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pageflight ,

I wonder how it was sealed. Is glazed ceramic + wax that airtight? The article (nor many very similar ones from other sites) doesn't give specifics.

pageflight OP ,

Thanks!

pageflight OP ,

Ah, thanks for the proper name for it. Yeah, handy shape!

pageflight ,

Looks great! I'm thinking about trying a mortise and tenon project. Any progress photos?

pageflight ,

Good that a .gov site explains it so clearly. I'm kind of surprised they can be that forthright without them being actually illegal.

Refinishing this little table/desk for my young kid. What will yield a fine-not-perfect result? ( lemmy.world )

It has seen some water damage and the varnish is flaking off (especially on the top). But I don't necessarily have the time/energy for a full strip/sand/refinish, especially as this may get dinged up; I'm just looking for a reasonably pleasing look....

pageflight OP ,

It was super heavy. But I have a hard time judging whether it's heavier than a similar bulk of 2x4s.

pageflight OP ,

Yeah, I can pretty easily scratch it with my fingernail, which seems the same as a 2x4 scrap and much softer than some oak and maple scraps I have around.

Also looking more closely at the bigger scratches and screw holes I see lighter wood visible, I was a bit fooled by the stain on the bottom.

pageflight OP ,

I was hoping for hardwood! Seems like it's probably not, though.

pageflight ,

Oof.

It would help if the hanging bars were actually the same height as the lowest bridges though.

pageflight ,

Different bridges over Storrow are slightly different heights. One time I rented a UHaul, got on under a bar that I cleared and went under one bridge, and then had to make a hasty last second exit before the next bridge which was lower.

pageflight ,

Neat, I would love to see this succeed and expand.

pageflight OP ,

Thanks! I didn't get a great picture of that before leaving it with my mom, but it's in the background here. Just made slots (dados?) for 1/8" plywood for the back.

clamped box and insert

pageflight OP ,

:-D

pageflight OP ,

It lifts out so you can easily empty the crumbs.

Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, oil on canvas (1854) ( lemmy.world )

In 1851, M. de Guisard, the state's Director of Fine Arts, gave Ingres a commission of 20,000 francs for a painting of a subject of Ingres's choosing. Ingres offered instead to fulfill the commission by finishing two paintings already in progress, Joan of Arc and a Virgin with a Host. Both were subjects he had depicted in...

pageflight ,

Is she carrying a hatchet?

This biography quotes a description:

armed entirely in white, exept, for the head, a little ax in her hand, seated on a great black courser.

pageflight ,

Although this sounds egregious, the more I read about dentistry the less it sounds reliable in any form. The Atlantic wrote about it a while back and Ars Technica did more recently.

If anyone has found a more evidence-based dentist in the Boston area I'd be interested to hear about them.

pageflight ,

Wikipedia says

Scalping was not in itself fatal, though it was most commonly inflicted on the gravely wounded or the dead.

Still, one of many reasons I am glad to live in the time period and country I do. Though also a reminder of how close in our history America is to genocide:

on August 8, 1722, Massachusetts put a bounty on native families, paying 100 pounds sterling for the scalps of male Indians aged 12 and over, and 50 pounds sterling for women and children.

Accidental cutaway of hole drilled with spade bit. Also is 2x3/4" plywood a good vise jaw idea? ( lemmy.world )

I was checking to see how a 3/4" dog hole would look in a vise jaw made from two 3/4" pieces of plywood. Just clamped for the test, but would be glue for the real thing. Interesting to see the hole opened up. And luckily no splitting, but do you think it would work as an actual vise jaw? This is for a Veritas quick release front...

pageflight OP ,

Yes, they're for "bench dogs", which let you clamp boards against the top of your workbench. I only recently learned about them myself!

When I was drilling the test hole I wasn't thinking about how it would look to open up the two clamped boards afterwards, so it was just a fun surprise to see the shape of the inside of the hole revealed like that.

pageflight ,

"I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years," Gretta Pecl of the University of Tasmania told The Guardian. "[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event, food production will be disrupted. I could not feel greater despair over the future."

But, reason to keep fighting:

Others found hope in the climate activism and awareness of younger generations, and in the finding that each extra tenth of a degree of warming avoided protects 140 million people from extreme temperatures.

Do you need a dentist visit every 6 months? That filling? The data is weak ( arstechnica.com )

A 2020 Cochrane review that assessed the two clinical trials concluded that "whether adults see their dentist for a check‐up every six months or at personalized intervals based on their dentist's assessment of their risk of dental disease does not affect tooth decay, gum disease, or quality of life. Longer intervals (up to 24...

pageflight ,

Police always show up for a 911 call, right?

pageflight ,

Cool, they're planning:

140 car parking areas and 100 highway interchanges as potential suitable areas for solar deployments.

The article also mentions that all large car parks are required to build solar. I'd love to see requirements like this is the US.

pageflight ,

Calling the police seems like an overreaction. I wonder if they'd be any help with ICEd spots.

The Rivian driver parked across two spots to reach the charging cable. I guess I might do that if I were in dire need or there were a lot of empty stations, but it seems like an easy way to invite conflict.

pageflight ,

An MBTA commuter rail train collided with a small boat left on the tracks of the Fitchburg commuter rail line between Cambridge and Belmont around 12:15 a.m. early Wednesday morning, Transit Police say.

Photos posted by MBTA Transit Police on social media show the small wooden boat with a gash in its port side at the Porter Square station.

pageflight OP ,

That joke is on point. (-;

pageflight OP ,

I'm very happy with it, especially the space saving aspect.

Shopsmith lathe

pageflight OP ,

Extras are to give away.

Generally, making little guide holes/dents — make it easier to start a drill bit where I want, transfer a point through a template, make an indent for my lathe tailstock live center.

pageflight ,

The way the two shoes are weirdly merged together is a nice touch.

pageflight ,

Actually a lot of Google "satellite" imagery is from planes, as I assume this is.

pageflight ,

Some fascinating history, thanks for the note!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1654f8eb-328c-4dec-872c-c0305ffc0d3e.jpeg

pageflight ,

Poorly written article, legitimate problem. We drove a route we often use this weekend. In the summer, we use 50% of our battery. With 5⁰F weather (and no ability to precondition the battery before starting) the range estimator was way off and we had to make an unplanned stop at a L2 (fairly slow) charger. This is in NH/VT, where DC fast charging off the Tesla network is very thin. The return trip was in 30⁰F weather was fine (used about 70% of our battery).

The solution is more DC fast charging, and chargers that are well maintained. The right way to use them is (as mentioned in other comments) you charge for 20 minutes at 120kW+ to get from 20 to 60% charge, and definitely don't wait the extra hour to charge to 90 or 100%.

When Alaska flight 1282 blew open, a mom went into ‘go mode’ to protect her son ( www.seattletimes.com )

Faye said she had no intention of speaking to the media until she saw the initial statements from Alaska in the aftermath of the accident, which emphasized that there were only minor injuries and to her seemed to diminish the severity of what had happened....

pageflight ,

The boy had been wearing a T-shirt and a V-neck pullover windbreaker. Both were ripped off his body.

pageflight ,

I had no idea the shape of the bridge made such a difference, that's neat!

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