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Lockdown projects Not bushwalking related

Postby Moondog55 » Sun 05 Apr, 2020 12:22 pm

So what are you all doing around the house?
Me not much but in the shed I have been busy. But it seems to me that the more I try and tidy up the worse the mess is becoming.
This week I have made 2 work benches, one for sewing and soldering and the other for banging stuff on. Next project is moving some storage shelves around and then a small solid table
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Re: Lockdown projects Not bushwalking related

Postby ChrisJHC » Sun 05 Apr, 2020 12:44 pm

I’m learning celestial navigation from online videos and classes.

Next step is to get a sextant however they’re nearly $1500 for a new, metal one!
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Re: Lockdown projects Not bushwalking related

Postby Moondog55 » Sun 05 Apr, 2020 2:35 pm

ChrisJHC wrote:I’m learning celestial navigation from online videos and classes.

Next step is to get a sextant however they’re nearly $1500 for a new, metal one!

S/H?
Cool project, especially if you ever travel above the Arctic Circle
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Re: Lockdown projects Not bushwalking related

Postby Neo » Sun 05 Apr, 2020 3:42 pm

I'm staying at mums, hopefully not for months! The outdoors is looking pretty tidy with some pressure cleaning and pruning, a bit of turf repair.

Latest idea is to turn a UL puffy upside down and make it into a bum wrap, or skirt. Existing hand pockets not perfectly placed although would probably put hands in jacket pockets. Have spare squeeze clips so could add on a waist cinch that would also save the zipper from popping if I sat down wearing it.
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Re: Lockdown projects Not bushwalking related

Postby crollsurf » Sun 05 Apr, 2020 4:01 pm

I've got boxes of family photos dating back to the early 1900s that I've been wanting to digitize. Seeing as the company I work for is forcing us to take a weeks holiday during the lockdown, it sounds like a plan.

Garden is already looking a lot tidier already so more gardening and a winter crop.

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Re: Lockdown projects Not bushwalking related

Postby Rai » Sun 05 Apr, 2020 6:48 pm

ChrisJHC wrote:I’m learning celestial navigation from online videos and classes.

Next step is to get a sextant however they’re nearly $1500 for a new, metal one!


Like everything else, the more one practices, the better one gets. Northern Tasmania beaches are ideal places to develop the skill of using a marine sextant because the sun is always to your north and you get a good horizon. Have fun when you get your sextant.
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Re: Lockdown projects Not bushwalking related

Postby Moondog55 » Sun 05 Apr, 2020 9:04 pm

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Wow I just had a google shopping look at the real thing but did find this on eBay

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/VINTAGE-TAM ... SwqkxedZ9U
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Re: Lockdown projects Not bushwalking related

Postby andrewa » Sun 05 Apr, 2020 10:53 pm

Moondog, great benches! Many likes.

I made some gowns for work to keep the CV19 patients from infecting my clothes next week, and bought a mulcher/chipper for the garden, which will allow all my pruning material to be reused, rather than taken to the miserable prick at the tip, at $X per load.

It’s actually really lovely seeing projects potentially coming to fruition. My wife is a primary teacher, and now is on holidays, maybe longer term, but, she has (at last) seemed to have taken on board a degree of self sufficiency - we’ll see.

I’m hoping my family will become a huge amount more self reliant over the ensuing months.

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