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Hang-em High Fabrics was formed the summer of 1989 for the express purpose of providing the finest ripstop and the greatest availability of fabrics to the kiting industry. From the very beginning, we found out there's more to building a kite than just fabrics, so we quickly expanded to cover all the spars, hardware and hi-tech parts it takes to build a quality kite.

Today, Hang-em High is known throughout the kiting world for selling only quality supplies at a price well below retail.

The Tele-Tower® Adjustable Work Platform adjusts from a deck height of 2 feet to 11 feet (17.5 feet with optional extension) manually with a hand operated winch. One person can easily set the Tele-Tower up from the ground. The Tele-Tower can role through a 32 inch opening with the outriggers in and the Guardrails down.

Hacking/design focussed around ikea products

I’ve been seeing a lot of cardboard in the kids design world lately and I thought I’d round up some examples of this emerging trend. Of course children playing with cardboard is nothing new (everyone knows that kids have more fun playing with the box than what’s inside!) but I have not before seen so many designer cardboard products. Not only is cardboard a fantastic eco-friendly material, but products made of it are also blank canvases for children both in terms of imaginative play and creative artwork and decoration.

Beautiful copper room divider

Lot's of weird, interesting photos

This page is maintained with specifications for mechanical components which are the current best-practices employed by UNAVCO in the Polar Permanent GPS Station design. Specifications are subject to change as the design evolves, however the most current design will reside here.

Ceiling height measurements required for standard sizes for ceilings up to 9'-0" – 4" adjustment range.
Inexpensive simple and elegant decorative privacy screen wall panel system.
Light weight residential grade screen wall partitions for your home, apartment, dorm room, or office.
Modern anodized aluminum frames and translucent polycarbonate light transmitting panels.

This month's topic is handsaws. This is one of the tool groups I seem to collect. They have a fascination for me in a way other hand tools don't. I sometimes get a glazed look in my eyes and think if I can find that one special saw my woodworking, in fact my life would be that much better, that much easier. I tend to snap out of it when remember a picture of a woodworker in Indonesia making beautiful furniture with one handsaw, one bit & brace, literally a handful of carving tools and using his stool as his workbench, his leg as his vise. His entire shop is wherever he sits down. Very humbling.

Lot's of useful tips for dividing a room

Our made to order blackout curtains are manufactured with inherently fire retardant (IFR) fabric. The twice turned, double needled lock-stitched top and side hems combined with our #2 grommet, provides superior durability and long-lasting performance. Our blackout curtain fabrics provide a 98% room darkening atmosphere for laboratory and laser work, as well as for photography studios.

Source for "hospital track"

eShoji.com offers information on shoji screens and a online shoji paper store. Created by Shoji Woodworking Co., a shoji maker in southern WI, specialized in traditional Japanese sliding door and track system. The company has been making shoji screens and using shoji rice paper materials since 2001.

As shoji screens and rice paper inspired products gain popularity, our distribution of shoji paper and Japanese washi products expands throughout the states and beyond. Our customers are architects, designers, builders, landscapers, woodworkers, shoji makers and DIYers.

I like to make my kites: I cut out the patterns, hot cut the pieces of Tyvek, sometimes of spinnaker nylon; I fold sheets of (A4) paper, glue or sew them; I often use round bamboo sticks, out of blinds, for spars, but sometimes I use hard wood spars or bamboo for larger kites; and, yes, of course, I use sometimes carbon and glass fibre spars.

BreatheEZ is the highest quality weather resistant barrier
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This will add directly to your bottom line!

Because BreatheEZ housewrap is a woven polyethylene product, engineered with micro-perforations, water vapor is allowed to escape from the substructure. When housewrap is properly installed it can eliminate the mold and mildew that normally occurs in framing components and absorbent sheathing materials. Click here to view the BreatheEZ brochure.

… keep your eyes open for a house being built. The odds are that, after the walls have been sheathed with plywood, but before it has been covered with the finishing surface of shingles or clapboard or brick or whatever, it will be covered with looks like white paper. On the paper, in big blue and red letters, are printed “TYVEK” and the DuPont logo.

Or you may have received things in the mail in a big white envelope that you discover you can't tear open, for it is too tough. And you may see workmen handling chemicals clad in white suits. These too are made of Tyvek.

You can make a good sail out of it, and very easily and cheaply.

In the first place, it is available in great width. What the house builder uses is typically ten feet wide. So there will be fewer seams, and in a small sail, no seams at all. In the second place, it doesn't need to be stitched. Wherever one piece of cloth goes over another, like at a seam or a corner reinforcement, it can be stuck together with tape

Since I didn't have a lot of time (or money), and since I'd never built a boat before, I decided to employ the fastest but least respected form of wooden boat building: stitch and glue. I walked to the bookstore and got a book called "Stitch And Glue Boat Building" that had plans for something called "The Jimmy Skiff." Since I didn't have a lot of tools (or the lifestyle that could really accomodate a lot of tools long-term), I decided that I'd build the whole thing using only hand tools. I got a small Japanese pull-stroke hand saw, a block plane, a rubber mallet, a bit-and-brace screw driver/drill, and some clamps. Nothing large, and no electricity. While I made a lot of mistakes during this process, resolving to use only hand tools was the best decision of the project.

Tyvek is that tough plastic paper stuff used for the envelopes that you can't tear. Mainly it is used for house wrap on building projects. I've seen it stapled to stud walls out in the wind and weather, exposed for months. It is a breathable material, to stop the wind but let the moisture out.

All of the above plus the stretch resistance should make it ideal for a cheap and dirty JIFFY-SAIL … Will it work? The answer is a BIG YES! D.I.Y. sails are a natural companion to D.I.Y. boats, especially when they are so easy to make.

I’ve written before about refilling disposable one-pound propane cylinders that so many portable appliances use. That article is the most-viewed post on Navagear.com. It’s popular because the subject is relevant to a wide variety of outdoor recreational enthusiasts: backpackers, kayakers, hunters, boaters, you name it.

Links to interesting art

How to take photographs at Burning Man.

Kifaru Tipis are the largest and lightest four season shelters we know of, and accommodate up to 12 people, and a mountain of gear. You have full stand-up headroom, space enough to sprawl in comfort and plenty of camaraderie! These Tipis are ideal base camps for any big adventure!