Tools
Car Carrier Trailer
Jake von Slatt — Sat, 12/08/2007 - 01:00

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.
Gas Mask Sawdust Respirator
Jake von Slatt — Sun, 05/20/2007 - 00:00

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.
How to Make a Large Flash Diffuser
Jake von Slatt — Thu, 05/10/2007 - 09:38

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.
How to Make a Cheap Lightbox
Jake von Slatt — Thu, 02/15/2007 - 01:00
For 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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