Friday, April 23, 2021 -- Manhattan Beach

 

Tool boxes under the table saw...

Plan to swap out the blue and greenish tool boxes from under the table saw for ones with drawers.

The ones with drawers are still usable when living under the table saw, whereas these are not really usable where they are...

 Moved the blue & green boxes into the outside storage bins.

Took a couple of pictures of what's in the green tool box...

Moved things around to swap in a couple of tool chests with drawers (the wooden Gerstner & the Green SK metal)

The Kennedy chest above the wooden Gerstner has casters mounted on it (from a previous owner).  In order to not damage the leatherette on the Gerstner, I put a couple of strips of wood under the wheels.

For the two drawer Kennedy fishing tackle box on top of the SK tool chest, I had to cut and put a couple of spacer blocks so that the Kennedy box doesn't sit on the handle of the SK tool chest.

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 -- Manhattan Beach Pier -- Windy day...

 

Solar Decathlon...

Last year, T and another student (senior) started a group at his school to compete in the "solar decathlon" in the single family urban home design category.

They just found out that they won the overall competition (64 teams from universities around the country).

 

Tuesday, April 20, 2021 -- Manhattan Beach Pier -- Russian Military Ambulance...

 

A couple of Ludvigsen books...

Pulled these from the book shelves...

A friend is reading "The Battle for the Beatle," by the same author, now & may enjoy these also...

 

Monday, April 19, 2021 -- Powerplant & Manhattan Beach Pier

They're working on moving the sand around using small bull-dozers.

This is in front of the powerplant, just before you get to Manhattan Beach (where all the houses and the strand starts).

They had a person on each end with signs to control the "traffic."

 

Cleaning the Drill Press Table...

Forgot to take a picture before cleaning.

The table top looked bad. It was pretty brown with corrosion.

Some of the corrosion was a bit deep and caused some slight pitting.  Should have cleaned it sooner, but most of the pitting came out from the cleaning with sand paper & steel wool.

This is after cleaning the corrosion.

It's looking pretty good.

Applied a coat of wax and letting it "dry."

Will buff it later...

Buffed out the wax.

Doesn't look dramatically different but should be protected from future rust...

I need to do the table saw next...

 

Gordon Murray Car Collection

Just saw a piece on Gordon Murray's car collection on YouTube.

I have models of a couple of the cars from the video sitting around on my desk...

 

Friday, April 16, 2021 -- Manhattan Beach Pier

Not too busy at the pier area.

A bit surprising on a Friday at lunch time...

Lots of outdoor dining space...

I like the surfboard carrier setup on this bike (it's hard to see in the picture).

It's setup to carry it behind the rider (instead of next to the rider in a lot of the cases).

It doesn't make the footprint any wider and is pretty much out of the way of the rider.