Tuesday, 21 September 2010

MUCH THOUGHT

I now see another important aspect of posting a blog - or at least writing in it.  A break from frustration!  This is how I spent my not very productive morning.  Well, the first was productive as I cut the wood sides for my building and I am pretty sure I like them better now.

Decided to put more holes in for the electric wires and other necessities in the back of the building.  I want the top floor to pull out for other access and this has already been a challenge for stairs, etc.  I want to use a small plug for the wiring that will go on the top floor so I drilled some holes for the little metal tubes that will form the "outlet."  Tubes are wired (stole them from another electrical XMas thing.)  These don't go all the way through my plywood back and they also have a large blob of solder on the wires so I figured I would just carve out a place so the wires will fit.  Here is where the fun begins.

Dremel tool that I have in my back workroom doesn't have the carving bits.  Go to the other room where I have spread out everything and find a couple of possible bits.  Go back to the workroom but still don't have the right tool.  (It would NEVER occur to me to take the entire box of bits to the workroom :~)  )  Finally decide to work on a different part that I really wanted to try out - the drop down part for the chair.  It needs to be accessible from the outside of the building and be fairly simple.  I decided a fine piece of strong nylon thread might work.  Tried to drill holes but the adjustable collet kept loosening so drill bit only worked part way.  After a number of tries to tighten it I decided to see if the small drill bit would fit my regular drill.  Yup!  Great.  Plug in drill, doesn't work.  Try a different outlet on my strip - still doesn't work.  Go to other side of room and plug into a different strip and it works fine!  Bring room box to drill and finally get hole drilled.  The first cord I tried was a twisted fine silk or nylon and it kept catching on the wood so I finally found a piece of crochet cotton and that seems to work okay.  I have the wood trap door hinged temporarily with a piece of masking tape to try all this out and it isn't as loose as I would like but perhaps with the chair on the trap door it will give it more weight.  Otherwise a small bit of lead underneath should do it.  I also think if I can line the hole that the thread goes through it will be a lot more smooth.  At present I can't find anything that will work - trip to hardware store is in order.  My next thought is how to anchor the thread on the outside and I have decided a small magnet glued to wood and one to thread should work just fine.  Or metal on wood and magnet on thread.  Whew!  All of this has eaten up a couple of hours and I just needed to get away from it for a bit.

Posted by hilocreations at 12:01 AM EDT

Updated: Friday, 21 October 2011 4:27 PM EDT

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