I got some cheap old hardware store plane from my Uncle, and I decided to to a partial restore and conversion to a scrub plane.
Hide glue is awesome stuff. I use Behlen Hide Glue and my glue pot setup is very cheap and very effective. For $15 you can have a fantastic hide glue setup…
Read more →(Faceplate + mdf) + plywood + lathe = Disc Sander
No tutorial. If you can’t figure this out on your own, you shouldn’t be making it.
I love my Bosch 4100 table saw. The gravity rise stand is amazing, it’s compact, it’s accurate, it’s well-made.
The issue is that with how compact it is, you need some sort of extension wings to safely support your work as you cut it.
Like most people you could simply buy a TS1002 Outfeed Support Extension or a TS1016 Outfeed Support Assembly for outfeed support. You’ll also need a TS1003 Left Side Support Table or a TS1008 Left Side Support Table for left side support.
Those damn things are too expensive, and we’re workshop men! We can make our own things. Let me show you how I made mine
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I have a 1965 Ludwig Supraphonic snare drum and when I purchased some new Puresound Custom Pro 20 Strand Snare Wires I had issues. Buzzing, slippage and inconsistent tension were plaguing me.
After searching the net for how to tie the snare strainer side, I realized there was no good info out there!
I tried dozens of methods, followed by lots of testing, and came up with what seems to be the best method…
Read more →A fairly frequently used workflow that many of us use, except most DP users seem to thing this is more difficult than it is. It’s easy!
I have cheap chisels. There, I said it. My first set of chisels was the Neiko Chisel set, and I acquired the HF chisels just because I got them on sale for $3. Over time I’ve become rather unhappy with the edge retention of the Neiko chisels, so I recently purchased the Narex.
You can find these chisels at these various locations:
Upon receiving the Narex chisels I decided to do some investigation. First I came up with a test protocol that consisted of the following stages:
Read more →A simple blog where I will be sharing various bits and bobs from my life. Largely studio and workshop based with various programming bits thrown in.
Posts older than this came from my old website at www.gloryisasilentthing.com
Are you having trouble with your SainSmart, TinkerVault, Hossen, RioRand or whatever Arduino Nano not connecting? That sucks.
You have been a victim of FTDI’s idiotic policies. Read more about it here hackaday. They essentially set the PID on your Arduino to 0000, and it will no longer be recognized.
So now your Nano won’t connect to windows. It’s not recognized by the Arduino IDE. It doesn’t show up in your OS’s device enumeration facilities.
First thing you need to do is UNINSTALL the FTDI drivers in windows. NOW. Do not install them again. When we’re done, windows will automatically find non-bricking drivers that you can use, or you will use modified drivers. FTDI pulled the ‘bricking drivers’ from windows, so the automatically found drivers will not reset your PID. Just don’t install the latest drivers from FTDI unless you want to be reminded that you were scammed into buying a counterfeit product.
Easiest thing to do is install the drivers here: at reddit.This allows Arduinos with 0000 PIDs to operate correctly. If you switch between OS X and/or Linux, then this isn’t enough. Your Arduino is still soft-bricked. You will need to fix the PID in order to use it in another OS.
If you have access to linux then just follow the directions here.
If you’re using windows then download FT_PROG from FTDI SUCKS. Install it. Run it. Scan and Parse. Find where you can edit the PID (Product ID), somewhere under USB_Device_Descriptor. It will be listed as 0000. That is why your Nano is broken. Change it to 6001. Click program. Your Nano is probably fixed now and will work in OS X or linux.
If you are getting the “avrdude: ser_recv(): programmer is not responding error.” error, then you can try the reset trick listed at stackoverflow. That never worked for me, so I had to reburn the bootloader using another Arduino. Follow the directions here or more advanced at this place.
Update: Amazon refunded the money for all my counterfeit TinkerVault Nanos even outside of the return time. Good going Amazon! (and thanks to ‘Calvin’ from the India call center for his fast, polite and efficient help).