Welcome to my project site.

My name is Davetech... well, not really, but that will have to do.

This site was begun on October 14, 2007.

I plan to update it regularly, since I have several on-going projects which I think may be of interest to others.

Please note that I do not want for an instant to pretend to be an expert at home metal casting or any of the other projects I may post here. This is the first time I have attempted to build these contraptions and I am sure there are better ways of doing it. I am just showing the way -I- did it, using what little cash I have available and what ever I find in my junkpile.

Project #1 - A mini electric kiln - (To test my refractory mixture)

Project # 2 - My backyard Foundry - (up and running) - - -

More projects to be presented very soon. Please check back.

 Coming soon! To a computer near you!

Project # 3 - Waste Oil Furnace -   (under consideration) - - -

Shop Visitor - Last night (Oct 15,2007), I was cutting a 16" hole in a piece of 1/2" plywood with a hand held jigsaw, making quite a racket, and this big, beautiful black snake just slithered right in through the window, right beside me, apparently oblivious to my presence. I have no snake phobia and just smiled when I saw his head and first few inches out of the corner of my eye. But he just kept coming and coming... "Dayam! He's long... and he's big!" So I grabbed my camera and started shooting. He totally ignored me except when I held the camera for this shot about 4 feet from him. Then he just froze until I moved away again. Then he continued on, hunting I guess, as if nothing had happened. It looks like he has recently eaten (see the bulge?) so he might have been looking for a warmer place. But he checked out all the rafters overhead ("psssttt... the mice live in that big cardboard box over there with the shredded newspaper!") and then left the way he came in. Never did get a good look at all of him stretched out, but he was at least 7 feet long! I'm not sure but I think he is called a Black Rat Snake.

Davetech is a member of the forum at http://www.overunity.com/index.php/board,8.0.html

 and you can contact him through the forum private message mechanism.

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