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Who is a super genius?!?!
Jun. 28th, 2006 12:38 pmThat's right! ME!!!
Hehehehe.
I'm so proud of myself.
I love where I work.
Kim has a car top carrier for her car (Yakima), and she has foam pads to hold her kayak. The idea is/was to modify said foam pads to fit her roof rack, therefore saving her over $100 for the true Yakima boat pads.
A 1" wood bit worked quite well, until the bit was fully into the foam, leaving roughly an 8" gap (when drilled from both sides) undrilled. I thought my dad had a drill extension, but I couldn't find it this morning. I promised Kim I'd get them rigged up so they'd work so she could use them this afternoon.
I wandered my happy ass right on down to the machine shop to do some scrounging. I couldn't find any 1" pipe/tubing, but I did find a piece of 3/4" copper tubing. I filed a notch in the end of it to act as 2 cutting teeth and threw it into the lathe. I then bored a very nice 3/4" hold through the foam pads, by which I fulfilled my promise to Kim that she could use her rack tonight so she could go paddle.
She better paddle tonight!
Hehehehe.
I'm so proud of myself.
I love where I work.
Kim has a car top carrier for her car (Yakima), and she has foam pads to hold her kayak. The idea is/was to modify said foam pads to fit her roof rack, therefore saving her over $100 for the true Yakima boat pads.
A 1" wood bit worked quite well, until the bit was fully into the foam, leaving roughly an 8" gap (when drilled from both sides) undrilled. I thought my dad had a drill extension, but I couldn't find it this morning. I promised Kim I'd get them rigged up so they'd work so she could use them this afternoon.
I wandered my happy ass right on down to the machine shop to do some scrounging. I couldn't find any 1" pipe/tubing, but I did find a piece of 3/4" copper tubing. I filed a notch in the end of it to act as 2 cutting teeth and threw it into the lathe. I then bored a very nice 3/4" hold through the foam pads, by which I fulfilled my promise to Kim that she could use her rack tonight so she could go paddle.
She better paddle tonight!
