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

woodchucker said:

Years ago I was at Lowes and some guy comes up to the cashier with a box of Hitachi bits. He says great buy for $18.
well I run and get them, because they were a great buy... dupes and trips of all the important bits, hex bits, square, drill bits, Yep, I'm happy, been using them ever since.. But good on you for doing your own. Not cheaply though, that $3 kit wound up probably costing $100 by the time you were done with your time.

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$100 down but up 400 karma points, money isn’t everything!

So, posted the start of this awhile ago, finished up today. A couple of oops, but I think it will work.

Finally got my new x-axis scale installed.

Some people would've just dealt with the awkwardness and drilled the read head holes by hand in a tenth of the time. Others would've figured out a way to use the prior holes in a fourth of the time.

But I decided to turn the Bridgeport into a radial arm horizontal drill. Thankfully it went really well, including getting me to make a washer -- which makes the right angle attachment finally usable.