The Home Docks status page (see link at top of BBS pages) has now been updated as of today, with status info and two new photographs -- once again, the Lovely and Talented SWMBO makes a stellar appearance!

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Fifteen (15) payment requests went out in email today. So if you were near the top of the Home Docks queue, check your email!.

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You know you've cut a lot of biscuit slots when..

when you can build a big enough stack to rest your priceless empeg on. lol

(the bag in the photo is full of sawdust from the slots..)

just out of curiosity, what do you do with all your bagged saw dust Mark?

just out of curiosity, what do you do with all your bagged saw dust Mark?

Reminds me of an episode of Cheers where Sam was thinking about buying a big suburban house. He talked about having a workshop in the garage: "I've always loved the smell of sawdust... Wonder where I can get some of that?"

Make his own MDF if he gets enough epoxy?

- Trevor

When it's mostly just wood dust, it often ends up as garden mulch to keep the weeds down. But this MDF dust has too much glue in it for our liking, so we bin it.

In the past month, we've emptied about 10X that quantity of dust and chips from the central shop dust collector. The bag in the photo is from a rather small shopvac dedicated to the biscuit (plate) joiner -- takes a heck of a lot of biscuit slots to produce that quantity. Not done yet, either..

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The Continuing Saga of Mark's Manufacturing Misadventures.

So, there I am, happily gluing docks together, when I decide perhaps to think a step or two ahead, and count the remaining shipping containers on hand.

18. Oh oh..

I knew I should have bought the whole lot of 200 boxes when I had the chance, five months ago. Oh well. So, to make a long story (lots of telephone calls and emails) shorter, I eventually found these guys, who offered to make a lot of 100 custom-sized cardboard shipping containers for the docks at a reasonable rate.

Using the Right Size boxes can make a huge difference in shipping costs -- it is very worthwhile to pay more for a custom box than to use cheaper off-the-shelf sizes that cost $4 more (each) to mail a dock in (due to larger than necessary volume)!

Whew! Should have them long before I return from Amersfoort, so shipments can continue uninterrupted then.

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