Betsy’s Glasses

My sister sent me a broken pair of folding reading glasses to fix.

The link broke.

So I super glued it to a piece of aluminum.

And scribed around it.

Started filing.

The drill aligned the old part as a guide for the final shaping.

Now it folds in.

And folds out.

Obligatory Xmas List For Nerds & Busted Pipe.

We’re having a snowpocalypse here in the Willamette valley, so I haven’t been doing much beyond keeping warm and bypassing frozen pipes…it was down to –7F at one point making it colder than Ukraine.


Busted pipe…sediment/iron seems to settle when the water is slow & cold which is why it looks like root beer.

A female/female hose adapter I whipped up…hooked to the internal hose bib happily installed above the shutoff for the house.


A hose from the pump house to the house…

And through the windows (towel&duct tape block the cold air…redneck fix), connected to the cold water supply in the laundry room. I’ll do a proper fix when it warms up in a couple of days.

Now the list of stuff you can buy on Amazon and send to your boring friends:

• The Waste Books (New York Review Books Classics)
  My current reading, by this guy, humorous and philosophical.
• The Middleman: The Complete Series
  I can’t believe there people who haven’t watched this show, just brilliant.
• To War With Whitaker: Wartime Diaries Of The Countess Of Ranfurly, 1939-45
  I like a woman with spunk.
• Hakko 808-KIT/P Self Contained Desoldering Gun with Internal Vacuum Pump and Carrying Case, 120V AC
  I just bought one for myself but haven’t had time to try it out. Going by reviews it will be pure luxury when replacing components in repairs.
• B&M Brown Bread Original, 16 Ounce Cans (Pack of 12)
  Go ahead, you know you want bread in a can.
• Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Solid State Drive MZ-7TE500BW
  I need one. You should buy me one.
• Probe Master DMM Test Lead Kit, Softie, Rt. Angle Safety
  These look like really nice leads.
• Hosa Cable D5S6 Deoxit Contact Cleaner Spray
  This stuff has “repaired” a bunch of balky devices of late.