Nice!
What did you do in your shop today?
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Just don't be reaching over a spinning lathe to get another tool...just sayin
I know it's not the best place but it's the best I got!
Tony, it's cool that you figured out how to go about mounting the rack, but, you might want to move that tool rack more towards the tailstock end of your lathe. Having that much of it over the headstock is just asking for problems. It looks like you do have the room to move it.
It looks like you have your switch on a pivot. If so, do you keep it out from behind the lathe while turning??
What is that thing mounted in the headstock. ?
Are your tapers MT3? ............ Jerry(in Tucson)
It looks like you have your switch on a pivot. If so, do you keep it out from behind the lathe while turning??
What is that thing mounted in the headstock. ?
Are your tapers MT3? ............ Jerry(in Tucson)
The switch assembly can mount on the headstock or tailstock side of it, but not the front. The thing in the headstock is a Ruth Niles offset jig setup. It's a bottle stopper mandrel with an attachment for doing offset turnings.
just a little organizing, nothing serious. lol i wish
What are the MT tapers?? 2's or 3's???? ............. Jerry (in Tucson)
Sorry, forgot to answer that. MT2.
So, a friend and his Dad dropped this sander off November 2019. They put it just inside the shop / basement door. So after walking around it for a year, I took time to look it over today. I pounded out many dents, straitened bent sheet metal and wired a plug. It had a 16 gauge, plug to switch. Clearly, having Japan printed on it, concluded the grey cord off of an electronic device. Replaced with a 12 gauge cord, took an hour, the plastic wire clamp was for 16 gauge so I drilled it out to accommodate the 12AWG. Had it running, hope it is 120V. Now to find 6" x 48" belts.
So it is missing the end covers. I see fleabay has one. Next to it is the one that matches my unit. Then I see an entire unit for sale (7 bills) that has the sawdust discharge on the other side. Can these be made on a 3-D printer?
So it is missing the end covers. I see fleabay has one. Next to it is the one that matches my unit. Then I see an entire unit for sale (7 bills) that has the sawdust discharge on the other side. Can these be made on a 3-D printer?
Today, as I stood surveying my kingdom, .... I noticed it was a huge mess. I spent the day putting stuff away and blowing dust and dirt around until most of it went out the shop doors. The wind was blowing about 20 mph from the southeast so it helped A LOT. Just opened the south side garage door and hit it with the leaf blower. From the outside it looked like the place was on fire.
Tried to turn the elm again with the same results. I don't know what I'm going to do with that stuff, but I'm not going to turn it or make anything that needs to be sanded out of it. I did make a sled for the mill so I can mill short pieces. It'll work for that.
Alan
Tried to turn the elm again with the same results. I don't know what I'm going to do with that stuff, but I'm not going to turn it or make anything that needs to be sanded out of it. I did make a sled for the mill so I can mill short pieces. It'll work for that.
Alan
Since it's New Years Day, you get a bonus, two days work in one report. I made a rack yesterday (had to let the glue dry) and put up (today) a rack for my bar clamps. Finally!! I must have moved those darn things a thousand times. No matter where I put them they were poking me, getting knocked on the floor, in the way of something else I was trying to do. They absolutely needed hanging up.
Next I need to make a rack for chisels. They're all in a drawer which can't be good for maintaining sharp edges, etc.
Next I need to make a rack for chisels. They're all in a drawer which can't be good for maintaining sharp edges, etc.
you need more clamps!
Everybody always needs more clamps....
Alan
Alan
You know, he has lots of room under these clamps for a chisel rack. Or do you think he should build another notched shelf to hold several more clamps and the tails of the longer ones to the right?
I've been studying and contemplating that space. I have a handful of spring clamps and four Jorgenson clamps and was thinking maybe a rack for them in that spot. That would free up the space on my peg board for the chisel rack. The road goes on forever and the party never ends.
Robert Earl Keen, I love it!!!!!!
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Needed air outside the shop andI don’t feel like moving my air compressor around, I did have a manual hose reel with 50 ft hose bit it succumbed to age and rust. Decided to have another but made a lot more convenient for this fella. Quick trip to Tractor Supply, 4 wheels I saved, some 3/4 ish plywood, and screws—- Voila!! Retractable hose on wheels!
Already have a 50 ft reel from ceiling— now have 100ft range from compressor.
Already have a 50 ft reel from ceiling— now have 100ft range from compressor.
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I wrapped rubber bands on clothes pins this afternoon.
I emptied 6 large trash cans from a basement clean-up. Ended up with one filled with plastics for recycling, one 1/2 full with metal scrap, one half full with general trash, 2 full of clothing, cardboard and bits of wood. The last one is all over the basement, some went in the the wire scrap bucket, some was tools, pencils, markers, quarts of oil, ATF, power steering, spray paints and so on, and some Skippy jars and lids for the antique place up the road.
Also got a half pick-up load of wood scraps, homasoat, plywood and some sheet rock, bound to be sized for the stove. The wood has several forms of mold on a few pieces and heavy on the rock and soat. Plan to feed the mold to the fire first, wrapped in old clothing.
Also got a half pick-up load of wood scraps, homasoat, plywood and some sheet rock, bound to be sized for the stove. The wood has several forms of mold on a few pieces and heavy on the rock and soat. Plan to feed the mold to the fire first, wrapped in old clothing.