerspace and seeing if there's someone there that takes small jobs for fun.

I'd wager they are all still just fine. I'd use it in good health.

Happy Birthday to my New England partner in crime! Here's to hoping you had a great day @skullguise.

That's tempting and I don't even know what I'd do with it!

It's that time again... Separated the point from the flat so that I could do burnt ends tomorrow night from the point. Flat will be split across both nights since untrimmed this was a 14lb monster (not converting to kilos). I'd bet that I trimmed a good 4-5lbs of fat off of it.

I think stopping with the track saw is an advisable plan. I can't (off the top of my head) think of a good reason to buy a table/cabinet saw if you're just wanting to bang out a few small projects. I mean d-_-b and all that but really, that's a huge amount of $ to spend on something that as you correctly assessed, will likely get in the way of life for 99% of the time.

Debated on where to put this seeing as it is not scratch made dough, but figured it was bread based so this is where it landed. I had a leftover loaf of white bread and wanted French toast but did not want to deal with the hassle of making it piece by piece. The solution (which arguably was more work, but whatever...) was to make a casserole. It's a pretty standard recipe - eggs, milk, brown sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla poured over cubed bread. The topping is just flour, more brown sugar, more cinnamon, a pinch of nutmeg, and cut with cold butter. Bake for an hour and voilà, breakfast.

I thought you were building another garage?

https://www.sawstop.com/table-saws/by-model/professional-cabinet-saw/