Anvil in use.

OK, I got an anvil for Christmas from Sarah & Mike. I misheard Mike as saying it was 178 lbs. it's really 128 lbs. I was feeling very strong carrying it around. It's a very good anvil. Now to build a forge.

How I used to deliver my sculptures

I used to deliver my sculptures with my '78 Datsun. What a powerhouse. If it was summertime I had to run the heater full blast to keep the engine cool. Here, I'm picking up "Dreamer" from Renaissance Bronze foundry in Pueblo Colorado.  This is the early '90s.





Here's a 30 minute episode of OETA TV's "Gallery" program. It aired last night on public Television and will air every thursday night for a few weeks at 7:30 pm central time.

you can stream it here: Gallery: Episode 1302

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iMac fixit morning

My optical drive likes the last DVD I burned so much that it won't give it up. It took awhile to figure out that the drive had died.  So today I'm a techie.  

First thing was to order a new optical drive as well as a bare hard drive docking station.

The hard drive in this iMac was fine but it was only 750 GB and I have a couple of new empty 2TB sea gates laying around, so, while I've got the thing apart I might as well put the new bigger drive in.

I downloaded a copy of Carbon Copy cloner and cloned the internal hard drive to the new seagate drive.  Then I cleaned my desk.
Ready to disassemble

Use suction cups to pull the front glass off

Off it comes

Good opportunity to clean the grime under the glass

Removing the screen exposes the guts

old optical drive out

Both new drives ready to go in

Almost back together

Success!! Back up and running
 OK, now back to work and off to the OVAC's 12x12 fundraiser tonight.