pizza box and newspaper plant nursery

This holds about 25 of the recycled newspaper paper pots shown in this post.
Simply a pizza box lined with the plastic I took off the window (SPRINGTIME!).

After filling the pots with soil and a variety of seeds and water I add another layer of wet newspaper. I then fold the plastic over to trap the moisture.

A lamp heats the seeds to germinate quickly. I will pull the plastic back in about 5 days.

Bender and Morbo futurama kidrobot

Sweet!

Also feel free to send me zoidberg. thanks.

Two piece lost wax mold jesus

The goal of the two piece mold is to allow me to clean the wax out of the mold perfectly as well as dry the mold completely.

The wax sculpture before plaster

The front half is dipped in the plaster.

Oil is spread over the plaster bottom half and another layer is poured on.
Then after setting the two halves are separated. The dark spots on the top half are babbit to allow for the nails to be pulled out even though they are not perfectly straight.


holes were drilled to allow the metal to flow into the mold. and i set a can in plaster to make a spout.

Hops growing in a pot year two.

So the hop wintered over very well. very very well. All i did was cover it in a foot of mulch. So I guess that is adequate frost protection in pittsburgh.

For spring I just dumped the pot cut the thick coiling rhizomes and gave it fresh soil to work on. It had pretty much filled the pot with roots.

The dumping process was a challange. I was trying to lift it and found that it was very heavy. The reason was that the four small drain holes in the pot had huge roots growing through them anchoring the pot to the ground.


So when I say hops can grow in pots I guess I mean they can but try their best to get out. here are the shoots comming up in force for the spring:

Using Cupric Sulfate as a Zinc Patina for Sculptures

More examples of zinc patina in this post.

1. Clean metal with wire brush to get off all zinc oxide.
2. Paint on a thin layer of Cupric Sulfate (while wearing gloves) Get Cupric Sulfate here at Rotometals
3. Wrap in thin layer of saran wrap so it does not evaporate
4. wait 3 hours.
5. brush off the high spots with wire brush.
6. Three coats of clear coat.

Frozen Sceptre TV how to fix. (how to restart)

1. turn off the tv (unplug if you have to)
2. hold down the S on the side of the TV.
3. While holding the S button press the power on button
4. when you see the menu screen release the s button.
5. hope for the best.

if you are in the window for a return DO IT NOW. it is a terrible TV. If not write these instructions down you will be using them alot as this tv has something wrong that makes it freeze all the time.

Sceptre TV review

Don't get one.
Poor encoding leads to very slow channel changing long unresponsive times.
Freezes and needs to be restarted.