Sunset on the Ocean

Sunset on the Ocean

Picture of the sunset I took on our last cruise. One of my favorite parts of going on a cruise is taking pictures of the ocean with nothing else in the photo.

Router Table Cart

Router Table Cart

I inherited a Bosch router table and router that belonged to my wife’s dad.  It had never been used, and all the router accessories were still in there bags.  I first used this router table on the book case project, and it worked well except for the fact that I had to prop it into some saw horses.  So I decided to make a cart for it to sit on. I installed the bottom shelf onto one of the sides…

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Bathroom Shelf

Bathroom Shelf

My wife wanted a bathroom shelf so we could de-clutter the counter top. I started by going into Google Sketchup and drawing up some plans. I went with some dados for joinery of the shelves, pocket holes for the top screw plate, and fastened the 1/4 inch plywood with brads. I had a 1″x12″ 8′ foot pine shelving board laying around. I tried to mark out my pieces to get the best out of the board, trying to avoid the…

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98 Tacoma Alternator Rebuild

98 Tacoma Alternator Rebuild

After a little over 300,000 miles on my 1998 Toyota Tacoma, the alternator finally died this week. A re-manufactured one is around $130, so I decided to rebuild mine. There are a couple ways to do this, one is to get an alternator brush set like the one I got from O’Reilly Auto Parts (P/N:32–0123) for $5. Or, you can get the Toyota kit that comes with the entire brush carrier assembly (around $20). Shield Removal You need to remove…

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2013 Mustang GT Trunk Light Mod

2013 Mustang GT Trunk Light Mod

I have had my 2013 Mus­tang for about 3 months now, and put 3,000 miles on it. I have really enjoyed the car, but one thing that is lack­ing is the trunk light­ing. The trunk is lit by a sin­gle fes­toon lamp at the very rear of the car, low to the trunk floor. The light is very eas­ily blocked by most any­thing. A pop­u­lar mod is a LED bar/strip attached to the roof of the trunk, but I have not found a very good how-to, so…

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Dome Light Dimmer

Dome Light Dimmer

I have been try­ing to repli­cate the inte­ri­or light func­tions of some of the new­er cars for some time now. I like how they stay on after the door is closed and then fade away. This is also called the­ater light­ing. This cir­cuit is based around the ever use­full 555 timer, and an N chan­nel MOSFET. I am build­ing this for my 1969 Chev­elle. Dako­ta Dig­i­tal has some­thing sim­i­lar, but I didn’t want to spend $200 on it. I am work­ing on repli­cat­ing…

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