POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

rabler said:

We used one of those for a while as a storage for horse feed. Adhering 1" XPS foamboard to the ceiling helps a lot in keeping the internal temperature from getting ridiculous in the sun.

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woodchucker said:

I use a pancake fan (120v 60cfm) with an old mercury thermostat to remove the heat from the top of the shed. I pull it out the gable vent I put in.
It does a good job of pulling the heat out.

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Both good ideas! I tried since if that spray foam in a can but it was useless and covered very little.

White paint on the roof of stuff is a shocking improvement...

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I used white paint on a shiny silver roof, it made a 10'C lower difference inside.

Cut out a downed tree. Bloody steel reinforced! Used a chainsaw, power drill, and three different types of Sawzall blades, but I WON!

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Oh, and I you are wondering what the cutest chainsaw can do... about 12" diameter

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Finally finished the table/stand for the drill press…


Had to improvise a bracket for mounting the lamp…



And with the plywood left I did the small table extension for the bandsaw I am restoring…

Water line backflow check valve failed, diaphragm failed in addition to being frozen up due to corrosion. Opted to replace it with a newer model 975XL3 which has more modular replacement parts as opposed to the older one which is lots of individual piece parts to be replaced. Decided to rebuild the original one as a back up, problem was removing the three valve seats that screw into the body of the bronze casting. Made two seat removal tools out of some scrap material that I had. The smaller one was some O1, the larger one was aluminum with the extension shaft pressed into the larger diameter head. They both have a 1/2" hex end for a socket. The larger seats took quite a bit of force to remove, without making a removal tool I can't see how one would have removed them otherwise. Always nice to have a lathe and a mill to wip out some parts as needed. Also helps to have lots of tools when doing plumbing....

Rebuilding the original backflow valve.


Replacement backflow check-valve, these are quite pricey these days. If not repaired/replaced the water company will shut off the water.

RPZ backflow

The good the bad, the ugly.
Sometimes my welds look better than ever, and then... like crap.

woodchucker said:

The good the bad, the ugly.
Sometimes my welds look better than ever, and then... like crap.

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If they have good penetration and are well glued together appearances can be fixed with a grinder, just add a straight line with a G above the weld symbol on the drawing.