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PINE. Like scotch pine, PINE. PINESOL! PINE! PINE!!! PINE!!!! (twitches with catatonic rage.) (My! Such a REACTION!) NURSE!!!! PINE!!!! PINESOL!!! MY PIZZA TASTES LIKE PINE!!!! (twitches) Now I know what you're thinking, "where the HELL did THAT come from Sponie?". Well, let me 'splain myself. You see they tend to over do it down here in the land of Failure, I mean Florida... Mostly they overdo the Pinesol thing in the only places one can get actual food while on a rural job site, at the Jiffy. (Jiffy's don't actually exist in Florida anymore, and haven't for over 35 years but NO ONE down here will call a convenience store ANYTHING but a Jiffy.) Go to a Jiffy and get food and it will taste STRONGLY of pinesol. How strong? Oh like, marinated in undiluted pinesol for 6 weeks and then dried in a pinesol fumigated drying closet for 6 weeks, level of strong... Actually, you can't think of anything but pinesol for 2 days after eating from a Florida Convenience store. It sorta permeates your taste buds so deeply that all you taste, all you see, all you hear, all you think, and all you feel is pinesol for about 2 days. GREAT pizza though! So when people ask me what scents are good for kitchens I have a nervous breakdown, or, uh, I mean I automatically think of Pinesol. I personally adore grapefruit scented soaps and cleaning stuff for kitchens. There ya go! 2 more cents about scents, since last time, from a guy with no sense. Your Mileage WILL Vary! Sponiebr, The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry PINE!!!!!

I read this as :... man is a time suck listing and photographing so many things! I was like DAMN! Harsh TT! Me thinks hubby is not going to have a good week end... Oh. IT'S... Well, that's TOTALLY different then. (It's been a LONG 28 hours for me.) Item 2) I personally like the little #in stock ticker. Under each listing. Item 3) scent variations, do you describe them all somewhere other than the listing? Do they all look pretty much identical? I'm going to transliterate this from Russian: NEVER DO NOT list the scent descriptions ANYWHERE but with the item. e.g.: NO separate page detailing scent descriptions. NO! Unless you have insanely LOW prices with free shipping on FO's if I have to go hunt down a separate web page to find out what the scent description is, I'm outta there. (I'm just talk'n about me personally) I do love the tooltip hover with the scent description idea, that's BRILLIANT! I LOVE collections and accord listings! (oh and HI!!! Faerywren! ) Just some input from a grouchy, stink'n, over tired, dude. (but I've got a GREAT CHARACTER! ) Nite all y'all! Sponiebr

Olive oil is primo lamp fuel oil. Get a wire make a loop large enough to extend over the container of fuel. Twist it up but leave a toothpick in the middle so there will be a space. (think button on a string) lay the stick of twisted wire over the container's top and feed a wick down through the little space in the middle. Your wick holder will not heat up the fuel now.

AMEN! Boy ain't THAT the truth! Personally I smell of sweat and garlic (yanno, it's just SO HOT and HUMID down here in Florida and the garlic keeps the vampires off of me at night.) I bet you smell nice Moonshine, I imagine like fresh pine shavings and Laser Sheen... TT smells like her Amber and Pink sugah (we know this because she's said so... I remember stuff!) Poor Trapp probably still smells like skunk... Y'all talk about INTERESTING stuff over here in chandlerville! I oughta get over here more often!

I don't normally come in here but this is kinda interesting... I see what Trapp is saying, if you have x container with x wax why not perfect the candle to finished specs per candle? And that's fine as far as I can see, but TT makes a good point with Using Trapp's method at minimum you'd have to run a test batch of unscented candles wicked at the same size as the final product that went wonky to see if it was the wax or the FO. Using TT's method you would know that it had to be the FO. Hell I don't make candles and either case could be also the wick and/or the container in play but from a materials standpoint baselines are industry standard in everything. I have no idea how you would establish baselines for FO's because they have to be incorporated into a wax to work (in candle making), but if it could be done that would be great. Considering how these wax suppliers are changing the formulations with the same label and not informing ANYONE about it, HOW can you NOT test these wacko soy and palm waxes? During the hurricane last year I was reduced to having to use some of these soy candles and frankly I was HORRIFIED. These were commercial candles (my mother bought them) that popped, sputtered, spit, and danced with a WHOP-WHOP-WHOP staccato that was creepy at best, but they also heated up the containers and threw out so much soot I hated to use them at all. The wax was all soft and mushy and nasty greasy gritty mess that reminded me of chapstick that had been doped into beach sand, but with soot and stank... The jars got all liquid after a long burn. 2" deep MP and somehow I didn't think that was "normal". (Not that I know anything about normal) So, I didn't use them at all after the hurricane. Instead I made my own crisco and mineral oil lamps, and one of these used a pipe cleaner as a wick. (don't do that BTW, the wire in the pipe cleaner heats up the whole container *through* the fuel. I got away with it because I was using a LARGE shallow pyrex dish and there was enough cooling with a small flame to keep the thing from bursting into flame. The flame also gets bigger as the fuel is used up because the wick doesn't burn. SO DON'T DO THAT.)  But just from my point of view I'd say as far as CYA is concerned having a baseline for your wax is a very good idea. FO's are CRAZY in soap so I can only imagine how bizarre they act when you set fire to them. I mentioned in some other threads that TT helped me reformulate my soap and it's great so far, but every single batch I have made since the change over has been a "test" batch size. I test every batch of my soap by actually bathing with it, and if the next morning I wake up looking like Frosty the Flake Man I pitch the soap. It's done. FAIL! If it passes, I put it out for circulation. But every batch has to be made at a "test" batch size until I make sure all of my FO's are compatible with the new formulation. I have made literally hundreds of unscented bars of "test" soap to get established baselines on all sorts of formulations. If something DOES go sideways I KNOW immediately what the problem is if it's in the same batch of oils, or at least WHERE to start looking for the problem if it's a different batch of oils. Like I said, I normally don't belong here in chandler's land but establishing baselines is a universal concept. From a liability standpoint baselines are the only option. Just my tuppence. Sponiebr The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services

Oh.... Um, you actually made a wick out of a synthetic blend, and lit it on fire? Wow. Yeah. Don't try this with synthetics... It's gotta be 100% natural plant fiber. Fur, hair, and wool DO work (kind of) but trust me burning hair isn't a good smell. Polyethylene is about the only plastic you can burn, and that doesn't even smell great, there are others but really just not worth your time to find them, but Polyethylene twine can be used. The problem is figuring out if it is pure polyethylene or polystyrene or polypropylene or a blend of any of those others... Not worth it when there's millions of eligible plant fibers out there. Well! That's a handy piece of info right there! NO MORE stretchy jeans for my wermens!

It's a spinning wheel, for like yanno... shaving the fuzz off of sheep's butt's and torquing it so you can make strings to do, um, "Other kink(ish) stuff" with? I'm old fashioned like that... STAIN IT!? (the horror! shudder) I can't DO such a thing to beautiful blond wood like that... I'll leave my "staining" to other aspects of creativity... I haven't finished it yet. I've got to wait on some bits of hardware. I also need my dad to actually put one of the peices on his milling machine and cut a groove into the axle for me. If he still had the manual Bridgeport I'd have already done it but he's gone CNC and I have NO idea how to even turn the milling machine (or the CNC lathe for that matter) on, much less how to control it. Still these bits of stuff I could make but refuse to make because it's one of those rare cases where it is actually better to buy the thing made by a robot... ONE of these bits is called a steel ball plunger set screw and I know HOW to make it but for <$10 for FIVE, I'd be crazy to spend 16 hours making 2 of those. Here's a link showing the ball plungers... (Trapp! DON'T...no... ) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GV318UQ/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1 Thank you for the complements! I'm blushing... I'll have more to show later once the pieces parts get here and I can get that axle milled down. I'll be working on turning the orifice and assembling the work side maiden in the mean time. Slainte! Sponiebr The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services.

Fat jute dipped in liquid vasoline works better... (just say'n) BUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA! (It WILL consume you, you know... Ask me how I know... go on... ask...) Pants burn just fine, you just gotta moderate them properly... Remember fuel supply+rate of fuel supplied= flame size. Pants deliver butt tons of fuel FAST, so either make them really small and/or short or make them so that they don't wick as efficiently. Did you know HDPE is a type of paraffin wax? Yeah BAYBAY!!! FLAME'N JUGS O'MILK!!! Yes... It can be done, though I will admit the straw was less of a crowd pleaser than I had hoped for, that hard outside skin doesn't wick work a damn which leaves only the pithy insides to suck fuel and well, they don't last long. Still it can be done if you are willing to cut split, stack, drench and mold them in wax before hand. I'll be honest, of all the crap I have set fire to and called "WICK" straw has to be #1 at the bottom of my list. I can't TELL you how disappointed I was... (especially after trying to get Trapp, TT, and Moonshine to do my dirty work in testing for me... SUCH a DISAPPOINTMENT...) But I digress... Again I MUST RE-itterate... NOT a CHANDLER... I'm a BUBBLE HEAD... not a Waxer... Sponiebr The Executor of Bad Ideas and ill tempered psychopathic penguins with schizophrenia... I gotta put the penguin down... He's going nutz(er) again!

Oh I can believe we're having this discussion! Go on... I want to hear more of the smoochy bunny that has no ears...

"Don't say words you're gonna regret Don't let the fire rush to your head I've heard the accusation before And I ain't gonna take any more Believe me The sun in your Eyes Made some of the lies worth believing"

You see LIPS on the BUNNY? I've seen that before... I can't deny it.

I'm still working on it... I haven't forgotten about the Freak Show, I'm just reworking some bits out because I realized that the "traditional" arraignment of the flyer and bobbin isn't actually very useful at all... I'm going to reverse the normal configuration where the base end of the Y of the flyer would normally be at the work side of the bobbin, I'm putting the base end of the flyer on the FAR side of the bobbin next to the drive whorl. This will leave the open top of the Y of the flyer facing the work side. To that end I also shortened each leg of the Y on the flyer to just a tad longer than the left most line shown in the picture above. Why? Because the end of the flyer now will not extend beyond the edge of the bobbin, or more importantly not past the breaking belt whorl of the bobbin. (If it did extend over the whorl it would hit the breaking band each time it tried to pass it. I want to incorporate a ball bearing race at the end of the orifice so that the whole drive axle will have ball bearings which will make the wheel and flyer operate much more smoothly. Along these lines I think I have worked out a way to be able to very quickly swap bobbins out without the need for any tools or major adjustments. Just stop. Twist and pull the orifice off the axle, take the old bobbin off, drop a new bobbin (the bobbins have ball bearing races in them as well) on, lace the leader over the fly hooks, and slide and twist the orifice back into the locked position and place back into it's slot, and run the leader (no hook needed) back down through the eye of the orifice and out the orifice, and you're back to spinning. 15 second bobbin change out. I'm working on it... More pictures will follow. Slainte, Sponiebr The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services.

Just what KIND of "GOODIES" are we talk'n 'bout here? NSFW "goodies" or Moe Betta's kind of "goodies"? Should I be excited? I FEEL excited!

PART5 Titchy stuff gets THE SHAFT! AKA: let's get ANAL RETENTIVE 'bout stuff; (and more sanding and poly acrylic bid'ness).

PART 4 The next phase of gravy... AKA: Let me just do that ALL OVER AGAIN... NEW FLYER! MO BETTER! And sanding... LOTS of sanding and that CRAPPY poly acrylic crap... DON'T USE THE POLYACRYLIC. Terrible stuff... just HORRIBLE! If you live in California then it's great, but that's because you can't get anything else... I'm just say'n if you can use the stuff that'll kill you... you should USE IT. ('sides the stuff that'll kill you is A LOT MORE fun in closed non-ventilated areas... The polyacrylic... NOT FUN.)

Sure! I agree, and I do like the smell of patch... HOWEVER, At that time my soap formulation was HP and patch in a HP would be WAY TOO much patch for me to handle psychologically... I mean I would be seeing the color of patch with my EARS I would be so thoroughly gassed in patchouli... REALLY strong FO's I don't enjoy making with HP. That has ALL CHANGED NOW!!!! TT's gotten me back on the path of the righteous! Without her help I'd still be a HP heretic... SPEAKING of hot process heretics! Has anyone seen Faerywren lately? I don't think I've seen any posts from her in a while... (I'm also kinda in and out of here spasmodically soo... yeah.) OKILOVEYABYEBYE!!!

PART 3: "All the Girlies say I'm pretty FLY" Stay tweaked for more! Stay TUNED... I meant tuned...

NEXT EPISODE! PART 2: This post needs MORE WHORLS & BOBBINS!!! OH, and COW BELL!!!! More in a few minutes...

You saw the finished piece? No... I wouldn't call it "cheating"... More like good planing. Say, I could really use the winning Florida Lottery Numbers for this coming Saturday, if ya don't mind... Oh... You mean you saw that OLD wheel I made 10 years ago? Yeah. No. I'm doing something more weirder here, hence "the freak show"... Sorry, I did do work on it tonight, but uh... While tonight wasn't the actually MOST DESTRUCTIVE mess I have ever made, tonight's superfund site was probably the messiest, impossibly difficult to clean up mess I think I have ever made *during a project* (relationships don't count). Not even the Ambien, ExLax, and Seneca disaster even comes CLOSE to the atrocities of tonight's undertakings... I'll just say I'm GLAD I didn't get stopped by the cops on my way home. 3.5 hours of clean up and 4 hours of reconstructive camouflage. I'll be out tomorrow as well, but I WILL be posting pictures of the next bits Friday. Remember! If you can't see a problem, or otherwise detect a problem, there IS no problem. (Works great in relationships too. Trust me...) Sponiebr, THE ExecUTOR of BAD Ideas and "cleaning services". You WOULDN'T BELIEVE how many MOLECULES are in 1 cubic foot of wood!

I got'm on sale at $1.99 each. http://www.michaels.com/7x7-assorted-wood-plaques-by-artminds/10224865.html#pmpt=qualifying&amp;sz=24&amp;start=51 The wheel was a pine glued block 18" table top from Home Depot for $6.12.

As I mentioned in an earlier and somewhat related post... I am making another spinning wheel. So I've come to embrace the fact that I am a LAZY bastard. In an effort to save calories by not typing endless paragraphs I will use that energy instead on taking you gentle reader through this project via a slightly different manner. Come, and embark upon a journey of strange sights as YOU experience the MAGIC of MY creation process through a series of still images. Welcome to the FREAK SHOW! Part 1 Whorl and Bobbin plates: PART 2 Great Wheel centering... Sponiebr The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services.

Proper alignment is SO critically important!

Yes! Honestly, they have a way of finding me... Sorta... I'm like one of the few people I know (around me) that's 100% fine with nothing modern. In other words I'm fine with living off grid. I don't seek that out, and I'm not like a prepper or anything, I'm just very self sufficient. It has to do with how I grew up and my time overseas. I just learned to do everything by hand. Turn me loose in the woods with my broad axe and a few other tools and come back in 20 years and I'll be just fine. Hell, i'll probably have built a little fiefdom... Yeah, I can't knit worth a damn. I can crotchet the hell outta some yarn, but I can't knit.

So an esteemed member of our group seems to think that I should post this... I'm not really sure at this point HOW I ended up HERE, but somehow I was talking to the woman I work with (I don't actually work with her, I just relieve her each day), and somehow we got to talking about wool and blah blah blah, NOW I'm teaching her how to spin... Yeah, like SPIN yarn from a sheep's BUTT to KNIT SOME SOCKS... Yeah... IKR? So I, (finally) got to have my revenge from when I was taught to spin, and now I am teaching my coworker how to spin on a drop spindle. I have to say it borders on sadism on how much pleasure it gives me watching her struggle with that drop spindle... But here's the rub! I've got to use it TOO... Not so much fun anymore. SO I brought in my great wheel that I made about 10 years ago to get me out of another bind I got myself into... See, 10 years ago my little sister asks me to do her a "favor", "easy, stuff"... Sis: "I just have a little bag of Alpaca wool I'd like spun up into some yarn for the kids." (she was making those beanie caps for kids with cancer). It's just a little ziplock bag of some fiber I got off of eBay... You could probably get it done in an evening even on the drop spindle..." Me: "Just a ziplock bag? Yeah sure, why not." 2 Days later my sister brings to me a 1/2 gallon ziplock bag packed HARD with washed and dyed alpaca locks... 2 POUNDS OF ALPACA WOOL. Oh, but WAIT THERE'S MORE!!! She then hands over ANOTHER ziplock bag with 8 OUNCES of pure angora fiber. (It's MARKED on the BAG 8 oz Pure Angora) Me: NOOOOO!!! NO! NUH UH! HELL NO! You said a LITTLE bit of wool! (For those who don't know, 2 lbs of ANY wool is a HUGE amount of wool, think of it in terms of skeins of yarn, the normal skein of yarn is between 5-10 ounces so we're talking about SKEINS of yarn to be hand spun on a drop spindle. NO!) Sis: You PROMISED! YOU SAID YOU'D DO IT! (tears up) Me: Sunnamabetch! So I got stuck with a HUGE amount of yarn to make. Not happening on the drop spindle. No. I tried. I couldn't deal with it. I've gotta get a wheel. So I call up the place where I used to borrow their wheels from time to time and yeah for $200 deposit and $50 a week I can rent a wheel. It's been 12 years since I'd hung out there and NOBODY there even recognized my name. So that's a NO... Fine! I've made one before, and I can make one again! Only... I really didn't want to make a wheel because I wasn't going to start doing spinning again. Poking about my tools and junk I find I have NOTHING I need to make a spinning wheel, so I come up with something in my head that I just KNOW is gonna work. I came up with a great wheel (super simple non-treadled spinning wheel that you have to hand wind every few seconds but easy, and WAY WAY faster than a damned drop spindle.) Anywho, a few days, MANY junk yards, and one stop at a bike store later and I've got the junk necessary to produce THIS! It was NEVER meant to be pretty. It was only built to do ONE job, and it DID that ONE job beautifully well. Now, it has been called back into service and it will again perform well. I'm in the process of making a regular spinning wheel with a treadle and an actual flyer and bobbin assembly but more on that later... I personally never found this to be particularity interesting but apparently it's got some appeal, I dunno, that's what SHE said... Sponiebr, The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services.

I don't know... Make more exactly the same and see if they work.