Mr. Diresta I just wanted to express my appreciation for all your videos and shared work. You are an inspirational person who talks like an old friend. Never presupposing the viewers knowledge, just offering a way of doing that is both simple and complex. Thanx for all you do and best of luck in everything you hope to achieve...
Jimmy, First I want to say that I love the VLOG - don’t stop with this - it is so good to hear you express your thought process on things - plus it’s great to have an idea about what is going on in the life of a maker who is so respected. I’d like to share the method about reading a micrometer that my dad shared with me when I was young and maybe it will be helpful for some of your viewers. The Barrel of a micrometer is designed to read only one inch so even if you’re used a mic that is a 4 inch it is really 3 to 4 inch and the barrel only reads 1 inch - knowing this will allow you take this to any micrometer. IF you can think about one inch being an as a $10 dollar bill you can read micrometer. If you break a $10 dollar bill down by the numbers on Sleeve there are 10 numbers. Think of each one as 1 dollar - since there are 10 dollars there are 1000 pennies. Each dollar can be broken down into 100 pennies and each time the thimble goes around it is like one quarter (1 to 25). So if you start at zero and turn the Thimble one full turn you have .025 thousandths of an inch (Remember there are 1000 pennies in an Inch so it is 25/1000). You can think about turning the thimble as a quarter since each turn is worth 25 pennies (thousandths). So if you started at zero and turned the thimble 3 full revolutions and went past to 8 it would be like 3 quarters and 8 pennies or .083 or 83/1000 I don’t know if this did my Dad any justice or not but hopefully it helps someone.
If you do try building that rat trap, make sure the magnet is the right strength. Better too strong than too weak, because, my experience, if the rat goes on it and it tips and the rat *doesn't* fall in, it will never go on it again. Looking forward to seeing your take on it!
jimmydiresta ya similar to rat poison the rats will send sacrificial rats to new food and wont use it if they die lower their defenses and then murder their whole family--dont let rats go. look up Henderson Island
It is so great Kevin stopped in and is teaching you Machine Language. A little machine knowledge will bring your creativity juices to a boil. Tell Taylor her bread looked Awesome!
when I first started watching you, you were a master craftsman. to see you broadening your horizons to other disciplines, let alone video production, is truly inspiring. thank you, thank you. you never fail to get me off my ass and make something. you are a gem!
Dang.. Kevin is a Boss.... Super cool of you to go up and help jimmy bud! Loved this little blog update Jimmy! So much fun. So ready for Taylor to make somethings on camera... Jimmy.. you may just have to take a day off and play camera guy while she buids something.. Cya bud. Brian
Jimmy my uncle machined me a thunder mug (similar, but not near as fancy). I get tremendous decibels by using FFFG Pyrodex, the fine grain let's me compact it better. Then using a slice of white bread as the seal. awesome videos, Jimmy, keep them coming!
Thank you for sharing ,one point ,that's not a house,it's a home and a beautiful one at that. Fantastic,you got it right bro. You work hard and very smart ,I wish you good fortune and happiness. Thank you for the inspiration .
Hey Jimmy looks like a nice easy productive week, house looks great. That AGA is going to be great this winter to even out the heat in the house reminds me of the old wood fired kitchen stoves/ovens.
scott!!! watched last eve, your dmv and catskill dmv have lot in common... the person at the desk (less Nessman) hands you number 3 ... and looks around and calls "number 3" .. takes your number and then helps you..
I Love this personal (personalized) Videos more than a podcast. A podcast is valuable when I can not watch something. But for the most part, Videos that has some visual aid is much more enjoyable to me Since you can see what tools or methods is talked about when it comes to Creating or collecting stuff. So, in short, i enjoy these Vlogs a lot
Jimmy is a warehouse of information and constantly, passionately looking for more! More techniques. More knowledge, more skills. A real Renaissance man!
Great to see you getting some help with those machines. Some guys on here just whinge "oh my Bridgeport is too clapped out". Not you. You find out how to fix it and show others. How cool is that!
great vlog once again! I thought of you the other day when I saw a hand crank hedge trimmer contraption from the early 1900s at a thrift store. amazing the mechanical contraptions people invented!
its brutal waiting for your next videos to come out!! your videos are the best of the best brother!! you never let us down,my lady has to watch them with me! lol thanks for sharing,get them damn rats cause they will wreck everything!
I see custom shoulder bolts in your future... Just think, if you need a 2-1/16" x 7/8 bolt, you can make it. Never dig around the hardware store for the odd ball fastener again!
That is the exact reason why I want to get a lathe. I'm sick of special ordering fasteners, gets pretty expensive and the wait is what usually kills me.
Great video, the vlogs are a great companion to the project videos. That stove is very interesting. Not sure I'd want something like that on all the time in the summer in NC though.
Hopefully Kevin has some CNC experience as well so he can help you get up and running with the Torchmate and Tormach as well. Really interested to see what you do with them. Great videos.
Ill give you an advice on how to remove rats. Find a sewage pipe, or any old pipe for that matter big enough to fit a couple of rats in (8" diameter is fine). Then lay one side around the place where rats hang out and rase the other side some 3ft in the air. Take some canned fish like sardines, something smelly, open it and toss it down the pipe, some two thirds down its length. Cover that upper part with some heavy rag and wait a couple of hours till rats start smelling the fish and hiding in the pipe. Now you can either catch them in some cage but I prefer firing a 12 gauge bird shot or #4 trough the rag and down the pipe, it will blow them out the lower end. Rag is there so you don't end up sprayed with rat blood, and because it creates shade for them to hide. Good luck.
I would LOVE to see some machine tune up videos. We have a Leblond lathe from the 50's that needs a good run through but I have no idea what I'm doing.
Awesome stuff Jimmy! I'm live right outside Kingston NY. We should get together one of these days, I know few spots filled with some really cool stuff I'd think you'd love!
Love the updates Jimmy! I got very excited to see the telephone box replica as I've made one myself, but real size one - that was a journey. There's a video on my ch on it ;)
The Coxsackie antique center is a really cool place, usually end up getting something every time I go. Going to check out the Sister Salvage place now too! If you come all the way up to Albany check out Silver Fox Salvage right off Broadway.
If your into antiques and unusual stuff check out Wow That's Unusual in Suffern NY. Make a right off the Sloatsburg exit and its not that far down the road in Downtown Suffern. A cool shop and you can haggle some of there prices. He also has some great stuff in the basement as well.
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Mr. Diresta I just wanted to express my appreciation for all your videos and shared work. You are an inspirational person who talks like an old friend. Never presupposing the viewers knowledge, just offering a way of doing that is both simple and complex. Thanx for all you do and best of luck in everything you hope to achieve...
Jim Sagar thank you !!
Thanks jimmy for the invite. Such great hospitality from you and Taylor. Can't wait to do it again. Kevin thanks for the lesson, learned a lot.
You can clearly tell how good of a person Jimmy is by how he loves his fur babies and how many friends he has. Great videos man. I always enjoy them
+zeake13 thank you ☺️
Jimmy,
First I want to say that I love the VLOG - don’t stop with this - it is so good to hear you express your thought process on things - plus it’s great to have an idea about what is going on in the life of a maker who is so respected.
I’d like to share the method about reading a micrometer that my dad shared with me when I was young and maybe it will be helpful for some of your viewers.
The Barrel of a micrometer is designed to read only one inch so even if you’re used a mic that is a 4 inch it is really 3 to 4 inch and the barrel only reads 1 inch - knowing this will allow you take this to any micrometer.
IF you can think about one inch being an as a $10 dollar bill you can read micrometer.
If you break a $10 dollar bill down by the numbers on Sleeve there are 10 numbers. Think of each one as 1 dollar - since there are 10 dollars there are 1000 pennies.
Each dollar can be broken down into 100 pennies and each time the thimble goes around it is like one quarter (1 to 25).
So if you start at zero and turn the Thimble one full turn you have .025 thousandths of an inch (Remember there are 1000 pennies in an Inch so it is 25/1000).
You can think about turning the thimble as a quarter since each turn is worth 25 pennies (thousandths).
So if you started at zero and turned the thimble 3 full revolutions and went past to 8 it would be like 3 quarters and 8 pennies or .083 or 83/1000
I don’t know if this did my Dad any justice or not but hopefully it helps someone.
great idea,, thank you.. it helps!!
Ed Buford well that sure as heck helped me. Jimmy I agree with Ed love your vlog videos keep up the great stuff
Another great episode of the world of Diresta!
We love to watch your videos Saturday morning with the kids. Thanks for keeping the commentary clean and for all your expert advice Jimmy! You ROCK
Had a great time hanging out with you and Kevin, Jimmy. Happy to leave a piece of my scalp in your shop anytime!
If you do try building that rat trap, make sure the magnet is the right strength. Better too strong than too weak, because, my experience, if the rat goes on it and it tips and the rat *doesn't* fall in, it will never go on it again. Looking forward to seeing your take on it!
Matthias Wandel i have a take on your mechanism that is one moving part and a bucket ... I'll try and post results good or bad!
And both should lock the trap first to get them used to eating from it before unlocking it to get them.
yes my friend exterminator just did same thing in basement .. left traps un set for few days
jimmydiresta ya similar to rat poison the rats will send sacrificial rats to new food and wont use it if they die
lower their defenses and then murder their whole family--dont let rats go. look up Henderson Island
+jimmydiresta big kiss du Sud de la france
Nice week, Jimmy. Good to see Keith hanging out with you. Looking forward to Boston, baby!
It was a fun hang for sure.
It is so great Kevin stopped in and is teaching you Machine Language. A little machine knowledge will bring your creativity juices to a boil. Tell Taylor her bread looked Awesome!
Haha, the chipmunk voices were hilarious!
It is very nice to have a machinist friend. Its very nice to have a machinist friend that can teach.
LOVE these vlog type of videos, Jimmy. thanks for sharing.
when I first started watching you, you were a master craftsman. to see you broadening your horizons to other disciplines, let alone video production, is truly inspiring. thank you, thank you. you never fail to get me off my ass and make something. you are a gem!
Dang.. Kevin is a Boss.... Super cool of you to go up and help jimmy bud! Loved this little blog update Jimmy! So much fun. So ready for Taylor to make somethings on camera... Jimmy.. you may just have to take a day off and play camera guy while she buids something.. Cya bud. Brian
Jimmy my uncle machined me a thunder mug (similar, but not near as fancy). I get tremendous decibels by using FFFG Pyrodex, the fine grain let's me compact it better. Then using a slice of white bread as the seal. awesome videos, Jimmy, keep them coming!
I look forward to a precisely machined rat trap!
Pettigrew Woodworks he will probably make a special bucket sized incinerator made of titanium alloy
Love the old stove! The pets really seem to like it too. The freshly painted house also looks wonderful! :D
Thank you for sharing ,one point ,that's not a house,it's a home and a beautiful one at that. Fantastic,you got it right bro.
You work hard and very smart ,I wish you good fortune and happiness. Thank you for the inspiration .
Your vlogs are so chill-axed, I love it!
Jimmy for President! You're just to damn cool! Thanks for doing what ya do! 👍
These Vlogs are fuggin so good Jimmy. If/when I ever do them, they will be just like this :-)
thank you Bro!! xoxo
Hey Jimmy looks like a nice easy productive week, house looks great. That AGA is going to be great this winter to even out the heat in the house reminds me of the old wood fired kitchen stoves/ovens.
Jimmy, I really enjoy these Vlogs. Thanks for posting them.
That's no oven- it's a time machine baby!!
scott!!! watched last eve, your dmv and catskill dmv have lot in common... the person at the desk (less Nessman) hands you number 3 ... and looks around and calls "number 3" .. takes your number and then helps you..
Big up the 4 oven deluxe AGA, many years ago I worked reconditioning AGAs, amazing stove designed by a Swedish blind man.
I Love this personal (personalized) Videos more than a podcast. A podcast is valuable when I can not watch something. But for the most part, Videos that has some visual aid is much more enjoyable to me Since you can see what tools or methods is talked about when it comes to Creating or collecting stuff. So, in short, i enjoy these Vlogs a lot
Jimmy is a warehouse of information and constantly, passionately looking for more! More techniques. More knowledge, more skills. A real Renaissance man!
It's inspiring to know that there are still highly skilled and valued machinists in this economy of mass production.
Great to see you getting some help with those machines. Some guys on here just whinge "oh my Bridgeport is too clapped out". Not you. You find out how to fix it and show others. How cool is that!
Love how the Chickens Scattered when the Cannon Blew! :P
great vlog once again! I thought of you the other day when I saw a hand crank hedge trimmer contraption from the early 1900s at a thrift store. amazing the mechanical contraptions people invented!
Great vlog once again!! Keep up the great work Jimmy!!
Kissing the dog? Germs!
He'll probably be okay, though. Dogs are pretty resilient.
Really awesome stuff Jimmy! That bread looked delicious too!
That small canon could probably be used to help deal with the rat problem ^^
diresta : fire in the hole!!
chickens : run dude... ruuunnn...!!!
😂😂😂😂
Diresta you're so cool honestly! I love that stove!
I remember the first time I cut threads! They turned out to be the right pitch, in a left hand thread!
I can't tell you enough I love these VLOGs
its brutal waiting for your next videos to come out!! your videos are the best of the best brother!! you never let us down,my lady has to watch them with me! lol thanks for sharing,get them damn rats cause they will wreck everything!
Jimmy, you should come to the antique fair here in Greenwich, NY! Everyone April and August. Tons of tools and cool stuff you would probably dig.
Fun stuff Jimmy! See you in less than a month!
Yes, been waiting for a new sign build. That's what got me to sub in the beginning.
These vlogs are so great! :)
The diresta tag on the truck is cool!
Always enjoy the videos! For the woven seat chairs I've seen folks re-do them with leather belts. And an airgun will help lots for those rats!!!!
oh boy, Lucky is a good looking pup!
Again, I like these.
I see custom shoulder bolts in your future... Just think, if you need a 2-1/16" x 7/8 bolt, you can make it. Never dig around the hardware store for the odd ball fastener again!
That is the exact reason why I want to get a lathe. I'm sick of special ordering fasteners, gets pretty expensive and the wait is what usually kills me.
Snow white music at the end, happy childhood memories
Thanks for the video! Enjoyed it.
Great video, the vlogs are a great companion to the project videos. That stove is very interesting. Not sure I'd want something like that on all the time in the summer in NC though.
looks like a great week 👍
GIB go to sleep!! xo
Lol ain't happening buddy they wanna run the plant by end of week
Hopefully Kevin has some CNC experience as well so he can help you get up and running with the Torchmate and Tormach as well. Really interested to see what you do with them. Great videos.
Thanks for sharing!
Ill give you an advice on how to remove rats. Find a sewage pipe, or any old pipe for that matter big enough to fit a couple of rats in (8" diameter is fine). Then lay one side around the place where rats hang out and rase the other side some 3ft in the air. Take some canned fish like sardines, something smelly, open it and toss it down the pipe, some two thirds down its length. Cover that upper part with some heavy rag and wait a couple of hours till rats start smelling the fish and hiding in the pipe. Now you can either catch them in some cage but I prefer firing a 12 gauge bird shot or #4 trough the rag and down the pipe, it will blow them out the lower end. Rag is there so you don't end up sprayed with rat blood, and because it creates shade for them to hide. Good luck.
Thanks for sharing and good luck upstate
Looking great Jimmy
Kevin is awesome for such a young kid!
Great job Jimmy!
I would LOVE to see some machine tune up videos. We have a Leblond lathe from the 50's that needs a good run through but I have no idea what I'm doing.
been loving these vlogs man!
thanks for the update, love how people strive to become the first person to comment on here. Love ya work, respect from NZ.
Home made bread?!? I'm coming over!! lol great vids, all of them
Not usually a fan of these but this is great!
Loving these!
Perfect vid to watch at 4am :D
These vids are great, keep em comming!
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!! : )
I jimmy I love theses videos they r great love you keep doing what you are doing 😝😘
"Spike your not sposed to be on the table" hahah
Like these vlogs, esp the style you do them in...
i am really liking these vlogs, I could use a lesson in cutting threads!
the squirrel hunter has some good suggestions on getting rid of rats too
Awesome stuff Jimmy! I'm live right outside Kingston NY. We should get together one of these days, I know few spots filled with some really cool stuff I'd think you'd love!
No shit? I live in Beacon, keep me posted if you guys do hang out.
Rats in the chicken coop? Get to work Spike! 🤓👍🏼
How many interesting. Like!
Love the updates Jimmy!
I got very excited to see the telephone box replica as I've made one myself, but real size one - that was a journey. There's a video on my ch on it ;)
forever the Best
Mathias seems to have been more successful at catching squirrels than rats :/
Great Vlog Jimmy. Lucky is a little dote :)
So how hot will the kitchen be in the summer? That bread looked delicious.
Also, those rats were so cute!
Jimmy, we keep cats in our coop and the rats seem to have moved onto greener pastures
traderjoes it seems, but they are still there, rats are just much smarter then cats...
*than
Put spike to work!
The Coxsackie antique center is a really cool place, usually end up getting something every time I go.
Going to check out the Sister Salvage place now too!
If you come all the way up to Albany check out Silver Fox Salvage right off Broadway.
that toast just says im missing out so much on life
The Argar looks awesome! I want that hat strecher! Have you ever made your own felt hat Jimmy? Its allot like leather shaping.
It was great to meet you and Kevin at the Summer Bash, I see you are still learning to read a Mic.
If your into antiques and unusual stuff check out Wow That's Unusual in Suffern NY. Make a right off the Sloatsburg exit and its not that far down the road in Downtown Suffern. A cool shop and you can haggle some of there prices. He also has some great stuff in the basement as well.
Jimmy.. I Love you. In a bromance way :D love your work and your projects
love the videos.Im going to go to school to be a machinist in september im interested in this secret machinist language you speak of
Love your Vlogs and pets 😄
i want to visit the diresta estate!!! haha looks like a great time
Haha secret machinist talk, very nice.
I built Matthias's trap and caught a mouse in my shop with in 10 minutes. I've also used the rolling can method with success.
lots of interesting stuff thanx for sharing ehhh
dude, love your videos! keep it up.
uummmm homemade bread. Thanks.
Wow, the telephone booth is impressive! I would love to have a tutorial for this :)