Gloves Hats Tube Socks and Childrens Toys Needed

10:07 PM in and, Aqua, childrens, gloves, hats, needed, socks, toys, tube

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The Rock at NoonDay is seeking donations of certain items to distribute on Christmas Day. The guests--adults who are experiencing homelessness as well as some children--will receive the gifts as part of a special Christmas lunch, which will take place from 11:00-1:00 p.m. on Dec. 25.

Please take a few minutes in the midst of your Christmas shopping to buy new gloves, hats and white tube socks as well as toys for children for this special occasion.

Please drop off these items at the shelter, located at 2400 Second St. NW (map), on Sunday, Dec. 20, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., or on Monday-Wednesday, Dec. 21-23, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

For more information, please contact Pastor Danny Whatley at (505) 220-6036

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Reader Tips Neills Bike Tube Wood Clamp

9:33 PM in Aqua, bike, clamp, neills, reader, tips, tube, wood

Todays post is a tip from reader and whatchagotics expert, Neill Goltz, who came up with a great way to repurpose old bike tubes.  He says:

I just had a wonderful result repairing an old bureau (with mirror) where the laminate exterior had gone bad, i.e., was coming up off the underlying wood on the surface of the main drawer.

Not shilling for a particular product, but I used Gorilla brand wood glue. (Im sure that Elmers would work just as well here. Or perhaps readers of this site already know how to make their own? Horses hooves? Not going there…)

Anyway, two possible points of interest to your blog-readership.

How to apply a clamp - and what kind to a large drawer. Didn’t want to take it apart…

Working with glue is messy, and it extrudes from the seams once the clamp is applied.

The solutions:

As a clamp item I used old bicycle tires freely given by the owner of the local shop. They wrap beautifully around any unusual configuration and can be adjusted to any lengths and tension all the way around the project, in this case the drawer.

I just put a loop in one end, and thread the other end thru and pulled to desired tension. [I] recommend that you put "Shoe-Knot loop" thru on the second tie off so as to release it very easily when glue is dry.? 

 I wanted to create a barrier-layer between the glue (which would extrude) and the tubes. A magazine cover or ordinary cardboard would be adhered to by the glue, so I tried the cellophane wrapper from a box of Cheerios.

Photo credit: Neill Goltz.

Voila! The results could not be better. [Excess glue can be removed with] water-based OOPS or GOOF-OFF. Its water-based, but I still use rubber gloves.?

Photo credit: Neill Goltz.

Jakes Note: there are multiple formulations of those paint removers; some are water-based, some are not.  Definitely wear gloves with all of them!

Great work repairing your bureau drawer, and thanks for sharing the story, Neill!

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Integrated Vertical Tube System

7:09 AM in Aqua, integrated, system, tube, vertical

Heres a drawing and a photo of the integrated vertical tube aquaponics system we built. The photo shows the tubes in the planting/harvesting position; normally they are rotated 180 degrees so that the openings face the window.

Aquaponics Vertical grow

Aquaponics, ækw??p?n?ks, pisciponics

To make the grow tubes, I cut slots across with a hack saw and then heated the plastic with a heat gun to soften it. Once it was soft I pushed in a tapered wooden plug to hold it open until the plastic hardened again. I did this outside because the PVC gives off some fumes when you heat it. The second photo below shows a close up of one of the openings after the tube was filled with pea gravel.

Aquaponics Vertical grow

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