2017 POTD Thread Archive

[Franko]

It's great to see you up and working again, Paco.
Good tunes are essential for proper shop work.
Mine's somewhat smaller but sounds great with a Pioneer car stereo that powers a couple of M-Audio bi-amped studio monitors and a sub.
It's a good radio, plays CDs, Aux, MP3 players and memory sticks (and tv sound).

 

[ch2co]

What, no turntable. How do you play you vinyl?

 

[hman]

I remember when cars could actually play vinyl - at least 45's

 

[British Steel]

I remember when cars could actually play vinyl - at least 45's

I thought you'd remember 78s...

Dave H. ( the other one)

 

[Firestopper]

It's great to see you up and working again, Paco.
Good tunes are essential for proper shop work.
Mine's somewhat smaller but sounds great with a Pioneer car stereo that powers a couple of M-Audio bi-amped studio monitors and a sub.
It's a good radio, plays CDs, Aux, MP3 players and memory sticks (and tv sound).

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Thanks Franko.
Its good to be productive again. The shoulder feels better than before but I need to remember its still healing and can be easily torn.

I've appreciated quality sound since my teenage years. Some of my friends growing up where older than me and had done tours overseas collecting stereo equipment along the way. I came back from Asia myself in the early-mid 80's with a decent setup. I got lucky with the shop tunes, I would never buy something this nice for a shop. I had a guy contact me about an AR rifle and after getting a feel for what he was after, I provided him with a shopping list, once the parts arrived, I assembled the rifle with some added touches (legal touches) and his labor bill came to $1200. Turned out this older gentleman used to own a Audiophile store in the 70"s-90's so we struck a deal. Otherwise, I would have still been listening to an older boom box. I got lucky, plain and simple.

 

[ACHiPo]

Got my HF 44" tool chest set up with a maple top and Reed 3" vise. The Gerstner's a bit taller than I thought, and I still need to add a stop in the back and side for the Gerstner, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

 

[ch2co]

The items do not match! It hurts the eyes! Get rid of that cheap brown wood stuff.
Send it to me for immediate recycling.

 

[woodtickgreg]

Got my HF 44" tool chest set up with a maple top and Reed 3" vise. The Gerstner's a bit taller than I thought, and I still need to add a stop in the back and side for the Gerstner, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
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I'm after that same lower box I think, been eyeing it for awhile now. Just have to take care of a couple of things first.

 

[stioc]

A quick and dirty project today after work. I did the coolant bypass mod on my truck some time ago. Decided to cap off the tube.

Found a small piece of some type of poly/plastic/delrin rod, perfect for the job and it cut like butter.

All done

 

[4GSR]

I worked on putting the tailstock back together for my 15" Sheldon lathe. I also cleaned and honed the bedways to remove dings, burrs, etc. so I can start the process of scraping and fitting the saddle to the bed. This bed is harden and ground and you can still see faint surface grinding marks in the worn areas of the ways. For a 57 year old lathe that is not bad! Here's a few pictures of my progress. I'll have more pictures under my ongoing thread under the Sheldon Machine listing. Ken