Our old kitchen faucet was leaking all over the place, making a mess of our counters and the cupboard under our sink. We decided to replace it, but doing so turned out to be a real pain in the ass because the old faucet was so badly corroded in place. Once I got it out, putting the new one in was simple. In this video, I’ll show you how I went about this simple but admittedly daunting household chore, and share some tips based on my own experience.
SlightlySauced Episode 208: Travelling the UK
In this episode we tell you all about the rest of our trips to the United Kingdom! Don’t forget to send us your feedback and we’ll feature it on the show!
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Floating Captain America Shield
My wife bought this beautiful 1:1 scale Captain America shield replica, and we figured that it would look great hanging on the wall of our living room. I researched a couple of methods for hanging shields, but none of them gave the floating effect that I wanted, so I designed a french cleat style hanger. In this video, I show how the hanger is made.
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Slightly Sauced Episode 207: A Wedding in a Castle
In this episode we hear all about our trip to Ireland for Tyler’s wedding as well as other adventures touring around Europe. Don’t forget to send us your feedback and we’ll feature it on the show!
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Making a Narrow Painted Bookcase
In this video, I make a narrow painted book case out of 3/4″ plywood with 1″ wide pine face trim. The back of the bookcase is made out of pine boards that have a chamfer cut on both sides to give them a bit of visual flair.
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Slightly Sauced Episode 206: It’s a Trap!
In this episode we hear all about Jake and Kayla’s trip to the wonderful city of Kingston, searching through family history and all of the interesting tourist traps along the way. Don’t forget to send us your feedback and we’ll feature it on the show!
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Rebuilding a Broken Kitchen Drawer
My brother in law had a kitchen drawer fall apart on him after years of use. The drawer was built with mitered corners, which don’t make much sense in this application, because they’re essentially butt joints. As such, every time somebody pulls the drawer open, the entire force of the action is put on the glue that holds the side and front of the drawer together. Glue is strong stuff, but the drawer box was made out of particle board, which isn’t, and over time, the joints let go.
I tackled the repair by rebuilding the drawer box out of 1/2″ MDF, using drawer joints (yes those are a thing) in place of the mitered corners on the original drawer. Here’s an image that I blatantly stole from the internet that shows the type of joinery that I’m talking about:
As you can see, the two sides of the drawer hook together with a sort of mortise and tennon joint. The uppermost board in that image would be the front of the drawer that I made, while the lowermost board would be the side. Whenever somebody pulls the drawer open, the force of the action is distributed throughout the joint, and the wood that makes it up, instead of being focused entirely on a glued butt joint.
My brother in law was really happy with the way that the drawer turned out, and I got a chance to try out some new joinery that will definitely come in handy sometime down the road.
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SlightlySauced Episode 205: Robotic Space Millenials
In this episode we’re all over the place – from self-landing rockets to colonizing the moon to old media formats and finally to how you too could buy a house and quickly pay off your mortgage if you weren’t such a lazy millennial! Send us your feedback and we’ll feature it on the show!
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SlightlySauced Episode 204: There Go Our Jobs
In this episode we discuss a variety of topics from military spending, racist trademarks and our future job perspectives. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… well actually it is a plane but should we still be buying it? A band tries to register their contentious name as a trademark but should they be allowed to? Jobs are fleeing the country but is it really Mexico or China’s fault? Listen to our thoughts and don’t forget to send us your feedback!
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Fixing Broken End Tables
Awhile back, I made some end tables out of a couple of old pallets that were hanging around my workshop. Unfortunately, due to an inherent flaw in the design of these tables, one of them developed a pretty serious crack after just a few months of being inside of my house:
In order to fix the crack, I had to cut the table top apart and replace the broken pieces, and then rebuild the mitered maple frame that encircles the piece. Speaking of the frame – commenters on both Reddit and YouTube helpfully pointed out that it’s actually the cause of the issues. Basically, the laminate pieces that make up the table top will expand and contract across their grain as the humidity in the room changes. The maple frame that encircles the table top holds them in place, preventing them from moving. If the forces within the table top get too strong, the wood will crack to relieve the pressure. So, stay tuned for part three of the end table saga wherein I totally rebuild the table tops? We’ll see how long they go before cracking again.
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