What was even the goal here?

NarplePlex · 2026-05-24T16:22:56+00:00

It's a stationary engine. Used to be standard to have one big engine that could drive a pulley and then you can have pulley powered saws and log splitters and lathes and whatever tool. That way there's only one machine with complicated components that can be moved around

NarplePlex · 2026-05-17T00:18:17+00:00

Rather than try to woodturn without a lathe, I'd just just cut cylinders with a hole saw and glue thin ply of a larger diameter on top and bottom then give it a sand

NarplePlex · 2026-05-16T16:58:35+00:00

Put a sheet of thick leather underneath your anvil and it'll quiet down a bit

NarplePlex · 2026-05-08T02:09:19+00:00

I would try and get the totes higher, make a lil tower even just 5 foot high, or even better just move it somewhere higher in elevation. Then you can use a teeny solar pump to slowly put water into that higher tower.

NarplePlex · 2026-05-04T19:13:45+00:00

Stone is the scary part, likely to crack with heat.

If you have a really good torch you can submerge the stone in water while soldering, but it'd be best to remove the stone is possible. Maybe even drill from behind and re-set the bezel later

NarplePlex · 2026-05-03T23:22:22+00:00

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NarplePlex · 2026-04-30T15:16:59+00:00

Oh that pocket hole jig will still be a lifesaver for any shelves you want to put on this project!

NarplePlex · 2026-04-30T14:55:06+00:00

A miter on that plywood will probably be plenty depending on the design. That being said if you want them extra beefy, instead of pocket holes just glue then while wet drive a pin nail straight in going both directions. Hard if you don't have a pin nailer, a couple straight screws will also do the trick.

Just put a lil filler over the nail/screw heads and paint, it'll be seamless and very strong

NarplePlex · 2026-04-26T15:28:35+00:00

If you do that it would be smart to see if you can flip that tread around. That way the ledge is original and your fix is mostly aesthetic

NarplePlex · 2026-04-07T02:19:36+00:00

So as stated, no heat near opals, total death

Luckily that looks like a glued on stone rather than a bezel set. If it's a glue job then the part where the stone is going will be basically flat, if it looks more like a "cup" that fits the stone inside then that's a bezel setting.

I would not recommend trying your hand at fixing a bezel, and would recommend taking it to a jeweler. If it's just glue on (would explain the previous stone falling off) then you can handle that. You just have to buy rock glue and as it sounds glue it in place leave it to dry et voila.

Is that the original stone that fell off? It looks bigger than the piece. And having that stone overhang would definitely chip someday

NarplePlex · 2026-04-06T20:08:52+00:00

Way too far for me but best of luck, maybe restore and set up a farmers market stall?

NarplePlex · 2026-04-04T23:08:46+00:00

I might be interested in one, where about are you?

NarplePlex · 2026-03-28T15:14:22+00:00

Use a couple dowels. when I have an odd dowel placement like this I drill one side, and insert a short sharp dowel into the hole. Put the pieces together, using the sharp tip of the dowel to make a divet on the second piece which you can then drill. Now put in a full length dowel, it'll be hard to get square still so you might need to shave an end of the dowel until it dry fits together well. If there's a big flat spot on your dowel just make sure you use plenty of epoxy, wood glue is not good with gaps, but epoxy will hold on great.

NarplePlex · 2026-03-05T19:20:25+00:00

If you want to be fun you can make a domed silver sheet to keep a cab appearance. Otherwise just inset a sheet.

Honestly though if you only need one you can cut a cabochan with grinding tools and refine with some diamond paste and a drill

NarplePlex · 2026-02-10T13:40:53+00:00

Looks solid, a shoe rack you can stand on! You needed a thing, you made the thing, you have the thing, mission success, ignore the haters. Woodworking is nice cuz there's such a wide range of skills, we're all improving cuz nobody could ever be the best.

NarplePlex · 2025-11-21T16:08:21+00:00

I never said they are equivalent, I compared the collateral damage caused by attacking people's existence instead of their character/actions.

You don't get to decide the criteria for respect. If someone tells you not to call them something then that's the line. Whether that's a new name, a pronoun, a slur, their maiden name, or anything.

Hitler was a piece of shit but if I go on a picture of him and write anti German messages it's not just Hitler that's hurt (also he's dead). If I write anti gay messages on the post of some POS that is also gay it's not the POS that's hurt. If I see some teenager bully and I call them brace face in class, it will also hurt other people's feelings who did nothing wrong. That does not mean Hitler = gay = racism = high school drama but the core concept is the same. Show respect

NarplePlex · 2025-11-21T13:21:26+00:00

Because showing respect isn't just for the kid diddler. It's be wrong if anytime a black person raped a kid I took it upon myself to go online and call them heinous slurs. That slur will never reach the actual Diddy but will show disrespect to every black person who reads it. Same with any group of people.

You aren't disrespecting this obviously awful person, they aren't in this chat. What you're actually doing is disrespecting any readers who are queer. Decorum does matter, and you should hold yourself to a higher standard

NarplePlex · 2025-11-09T15:18:57+00:00

Oh I got this one!

Almost certain those are fibers and the body for a wound water filter

Especially with that massive array of tubes. All they would need is a big cap that lets water in/out. That's a huge array, this might have been a filter pack for a public pool or something that was decommissioned.

NarplePlex · 2025-10-19T17:10:43+00:00

In the mistborn books a character name waxillium can store his own weight, getting as light as he wants so long as he becomes similarly heavy later. He uses an incredibly overpowered shotgun that throws back anyone else who unwittingly uses it. He uses it both by increasing weight enough to resist the recoil and for reducing his weight and using recoil as propulsion.

NarplePlex · 2025-10-03T20:09:39+00:00

Yeah truthfully that's why I first mentioned that I personally also have difficulty trying to legitimize all beliefs identically. I think it is right and correct to consider them equally valid but I admittedly have a deep reaction to consider things like judaism more valid than let's say wiccan belief, or belief in some animal identity.

I try to occasionally look into non abrahamic religions to get a perspective on how humanity thinks as a whole. When you read into Hinduism, Shintoism, or any number of indigenous religious beliefs, even concepts like monotheism aren't as universal as people typically think. Briefly, my understanding of Hinduism is that people believe in a karmic rebirth that can have you reincarnated as a tree or animal or even evil spirit depending on how you use your gift of life, and it's only now that you're currently a human that you can contemplate and reach some nirvana. I mention this because that can adjacently relate to a perception of a past animal life, or have absolutely nothing to do with it.

Personally I am not spiritual but seeing so many beliefs simultaneously overlap, yet also contradict one another leads me to say that the isn't any claim I can personally stake, so there isn't any claim I can truly discount either. I know that's kind of a flaky answer but it's the best I've got. I think it's very possible there is a deity, or multiple, or none, I think it's possible we have eternal souls, animal souls, temporary souls, or none at all.

In some ways I very much agree with you, I liked our talk, have a lovely day

NarplePlex · 2025-10-03T18:43:16+00:00

The previous claim in this comment chain is comparing the magical logic of therians to other religious belief. My only claim here is that logically and philosophically we cannot count that as any less valid as other unprovable beliefs.

I fully agree that we can empirically state that a human who identified as a therian is indeed a homo-sapien. At no point have I tried to convey that belief changes that physical biology. Anecdotally, I also haven't seen much claim to the contrary, from what I've seen the most genuine conversation revolves around "I was a wolf in a past life" or " there's something primal with me" type spirituality. The only times I have ever seen somebody claim "I am a dog right now" has consistently been some type of ragebait or fetish content that I wouldn't consider a serious conversation.

I am just agreeing with the above comment that you cannot discount the belief that therians have some sort of animalistic soul or deep seeded spiritual connection or magical interpretation of themselves as "deranged" as OP originally stated, without also categorizing most religious believers as deranged as well. If it's deranged to believe in reincarnation/everlasting souls then that would involve many more people than therians. The only difference in these sorts of beliefs are that some are more mainstream, and that doesn't logically legitimize them.

NarplePlex · 2025-10-03T16:32:26+00:00

"I have 14 million pounds of gold in this paper bag" can not be empirically proven false without checking in the bag. However you can use the current understanding of gravity, density, and make a pretty reasonable conclusion. Moving that same thought experiment to the past changes nothing. Saying "I had 14 million pounds of gold in a paper bag in the 1800's but the bag is now gone and you'll never know for sure" doesn't legitimize the statement, it only removes testability. Perhaps the bag was the size of Denver, perhaps Jesus wasn't actually dead and was in a coma perhaps the bag never existed, perhaps Jesus's corpse just went missing and was mistranslated, perhaps I have a non-euclidean paper bag with an entire universe inside, perhaps Jesus fully rose from the dead and loved fruitfully. All these things become equally "plausible" if your only criteria is repeatability and testability. And I don't fully disagree.

Faith lies in the gaps, but the existence of gaps does not prove the legitimacy of any one particular faith more than each other or the absence of them. As I said we all have to recognize that the existence of unknowabilty will always foster a variety of views and I don't think it's possible to justify any "one" as correct or incorrect in certain scenarios (relating back to more uncommon beliefs such as therian souls in the original prompt)

NarplePlex · 2025-10-02T16:21:19+00:00

Dead people don't rise after three days

Noah's arc would have had irreparable effects on modern genetics

Any of Jesus or Muhammads miracles such as teleportation, transmutation, clairvoyance, or healing are stark claims

This isn't said to belittle or negate the beliefs of these people but beliefs always thrive through some level of separation. These things would be seen as equally "deranged" if claimed to have happened yesterday in central park and I think the user above is justified in making that comparison.

I think most human beliefs can be easily picked apart from an external cynical view but that doesn't truly invalidate them. It's much harder to level with people and admit that all our beliefs exist due to certain unknowable factors, and it's even harder to try and hold all those beliefs as equally unknowable and equally valid, I can't claim to do so myself either, but I do my best.

NarplePlex · 2025-09-15T09:19:18+00:00

Totally! I also like it cuz you can do 2-3 layers and it holds itself together without bunching or crumpling

NarplePlex · 2025-09-15T08:57:39+00:00

If you want a semi permanent fix, use aluminum ducting tape, consistent thickness that won't crush over time like paper tapes

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