So what did you do today?

[Guido Salvage]

Cut nails with my sawmill...

 

[Wilhelm]

Looks like fun!
Those boards will be expensive.

 

[ayoungtexan]

Bucked and split some pin oak. Took a dip in my friends pool. Walked the dog. Now I’m sitting here relaxing

 

[birdmeter]

i hope someone saved the world today. i was a slacker today dog gonit. well that was kinda hard to admit but i will do better tomorrow. carry on.

 

[markds2]

I finished putting this MS660 together, huztl cases and plastics (except for tank), hyway muffler, huztl flywheel and coil. everything else OEM. Really pleased with how it looks, runs really nicely. Just need to get the little brass bushes for the top cover...

 

[Boomhower]

Good lookin 660

 

[Wilhelm]

I am fighting the urge to smash my printer, I have been battling it for like two hours.
Both ink cartridges were depleted.
I replaced them with one re-manufactured black cartridge, which works fine.
I have been swapping two NIB/NOS OEM tri-color cartridges forth and back with no success - one is plain out rejected by the printer as faulty and the other will not spit magenta ink.
Two full OEM color cartridges each good for printing 1200 pages to be thrown into the trash bin once I source a re-manufactured tri-color cartridge.

So much for OEM.

 

[birdmeter]

ink cartridges are to expensive. somebody tell me why they cost so much and last so little time.

 

[MG porting]

ink cartridges are to expensive. somebody tell me why they cost so much and last so little time.

Welcome to the ink's of life. lol. Supply and demand.

 

[Boomhower]

Mounted some vises in the shed. Ran out of washers on the machinist vise.

 

[MustangMike]

Finished another small Chestnut Oak bench yesterday. This one needed a "patch" where it grew over the old cut off limb.

It is 4' 9" long.

 

[RI Chevy]

Nice Mike

 

[PA Dan]

They look great Mike! How long have the slabs dried since being milled?

 

[MustangMike]

Usually about 2 years.

 

[Wilhelm]

ink cartridges are to expensive. somebody tell me why they cost so much and last so little time.

Welcome to the ink's of life. lol. Supply and demand.

The ink itself is dirt cheap, the recent batch I got was about 20Euro shipped from Germany, I bet I could have gotten it cheaper from China but I didn't wanna chance it getting spilled.
The batch consists of 4 250ml containers containing black, cyan, magenta and yellow ink.

I usually refill my ink jet cartridges, problem is sometimes something goes wrong and the printer claims the cartridge being damaged, or the cartridge itself won't function as intended.
When that happens I am left with no choice but to purchase a new cartridge.

Against my better judgement I purchased two NOS OEM cartridges off eBay last year, neither works.
On Sunday I ordered a re-manufactured cartridge and received it today - I have yet to instal it.

Retail an OEM cartridge would cost me 4x the price of a remanufactured one, successfully refilling a spent cartridge costs me like 1/100th of an OEM cartridge - kinda makes One think.

I have an old printer, it features high volume cartridges, each holds 45ml and they can last me 12+ months.
The issue is that the print heads tend to plug from drying ink when unused, also big temperature variations cause leakage.

My biggest success was an OEM color cartridge that I successfully refilled 12 times, I saved a boatload of cash on that one cartridge.

Modern printers are rigged, their cartridges hold a ridiculously low volume of ink (I have seen claimed volumes as low as 4.5ml), many cartridges incorporate a chip that renders the same unusable once removed from the printer (unless You purchase a chip resetting kit).

All the new printers are "throwaway" printers, replacing their cartridges with OEM ones costs as much or more than a new printer does.

Unless it dies on me, I will not retire my old printer as long as I am able to source re-manufactured cartridges!

 

[MustangMike]

FYI, Black Walnut trees do not like high winds! I think I have more leaves and branches on my roof, deck and lawn than I have grass!

 

[Boomhower]

@MustangMike what kind of mill do you have? I’ve been thinking about getting one.

 

[MustangMike]

I've got 3 different styles, but mostly use the Alaskan Mill (knock off) for boards, with a HF guide.

For long post + beams I like the Beam Machine.

I also have a Logosol Timberjig that works well.

 

[MustangMike]

Sorry for the delayed reply, but we were w/o power and internet for a few days.

 

[Boomhower]

Sorry for the delayed reply, but we were w/o power and internet for a few days.

No worries man. Appreciate the feedback. Im trying to figure out if buying one is worth it. I have a lot of 60’-80’ pines on my property that I could be milling for house lumber.