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Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

Episode 248: The old man and the leaky pipes

Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

I Like To Make Stuff

Design, Crafts, Leisure, How To, Arts, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto answer questions from Twitter.

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0:00.0

All right. I'm rolling. So what's new? I'm rolling. You know, are you guys watching my stories at all? I've been restoring this old drill press that I got a couple years ago.

0:15.0

A fan named Patrick who was a real estate broker came across, he sold a barn at an auction and in that

0:21.8

barn was this old drill press and he said the new

0:24.6

owners are going to toss it if somebody doesn't come and rescue it and he called me

0:28.7

and I drove out there with my cousin two summers ago and we picked it up it was huge it's

0:33.3

weighs probably 2,000 pounds but I figured the only way we could move it without any

0:37.8

machinery is to take it apart so me and my cousin broke it down completely into like nuts and bolts and big enough pieces to pick up.

0:45.4

And we threw it all the back of my pickup truck. I brought it back here, threw it on two pallets, moved it out in the rain to the side of my shop and that sat there exactly for two years.

0:54.8

And then this new friend, Rob, contacted me and said, hey, I want to help out in the shop, I live

0:59.5

nearby, is there anything I could do?

1:01.1

I like restoring stuff.

1:02.1

So he came by and visited and I was like,

1:03.7

hey, you want to work on this drill press with me? And he said, cool, and then he left and then we didn't really

1:08.0

talk for like a week and then he wrote me a note. He's like, I got nothing to do for three days. I'll work on that drill press. And so he

1:14.0

jumped started that project that has been just sitting completely

1:17.2

dormant and it's coming together today. If you guys check my stories today it's

1:21.4

coming together really good. It's it's coming together really good it's it's amazing these

1:24.2

like parts that have been moved in like a hundred years are working beautifully

1:30.1

it's crazy I'm just funny how somebody else gets involved and then it kind of sets a little deadline

1:36.2

and gets things rolling and put in place.

1:39.2

Yeah, I absolutely.

1:40.5

I said to him today, I'm like, you know, thank God you came along. I was going to scrap this thing because I kind of like I there's always a limitation where I'm looking around and I'm like there's so much junk around here. I got to get rid of some of it and I was kind of thinking about that I was like I was going to give it to somebody

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