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I never said that! I like eating stuff with eyeballs. But if I was forced to eat "green" I could eat that stuff. Maybe I was just hungry.

On that note, we were at Costco yesterday and had my first sample of Beyond Meat. I must say I was impressed. Very tasty and I can imagine a burger made of it. Very juicy and tasted and felt just like a hamburger.

We have close friends in Tennessee who bought a restored home on 11 acres that had been part of a tobacco plantation. They grow the most awesome gardens every year. But his year a freak rain storm came in a knocked all the corn down. Sad!

Very nice!

When sitting facing your saw, on the rear left side, there is a slotted screw with a lock nut on it. For some strange reason they manage to get out of adjustment. All you have to do is loosen the lock nut, using a straight blade screwdriver turn that slotted screw out until the arm won't stay up. Then turn it in until you get the desired amount of "drag" on the arm when lifting it. Do it a couple of times to make sure it's where you like it. Then, while holding tension on the slotted screw, tighten the lock nut. If you really feel good about going farther, you can take that slotted screw all the way out and apply a tiny bit of grease to the ball bearing that is in the end of the screw to lubricate it. Then follow the instructions as to adjust the tension. It will be different now that it has lubrication on it. Good luck and ask questions if you have any.

Love them little critters. Congrats a fine looking litter.

What is everybody doing? On vacation? I certainly hope, with all the violent weather, that everybody is safe and well.

Well, I didn't want to embarrass you twice.

Well, I enjoyed it.

I've never experienced what you have described Dan but I don't use Apple anything. I realize that Apple products are supposed to be a cut above all others but sometimes they do weird things. I've this from other folks who swear by them. I bought my wife an iPad 10 years ago for her birthday. At the time it was state of the art. She never took it. I tried to figure out what it was good for. It has lived it's life sitting on top of my PC, plugged into the USB port to stay charged. It's a $700 dust collector. The whole operating system is just foreign to me. I'd love to get some of my money back out of it.

I'll be following along Don. I've begun to understand some of Inkscape's odd command language but most of it is still confusing to me. Somebody should write a dictionary of all the "command" meanings so that they aren't so obscure. After reading back through this thread I've come a long way since it started. But still have a very long way to go. I wish FrankEV lived next door so we could "brainstorm" together.

Sorry Paul. Didn't mean to step on your popular ant.

Just our curiosity Paul, what is a "popular ant"?

The key point here is "having fun" and getting paid to do it. Who could complain about that. I have been doing handyman stuff around the park where I live and I enjoy it. I make a few bucks and help out the older folks who can no longer do it themselves. But, when I start to feel "used", I don't take the job. It's my time and I'll use it whatever way I want to. Except I have to check with the wife first. LOL.

Congrats and happy birthday Barbara (my wife's name too). Everybody should have at least 2 saws. If not more. I too look forward to seeing more of your work.

As am I.

When I used to use Firefox I could just click on anything and it would open and play. But after switching to Chrome/Opera video links have to be downloaded and then opened. I do it all the time with no problem.

Both of you have some obscure setting set wrong. I can't say what it is but I am able to use either my Android phone or my Wibdows 10 PC without any problem. I'd have to be googling until I figured it out though.

Thanks John for your very informative article. Some I knew but you filled in many blanks. The mention of a "little orange scroll saw" sitting in a booth brought me back to when I used to attend every Woodworking Show before they ended. There was always a guy there demonstrating a little Hegner and turning out tiny reindeer without hardly looking. Almost total muscle memory. I always wanted one if those saws. Now I have one.

Totally agree.

I've been thinking about you but didn't want to pester you as I've done in the past. Glad to see you're still above the sidewalk. I hope whatever ails you goes away soon. Stay busy and keep us updated. I like what you posted. Great work as always.

I saw yesterday that the MOST expensive vehicle driven today is the shopping cart at Costco.

Who ever said it was a " free" country should be run out of town.

I love "cash" businesses.

At that point, it becomes an experimental situation. What is happening is that when you "tension" the blade, it is pulling that wedge toward you and forcing the upper arm up to apply tension. So, essentially, when you back off the tension from 5 to 3, you are "lenthening" the rod. So if that makes the noise go away, I'd turn the rod out a thread or so. That way, you can have the tension set at 5 but in actuality, it is at about 3. Not sure that is a good thing as you need to be able to have high tension is some cases. What I'd try to do is figure out why, when set at 5, it is making noise. I think the noise is coming from the upper connecting rod, as they call it, contacting the underside of that cover. So, you might have to take some more off of it. I'm pretty sure that is where the knocking is coming from and it only happens at high speed. You are on the right track though. Once you are done, you will have a very good understanding of how the mechanism works. I'm not sure why it doesn't happen to the bottom connecting rod. Probably because there is nothing there for it to bang against. If you could nail down exactly where the upper con rod is hitting that cover, you could probably file it down a bit. Instead of the cover. Try taking more off the cover as that's the easiest spot. I had to really take a bunch off of mine. If I still had the saw, I'd take a pic for you.