GM's MLTL with 416-8B

[westend9]

Yeah, there's a few of us around, though probably the world's majority reside in Japan. Like many of my generation, I was raised to be a recycler up to a point, but when I became aware of what they were doing at the J.A. Pan, Co. back in '66, it really 'lit a fire under me' on the subject.

Only 15%?! That's really low compared to my locale, though in the past decade it's gotten better. Until legislation makes it a huge finable offense that gets tacked on to property taxes if they fail to recycle, the average American isn't going to bother. Heck, around here if you want the city or county trash collectors to pick-up recyclables you have to pay via property tax assessment for the privilege even though they get paid by the reclaimers!

I really wonder why I bother though. I mean just one illegal alien or otherwise 'indifferent' family around me dumps more recyclable paper, cardboard, glass, plastic at the curb for trash pick-up in a week than I reclaim in a couple of months and there's many thousands of them in a ~5 mi. radius.

Looks nice, but I swoon at the thought of spending so much time on woodworking I can't see. Different strokes............

A Mickey D's with a Redwood fence?! Don't recall ever seeing such a luxury at any 'fast food' emporium around here. The only Redwood I've scored is [7] 1x8x96" rough sawn planks that's been collecting dust in the shop for right at 34 yrs now. Now that I know I'm probably stuck where I am till I'm good as gone, guess I ought to use it up on that fireplace I'd considered way back when now that firewood, as expensive as it is now, is cheaper than electrical or natural gas heat around here.

GM

You're absolutely right on all of this, GM, it seems like a drop in the bucket (the recycling efforts) when you look at what others pitch to be land filled and the leaders of our communities, for the most part, make some of it ridiculously difficult. I look at recycling as both a personal mandate due to my past activities and as an economical alternative. Who knows, maybe some of it wears off on others and that couldn't be a bad thing.

The detail in the cabinet construction also falls under the "personal mandate" thing, as well, I guess. If nothing else, it helps hone my woodworking skills.

The McDonalds fence was certainly a windfall, it's nearly impossible to find clear Redwood at any lumber yard around here. If it can be found, the price is very high. There was nothing wrong with the fence other than the paint was peeling from it and I'm guessing the bid from a painting contractor to repaint it determined the outcome. If you have some good plank, consider it an heirloom, lol.

Interesting, wasn't aware of a glue with such properties. Will come in handy for a couple of furniture repairs I need to do.

Thanks!

GM

Yes, my BIL swears by this adhesive and for the little time I've used it, it seems to have excellent adhesion and strength. An inadvertent placement of a clamping spacer and glue squeeze-out combined to make for quite a bit of tugging to release the clamping block. I would say it is quite similar to Titebond III but has more solids in the mix. When I filled my quart glue bottle from his gallon container, we had to mix the settled solids from the bottom of the gallon container.

I was out and about, this morning, looking for sheet fiberglass but couldn't come up with any. A learned employee at one of the lumber super-stores told me that Owens Corning will only distribute it through their distributor network and won't sell any to the generic super-stores. I picked up a roll of R-13 and thinking that it was what was in the original Model 19's and might be a good substitute. If it doesn't meet the requirements, I'll pull it out and put in something else in the future. I'm planning on placing the insulation behind the woofer on the back panel, 1/3 down from the top, across the top panel, and on the side panels, down the same 1/3. This is the current plan unless I hear different from you. I might peel a little fiberglass off so that the dimension is reduced from the 3 1/2" standard to about 2" or so. That is YTBD. Let me know what you think on this because I have no idea about densities and such.
Thanks, again, for your time and knowledge.

Edit: Thinking of how I could incorporate a bit of our shared recycling interest in this, I present: The hatch guide rails, made from the aforementioned McDonalds fence.