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Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

Episode 340: Twist-to-Lock T-Handle Weld-Mount Retractable Spring Plungers

Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

I Like To Make Stuff

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

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto talk about finding new parts, trying new things and McMaster-Carr. What We’re Working On Jimmy Diresta Making leather wallets with Corian molds David Picciuto Making a bunch of trivets Bob Clagett Improving our car with 3d printing Links: New Yankee Workshop Streaming What we’re watching: David Pick of the Week: Sam Zeloof Jimmy’s Pick of the Week: Chris Zep tore down his house Bob’s Pick of the Week: Making of BBC Sport ad Special thanks to all of our patrons on Patreon for supporting this episode! Especially: Full Steam Designs by Chris Powell Odin Leather Goods Rich at Loen.Design Blondihacks PhunKiss Artistic Creations Caleb Harris – YouCanMakeThisToo Chad from ManCrafting™ WorksBySolo Albers Woodworks Corey Ward steven booker Chris Paties Jonathan Durfey Skullforge Studios Ken baker Scott D. Oram – Dad It Yourself DIY KlingsporsWoodworkingShop Rupert Klopfer Joshua Barber Ryan LaValley David Tanner Mike Wagner Jacques Speas Matthew Serio Gary Burkhardt Adam’s Lab Gordon F. Crago (@gfc62) Gary Oshust (SPark Workshop) David Plance (Rowdy Penguin) If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon

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0:00.0

So we got jumped on here this morning and Jimmy's like oh yeah, I got up in time

0:04.6

I had a whole like two hours of sleep. I don't know how to do that three hours three hours of sleep

0:10.3

I'm not jamming I'm not jabbing at you, but you are older than me and I have

0:16.4

Trouble if I don't get enough sleep and I get a lot more than three hours of sleep

0:20.4

How do you survive on that? I don't I don't know. I mean hopefully I as I said to you in our conversation

0:27.7

I said my goal is to diminish sleep more and more and more like a you know like a

0:35.7

Like a shaman, so then I never have to sleep ever. You're just weaning yourself off of sleep

0:40.9

Well, I'll tell you a funny story. So my buddy

0:46.0

I have a friend and he passed away

0:49.4

His name is Harry Ang and you could Google Harry Ang and Harry was older and the funny thing about Harry

0:55.5

Harry didn't remember how he didn't know how old he was because when he was an infant he was given up for adoption in

1:01.6

Hawaii and they never kept records because this was like

1:05.9

1935 or 34 he died

1:09.7

1520 years ago

1:11.7

And he was very old when he died. I don't know the math, but

1:14.6

So Harry never knew how old he was so he picked his own birthday

1:18.0

He he said my birthday is Christmas

1:21.4

If you can pick your own birthday, wouldn't you just pick so he didn't know what his birthday was and he didn't know his birth year was and

1:26.8

He bounced around a little bit here and there his paperwork was all gone and he tried to find that he was never able to

1:33.0

but the I just setting it up that Harry was a very special person and

1:38.0

He would come and stay with me

1:39.5

We met through my teacher at school and Harry was a teacher in California

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