{"id":35596,"date":"2020-03-19T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=35596"},"modified":"2020-03-13T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:43:58","slug":"smithsonian-open-access-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/smithsonian-open-access-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian Open Access Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

My history of cyberpunk series continues on\u00a0Adafruit<\/em>. You can see the content to date on\u00a0this link<\/a>.
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\nDo you have my book,\u00a0Tips and Tales from the Workshop<\/em>? You can buy it\u00a0here<\/a>.
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\nTips? Tools? Tales? You know\u00a0where to find me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Smithsonian Open Access Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Thousands

Thousands of scans to download and use in projects.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cPeople everywhere can now download, remix and share\u00a0Smithsonian Open Access<\/a>\u00a0content for any purpose, for free, from portraits of historic Americans to 3D scans of dinosaur fossils. What will you create, imagine and discover?\u201d When\u00a0I toured<\/a>\u00a0the digital design lab at the Smithsonian\u2019s Office of Exhibits Central nine years ago, the staff talked about this as a future fantasy. So wonderful seeing it come to fruition.<\/p>\n

Caster “Collars” for Your Mobile Benches<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Keep

Keep cords and other entanglements from your cart wheels with PVC collars.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dave Wilkins, in the FB group,\u00a0Shop Hacks<\/a>\u00a0(private, ask to join), shared this brilliant idea. He saw a guy\u2019s shop table where he was using plastic collars around his casters to prevent his table from getting tangled in power cords. The above image is of Dave\u2019s clamp cart using pieces of 6\u201d PVC for his collars.<\/p>\n

Using Magnets to Catch Filings from Drilling<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Image

Image from Family Handyman magazine.<\/p><\/div>\n

Here\u2019s a great idea from\u00a0Family Handyman<\/a>. When drilling holes in ferrous material, place a magnet near the drill and it\u2019ll catch the shavings as they are generated. Place the magnet in a bag for even easier clean-up of the filings when you\u2019re done.<\/div>\n

TOYS! Heat-Set Inserts Tool<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"The

The right tool for the job.<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019ve written about using threaded brass inserts for 3D prints that need to be screwed\/unscrewed. To heat the inserts, you can just use the tip of your soldering iron. But there are also dedicated heating tips<\/a> for your iron that are the correct diameter for the inserts.<\/p>\n

Making Tough Sanding Strips for Hand Sanding and Rounding<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Making

Making your own bendy sanding strips for those hard-to-reach places.<\/p><\/div>\n

In his latest\u00a0Graz Makes<\/a>\u00a0video, my pal John Graziano gives a wonderful little knife-making 101 as he fashions a beautiful stone-washed kitchen knife out of 1095 steel. In the video, Graz shares a great sanding tip. You can make durable sanding strips for sanding curves and other rounded\/odd shapes by cutting 1″ strips of sandpaper and then backing them with 1″ fiberglass-reinforced postal tape. You can see him applying the technique at 17:53 in the video.<\/p>\n

Making a Router Jig for Cutting Circles<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"That's

That’s not a tiny banjo, that’s Adam’s circular routing jig.<\/p><\/div>\n

In a recent\u00a0One Day Build<\/a>, where Adam Savage builds himself a poker table, he shows off a simple jig he made that attaches to the base plate of his router and is marked at 1″ intervals for the center pivot point. Like most Savage videos, there are lots of other great tips in here, like\u00a0kerfing wood to create curves,<\/a>\u00a0a recommendation for a 22-gauge nailer<\/a>, the wonders of biscuit joiners<\/a> and wood glue, some smart safety tips, and more.<\/p>\n

Life Hack: Multibag Your Trash<\/strong><\/p>\n

This might be more about me and my own eccentricities, but I loath emptying the trash and especially putting a new bag\/liner in the can. I just realized that I can put 3 or 4 bags in at the same time and then just remove the inner bag to empty. This is also helpful if there\u2019s a leak in one bag. I especially like doing this for bathroom trashcans. OK, maybe this is just me. Moving along\u2026<\/p>\n

Shop Talk: We Get Letters<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Adequate

Adequate shop light for under $50 and less than 30 minutes of work.<\/p><\/div>\n

Michael Una:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cJust wanted to let you know that I read about\u00a0LED shop lights<\/a>\u00a0in the last issue, immediately\u00a0ordered them<\/a>, and installed them in my garage workshop this past weekend. They\u2019re great and I love them. Huge thanks for the tip. My shop lighting has always been non-ideal and that is no longer the case. The LED strips are so lightweight that it\u2019s super easy to just zip-tie them anywhere. Took me like less than half-an-hour to mount all 6 of them to cover my entire (half-garage) shop. It was super satisfying. For the one over my bench (pictured here), I already had a fluorescent ballast mounted there. The bulbs had recently burned out, so I just unplugged it and zip-tied the LED tube to it. Convenient and expedient :)\u201d<\/p>\n

Reader Steve:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cOne thing to add to the \u2018Label Your Warts\u2019 article, also label which is positive and negative and the output power. I\u2019ve been able to use old warts for products that didn\u2019t come with them or I couldn\u2019t find its original wart. When I get rid of broken items, I keep the warts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another reader,\u00a0Liam Greenwood<\/strong>, suggested marking the warts with silver Sharpies<\/a> (instead of printed labels).<\/div>\n
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