Noah B Woodworks

I’m going to get personal for a second. This week has been heavy for my friends and family. My wife lost her biological mom last night, which was awful. Grandma June left this world somewhat comfortably in the hospital shortly after experiencing a collapsed lung. The doctors gave her morphine, which helped. Her passing was bittersweet, as she suffered a traumatic brain injury when she was just 16 years old, over 30 years ago. It’s strange, the doctors said she was never supposed to live this long, and her life was a testament to her immense strength as an individual.

My boss’s dad died last Wednesday, which was slightly more tragic because it happened out of the blue. He’s technically my boss, but he’s more of a friend. My buddy expressed early last week that his dad was in the hospital for pneumonia, and there wasn’t too much to worry about. Things took a turn for the worse on Wednesday night. He returns to work today and I’m sure he’s in distraction mode, just looking for anything to take his mind off what happened last week. It hurts to see the people whom I’m closest with in life hurting like this.

Needless to say, its been a rough few days. I’ll attempt to return to discussing the tasks at hand, and what progress I’ve made recently in my crafting endeavors. At this point in the week, I’ll expect to finish the tessellated box project this weekend, and make that the goal. It would be interesting to make more than one, and what’s important is getting through the first box with no hiccups. I haven’t started editing the video but because it’s being shot with the nice camera, I’m confident that the footage is good. I’m hoping it will make for a good video.

We’ll see what the ice looks like this weekend. We’ve been having very warm weather for winter in southeast Michigan, so I’m guessing the ice will be sketchy. I’ll most likely need to order a higher quality spud bar to make sure I can get out there safely. Lake St. Clair might be a good look, and we’ll see what the ice report has to say. I’d like to travel about an hour north and hit some inland lakes if they’re frozen over.

I successfully 3D printed a housing for my fish finder. It turned out awesome. It takes 14 hours to print, so its a huge time investment. I discovered a reliable way to glue 3D printed pieces together that are made from PETG filament. JB weld makes a glue called plastic weld that literally fuses the plastic pieces together. It gives me a lot more confidence than super glue. I discovered that if you’re going to have parts that fit into each other, there needs to be a tolerance of around 0.1 mm on all sides for the pieces to slip together nicely. I’ve attached a couple of pictures of the fish finder.

Next on the 3D printing list is printing a housing for the 3D printer itself. I ordered the enclosure kit off Amazon and it should help with fumes and noise, which are my two biggest concerns when it comes to 3D printing. It would be best to filter the air coming out of the printer, but that is a problem for a different day.