Hobo Jungle

[healey36]

Shhhhh! The Sonoran Burrowing Hell Cat...rarely seen during the daytime...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Demonically possessed cat!

[Mitch]

Got one here, Tramp, that could destroy both cars in 5 minutes. She was a cutie 5 1/2 months ago, but she's a holy terror now!

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[webenda]

Hopefully, no one will bring any ducks on board.

[rogruth]

Tramp,

What railroad are those photos from and when?

[healey36]

This was a big weekend for yard/tag sales around here...I occasionally stop if I see something from the road that looks interesting. I'm a sucker for old, well-used wood-working tools...this was a random item on a table full of mechanic's tools:



One wonders how things turn up in places least expected. Relatively recent production (last twenty years), manufactured in the spirit of the old hollow-cast Britains of 50-100 years ago.

Brings to mind one of my favorite poems:

The Land of Counterpane
by Robert Louis Stevenson

When I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head,
And all my toys beside me lay,
To keep me happy all the day.

And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;

And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down among the sheets;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.

I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.

I've been needing another try square...picked up this nice old nine-inch example, steel blade with a mahogany/brass head:



Cleaned up nice. No manufacturer's mark that I could find. Just like old toy trains, these old tools all have stories, but most of them are lost.

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I've been needing another try square...picked up this nice old nine-inch example, steel blade with a mahogany/brass head:



Cleaned up nice. No manufacturer's mark that I could find. Just like old toy trains, these old tools all have stories, but most of them are lost.

Healey

Nice!

I have 4 of these; a set of 3 from a 4.5" Up to that 9" with brass trefoil holding what on mine are rose wood handles; the 4th one is made for 45 degrees. Got these from my great uncle's estate sale a number fo years ago, filthy and ugly. Cleaned up very nicely and I use that 4.5" one quite frequently in my shop when cutting sheets of scribed siding or clapboard.

[rogruth]

I hope you check the squareness of your squares before you try to square anything.

[healey36]

I have an old Stanley frame square I keep precisely for that purpose...it's a KGS (known good square)...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I hope you check the squareness of your squares before you try to square anything.

Back when these were made you could actually trust your tools to be right,

I also have a couple of regular all metal framing squares and a few right angle blocks if I ever feel the need to check.

[Mitch]

I hope you check the squareness of your squares before you try to square anything.

The square pictured above, and the ones' mentioned are machinist squares. New, they are not cheap and they're guaranteed to be dead on the money square.

I have two squares (both 18"x 24") that are very close to perfect square, (one an old steel square that my dad had when I was a kid), and one aluminum square, but I went through 5 of them to get it. I've bent 3 other squares in half and junked them. This last one that I bought is Aluminum, and I walked into Sears with a 2' x 3' piece of clean plywood and two sharp pencils and went to the square rack. Out of 5 that were hanging on the hook, I picked the 4th one, as it is less than 1/32" off in 24". One of those squares was 7/16" off square in 24"!! Pity the guy who gets that one without checking. Hope he ain't a cabinet maker. You'd think in today's age where a CNC machine can machine metal to 25/1,000,000 of an inch, they could build a square square. When I do anything with plywood, I use the square, the 3,4,5 rule, and I check my pencil lines from corner to corner with an accurate tape measure for square before using the saw.

[rogruth]

You have all made my point more clear.

[healey36]

I've got two squares I knocked out by dropping them, both times by rushing and being careless. Greater care has come with age (mine, not the squares).

Healey

[robert.]

If you spotted me 3 90% corners i would still not be able to make a square. I did it once in junior high. Our whole 9th grade class was required to square a board. This was part of our home ec class grade. Hard to believe i restore 18th and 19th century french furniture for a living.

[webenda]

Mitch! Now how many people actually measure how far off their squares are. People like you used to be called, "Squares."

Now you got me worring about my squares. Swanson 12" Speedlite Square: No error (that I could see.)
No Brand (Harbor Freight) metric square (100 gradian angle) off +3 mm in 600 mm. That relates to the 100 gradian angle being 100.159 gradians.

Thanks a lot Mitch. Now I have to try to straighten out the stretchers on that metric fence I built in 2009.
But first, to adjust the square, I will follow these instructions: => https://youtu.be/azMBpXqDJW0

Now that that is taken care of I think I will enjoy some music.

Manoe challenges André with some rock and roll.
Rock & Rieu - Andre Rieu => https://youtu.be/V9-qs5eFNSk

Manoe is something else! Seeing her in her black leathers racing through the streets of Maastricht (Netherlands) on her motorbike, it’s hard to believe she’s the same girl who looks like a fairytale princess in the evenings in her fabulous concert dress. Manoe is a real clown on stage. She plays the clarinet, saxophone, bagpipes, guitar, she sings, she dances... and if I suggested she should do all of those things at once while standing on her head, I have no doubt she would manage it! --André Rieu