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Alright, welcome back everybody to the next vlog in this series
of showing you how much it sucks to
move. Something most of you probably already know.
But next up we need to worry about
some hand tools. I've got measuring implements and
all kinds of things at my workbench and
that entire tool wall behind my workbench that
we have to pack up. So let's get
to it. We scored big when looking for
moving boxes and found a family that had
about eight black trash bags full of protective
wrapping paper. So I used that stuff generously
to wrap most of the smaller tools,
some stuff still got the bubble wrap and
for things like my saws, I wrapped each
one individually and then secured them in a
box together. The key here is to make
sure that there's no slack room in the
box if things move, they break.
Straight edges were just stretch wrapped together in bundles.
From there, it was just a matter of
taking down all of my custom hangers,
decorations, toys, and the TV.
Because the wall isn't painted behind the T1-11 panels and I'd
have to make some adjustments to the electrical.
I opted to keep the panels in place.
I hope the new owners do a woodworking
show. Alright, so everything is pretty much as
packed up as it can be, give you
a little spin around here and I'm a
little bit ahead of schedule. I mean I
could have timed this a little bit better.
I still have a couple of weeks here
and I could have been making projects,
but when it comes to a move like
this, I have so much to be concerned
about in the house too, just regular family
stuff that I was afraid to leave this
stuff till the last minute and then wind
up scrambling in the end. So I'd rather
be ahead of schedule than behind, but uh
ultimately I'm a little too far ahead of
schedule. Um The last thing I need to
do in here before the move itself is
to treat some of the cast iron for
rust. The thing is I'm moving to an
area that's got humidity and I've never been
a woodworker in a human environment. I've certainly
lived in one, but I've never actually been
a woodworker in one, which means these tools,
who knows when I'm going to be able
to get to them again and get them
plugged in. They're gonna go to Missouri and
experience that humidity and that could mean a
lot of rust. So I'm gonna treat them.
I'm gonna try to make sure that I
don't have any rust problems. So the big
question is what product to use? Now
of course there's a whole slew of rust
preventative products on the market, but when I
was on a Facebook group, Saw Stop group
in fact, I saw a new product.
Someone had used this and said it was
pretty good. It's called carbon method and I
looked into it, it's almost too good to
be true and I was very, very curious.
So, think of it this way, maybe in
the future we'll dig into the chemistry on
this a little bit more. But think of
it like a very thin layer of graphite,
the same stuff that's in a pencil and
you have this mono layer on the surface
that's actually one atom thick, like that's that's
pretty darn thin, but that very thin layer
becomes very strong and protective and should help
prevent the surface from rusting over time.
And it also lasts a heck of a
lot longer than all the other treatments that
we tend to use in the shop.
So I wanted to see if it really
would hold up and I picked up a
couple of bottles. Well, I got an email
from the owner, I guess it's the owner
Dan sent me an email and said "I'm
a fan of the show, like what you
do, if you need anything else, let me
know." And I said, well, you know what,
I have an idea what if we do
a very unconventional ad? What I mean by
that is normally when I do an advertisement
for a product that I believe in something
that I have used in the past or
currently used that I wholeheartedly recommend in this
case, I can't do that, I haven't had
enough time with this product, but it seems
cool. The chemistry is cool and I think
it's super interesting. So I asked them if
they'd be interested. They said, heck, yeah.
And I got a whole lot of respect
for that because I said, the caveat here
is while I'm doing this ad now, I
have to publicly report back on how this
held up in the future. So later on
down the line when we have results to
show you whether this is pristine or whether
it's completely coated in rust, I'm gonna tell
you guys about it and then we're gonna
know for sure whether this stuff works as
advertised and they were not phased by that
and said, yeah, let's do it. So here
we are. I'm gonna apply the product.
I'm gonna follow the manufacturer's instructions to the
best that I possibly can because I want
to give this the best chance of success
and then I will report back in the
future. But for now, let's get it on.
The first step is to clean the surface
of any sort of oils or impurities.
I'm using orange solvent and a gray scotch
brite pad. In addition to cleaning, the scotch
brite will help expose bare metal, which is key.
Carbon Method sells a cleaning product called
carbon cleanse. So I'll use that to clean
the surface a couple times as well.
This thing should now be as clean as
my plate at a barbecue festival and now
the magic juice. I add a little bit
of carbon method to an applicator pad and
apply it systematically to the surface. They give
you exact instructions for how to do this
in their application video. So I won't go
into too much detail here. But the idea
is you're applying a very thin coat,
but then buffing the surface. The application process
The applicate process is then repeated at least one more time.
But I went for a total of three coats.
I really want to give this stuff
the best chance of success. The last step
is to apply their optional carbon glide product.
As the name implies, this stuff will leave
the surface nice and slick and ready for
work. It also has the additional benefit of
further protecting the carbon coat and extending the
time between re applications. So now the table
saw is completely coated with carbon method as
per the manufacturer's instructions. And we wait.
But the problem is I'm not totally comfortable
with that being the end of the story.
I don't know what conditions exactly these tools
are gonna be stored in. I don't know
the fate of my future shop. I'm not
even sure what I'm gonna be doing and
how soon I'll be using these tools
again. It just feels like a little bit
too open ended and I need some kind
of a concrete test to make me feel
good about telling you guys about this product.
So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
get a little help from my friend Pepe
here and I've got a wet washcloth and
you can see it is wet, plenty of
water in there. I'm gonna fold this up,
I'm gonna place it on the table saw
surface. Now I did this in the past,
not with a washcloth, but I put a
couple of drops on my table saw in
an area that was how I left it,
how it usually is in my shop,
which is, you know, maybe a little bit
of paste wax on the surface. And then
I put another section where I added fresh
paste wax and both of those water droplets
absolutely ended up rusting the surface. So I
just cleaned it up and now I've got
a couple little tattoos, they're totally fine.
So, if this works better than at least
that paste wax, I will feel more confident
saying this is probably something you should check
out. But the long term longevity of the
surface is what's still in question. So,
I'm gonna take Peppa pig here, drop her
in the most inconspicuous spot here in the
upper corner and then wait a few hours
and see what happens. You know what?
Let's really make this a good test because
I did ring out some of that water.
Okay, now we wait. All right, I got
to tell you guys, I'm a little bit
nervous. Oh my gosh, alright, that's impressive.
There's a little bit of staining here,
like, almost like there was an old rust
stain so you could see there was a
little bit of penetration but no active rust
so that that's impressive. Now the interesting thing
is I only intended on leaving that for
a couple of hours but I got busy
had to take the kids someplace that was
on there for four hours and there's no
active rust on the surface so that is
pretty impressive. I really do want to see
longevity how long the surface can last,
especially under usage. But this gives me the
confidence to make me feel like I'm doing
the right thing in terms of letting you
guys know about this product. This is a
promising start, but it is just a start.
So again, I will report back in the
future how it holds up, but I'm impressed
so far in that little area. I think
that water exposure, there's a real good chance.
I probably did pull some of the protection
off of the surface. I probably want to
retreat that before I send my tools away.
But this gives me the confidence that if
I do this on the rest of my
tools, I should be in pretty good shape.
But again, I will report back. I couldn't
resist doing one more test just to kind
of show you this is about 45 minutes
of the washcloth being on my in feed
table. Now the in feed table has received
wax just to keep it nice and slick,
but nothing beyond that in terms of rust
preventative. So you know, just to be fair,
um I'm kind of scared whoa, now I
gotta fix that. Alright, so it's been a
little while since I've done a real estate
update, thankfully I do have some good news
on that front. This house closed, that was
a couple of weeks ago now and just
a couple of days ago, the Missouri house
closed. So at least domestically speaking, we're secure,
we're moving from one house into another house
as far as the commercial property goes,
that process is just taking a little bit
longer. The unfortunate thing is that I will
not be able to take these tools and
put them in the new location. I'm going
to have to temporarily hold them at the
house and then go through another fun move
process of moving the tools into the new
location. I wish I could tell you more
about that location but at this early stage
of the game, I just don't feel super
comfortable talking about it and giving you details.
But as soon as I can, I'm gonna
tell you guys all about it because it's
pretty cool. I'm pretty excited and it's gonna
be a wild ride. But speaking of wild
rides tomorrow is moving day. Alright, so the
Alright, so the house move went pretty well so far,
there's still a little bit in there.
But the problem is the second truck never
arrived. The second truck is the truck with
the lift gate and that is what we're
going to use for all of the shop
stuff here. So here's the deal. We need
to be in Missouri tomorrow night and me
and the family were getting up very early
tomorrow morning and we are heading out one
way or another, which means I'm not gonna
be here tomorrow when the rest of this
move is completed and arguably the most important
part of the move, which is all of
my tools. So the only workaround we have
for this is thankfully my mom is still
in the area, she is going to oversee
the rest of this tomorrow. She's gonna be
taking video, getting whatever footage she can.
Uh, so that I have some stuff to
show you guys, but I'm actually not gonna
be here and I'm not even gonna get
that, that moment, which I think is really
important when you progress from one shop to
another. You put a lot of time and
effort into a shop space and leaving.
It can be a little bit emotional.
I think it's important to have that experience
and I'm not gonna be able to do
that in here. That is standing here when
everything is empty. Think about all the things
that I've made in here and the memories
that I have in here before I move
on to something else. So I guess I'll
do it now and just pretend everything is
gone. But it's really disturbing because there's one
of these in my space now, it shouldn't
be in here heck's going on. Okay.
So my mom was running around trying to
keep tabs on everything. So I'm lucky she
got any footage at all. So thanks for
doing this mom. And as you can see
the lift gate is absolutely essential for big
tools. Make sure you request one if you've
got some big stuff to move.
And here's that moment that I missed the
empty shop ready to go for the new
owners onward and upward. Meanwhile the Spags hit
the road again and I met this pig
at a rest stop. We got to Missouri
really late. So grandma took the kids so
they can get a good night's sleep in
a bed and Nicole and I ate tailgate
Mcdonald's at 10 p.m. Because that's all that
was open. We crashed at the house with
the dogs and the movers showed up bright
and early the next day. Of course it
rained most of the time because...Missouri. Moving
the tools was pretty uneventful and just about
everything fit into our detached garage and that's
where it's gonna stay for a while.
All right. So we made it, everything is
packed and I mean packed in this garage.
I'm also wearing a hat because humidity makes
my hair go crazy. As you can see
it is a little bit crowded in here.
But this is the best we can do,
loaded everything in. In fact I still have
a few things in the other garage that's
attached to the house and we are just
not ready to do anything with this yet.
Unfortunately this is just a temporary holding point
and next up hopefully will be the commercial
property. Now we aren't quite at the finish
line yet but we are getting close,
we signed a little bit more paperwork,
you know the whole back and forth thing
that has to happen with zoning approval coming
in a few days and assuming everything goes
through, we can set a closing date after
that point but I don't have one yet.
So right now you know it's kind of
it's kind of maybe a blessing in disguise
here because we've got so much to do
for the house and if I were focusing
on trying to get the shop set up
at the same time as doing the standard
house stuff it would be a huge demand
on my time and my mental state.
So I think this is probably for the
best. Alright so I will keep you updated
as soon as we know what's going on
and hopefully we'll be doing some woodworking again soon.