Olympus BioScapes competition winners

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Making a cyclone chip separator for a dust
collector

post from Daily DIY on 21 November 2009 03:46:26 AM. © Daily DIY

A dust collector should be one of the first major purchases for any woodworking shop.? Not only do they help keep things clean and tidy, they also protect your lungs from harmful airborne dust.? A dust collector is only as good as it's filter, and?as[...]

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A low audio video cabinet as room divider

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A neat room divider with loads of storage for media stuff. Double duty furniture from Phil.

"We ripped out all the walls of our living room, dining room and kitchen and then added a new kitchen. We ended up with a living/dining area 33 feet long and almost 19 feet wide. We needed a cabinet to house all the AV system including the front speakers that was not tall so that the space still felt large. So we dug a channel through the concrete floor and installed a tube from the attic to an island cabinet. The tube carries power, rear speaker wires, speaker wires for the library and a component A/V cable to a projector for projection to a 7' wide pull down screen that is recessed in the ceiling above the cabinet.

The cabinet was designed to use Ikea kitchen cabinets. They are actually the same cabinets used in our new kitchen with different hardware. It consists of four 24" sink bases with the sink frame cut off the tops. This brought them down to 24" high. There is one 12" cabinet that was also cut down to 24" high which created space for a center speaker. The layout is two 24" cabinets at each end with the 12" cabinet in the center. Since wiring A/V systems is a hassle, to say the least, we decided to have the back of the cabinet facing the dining area all doors that accessed all the equipment.

Ikea was smart enough to make the shelf support holes in the back of the cabinet the same distance from the outside edge as the front holes so the backs could be eliminated and replaced by doors. However, this created a horizontal stability problem so panels were installed in the middle of right speaker cabinet, the 12" center cabinet. A shorter internal panel was installed in the left speaker cabinet to permit the woofer to pass under it.

Doors for the cabinets that have loudspeakers were purchased from the cheapest line that has framed panels. The inner panel was cut out leaving only a hinged frame over which speaker cloth was stretched. Only one cabinet on the dining room side need speaker cloth to permit maximum sound out put form the woofer whose cabinet has speaker cloth both sides.

The ends and top of the cabinet were constructed from 88" high cabinet end panels. We lucked out as there was shipment damage on quite a few of them and got them from the defective goods section.

The cabinets with doors back and front created a problem in that they are about 25" deep. The tall end panels are 24" and we wanted a little overhang both sides. The system is built with Nexus yellow brown doors. To make an "extension patch" seem like a design element we cut the yellow brown top down the middle and installed a 2 1/2" "stripe/extension using Nexus black-brown which gave us the overhangs on both side we wanted. The top could have been made with one 88" high cabinet end cover panel and one 36" high end cover panel but due to the damaged panels the top had to fabricated in three parts. All joins were made with biscuit joiners. This was my first use of biscuit joiners which are great but I'm yet to master perfect joins."

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How to Make a Sweet Indian Treat: 7 Cup Burfi

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7 Cup BurfiThe name of this sweet treat comes from the fact that 7 cups are used to make it. This is a very popular Indian sweet usually made on special occasions, but you could make it on weekends or for dessert of whenever you want.

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How To Recycle a Kids Sweatshirt Into a Doggie
Poop Bag Holder

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If you need a handy way to hold poop pick up bags when you`re walking you dog, follow this ?ble. I`m going to show you how to recycle a kids sweatshirt into a handy dandy poop bag holder!Please visit my blog, Bloggie Stylish, where you can find other[...]

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Name the Thing Contest - 107

post from Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog on 21 November 2009 02:05:12 AM. © Hacked Gadgets - DIY Tech Blog

The prize this week is a loupe magnifier. This contest will run for one week (Nov 21 - 27, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it.Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send [...]

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DIY Transitional Projects

post from The DIY Show Off on 21 November 2009 12:48:00 AM. © The DIY Show Off

Sometimes it takes making a temporary change until the permanent change is in the budget to keep me from going insane. It's the reason that I'm painting the plywood floor in the bathroom I'm working on. Rather than leave it bare ugly stained plywood until it's time for marble tile, a fresh new painted floor is an inexpensive temporary fix. I love the look of painted floors and I can't wait to see it myself. I'm hoping I have the chance to work on it over the next few days.

Here is the before (currently)...yikes!

And here is just a little hint about part of what I have in mind, a little practice with primer. I'm hoping it works out the way I'm picturing it in my head.

So, when I saw Karli's temporary fix at RockyBella, it confirmed that temporary inexpensive fixes are worth it. Her countertops were ugly before (sorry Karli!) but now - they're beautiful. Don't you think?

Here is her post:

My kitchen counter tops are in a transitional stage. I plan to replace them one day soon with some tile or maybe even granite. I would like to tile the kitchen floor before we get to that project though. So to hold me over, I've taken on a little "ghetto fabulous" kitchen counter re-do. I shared with you how I did a test run with my little section of counter, in this post. I decided it was high time to get the rest of it finished. When I went back to the store where I originally bought the gray colored "stone" spray paint, I sadly found out the color had been discountinued. Whoops, what am I going to do now? One side of my kitchen is already done and "enviro teched" (clear shiney hard coat) over. I hunted around and around town for the same paint color, but I didn't have any luck finding it. I picked out the closest thing to it. Once I got them next to reach other I realized it was definitely not close enough, I will have to re-do the first section I did. Oh Well.

Here is my step by step on how I painted my "stone" counter-tops.

BEFORE

AFTER

*Note: If you saw my first post on painting my counter tops you may be have noticed they are not as shiny as my first run at it. I have not completed the "glass shine" step yet. I will get to that explanation soon...

I taped off my sink and protected it with some plastic bags, as well as covering the cabinets in plastic. You will want to protect anything close because you are using spray paint inside....eeek. The cabinets above were not close enough to the spray so they were not covered, and they still stayed paint-less during the process.

I used Glidden's Gripper primer in gray to coat the entire laminate counter top.

I popped the cap off the "stone" flecked spray paint, and gave it about three to four even coats. Since its spray paint I had to be very careful to keep the can at an equal distance from the counter the entire time. It is easy to get uneven circles that will make it obvious that you used a spray paint. Doing at least three coats will help to ensure that the application is even. I stayed about 8 inches away from the surface of the counter top.

I let it sit overnight to thoroughly dry. Then I got out a fine paint brush and some clear gloss polyurethane that I had left over from when I refinished our hardwood floors. This is the step where I COULD have used Envirotex to get a glassy look like I did on the other side of my kitchen. It would have been about $100 to do this step so I held off for another day. I will do that step very soon in the near future.

Envirotex was used on this section (above) to get a high gloss look. It is also much more protected and durable after using Envirotex.

This is how it looks with ONLY high gloss polyurethane, not Envirotex:

I did about 3 coats of the polyurethane, and let each coat dry for at least 4 hours before starting the next. I left the back-splash alone, just primed it. I plan to do a bead board back-splash soon.

So there you have it, my cheap little counter top re-do. Although its still not finished.

Thanks Karli! Your counter looks amazing! I wouldn't be in a hurry to change it!
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