Friend, I haven’t done much, “Random Musings and Obscure Observations” lately. I have been sitting back and observing the change to absolute publication freedom the Internet has produced. I can sit here right now and uncensored, write whatever I want and I can post it for other people to read and think about. Printed thoughts are a wonderful invention and the evolution of worldwide uncensored electronic publishing took the lid off the box (Pandora’s). The...
Continue reading...A Hot Box
This is a new addition to my workshop. It is a high temperature (2250 degrees) kiln that I intend to put to a lot of good use. It’s a Paragon E-12T with a rather fancy programmable controller for precision heat control. My main intention is to use it for lost wax mold making but with its heat range there are many other arts and crafts application I will be trying. It’s not big enough for...
Continue reading...The New THMS Look, Bombed
In my last post I explained how I updated my The Hobbyist’s Machine Store website using WordPress and a plug in store software call WP e Commerce. The plugin is published by some blokes in New Zeland. I was extremely pleased at how the new layout looked and spent considerable time in loading all the products into the web site. I spent some cash for the Gold update package. There were some quirks in getting...
Continue reading...A New Look for THMS
THMS is “The Hobbyist Machine Store”, an e-commerce website that I have operated for over six years. I offer replacement steel gears for a popular line of machine tools and also offer the complete line of Taig Tool micro-machine products. I have used several e-commerce store software products. The first one was much too difficult to maintain and had some serious limitations. The second product has been my mainstay (X-Cart) actually designed and maintained by...
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