ifixcoinops

ifixcoinops, 8 hours ago

Alright here we gooooo

ifixcoinops, 8 hours ago

The telly weighs 55kg, I weigh 77kg, to test whether my new CRT stand can handle this telly I'm gonna set this so-called square (actually a triangle, scam) here, sit on the shelf and see how much deflection I get.

ifixcoinops, 8 hours ago

Here's how much deflection we get with no additional strips and only two sides on (no back). This is already acceptable considering that I'm not as wide as the telly and I'm sitting in the middle rather than spreading the load the whole width of the shelf; the telly's 22kg lighter also, so there would be pretty much no sag at all. Nonetheless I'm still gonna add some 2cm thick strips below this shelf for extra stability when the cats jump on top of it.

ifixcoinops, 8 hours ago

Doing a test fit before I sand and finish, brought the stand outta the workshop upstairs to the telly 'cause I thought since the stand is lighter, it'd make more sense than taking the telly downstairs.

Aye the stand's lighter all right but damn is it awkward to move around

ifixcoinops, 8 hours ago

🦊 Nice TV stand, by the way do you happen to work in the coin-op industry
🦝 How did you know that
🦊 eyeing up the shoe rack in the background also using 3/4" plywood to hold 2kg of shoes at a time Lucky guess

Telly's in, no noticeable deflection on the telly shelf so we're good!

Now I guess I'll take the telly out again and sand this down and Polycrylic it

ifixcoinops, 8 hours ago

Q: Why do the sides of the stand extend up along the sides of the telly, why not just stop when the telly's supported?

A: So I can have a shelf atop the telly to fill up with Various Junk

ifixcoinops, 7 hours ago

@http_error_418 yyyyyyyup

ifixcoinops, 7 hours ago

I don't wanna take it downstairs again FFS this thing has barely existed five minutes and I already resent the idea of moving it

ifixcoinops, 7 hours ago

Might just run it outside and lacquer it

ifixcoinops, 7 hours ago

@benpocalypse I ended up with a 16-gauge one because a quirk in sale pricing made it like half the price of the smaller 18-gauge one so now I got Big Nails to go with my Big Wood

ifixcoinops, 7 hours ago

ugh nope can't lacquer it outside because of the baby robins

ifixcoinops, 7 hours ago

wax in situ maybe?

ifixcoinops, 6 hours ago

I bought a new HVLP sprayer in like February when it was on sale and I had a lucky coupon, I said to the guy "Boy I can't wait til I can try this thing out in like May," bloody robins wait to hatch until I'm just about ready to spray some lacquer

🐣 Whatcha got there Dan?
🦝 Something that'll kill you dead as heck if you get so much as a whiff so instead of firing it up and trying it out I'm just gonna grumble about it on the internet

ifixcoinops, 6 hours ago

Also this lad's back again

Bit of a special day today innit, hatchy robins, visiting fawn, it's all go in my yard today

ifixcoinops, 5 hours ago

"Remembering when it's faun or fawn" is right up there with "How to spell parallel (or rather how to stop spelling it)" on my list of Language Things That Dan Has Made His Peace With Never Quite Grasping

ifixcoinops, 2 hours ago

So last time the fawn visited, it was gone by they time I picked the kid up. So I didn't tell her about it, didn't want her disappointed that she'd missed it.

This time, I clocked it were still there from the road, told her it was a special day and she had to be quiet and smooth and slow and not go any closer than me, and we went and saw the fawn.

THEN, we went and saw the baby robins.

THEN, while we were watching the robins, we heard movement, and there was the mum, up the hill, with the fawn around her feet.

"Wow," I whispered to her, "Quiet fawn, didn't hear him going up the hill."

So then we got our bikes down and took them past the original fawn FEDI THERE ARE TWO FAWNS