What did you do in your shop today?
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Looks like some parts have fallen off....
Motor locked up
Better find the keys
Seriously though, hope it isn't too bad to get up and running again!
Well, heck, today was one of those days. Saturday I spent 5 hours running cutting boardd through the drum sander, no problem at all. This morning, a couple friends came iver that own a trophy company so i could rum some 17" panels through it. Got the first board ran 1 time, paper exploded off the drum. Re-wrapped it, same thing. Ruined 3 wrappings worth of paper before I decided to stop. Went to turn something, broke a drill bit, knocked a blank out of the chuck. Stopped that, went to cut a block of mesquite with the chainsaw. Spilled Anchorseal on my patio. Shut everything down, came in the house. Done!!!!!!! Tony
We have all had them days Tony. I usually do the same thing, shut it down and go inside. But...then it gets to eating at me and I head back out to try and turn it all around. Lol
Got into the shop about 8am. Emptied the cyclone barrel (Apparently 6 inches left is pushing it on the whole full thing, I had stuff going into the filter bag....) Then poured another batch of 50 stamp blanks and started turning some of the ones already cast. Got a few turned and polished and ready to assemble. It's a bit after 5 and I think I'm going home.
Stopped by to say hi to Herbie.
Then off to put patio furniture inside fer 3 rich clients who are out of town in prep fer Hurricane Irma!
Shutters if needed on several more later this week if needed!!
May be a bunch of - Indian Rosewood, Norfolk Island Pine, Mango, Florida Mahogany & lots of other good wood, available next week after Irma rips us a new one!!
Then off to put patio furniture inside fer 3 rich clients who are out of town in prep fer Hurricane Irma!
Shutters if needed on several more later this week if needed!!
May be a bunch of - Indian Rosewood, Norfolk Island Pine, Mango, Florida Mahogany & lots of other good wood, available next week after Irma rips us a new one!!
I hate days like that. They always compound.
That's why I just shut it down before I break something big or cut my dang hand off! Tony
Made some progress on the segmented bowls.
Here is the stock I'm starting with.
Funny thing about that. In order to get this far I had to cut the original boards shorter just to make it easier to handle. It was really difficult to cut that maple and walnut - and they're only 4" boards. As a result I was reminded that eventually blades do get dull. Swapped out the blade on the chop saw and the rest went like butter.
Here are all the sticks cut up. There are enough here for at least 3 bowls. I don't believe that I can get a 4th out of these but I can build some kind of a bowl.
And I got 5 layers cut so far.
I did have to make a couple of changes to my segment stop. Partly to make up for a cheap hinge that had as too much sideways motion. Made it difficult to get reliable and repeatable cuts.
I put an L shaped bracket next to the stop mechanism so the up and down motion was repeatable.
I also added a support to the stop itself as that thin ply would give just a little bit.
All in all it's working out pretty well.
Here is the stock I'm starting with.
Funny thing about that. In order to get this far I had to cut the original boards shorter just to make it easier to handle. It was really difficult to cut that maple and walnut - and they're only 4" boards. As a result I was reminded that eventually blades do get dull. Swapped out the blade on the chop saw and the rest went like butter.
Here are all the sticks cut up. There are enough here for at least 3 bowls. I don't believe that I can get a 4th out of these but I can build some kind of a bowl.
And I got 5 layers cut so far.
I did have to make a couple of changes to my segment stop. Partly to make up for a cheap hinge that had as too much sideways motion. Made it difficult to get reliable and repeatable cuts.
I put an L shaped bracket next to the stop mechanism so the up and down motion was repeatable.
I also added a support to the stop itself as that thin ply would give just a little bit.
All in all it's working out pretty well.
I been having one of those days for the last month! Finally got the $1220 part for the lawn mower, not finding a used one anywhere in several weeks, and the local Kubota dealer telling me he couldn't even order it, to bring the mangled one over and they'd rebuild it. (NOT!!! There was more than $1220 in parts needed in it, using after market parts where possible, and that didn't include labor!)
But I got it all back together Friday night, welded up the deck wheel that was broke too, went to slide it under the tractor and hook it up, and I had put the damn gearbox on backwards! Half hour later it was pointed the right direction, back together, and ready to go under the machine. Started mowing and went to move the tractor that was running fine when I parked it, and it won't do anything! Got power, turn the key and all the pretty lights on the dash go out, it just don't go gitty-gitty-vroom! In fact it don't even go gitty-gitty!! Assume fuse on one of the safety circuits, relay on a safety circuit, neutral safety switch maybe... Don't have a clue, haven't looked at it yet. Been too busy testing the $1220 part to its limits. Spent close to 30 hours mowing the last 4 days.
Did a 10 piece spindle job fer a lady in Louisiana referbing a crib fer her new grandbaby.
She sent me one to model after. Needs 6 but said to make 10.
Mahogany from Constantine's Wood Center. Turned free hand.
May be my last woodturning job fer a while.
I may be tied up with a dominatrix named IRMA fer few weeks. 185 MPH
She sent me one to model after. Needs 6 but said to make 10.
Mahogany from Constantine's Wood Center. Turned free hand.
May be my last woodturning job fer a while.
I may be tied up with a dominatrix named IRMA fer few weeks. 185 MPH
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Did a 10 piece spindle job fer a lady in Louisiana referbing a crib fer her new grandbaby.
She sent me one to model after. Needs 6 but said to make 10.
Mahogany from Constantine's Wood Center. Turned free hand.
May be my last woodturning job fer a while.
I may be tied up with a dominatrix named IRMA fer few weeks. 185 MPH
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Stay safe!!! Maybe she'll give you her safe word and you can make her go away.
119 left to glue up for this job and 188 left to cast. I've gone through 2.5 gallons or more of Silmar 41 in the last 8-10 days
Irma is NOT looking pretty at this point! Just watching the evening news and it doesn't sound nice wherever it goes. Best case scenario is north out at sea, but that's sounding as if it's the least likely option right now. 1 model shows it hitting Lee's neighborhood and running up the east coast like Matthew did last year, 1 shows it wrapping around the tip of Florida and coming ashore south of Tampa, the running all the way up the state, and the last model, again not real likely at this point shows it running out in the gulf and slamming Mississippi/Alabama.
Generators are flying off the shelves here like dust in a stiff breeze. Sister tried to find one over the weekend, there was nothing available here in Lake City. Called up to Valdosta and Harbor Freight said they had 5, asked if she could pay for it over the phone, if they would hold until she got there, and they wouldn't do it. Said in the 45 minutes it took her to get there they had sold 3 of them. Neighbor said he was in Lowes Saturday morning and they had about 40 of them stacked up on display. Started to pick one up for his mom's house, and decided to check on the storm first, went back Sunday morning and they were sold out.
Generators are flying off the shelves here like dust in a stiff breeze. Sister tried to find one over the weekend, there was nothing available here in Lake City. Called up to Valdosta and Harbor Freight said they had 5, asked if she could pay for it over the phone, if they would hold until she got there, and they wouldn't do it. Said in the 45 minutes it took her to get there they had sold 3 of them. Neighbor said he was in Lowes Saturday morning and they had about 40 of them stacked up on display. Started to pick one up for his mom's house, and decided to check on the storm first, went back Sunday morning and they were sold out.
Ouch. I have a friend in FL that asked if I could find a way to ship him my little Honda Gennie for a loan. Unfortunately I can't find a way to ship it since it's had gas in it.
I hope it goes back out to sea but not looking so good for that. Hope everyone makes it through all good. Be safe all!!
Fixing to fill mine up with gas and make it run. Had to check the old man's today. He had no faith! I told him it would start right up. Didn't drain the gas on that one last fall, but I did run the carb dry. Turned the gas on, and one pull it fired off. Ran on choke for little bit, gradually worked it out of that, finished filling the tank and it was running good then. Drained the tank on mine too, so I'm sure it's good to go. Should probably change oil in it though. Only ran for 4 solid days last fall, when Matthew left us in the dark.
Ordered parts to repair all my broke lanterns that didn't work last fall, and have those in. Need to get all of those running. Aside from that, pick up gas, propane, not a lot else left to do. Pray it turns east and goes out to sea!
Ordered parts to repair all my broke lanterns that didn't work last fall, and have those in. Need to get all of those running. Aside from that, pick up gas, propane, not a lot else left to do. Pray it turns east and goes out to sea!