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Stephen B. Thomas wrote:BEL #781...
Finally, a question. Our band saw caught on a knot, and then jammed and bent while in operation. I can't bring myself to throw it out, since it's still plenty sharp. But it's so bent that the kerf of the blade is greater than 1/4th of an inch. I bent it back into shape as best I could by eyeing it up and not using special tools, but I am still concerned that it's crooked and/or twisted in some way. Is testing this blade the next step? Is it recommended to -not- try to repair/refurbish band saw blades? Any suggestions?
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Ulla Bisgaard wrote:Thank you so much for your input. I already have the solar for the electric part. I will see if I can find a pond supply shop to find a base. There are several reasons I want to have it in the forest garden. It will of course look and sound good, but my bees really need a water source from July through October, and so does many other insects and birds.
We do have a bird bath, bit the hummingbirds are having difficulties drinking from it.
We tried doing a regular bird bath with a sprinkler fountain, but it runs dry too fast (within 12 hours), so we need something larger, that we don’t have to fill every day. There isn’t room for a pond, so I figured a smaller but deeper pond base with stones stacked on top and a water fall from the top. If I put in plants between the stones and small lotus or similar leaves on the pond surface, there should be enough options for the insects and birds to get water.
Rusty Ford wrote:i built my dads by digging a shaped hole out and lining it with EDPM pond liner. It's pretty cheap in small pieces. I dug this into the side of a bank beside his house and ran a hose into a "vertical trench" in the bank. I used pex but you could use cheap black roll pipe or whatever else you want. A piece of an old garden hose would work just as well. In front of the vertical trench, we wanted a drystack river rock look, so we stacked the rocks, using concrete on the back edges to hold them together as we stacked. When we got to the top, we tried out a few locations for the pipe to be mounted to get the right look of water flowing down the rocks before we secured the pipe. We ended up splitting the flow into two to give it a wider flow down the face of the rocks. A few weeks later, we brought some moss in and placed it in the rock face in a few places so now the water flows down the rock faces, across the moss and into the pool below. The pump doesn't need to be high flowing and can be run off of a solar panel and small battery if desired. Depending on your access to rocks, the whole project shouldn't be more than about $300. If you are wanting this to be a stand alone structure like the one pictured, it would complicate things just a little, but i would start by building a structure with steps out of wood, then covering it with EDPM, then go about covering it with rocks and plants.
Stephen B. Thomas wrote:...I do completely agree that it was shaky and I need to think of something. I still need to replace that lens as well, as it's become scratched-up over the past couple years and it's a more obvious problem on a sunny day.
paul wheaton wrote:I have manually arranged for 20 decks of cards to be sent. Sorry for the delay.
Devaka has a lot of ideas about how to repair this problem.
paul wheaton wrote:I keep hoping that this is gonna get unstuck, but I think enough time has passed, that if it isn't already unstuck, then I need to manually repair this.
paul wheaton wrote:Tina,
It seems you discovered a wasps nest. Devaka is gonna be busy for a while.
Since you are staff, then I am going to give you instructions a bit more than if somebody else got stuck.
Check your gift codes. If you give the gift to yourself, it should work.
paul wheaton wrote:It seems that many things went weird. Devaka is looking into it.
