2020 POTD Thread Archive

[GoceKU]

Well the change in weather finally got me, i've gotten a cold (let's hope) also my injured back's been hurting. On a another note, after a lot of pain i did manage to remove concrete forms they revealed a solid slab. I have some patches to fix but that was expected, the electrical boxes stayed in but the conduits are showing in few spots. Let's hope i feel a bit better tomorrow so i can start forming the other sides.

 

[rwm]

40mm spindle wrench:





Robert

 

[hman]

Take care of yourself @GoceKU ! Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

 

[francist]

I finished the little mantle clock I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. I’ve actually had this apart for quite a few years already but some things came in between and I finally got back to it. Anyhow, I’ll spare most of the gory details but for the most part it was in okay shape. It’s a Lenzkirch circa 1905, and I like the styling of it.

There were a few repairs needed to the case, mostly just broken cresting which I patched in with new material.



I also made some new mounting tabs to hold the movement into the case. The originals had been so mangled by someone that I couldn’t stand the thought of reusing them.



After that it was mostly just reassembly. I had already procured a new suspension spring earlier and made a new glass lens for the front cover, both of which were missing when the clock came to me.




Some of this stuff is pretty small — I don’t even know what these screws measure out at. The slot is 0.009” wide! They hold the dial to the front bezel.



All in all though, I think it worked out alright. Thanks for looking.

-frank

 

[hman]

Beautiful clock!

 

[Winegrower]

I’ve sort of noticed how most of the time we make stuff like chuck keys, tool holder holders, knobs, and generally thinks that only you and i would appreciate, rarely is it anything a normal person would see the deep value in it.
Today i broke the spout off the kitchen soap dispenser. Dang. I pulled it out to measure for a new one and throw it away, but it seemed to be solid copper of all things. I put it on the belt sander and sanded the broken off spout down to the body. The hole showed fairly thick walls and went back a quarter inch or so. Measuring showed it was just right for a 1/4-28 tap. I had some 1/4” brass rod, so i cut off a few inches, drilled a 1/8” hole down the middle as far as my bit would reach, parted it off and put a 28 tpi thread on It. It screwed together perfectly, (somewhat surprisingly) and the dispenser was fixed. I polished up the rod a bit with Blue Magic, and reinstalled. Of course the brass didn’t match the brushed nickel, but the boss liked it anyway, and she said “it’s like folk art”, which I am pretty sure is a very high compliment. I am taking it that way.

 

[brino]

Of course the brass didn’t match the brushed nickel, but the boss liked it anyway, and she said “it’s like folk art”, which I am pretty sure is a very high compliment. I am taking it that way.

I think it looks great!

If "the boss" ever wants it tweaked, I've seen two references lately to an "at-home nickel plating process" that looks great too.

Here's one of them:
https://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/creepy-crawler.87994/post-789332

I'll edit this post if I remember where the other one was.....

-brino

 

[GoceKU]

Friday afternoon, i just got back from work and got straight to work on the inspection pit, i clean off the concrete forms, the used engine oil helped a lot, then i cut and placed the rebar in place, this took me about 5 hours, most of it spent removing bent nails and cutting and tying steel and hammering stakes to hold up the steel.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

So, here’s my modification. Took a little fine tuning to get the two holes drilled just right. If I had to do it again.... I’d slot the brass plate which has the two holes. And then I’d have another thinner plate which has two screws holding it to the main plate. That way I could individually adjust backlash of the reverse tumble gears.

fabulous work Tim, looks really good. By all accounts grafting a SB10 reverse tumbler lever onto an SB9 workshop is a very popular mod, so it's cool to see you taking a different approach.

My wide 9 has a 10L lever on it as stock, one of the oddities about that model, not that I'm complaining

 

[Weldingrod1]

I mounted 5 caliper hangers around my shop! Finally ;-)

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