[Jewelry making - Article 00502] - Re: [Orchid] MacGuyve-risms in the shop

[jurneemoon]

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    Pam, I use telephone wire for all sorts of things myself, it will
    hold pieces of a larger project together without doing damage to the
    work because of the coating. (not for soldering) I use it like one
    would for binding wire but on wood when I'm clamping & gluing a
    piece. For my pickle pot basket I use a tiny plastic Oxyclean scoop
    with the handle cut off with a bail made from copper wire with tiny
    holes drilled in the sides for my tiny pieces. Or a strainer from
    the hospital that I received when I had my last kidney stone. For
    larger items I use the handy butter tub also with a copper bail. I
    have a thousand or so nettle bearings the I got from my brothers
    mechanic, they are out of the U-joints of the semi trucks and they
    are perfect size to use in my homemade wire jig. I have some that
    I've polished up really good and put in a small file handle I use as
    burnisher. and others I've  ground to a fine point and used as a
    graver. The metal cup thingys that they came out of are now used as
    ashtrays in the mechanics shop as well as mine.  I use some for
    votive cup holders too. The Mechanic saves me all sorts of things
    now. Including some of the bigger ball bearings from some other part
    of the trucks that he's replaced. I don't know what I'll use those
    for but I'll save them until I figure it out. I've used aluminum
    flashing on the walls of my shop to reflect  light and because I
    love how it looks, with stainless steal strips that I salvaged from
    a welding shop.  

    A coffee can serves as a dop oven with a small old oil lamp to burn
    the alcohol. 

    But my favorite of all is my water source, it is the spare fuel tank
    from my boyfriends Parachute Plane. It is in a steal brace hung on
    the wall above one end of my bench it holds 5 gallons of water. I
    use a small galvanized oval shaped wash tub that collects the water
    that drips from the used tubing from my son's nebuliezer, that fits
    onto the tiny sprayer I got at walmart out of lawn & garden dept for
    $2.50 for 2. When the tub gets too full I set a fountain pump it it
    and plug it up and it sends the water back up to the tank, the water
    is filtered by a reusable coffee filter with a paper filter as well.
    Eventually the I plan on having it set up to where the water will go
    from the tub or some other holding pan to a 5 gallon bucket with a
    beallage pump ( the kind of pumps that are in larger boats that are
    water depth activated) that will then filter through a new fuel
    filter back into the tank. This tank once contributed to his
    crashing the airplane, there was too much weight on the back of the
    plane and the wind was working against him and the back wheels
    snagged on a fence. He was flung out, landing first on his shoulder
    breaking the bone in his upper arm, then on his hip that was snapped
    out like a donut. It could have been so much worse, but I'm glad to
    know the second tank wont be going up with him again. I've got alot
    more homemade things in my shop but that=92s enough for now. -- 

    Love & Light Jurnee Moon 

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