I had a pigeon in my second floor “windows don’t open” office a few years ago. Turned into quite the team-building experience shooing that thing back outside…
In that case…and seeing as it was your 299 (close enough to 229) consider yourself hearby awarded the illustrious HPRS award…wear it with pride!
I have all sorts of animal-indoors stories.
Last fall, had a massive cicada, easily the size of my hand, become obsessed with the lights in the garage. I usually don’t care, but every time it bumped up against the lights, it sounded like someone whacking them with a baseball bat. Grabbed the broom - a cheap number with a plastic frame - and went after it. After several awkward swings, I connected with it, hard…and the broom shattered. The cicada was knocked back about 6 feet, then recovered and just kept flying.
Several years ago, the ad agency where I worked had a bat get inside. Of course it decided to set up shop in the media department, which is/was stocked with a great many attractive females who’d recently graduated from UT. The pandemonium was truly something to behold.
Wow i dont know what to say!!!
Thank you!!
When I was a kid we had a bat in the house and my Dad, having had a couple of refreshing adult beverages, figured that bats are rats with wings and decided to shoot at it with Rat shot in a .22. Very interesting night watching that I assure you.[:|]
This is by far the cleanest modeling space I have ever seen.
Here is my space. The paint shelf on the wall is a bamboo drawer organizer, and the one under the right table was from a closing shop a friend gave me. My stash is there too. Enjoy…or not.
Onr light question. I have a magifing clip-on lamp like the one on your bench, but my folding table, just like yours, is too thick for the clamp to work. How is yours clamped on? I have mine clamped to a metal plate and that weighted with batteries from my drill.
My father was warehouse supervisor at a potash mine up here. They received shipments all hours of the day, and the lights at the loading dock attracted bugs & bats… They kept a tennis racket at the door to deal with the problem! [;)]
Okay, what is potash?
There are several forms, the most common around here is Potassium Chloride - KCl. It’s mined, reduced to granular form, Potasium separated from the Chloride. The Potassium then gets used mostly in fertilizers, some goes to other industrial uses. When you buy a bag of fertilizer, the third # in the description is potassium.
Canada is the biggest producer in the world. [8-|]
Now, back to your regularly scheduled madness… [proplr]
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WOW!!! AMAZING, im jelous. Look at all those kits !!!
Mine is a cheapo magnifier from Harbour Freight. I am lucky that the bracket is thick enough but the glass is horrible and you have a quarter size area that will focus.
WOW!!! AMAZING, im jelous. Look at all those kits !!!
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shhhh… these are not the kits you are looking for.[whstl] At the rate I build I would not get through even half of them before I am pushing up dasies
Tennis racket is better than equiping a gun with a silencer…but not as fun.
Potasium huh? Too bad Borat does not sing about Canada.[hdphns]
It’s organized so that I can find things, but I do find the desk bridge (which I built) to be handy. The desk is an old one I inherited from my father; the shallow drawers up top keep paints, brushes, and tools. The larger drawers keep supplies, a few jars and bottles of spare parts, and an unfinished kit or two. I hafta say, this is just a corner of my man-cave. To the left , a large bookcase and to the right, two smaller ones. Behind the desk is the stash (two 6’ x 4’ x 1.5’ shelves back to back, full). The entire man-cave is 20’ x 40’.
Because the cave (aka basement) can get a bit chilly after long periods, I opened a satellite office:
The wife is tolerant, but wouldn’t advise this mode of interior decorating. I DO like her a lot…
[:D[ …to those with clean, organized, dedicated workshops. Geez, I really need my own space!
For those of you who have wives who harass them about taking over the kitchen table or an area of the house…well, I am the wife and I have taken over the kitchen table and a good chunk of the house. lol!
I guess I can honestly say, my place is in the kitchen. [whstl]
My workspace is a disaster. I have tools, supplies, brushes, paints, model kits, model horses…sigh
What kitchen table??? What do you mean stoves are for cooking? With the vent-hood, a big drop cloth, and some side-boards I made up, it makes a fantastic spray-booth!
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humm, I sense a plot fellows ! [;)][whstl]