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   DonCanDo | May 30, 2006 03:27am | #1

   Nice, but what caught my attention is the hinge template.  That looks pretty sweet too.  Where can I get one?

   -Don

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   floor sweeper | May 30, 2006 03:29am | #2

   if there still around

   D.C. Precision Tools Inc.

   11 Mathews Ave.

   Riverdale NJ. 07457 1-800-462-2481 

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   DonCanDo | May 30, 2006 03:54am | #3

   Thanks.  Found it here:

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006615DE/103-1873688-3158222?v=glance&n=228013

   -Don

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   QCInspector | Jun 01, 2006 12:25pm | #8

   That hinge jig is a better buy from LV.http://www.leevalley.com/hardware/page.aspx?c=2&cat=3,41305,41301,40217&p=40217

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   gordsco | May 30, 2006 06:06am | #4

   Cool, nice looking door, curved upper glass? Lower panel on a hinge would be great for pets.

   For handing a jack plane, I'd raise that door to about 36" for comfort.

   Still a workout, but easier on my back, I'm 6'-1"

    

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   May neighbors respect You, and troubles neglect You.

   Gord

                           

    

    

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   floor sweeper | Jun 01, 2006 06:17am | #7

   Gordsco

   Got lazy, you are right about working on the ground,6'1" also and 225#

   also coudln't remember what size was best for posting, I'll shrink em down next time

   is 51kb the best size?   Not as computer savy as some folks.

   The doors are on the second floor of my clients home, egris to a small 5'w x 2'd balconey, We framed a game rm. over his garage for the kiddos. (My partner and I)

   not good for dogs in and out of the house, ducks and geese would be better suited. 

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   FastEddie | Jun 01, 2006 03:57pm | #9

   Getting the pics down to about 100k works well.  Up to 150-175k is still dial-up-friendly.  The killer is when my wife's friends and relatives send 6-8 pics of the flower garden or some such crap, and each pic has enough resolution that you could make a poster of it.  

   "When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it."  T. Roosevelt

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   gordsco | Jun 02, 2006 05:05am | #10

   #225? You'll get no arguments from me...Thas a good size for wrasslin doors!

   I shrink pics down to 700 X 500 or thereabouts, they post in the 50kb range.

   I never understood the need for such a small balcony. Yet I've installed a few 2nd fl exterior doors that opened up to nothing but a railing. I don't know the official term, but I've always called a small or non existent balcony a Romeo and Juliette.

   Sounds romantic.

   I agree with you an the pet door, couldn't get a real dog through it, only one of them yappy little leg humpers.May neighbors respect You, and troubles neglect You.

   Gord

                           

    

    

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   omnimax | Jun 02, 2006 06:45am | #11

   Those balconies were used for shaking out rugs so you (the housekeeper most likely) didn't have to carry them through the house to take them out. 

    

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   McDesign | Jun 02, 2006 01:40pm | #12

   I'm about to build one on a portico project.  I called it a "Juliet" balcony and the head of the arch. review board seemed to like that.

   I think it's just big enough to play the balcony scene from R&J (you know, "Romeo, Romeo, whyfor art thou Romeo"). 

   Actually, here, she's not wondering where he is, rather she's commenting on the fact that his name is Romeo, because their familes, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been fighting for generations.

   Forrest (was I answering someone's question, or just rambling?)

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   DonCanDo | Jun 02, 2006 01:53pm | #13

   You answered mine, even though I didn't ask it!

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   xosder11 | May 31, 2006 11:03pm | #5

   My gradfather worked for starrett making calipers. I asked my dad where all the old tools are. He said he really never brought much home. What a shame.

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   floor sweeper | Jun 01, 2006 06:06am | #6

   xosder11

   My carpentry mentor in his younger days was a pattern maker for the vought corp. his war duties (aircraft manufacture)

   He had all kinds of starrett tools, calipers,surface guages, rules, thread guages, feeler guages, levels, squares, I use to look through them on breaks they were of such high quality and had such a great feel in the hand.

   My first and I still strap it on for shop work was a 6" stainless steel vernier caliper, it just feels so good in my hand and is so smooth and precise. Its sad they have downsized, the web sight doesn,t offer much and the other day at my local harware store got talking to the tool salesman about starrett (they keep in stock some starrett) he reached in and pulled out a pair of dial calipers, on the box, MADE IN CHINA.

   Thats how it goes these days.

   Thanks for sharing your memories  Finish out your week with gusto!