Christian Pipe Smokers

I've been working on welding a frame for an end table out of 1/16" 1x square tubing. Long story short, it's too much out of square and complete garbage. I went too far with it to correct my problems. It was a bummer. However, it reminds me of this quote, "Sometimes you win. Sometimes you learn." Tonight I learned. I'll adjust and try again.

A supervisor once told me long ago, "you don't want to have too many of those learning experiences."

I know the feeling. It's always nice to learn in your own shop where there's no one to laugh at you.

You know, the thread titles around here often scare me a little.

But yes, I screw up a lot of projects and measure their relative merits by how many trips to the hardware store it took to complete them. I totally get it.

you suck

coco wrote: ↑18 Oct 2022, 04:09

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NOT A FAILURE - JUST A LEARNING EXPERIENCE

This weekend My son in law and I put covers on the windows of the cabin...the plan was to cut plywood and drill and mount on machine screws mounted to the frames. I measured and measured and marked the cut, but then went back and measured again. He asked me if I was ever gonna turn the saw on and actually cut it...I told him that last year I was cutting wood for another project and after I measured, I cut the board 3 times and it was still too short...

We got them all covered without wasting a $43 sheet of plywood...$43 for plywood.....

Bloodhound wrote: ↑18 Oct 2022, 08:50 $43 for plywood.....

That's five plies of wood, plus an extra ply of Biden.

FredS wrote: ↑18 Oct 2022, 06:11you suck

Bingo.