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Shower curtain rod brackets

Back in April, I took a week off of work as a staycation, and decided to take on a project I’d been thinking about since last summer. When we bought our house, we put in a curved shower curtain rod. There is a little arch detail at the front

Printer Enclosure Lighting

Super quick infrastructure improvement! I’ve been doing a lot of 3d printing lately with ABS, which means printing inside an enclosure, itself inside my paint booth. While it’s printing, I want to keep the enclosure closed to contain the ABS fumes, but that makes it hard to see

Paint booth (part 2): Venting

When we left off last, I’d finished the structure of my collapsible paint booth, but I was venting it out the window with a precarious, clearly-temporary rolled posterboard vent. It was flimsy, not waterproof, and honestly quite a pain to use. Paint booth (part 1)Painting outside has never

Some mailbox mounting repairs

We got quite a big early-April snowstorm here in Utah, and I came outside to discover that something or someone—perhaps a plow—had hit my mailbox hard enough to snap the mounting board off of the post. (As an aside, this is not the mailbox I want, but perhaps

Paint booth (part 1)

Painting outside has never seemed like a super viable proposition. My main workshop space is my basement, and I don't have a ton of space. So I need a paint booth, and something portable and collapsible is clearly required.

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