September 2, 2023
Really, there’s isn’t anything to see … just a little sewing. Last weekend I got out the Sailrite Ultrafeed in order to salvage a pair of shorts that had frayed … but I failed, so they are now in the trash (I miss my mom). But since I hauled home the BeachBub.com beach umbrella bag […]
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Tags: beach, beachbub, cap, florida, hat, sailrite, sewing, ultrafeed, umbrella
October 31, 2021
A new upgraded motor is now offered by Sailrite for their line of portable sewing machines (called the WorkerB Power Pack). The lack of slow speed control has been one of the only issues that we have had sewing with the LSZ1. A few years ago I upgraded the Balance Wheel when working on the […]
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Tags: beach, cart, condo1718, dropcloth, lsz-1, machine, motor, power pack, sailrite, sewing, upgrade, upholstery, workerb
January 2, 2021
Adam Savage, from Mythbusters claim-to-fame, has been regularly posting a few of his shop ideas online. A few months ago he triggered me into improving my portable Sailrite Sewing machine set-up (well my wife’s sewing machine that I use .. cough, cough). Anyway, a few weeks after he built his table for his impressive Sailrite […]
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Tags: Adam Savage, box, brenda, cigar, clips, drugstore, feminine, gray drug, History, hudson, idiom, idioms, map, masculine, mp4, Mythbusters, ohio, Rabbit, revco, rite aid, sailrite, sewing, shaker heights, video, walgreens
October 7, 2020
The Sailrite LSZ-1 sewing machine cart is complete and turned out great. Everything worked as planned (a rarity for me) and didn’t have to purchase anything new. The wider oak material was sitting in my stock shelf, the edge banding for the fold out table stripped from the glass top of my recently disassembled printing […]
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Tags: Adam Savage, cart, lsz-1, machine, Mythbusters, no-cost, project, richc, sailrite, sewing, sewing cart, table, twitter, workstation, youtube
September 26, 2020
If you have ever used a heavy portable sewing machine, you know what a pain it is to haul it out of storage and set it up to make a simple repair. I don’t know how many times I’ve grumbled when Brenda wants me to set it on my workbench … or worse, haul it […]
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Tags: cart, lsz-1, project, sailrite, sewing, sewing cart, table, woodworking
December 8, 2018
Read up a little bit more on upholstery last weekend while in Florida while thinking about a couple possible projects. I’m not sure about tackling something as big as a couch and loveseat (slideshow below), but perhaps a couple chair pillows and condo dining room chair cushions are do-able? My projects in the past have […]
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Tags: boat, condo1718, cushions, encore, florida, sailboat, sailrite, sewing, slideshow, upholstery
October 30, 2022
Although the meme floating around social networks (the one at the bottom of this post) is probably not correct, I enjoyed it enough to do a little digging. Personally I’ve always thought that “the whole (or full) nine (six) yards” had to do with the innings in a baseball game (old article below), so I […]
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Tags: ammo, History, idiom, idioms, meme, newspaper, phrases, sewing, the whole nine yards, wikipedia
October 19, 2022
There was a leftover beach flyover video on my phone from our late September – early October Florida vacation so with a private family post creating registered only viewing and the first real cold weather of the season, this makes for an envious filler. I’m looking forward to warm weather and the beach again. Why […]
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Tags: beach, cold weather, delray beach, filler, florida, flyover, project, vacation
December 26, 2021
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Tags: annalyn, boxing day, brenda, christmas, christmas eve, drew, ellerie, family, katelyn, megan, oostras, Photos, richc, taylor
December 12, 2021
After years of collecting a variety of tools and “tool” parts (bits, blades, etc), I’ve noticed that the mish-mash of storage containers have become even more interesting as the actual items being stored and saved (click photos for larger). Here are a few photos with a variety of storage items in a Where’s Waldo (or […]
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Tags: altoids, bits, boxes, coffee cans, drawers, parts, pickle jars, storage, sucrets, taps, tins, tobacco, tool, toolbox, tools, vials, workshop
November 2, 2021
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Tags: 2021, annalyn, costume, drew, ellerie, family, halloween, idiom, idioms, katelyn, megan, taylor
June 17, 2021
After repairing our iRobot pool sweeper last week and figuring out how to hold a “behind the riveted new screen” tiny nut in place (after I dropped it!) … I happened to see Adam Savage’s model building recommended tool (mention him an his testedcom before) and “just had to have it.” In the photos above, […]
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Tags: Adam Savage, cleaner, forceps, irobot, medical, model, pool, screen, sewing, sweeper, tools
January 14, 2021
While shuffling through a bunch of old scans and photos and uploading stuff to my Miami University .EDU Google Drive account for free cloud storage after downgrading my subscription to OneDrive (they refused to renew the 1TB of space at my previous 4-years of discounted service), I ran across the window sticker from my black […]
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Tags: 4runner, cars, condo1718, dadh, family, great white whale, TBT, throwback, toyota
November 15, 2020
On one of my sailing groups, a Sailrite Ultrafeed LSZ-1 user complained that the speed controller pedal was hard to regulate. I’ve found that to be true as well. Another person made the comment that they used a piece of flexible tubing/hose that gives the pedal a little more tactile feel … so I tried […]
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Tags: control, cover, dewalt, hacks, hatch, holder, lsz-1, pedal, planer, sailing, sailrite, sewing machine, speed, tinkering, ultrafeed
September 27, 2020
When bragging that my latest sewing cart project had zero cost in it, I held off until the end of the post to mention that I was spending money and would post about that on Sunday. Well here it is: I bought my first planer; it’s a semi-portable DeWalt DW735, with the “X” option (extra […]
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Tags: amazon, dewalt, dw735x, hobby, jointer, makita, new, planer, tool, woodworking, workshop
October 23, 2019
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Tags: annalyn, bathroom, brenda, condo1718, couch, delray beach, drew, family, florida, katelyn, loveseat, mosaic, remodeling, richc, sewing, tile, updates, upholstery, vacation, VacationOct2019
September 5, 2019
Saw this on a sailing forum and thought it would be a great sewing tidbit to add to an Encore project list. Looks simple and compact enough.
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Tags: archive, encore, mp4, project, sailboat, sailing, sailrite, sewing, tidbit, video, windscoop
May 19, 2019
Working on remodeling projects away from home a few days at a time really seems to stretch a project out (photo – flying home from Fort Lauderdale FLL last night – I was checking out the FULL anchorage at Lake Sylvia from the plane). Thankfully both Brenda and I have always enjoyed the hands-on projects. […]
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Tags: bathroom, condo1718, cushions, delray beach, florida, master, painting, remodel, remodeling, tile, updates, upholstery, vacation, vanity
May 10, 2019
Last year’s Condo1718 update to the kitchen and guest bathroom was a bit more ambitious than this year, but so far it doesn’t seem like it. Mentally I had my timetable worked out and figured the demolition wouldn’t take all that much. Well really it didn’t, but after finding a few things not where I […]
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Tags: bathroom, condo1718, delray beach, demolition, florida, master, plumbing, remodel, update
January 27, 2019
After finally removing my built-in radial arm saw from my workbench, I was able to rework the area attached to my workbench in order to fit my “somewhat new” 12” Hitachi Miter Saw. With this new sliding miter saw, I no longer have a need for bulky power tool duplication, and as a workshop accumulates […]
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Tags: boots, clamps, drillbits, drillpress, miter, project, saw, sewing, vasque, woodworking, workshop
January 2, 2018
Ok … so this nautical fix has not been endorsed by my wife, in fact, she will not be seen with me from wearing these pants in public ever again … although like most women, I’m not sure she is fond of cargo pants anyway? My Eddie Bauer flannel lined winter cargo pants are a […]
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Tags: cargo, eddie bauer, fix, pants, repair, sailrite, snap
October 1, 2017
Who doesn’t have favorite pairs of shorts … or think about the potential for hard times or a doomsday? I have a few shorts, jeans, jackets, etc and can’t bear to part with them when they get a tear or a hole and are worn bare … so end up looking for ways to stretch […]
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Tags: doomsday, emp, hard times, north korea, prepper, sailrite, sewing
July 25, 2017
Last month I spent quite a bit of time prepping and painting the wicker chairs passed down from generation to generation (see post). This past weekend I used recovering and adding filler to the old cushions as an opportunity to learn a little bit more about sewing — with Brenda‘s Sailrite machine. I’ve tackled a […]
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Tags: antique, chairs, heirloom, projects, recovering, sailrite, sewing, upholstery, wicker
December 11, 2016
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Tags: buffett, cage, curtain, diesel, encore, florida, generator, mp3, projects, solar, volvo
October 6, 2016
Let’s hope this “curtain call” (cough, cough) isn’t a precursor for Hurricane Matthew bearing down on Encore in Fort Pierce Florida? The subject line was more of a slip of the tongue regarding “curtains” when I really intended a twisted “Suzy Homemaker” innuendo — Sailor Homemaker (my attempts at sewing curtains). Failed joke aside, I […]
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Tags: curtains, encore, fence, project, sailboat, sailrite, sewing, straight edge
October 3, 2016
The generator "security cage" project for our sailboat Encore is ready to be installed. I’m not fond of making a few more holes in the deck, but it needs to be done. The final touches (minus adding Velcro) were taken care of this past weekend. That included softening the aluminum edges, adding shrink tubing to […]
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Tags: aluminum, cage, encore, EU2000i, generator, honda, project, sailboat
July 16, 2015
IF … a big IF … I learn a little more about sail repair and “sewing,” I would like to have a few projects to practice on before wasting too much material (or time and money!) We still don’t have the proper sewing machine (perhaps a Sailrite?) BUT KNOW will not try using Brenda’s old […]
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Tags: ditty, encore, projects, sailboat, sailrite, sewing, singer
February 27, 2010
The Palm webOS 1.4 update finally arrived and we’re still in February. It has been an anticipated update that includes new video and camcorder like features. While waiting for the substantial download and nearly 30 minute upgrade process, I ended up fiddling with a new piping or cording foot that arrived for my wife’s sewing […]
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May 8, 2009
I regularly read the updates from Reid Stowe and his 1000 Days at Sea Mars Ocean Odyssey and wanted to archive an AP story from earlier in the week. The AP article written by Verena Dobnik was published a couple days ago and portrayed Soanya and Reid’s story as “quirky” — at least the beginning. […]
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Tags: adventure, cruising, sailing