MadModder

My browser (Seamonkey) has Edit>Undo right in the top bar. That's what I use. I guess the more modern browsers everybody loves hide everything from a user for a "clean" interface. I can also select text, right click, and delete from a dropdown menu of commands in my flavor of Linux.

Might be possible to alter the interface theme for whatever browser you are using to make it more amenable to user controls and tools. This site isn't the only one where being able to edit input easily is an advantage.

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What are the odds of getting an Undo button for the reply editor box?  You've got emojis and lots of other handy buttons, how about one for keyboard klutz's like me. 

I keep forgetting about cntl+z until it's too late.

I think I fixed it?

this link looks ok now

https://www.madmodder.net/index.php?topic=13865.msg165795#msg165795

Oh, man if it isn't one thing it's another. Two big delays on finishing out my shop. Our under-house cistern is 25 years old -- originally built on a concrete slab with filled and reinforced cement block sides -- total footprint 8 feet by 4 feet, and about 2 feet high, roughly 250 gallons.

This is fed by a spring about 300 feet from the house, and that flows in (and out the overflow) of the cistern pipework continuously unless interrupted by drought. In summer, the overflow goes to a 3000 gallon backup cistern below the garden (build thread elsewhere on the forum) for drought times.

Anyway, the under-house cistern is showing its age, and an outer corner flaked off last month -- it still held water, but concrete block isn't the best material for the purpose. Because the cistern is located in a crawlspace (it was built before that section of house) it would be very arduous to remove, and hard to rebuild, so I decided to abandon it and add a new one outside of the house. This time a commercial HDPE version, which would, we hoped, arrive before snow!

Luckily it did, and I used the old Ford tractor backhoe to dig a hole for it. I covered it according to the mfr's instructions, installed a submersible pump in it, and re-piped to the spring and house. Okay that job done.....

Well, no can't work on my own shop, because my wife wanted a space of her own for storage and potting, etc. and so had purchased a pre-fabbed kit shed (on sale) which arrived just as I finished the cistern. We had planned to just store that under tarps for the winter, and build in spring, but the thought of mouse damage under the tarps decided the issue against.

So out with the tractor again, leveling ground behind the house, putting down 4" of coarse gravel, and leveling that by hand. Then laying the support beams and nailing in joists, flooring, and building the whole shed proceeded to a rather nice looking conclusion. In fact a lot nicer than any of my own sheds. Hers is 10 feet by 14 feet and has windows. I have to say I'm  a little jealous. But she is allowing me to store some of my "junk" in it this winter only so I can't complain!

But for my own shed.......well I did finish the concrete floor, but haven't put up the framework yet to support insulation, nor the false ceiling timbers for the same. We just got snow, and it's getting cold and unpleasant to work, but I am going to go back at it. I really want to continue work on my hot air engines this winter, and I absolutely must get this done first!

I actually like the way the (presumeably) Chinese designer has used several standard parts to make it. For instance the clamps holding the (repurposed) soldering iron are a pair of hydraulic pipe clamps intended for use for surface mounting. The frame is made from standard aluminium extrusions - even the thing the counter balance spring hooks onto is just a wiring 'Pee Clip'. Just a stamping for the base which is pretty heavy duty, and a folded piece to form the upper bracketry.

Reminds me of British Leyland where many parts were common across models - the lights - the instruments - the brake components. Whereas nowadays every thing is unique and stupidly expensive.