We have this old battery, which turns out to be seven years and two months old. For good brands like Lifeline and Odyssey we count on an 8 year lifespan, so when I noticed weakness during engine start, I had assumed the battery was nearing its end of life and
The new Bosch Colt battery powered palm router is great. I tested the dust extraction and with the Festool extractor it’s perfect. plugging the screw holes is very easy with just the on-tool functions. I simply draw a 6mm circle and using a 1/8” bit, either cut the
I have about 30 simultaneous projects going on but this week found some time for the teak foredeck seat again. After finishing all the joinery I glued it with epoxy, then did a rough sand with the belt sander. The picture above shows the setup after that where I just
After cutting all 11 pieces (zero straight cuts), we have to make mortise and tenon joints, all of them angled. The picture above shows the work holding for cutting an angled tenon using the Shaper Workstation. There’s the vertical clamp face where I have attached the angled fence. On
Testing and practicing with the Shaper Origin is going well. I have arrived at the point of cutting parts that are too big for the Shaper Workstation but require a precision that I’m not comfortable with marking with a pencil and using the Shaper Plate. For this, people make
As expected, after learning a thousand things with the initial design and loading that on the CNC, I started over with the design of the seat to optimize the method. I started with a top view design of how it should look like as shown above. There’s the individual
I got my hands on some plantation teak boards and have a project on my list for a seat on the foredeck which is handy when working with spinnakers or just to enjoy ourselves. The trouble (it’s never easy) is that it needs to rest on stainless steel railings
Testing in some cardboard. As this is incompatible with the workstation, I added some shaper tape with the dominoes so that the CNC can track its position, then used a smaller 1/8” bit to cut 1mm down into the cardboard. First cut with a little offset and when that
Exciting times for us as we level up our toolset: we received a Revopoint Miraco Plus 3D scanner and a Shaper Origin handheld CNC router with accessories! We have a long list of projects lined up for these but first we’re getting to know these tools which both have
For the controller I also have all the components except for one of the three relays. The two I installed are for controlling a Blue Sea Systems Remote Battery Switch (RBS) and the one I will install later is for controlling the active balancer. This PCB has many more components
We’re back in Florida so projects can resume! Surprisingly I had enough parts to build one complete cell board, which is now ready for testing. The empty DIL-8 socket is for the ATtiny microcontroller, which I program out of circuit. The RJ11 socket is for connecting these boards in
I made this diagram years ago and posted it on the Cruising Forum. The problem there is that it simply is too hard to find and it gets lost, so I’m posting it here instead. The goal of all my diagrams is to be a reference and this is