93 projects, 24 hours

 I'm currently in the process of gutting out a very small (11 foot) very old (1967) camp trailer and remanufacturing it for use as a temporary residence.  Once it's ready to go, we'll sell our current very new (2004) larger (20 foot) camp trailer, and hopefully have a few bucks with which to begin building an acutal house.  That's my top priority right now for many reasons.

Next on the list is work on my software business (see the links section) which might if I'm lucky generate some actual income.

When I'm not doing either of those, I get to spend a few minutes in the pipe shop.

I finally found a source for the steel I need to make a new bit-opening thermaforming tool, and have started on that project.  Once it's complete I'll be experimenting with some methods of applying a safe but constant heat to polycarbonate.  Then it'll be time to make some new stem blanks.

Stem blanks are always the first part of making a pipe.  I try to make up a batch of stem blanks so I'll have a few on hand.  They're quite difficult to get right, and I've set up my process so that the things most likely to fail are done first.

I'm sure this is all fascinatingly boring.

I've made a bunch of updates to the website on my test system, but won't be updating the live site until the latest batch of software updates are ready to go.

Bottom line is, more pipes will probably be forthcoming, sometime that probably doesn't qualify as "soon", and they will be more costly than in the past.