11:30 and I just came in to the house dirty, burned, cut and with metal splinters.. and happy.. very happy. In keeping with one of my new year resolutions I’ve been trying to finish more project that have been lurking in the back of my mind.. or my lab for a long time.
Today was a double bonus.. I went over and picked up m small tesla coil.. longer term readers amy remember that I built that coil throught the fall and winter of last year.. after much struggling with the design I finally had the the thing up and unning.. It was n’t as powerful as my older coil.. but t ways about a fith of the older one. .. Anywaythe new coild basically self distructed during one of it’s maden demo runs.. a large spark from the top must have hit the promary and it took out essentially every bit of electronics in the unit. I was pretty bummed.. I intended to rebuild it.. but hadn’t gotten aroudn to it . Last summer my biddy Soctt.. whoa’s an absolute genius and a tesla coil whisperer to boot.. offered to rebuild the elctronics for me.. He too struggled with the design (we’ve based it on a commercail desing and even bought the kit with boards an components).. he got it running ony to have it fail twice more.. It keeps blowing 3 0 dollar transistors.. no fun/ He finally reassembled it.. and turned the power way down.. .. so no 4 foot sparks.. but soem nice loud 2 foot sparks wich will have to do for now.. It’s nice to have it back ! Thanks Scott !
I came home from Scott’s in time to do a 2 hour Feldenkreis class our friend Uwe was holding in the yoga space.. as soon as all the blissed out folks from the class left.. i went downstairs and started cutting welding again.. My goal was to complete the set of legs for the tables that Debra and Diane have designed.. well.. .I wasn’t thinking all that clearly.. I did two of them correctly.. and messed up the other two (instead of making 4 14″x16″ leges I made 2 14″x16″ legs 1 14″x14″ and one 16″x 16″.) . I forgot to measure and welded up the wrong sizes.. D-oh !. After dinner I went back in there and corrected my mistake.. Now we have 4 table legs ready to be mounted to the two slabs from our old maple.. Gabe’s going to take the meal over to Chirs’s and sandblast them to give them some texture.. then we’re going to let them rust a bit to give them a more natural patina.. then varnish them.. Should be cool !
OK. now I gotta sleep… more tomorrow..
Night all, nite sam
-me
