Rod Only (Rizzo Rat): These include Muppets that are too small to operate with a human hand inside, requiring either animatronics or a wee mechanical system to actuate the jaw if necessary. Rods extend from the hands to allow one puppeteer modest control. For my first foray into amateur pup...
Car clubs can also be organized around a theme, like classic cars, kit cars, hot rods, or mileage. Others are focused on providing roadside assistance; the American Automobile Club or AAA, for example, offers insurance, maps, and other special services to its members. Organization methods also...
As I mentioned, the donor van was too long. On the Caravan, there was about 2 feet extra behind the rear wheel which needed to be cut off. Back in the day of hot rods and T-buckets they had trailing arms and transverse springs, and pan hard bars, prior to 4 bar and ladder bars....
As a participant in a car club, I can tell you that the hardest part was actually coming up with a car club name. It went on for days, wait...months! I think the typical car club is more of a brotherhood. You know, as in sharing information, life experience, skills, common know...
Well, first, what were the rollers going to be made out of? Stainless steel tubes? Chrome pipe? Way too expensive for my wallet. After some exploration I settled on copper water pipe. It was much more economical than the other two. I had also considered chrome towel rods, closet rods ...
tape to make it equal length and then mark them for where you are going to drill and screw in the pieces of wood.(I recommend when you measure where you want to make the holes for the drill press, to count how many rods you want and divide that by the length of the piece of ...
Use a 3 foot dowel rod inserted into the center barrel of the A and B turrets to align them pointing directly forward so the two rods are parallel and on top of one another and twist tie the dowels together to keep your two cannons aligned. Now place a washer on one of your screws ...
Smashed Mutant Octopus Book "shelf": I was looking through websites when I came across a link to this. I was like "Wow, I want one of those! In fact, I could make one!" So here it is!
A while back, I dropped a newly acquired Sears Router Crafter, which uses pulleys to move a router along rods. That cost me one of the pulleys. I was bummed and panicked, but had a lot of light plexi around and nothing to lose trying to make my own pulley wheel. Using the hole sa...
Once all the holes are in place you're gonna need to cut all your dowel rods. I cut my dowels at 1 1/2" as the jig I had cut 3/4" into the pantry. Now is a good time to put the casters on and make sure everything fits in the space you have. ...