Thursday, January 22, 2009

Winter Projects

Welcome, Welcome, my loyal stalkers and ocasional visitors I am here today to give your second blog this week, yes you heard me right, second. To be honest I figured if I am going to attract anymore followers I better get my behind in gear and blog more so each night I thought of blogging but ran out of time. So before the week runs out and it begins to look like every other week on this blog I figured what the heck, folks just want to see what I am up to so I will give you that.

This week I have been keeping my winter blues at bay by taking on a couple projects to keep me busy at night and let me tell ya, they have been keeping me busy.

Project #1: We are slowly converting the shop to be RoHS compliant and lead free. To help in the transition I made two distinctively different portable solder stations so that there will be no cross contamination. This project mostly was made up of painting but also included some woodworking and gluing. Below you will see a photo of the stations.



Project #2: At the BMW shop we picked up some floor display signs from a local store going out of business. I made custom inserts out of frame matting's for the inside so we can just insert a standard 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper. I haven't taken pictures yet but will tonite and get it added here.

Project #3: Also at the BMW shop we are looking into getting new carpeting for the showroom. I have been working on making a drawing in AutoCad of the floor area and the carpet squares so we can color them in and decide the pattern to put on the floor. Once we get it all hammered out I will post a pic of that too.

So there you have it, another winter week here in Michigan.

3 comments:

Joerg said...

A day goes by and no pictures. Where are the pictures?

Dave M said...

What the...? I checked your blog on Friday and this, your latest post, didn't show up. Odd. Anywho - glad to see you're blogging again! (Dare I cross my fingers that this will continue...hmmm...) :-D
Projects are good - they occupy the mind and distract from the bitter cold and snow that lie just outside the door. But while you're at it, see if you can build a sun ray machine or something...something that will hasten winter's demise.

Jan said...

Forget the sun ray machine go visit you mom in Florida