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Car Carrier Trailer

Sat, 12/08/2007 - 00:00 — Jake von Slatt

finish trailer without deck

If you've visited here before you know that one of my long term projects is to built a fully road-able steam powered automobile.  In addition to requiring a great deal of research, such a project requires tools.  I will need machine tools such as a lathe and a milling machine.  I'll also need a flat bed trailer, initially to bring home the machine tools, but also to fetch the donor car that I'll base my vehicle on.

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Gas Mask Sawdust Respirator

Sun, 05/20/2007 - 00:00 — Jake von Slatt

powered respirator made from gas mask and automotive filter

Sometime during the work on my school bus to RV conversion I developed an allergy to pine sawdust.  So I built this powered face mask filter so I could continue to work with wood in my shop without unpleasant effects.

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How to Make a Large Flash Diffuser

Thu, 05/10/2007 - 09:38 — Jake von Slatt

slave flash on tripod

Making nice photographs when all you have for lighting is a bunch of tungsten shop lamps can be a real challenge.  It is particularly hard to photograph polished brass under these conditions.  So this weekend I set out to build a flash diffuser to improve the quality of the photography on this site.

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How to Make a Cheap Lightbox

Thu, 02/15/2007 - 00:00 — Jake von Slatt

lighbox acetate and rear vent holesFor many of my recent projects I have found myself in need of a lightbox so I took a couple of hours from working on my latest project to put together this one.

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