I bought this Abu Garcia fishing reel at a yardsale for like three bucks. When I got it, it was kinda dirty and it had some issues with it. It would go into cast mode okay, but when I spun the reel it wouldn’t kick back into reel mode. The reel handles just spun freely. […]
If you watched my YouTube video on my Hawker Hurricane RC plane, then you might have noticed that there were only a few clips of me actually flying after the airplane was fixed. The reason for this is because when my brother was recording me flying, it was hard for him to see the screen […]
I haven’t been able to fly my RC planes in a few months due to mainly time restraints, but the other day I decided to build me a warbird and fly it. After looking around on RCGroups and talking to a few people, I decided on building a Hawker Hurricane. The original plans for the […]
One year ago today, April 17th, I posted my first project here on BackroomWorkdesk.com ! I can’t believe that it has already been a full year!!! I thought I’d give just a few statistics about the past year….. – In one year there has been 52 different blog posts – The site has had just […]
About four, maybe five, years ago I thought up the idea of using a mousetrap as the main part of a remote ignition system for lighting ‘experimental’ fireworks and such. The idea was to attach a match to the mouse trap’s lever and have a matchbox striker pad suspended above. When the mousetrap was triggered […]
I always enjoy seeing other people’s ideas and projects. Even if it’s something I may never build myself, I like to see how other people do things because it gives me ideas and sometimes I will learn a new way of doing something. One of my favorite things to read are the Boy Mechanic books. […]
I was talking to one of my friends the other day and she was telling me about this torch she has. She said it was fueled with denatured alcohol and you just squeeze the bottle to make it work. I googled the torch later in the week and watched a YouTube video of one […]
If you read my previous post you know that we went fishing the other day. Well last time we went fishing, back in the fall, I noticed there was a problem with my fishing reel. When I tried to cast it wouldn’t spin smoothly and there was a lot of friction. I knew that my […]
First off, I know this post is delayed. I was sick earlier this week and completely forgot about writing a post due to the sickness. Anyway . . . . . . . For the past few years I’ve talked about building a boat. More specifically I’ve talked about building a small, easy to […]
Although I’ve been really busy this week, I still got quite a bit done on a current project of mine. The only problem is it isn’t finished yet so I’m not going to show the whole thing. Since the project I worked on is a big one, I kinda want to reveal it all at […]