another weekend
This weekend I didn’t have much planned, even though it was a long one. I was sort of wondering what I was going to do, but then Bubbles showed up. After we talked about our jobs for a while, we decided to make something. Well, first we cut some stuff up with a thread. Yeah, just a piece of thread, pulled back and forth against pretty much anything will cut a fine-kerfed line. And very manuverable.
We got my airplane engine back together–well, all the pieces that were reusable anyway. I need a few carburator parts.
Most of our time was spent machining a new manifold for the top of my fountain/waterfall. It was just a hose, delivering the water to one place on the stone–now we have a multi-ported distribution device with holes drilled from multiple directions, intesecting in the inside, with the ends of some holes plugged afterwards with epoxy’ed-in rubber stoppers. We tied some plants to it as well. Especially without a machine, (is that what you “machine” stuff with?) the fiber/plastic material we used was much better than wood or metal. I got some scraps when they made the deck around the apartment office.
I’m afaid the little plants are going to die, just siting out there without dirt–but that is how they were before I cut them off the parent plant–and I put those stems in the water…Maybe I’ll machine some holes in the top of the block, with a tiny port to the water flow, and plant them in some dirt.
July 5th, 2006 at 11:22 am
they would probably last along time if they could get their feet into the water supply