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FranklinWorkshops said:
Garry, I'm have trouble visualizing the final fire pit appearance. Do you have a photo of what it's going to be?
The truck rims will certainly be heavy enough to hold fire.
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will have to find a picture Larry. Stand it up on end, and feed it through the door sort of like a stove. Hoping the air stem hole provides enough draft, may have to figure out a latch so I can leave it a little open for it to draw.

I got interested in being able to confine the fire a bit more given our fire dangers around here.
 
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Yesterday the SSD in my home computer died. My last backup was done in January. Yeah... Plenty of files lost, including woodworking and machine restoration related files...
 
My day was average until dinner time, got up had breakfast and worked on the new shop til noon then had BLT sammy and worked some more. Noticed my wife made a few trips to the garden today and to my delight she made a New England style boiled dinner. This consists of garden fresh potatoes, beets, carrots, onion, and cabbage all cooked in the pressure cooker with a meaty ham bone. Yesterday I found a patch of wild black berries and picked a couple quarts. For dessert she mixed some with garden fresh blue berries to make short cake. Bummed she didn't make whipped cream but a scoop of vanilla ice cream was a good substitute. Whole meal didn't cost more than a couple bucks and we have a couple days of left overs. Wondering what project she is about to hit me with:lol2:
 
Get home and wife asks me for help with something in the back of her vehicle. She has found another sewing machine cabinet.....but this time with the machine. $25......and it was his mother’s. He said all it needs is a belt.

any suggestions guys..... @woodtickgreg , Greg? Or others?

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Looks like it's also missing the bobbin and the holder. I'd have given $25 for that.
 
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Looks like it's also missing the bobbin and the holder. I'd have given $25 for that.
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finally found the s/n website with info. Wow, 1927 or 28 (memory is already slipping this morning) Model 66 which appears to be one of the primary models back then. But very cool. Changes what we might do with it as we were just looking for bases.
 
@Gdurfey Parts can be had on Ebay for that. Cleaned up and oiled with a new needle, belt, and bobbin holder and it'll sew forever. Those old singers where made to last and usually outlive several owners. But be careful, it's an addicting hobby, lol.
 
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Well...the town is without power from the storm. I'm on my phone. I do have a genny so the fridge is running. Charged the phone from my truck.
Took a dip in the pool to clean/cool off.
I have a ton of solar lights I brought in from the outside, so we have plenty of light.
They think we may be out of power for about 2 weeks.
The wife is not happy she cant shower....
 
2 weeks, ouch, that is rough! Hope they are over estimating how long it will take. Are roads blocked with downed lines/trees or can you get around if needed?
 
Marc, that's rough. Hopefully it turns out to be less than 2 weeks.
 
Some roads are blocked. But there's others we can use to get around. I'm on the same power grid line as the school across the street, so they usually get us up n running first.
I hope it doesn't last 2 weeks. That would suck.
 
Grrrrr.....all I hear is generators running around the block. Gotta keep the windows open cuz its hot!
Lol
 
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Guess it blew itself about out before it got here. We got quite a bit of rain and some wind. Lots of comments on FB this morning about power outages but ours stayed on.
 
Wow! It was pretty much a non-event for us. Rained all night through to noon but a mild rain with no wind.

We lost power for 5 days after Isabel in 2003. That’s what convinced me to get a whole house generator, the women get pissed when they can’t flush a toilet.
 
Tom Smart said:
Wow! It was pretty much a non-event for us. Rained all night through to noon but a mild rain with no wind.

We lost power for 5 days after Isabel in 2003. That’s what convinced me to get a whole house generator, the women get pissed when they can’t flush a toilet.
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Since when do toilets require power to flush?
 
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