Day 2076 Rage against the machine

20th April 2023

There was a minor panic over the new oven unit and it’s position in the kitchen. Because we are not changing the cabinets but replacing the stove with a wall oven with a hob on the top. In building the enclosure for the oven I followed the plan supplied by the manufacturer, I was happy that everything would fit.

I was thinking about the worktop templating that was due in a couple of weeks and it suddenly occurred to me that the new oven carcass would not align with the microwave that is mounted above, it would be out by three quarters of an inch, which is the thickness of the side panel. It may not be much but it would annoy me, so I had to have a solution.

I explained the problem to Kelli, and the best option was to remove the end panel from my new unit and build on from the cabinets that is already there. Rather that continue the panic I will start that job at the weekend.

I had more pressing things to sort out, firstly adding height to the dining table. We found some old legs from an old table that I decided to cut the end section off, and because it had facets it needed to be rounded off to match the end of the legs.

Several months ago I was given a small lathe, I gave it a good clean, and it worked.

I wanted to use it to smooth the ridges off the end pieces.

The first one went okay, I used rough sandpaper and was pleased with the result. The second one was going well until the motor stopped. That threw me into a rage, I had another three to finish and no other way of doing it. In my anger I grabbed a hammer and struck it against the motor casing, suddenly it started up again, then it stopped, another blow, off it went, and so on.

I managed to get all the leg pieces finished but only by hitting the motor constantly. So with one hand I held the sandpaper, the other the hammer. It was very comical, and to others it must have sounded like I had a steam hammer in the garage.

Amongst all this commotion we finished the short dresser, and I even managed to paint the first set of drawer front components.