h a l f b a k e r yPlease listen carefully, as our opinions have changed.
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
Please log in.
Before you can vote, you need to register.
Please log in or create an account.
|
So I spent all day yesterday sanding live edge slabs and posts for a table I'm building and today I'm all cricked in the shoulder blades.
This makes me want to combine an orbital sander with a roomba so that it sands on its own while I do something other than vibrate the feeling out of my hands.
Programmed
settings let you choose whether the roomba travels in-line with the grain of the wood, against it, or on a completely random path.
Stackable weights control how much pressure is applied and a level sensor tells the device where to spend more time on higher spots.
Welcome to Zombie-Land.
https://imgur.com/gallery/tEoI5je
Please watch your step. [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 23 2020]
[link]
|
| |
Wouldn't it make more economic sense to buy prepared lumber direct from the supplier ? |
|
| |
Yes it would take far less work but my wife wanted to choose the slab for its cracks and character so that we can fill them with coloured epoxy and do even more sanding.
yay |
|
| |
Sometimes I wish that she had never found Pintrest... |
|
| |
A chainsaw roomba would be handy.....to let loose
at the next Trump hillbilly rally.[+] |
|
| |
// my wife wanted to choose // |
|
| |
Ahhhh ... now, there's your problem, right there. |
|
| |
// I wish that she had never found Pintrest // |
|
| |
At least that's only looking at pictures, tho that can still be pretty bad. You haven't done anything truly stupid, like teaching her to read, have you ? You do know that women's heads can explode if you do that ? |
|
| |
Just a wild idea here, but couldn't you teach your wife to use the sander ? It would take a while - many human females struggle with complex tools, like spoons and doorknobs, but with patience and endless repetition progress can sometimes be made. |
|
| |
Then you could leave her to do the actual work while you sit back in a comfy chair and sip a beer. Don't forget to tell her in excruciating detail how and why she's doing it wrong, and also to tick the box for "interment" or "cremation" so they know what to do with your mangled corpse. |
|
| |
This is a great idea, especially if combined with a laser
guide to allow you to set a level to sand to. [+]
However, I see it's being proposed as something to
facilitate the filling of interesting cracked chunks of wood
with nasty epoxy resin. For some reason I keep seeing
people do this on social media and it looks terrible and
seems to me to be a sure-fire way of killing any character
the wood once had. [-]
The only acceptable
crack-filler for nice bits of wood is the gradual filling-in
of cracks and dents with beeswax as a result of centuries
of careful polishing.
Everyone's nickname for
their Sandroomba™ is inevitably going to be "Sandra" [+] |
|
| |
[2 fries] wife is called Sandra, then ? |
|
| |
// especially if combined with a laser guide to allow you to set a level to sand to // |
|
| |
Yes, that might make it easier for her. |
|
| |
As always, for every ointment there is a fly, and
once again it’s [kdf] that buzzes in, shits on the
butter then buzzes off again. |
|
| |
Isn't that a rather mixed metaphor, even for you ? |
|
| |
And providing a link to an existing product is not "shitting on the butter". It's drawing readers' attention to Prior Art, which is fair and reasonable and quite laudable. |
|
| |
<Notes apparent niceness to [kdf] in previous paragraph/> |
|
| |
<Choking and spluttering/> |
|
| |
8th, take your meds before I say something I shouldn't and
feel bad. I'm guaranteed at home because 2 coworkers tested
positive and are sick at home. Very sick. |
|
| |
So bottom line, be nice to us females and stop acting like a
senseless butt head. |
|
| |
Sniggers as 8th gets a tongue lashing...... |
|
| |
I'm not touching that ^ one... |
|
| |
My wife's name isn't Sandra.
She sanded as long as I did.
[hippo] I totally agree. Maybe I could get you to have a word with her?...
[kdf] none of those links is a roaming sander. |
|
| |
"Mobile" services like car tuning, dog grooming, hairdressing and tyre repair already exist, so there's an unexploited niche for a mobile wood-sanding service... |
|
| |
Install a set of planers, saws, sanders and routers in the back of a large truck, add a PTO generator to the gearbox, and you're in business. |
|
| |
//Maybe I could get you to have a word with
her?...//
[Mrs happy meal] Think of it like this: In 5 years' time
an
epoxy-filled bit of wood will, like all the thousands of
copycat epoxy-filled
bits of wood around the world, look irredeemably as
scuffed, tired
and out-of-fashion as a 1990's tower CD rack, whereas a
nicely oiled, waxed and polished bit of wood will still look
like a
nicely oiled, waxed and (slightly more) polished bit of
wood.
[8th] - I agree with [bliss] - you should
delete much of what you've said in your annotations on
this idea. |
|
| |
Of course, you'd have to change the algorithm from "cover
the accessible open space" to "extend the accessible open
space". |
|
| |
For [8th]'s use cases, you'd probably need some sort of
reverse-trolley-problem reasoning. But that's only after
you'd solved the old "homicidal chauffeur" problem, known
to anti-missile-missile engineers. |
|
| |
{one-minute's silence to mark the spot where [MB] would
have made a joke about chauffeurs} |
|
| |
Didn't work [hippo]. She says that if she gets tired of it we will use it in the common area gazebo I will need to build for it... |
|
| |
I'm just gonna quit while I'm ahead I think. |
|
| |
Oh yeah, [wagster] asked if I was going to document any of bringing this Zombie property back to life and I told him that there would be time for that until I tackled the Zombie mall in the fall. |
|
| |
Well, it is, I have, and if anyone is interested to see a couple of my work days compressed into a few minutes check out this [link]. |
|
| |
Ah well... Maybe you should also make a nicely
oiled and waxed bit of wood and secretly store it
somewhere ready to whip out and replace the
epoxy-filled wood with when that starts to look
scuffed and old.
Great video! |
|
| |
I might start up a new trend of filling up the cracks
and scratches in blocks of epoxy resin with a
sawdust and plaster mix before sanding and
polishing. |
|
| |
We expected you to make some coarse witticism about // ready to whip out // [xen] ... |
|
| |