Lion ponderings

  Desk 4 was intended as a piano stand. After much debate on how to adapt it to the keyboard springs, it was decided to keep desk intact & create adapter plates.  The only structurally sound way to mount adapter plates was on the inside. Then a scrap piece of wood would mount the confusers. This area would be vastly more efficient with a single x86 confuser.  Those single board confusers are as expensive as a commodore 64 was in 1984, $200.  It's still a lot of money. The cables aren't long enough for it to extend to full height. While it extends from a standing to a sitting position, there's not enough room for an animal's legs under it.  The structure between the motors would have to be taken out or the keyboard would have to move to the front holes, in which case there wouldn't be enough room for an animal to sit in front of it.  If it was in the front holes, there would be enough room to mount the LCD panels on the desk.  There would be enough room for a rea

Desk 3 began with a failed attempt to cut it with the jigsaw.  It made it 1/2 way across  with much oil burned before the 20 year old blade was too fragged to go any farther.   Then the idea occurred of drilling closely placed pilot holes.  The jigsaw cut across the pilot holes like butter. It made a more ragged cut especially along the laminate, but it was all sanded down.  The 20 year old sanding disc was completely perished & didn't stick anymore. Then oil based polyurethane was applied.  The internet recommended not getting water on any exposed particle board & soaking it in polyurethane.  A new position was drilled for the buttons. The minimum width desk was bolted together.  To leave enough margin for cutting &  bolt holes, the minimum width was 42".  This fit right on the edge of the door.  Any wider & the folding table would still be there. With desk #3 installed, 22 years of folding tables finally came to an end. The desks are shown fully raised, fully

 The 4 corners high is going to park until the middle of next week.

  Did this tempo run again.  Couldn't go as fast as the younger lion.  Surprisingly, doing a small part of it at 7m30s didn't dramatically reduce the total speed.  Did the same part at 7m/mile during the return.   3 days in the city didn't feel like it yielded many complete desks, maybe because they were spread over 3 months.  3 months yielded only 3 complete desks & 1 frame.  The 3rd panel will be cut & sealed with oil based polyurethane probably after the mounting & drilling is done.  Kind of insane for a lion to have $3000 in  just desks.  Other animals have a lot more by middle age, but in other furniture. After all the worrying about the stripped bolt, the only other farstener ended up not stripped.  Once removed, the entire piece could be rotated counterclockwise, loosening the stripped bolt enough to get it off with a normal wrench.  There's still not enough room for that crossbar anywhere. The only plan for the instrument stand is bolting on MDF shee

The task begins of clearing enough room for desk #2. The towers were finally dismantled after 20 years.  If any of them get scrapped, it's going to be the loading tower.  Those giant bolts & the giant screwdriver were quite the story, but only 1 tower was ever built with them.  It was such a powerful dream to built 5 towers, the dream became an illusion, but it all stopped after 3.  The lion of the time had a feeling there wouldn't be enough room for 5 even before the cost of storage made them impractical. The decision was made to scrap the table made in whatever country that was.  It was less stable than the Chinese table.  If anyone picks it up, it'll have the casters built for it.  It was the 1st table the lion kingdom got in 2000, a bare minimum starting point to eat on.  It looked so much more impressive than the folding tables from the 1970's, but it was the same.   Most of the day was spent clearing the destination. Note to future lion that the ifixit extensi