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Dave those smoke swirling pics are fantastic! Took me a while to figure them out, really good close up focus too.

Cheers Richard

SF Bay Area looking northwest 12-27-12

Golden Gate 7:20 a.m. 12-27-12

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Originally Posted by tevake (Post 7180495)

Dave those smoke swirling pics are fantastic! Took me a while to figure them out, really good close up focus too.

Cheers Richard

Thank you, Richard!

I figured smoke would be a little easier than my previous water drops. Wrong! Even with still air, the slightest movement on my part to move the secondary flash that I hold in my hand or moving the incense stick up and down, makes the smoke go all over.

Here's my ghetto home "studio" for this project. :D

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Two pieces of paper over the main flash to diffuse the light, a single piece over the slave flash. Everything is in manual mode. I've got the camera trigger hanging over the lens for the pic. The balsa stick that is taped to the camera tripod helps me with finding the focal point. The black marks are from a sharpie and are the different focal points I have been playing with. My black background is a black t-shirt that I cut the top part off that had the silk screen.

This was in my back yard Christmas morning. I'd just got up and was making coffee. My dog was inside and started growling and giving out a low, muffled bark. Do Red Tails get any bigger than this? The column is 16 inches wide. It then walked down the wall, took off and landed on a street light, then back to a house behind me for just a second then left the area. I wonder of it was looking at some food?

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took down our Christmas tree today...

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I just completed my extra audio rack today.:cool:

No burnishing of the aluminum.

No repair of the splits in the butcher block.

No varnish even.

I settled for a course 80 grit on my belt sander and some sanding sealer and wiped down the aluminum with some Acetone, and called it a day.

Bolting it all together was much more of an ordeal than I had counted on, one bolt even has some JB Weld type putty stick to hold the head on because I snapped it off.

The last sketch *see link for more), did more as an afterthought while I was already getting the parts ready.
DIY Audio Rack 2012 Photos by kach22i | Photobucket
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Some photos of the actual rack below.
DIY Audio Rack 2012 Photos by kach22i | Photobucket
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I did away with my original goal of being able to operate three turntables at once, and settled on being able to play the top one, and store the other two below. Once I'm settled in on one turntable, I'll be relocating my tuner, VCR and tape deck.

The original 4-foot tall rack I had in mind would have just been too much for the room, plus I want to get a flat TV over the fireplace, so I did not want to obstruct the view any.
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The feet are cast brass with adjustable screws. I think I found them in the electrical section of the local hardware store, about $8 each.
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The steel bolts and bare aluminum go very nicely with the brass washers.
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If anyone else tries something like this, my biggest headaches were in not over-sizing the holes in the aluminum enough to account for my sloppy marking of wood drill holes on the shelves. I bound a few of the lags up, despite re-drilling and enlarging all of the vertical array holes going onto the sides of the shelves.

Upside-down view.
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The aluminum channels under each shelf should buy me some time before I upgrade the maple butcher block (if ever).

A couple more photos.
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Originally Posted by Joe Bob (Post 7181980)

Frozen reindeer turd?

Some type of pine cone / pod that is developing. I guess I have a mutant evergreen growing in my yard....

-Z