2020 POTD Thread Archive

[finsruskw]

Not me but my son.
Working on sleeve adaptor for bale tines that he is going to use to make a set of forks for my garden tractor loader.
Material is 3.25" long and gets a 1-1/8" hole through it with about a 5 degree I.D. taper on the end to match the taper on the tine.
A good workout for the 9A!

 

[BGHansen]

POTD was putting some weather stripping on the 16' slider door in our shop. I recently added a 125,000 BTU heater and would like to keep the heat inside as much as possible. The weather strip is from the door opening of a car. Carrier strip is starter track for suspended ceiling tiles. I didn't show it, but punched holes in the suspended ceiling steel on 16" center and pressed the weather strip in place. Nice thing about the bulb section is it has about 3/8" of "squish", works really well sealing off the door.

Thanks for looking, Bruce


The 16' sliding door of my shop had about a 1/4" gap to the header at the top.


On the plus side, I still had a "night light" in the shop during the daytime with the lights off. . .


Auto door seal on suspended ceiling starter edge strip. Punched holes in the strip and screwed it to the door jam/header.



No more light coming through, should help with the heating bill a bit



Still need to come up with something at the floor as there's a gap there

 

[Shootymacshootface]

I finished up the last floor drain for our water treatment plant this am. Here is what the finished product looks like up close.
Stainless steel is weird to weld as well as to machine it.

 

[Winegrower]

I’ve been thinking to build a vise speed handle for some time, and finally got around to it. It’s an 8” length of 1/4” x 1.25” steel, two 3/4” hex holes and a handle held on with a 1/4”-20 bolt.

To make the hex holes, I worked some trig to position and drill 6 1/8” holes tangent to the hex outline and cut out the center with a 3/4” end mill. Then the die filer made quick work to touch up the flats, maybe 10 seconds of filing on each flat.

This only took a couple hours, even counting the math.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

3/8-24 to 1/8-27npt adapter for a friend's '64 Falcon. He needed to fit a brake pressure sensor (which activates the brake lights, go figure) to a 3 way T that was threaded 3/8-24. The 3/8-24 male thread was the easy part, but boy do I hate tapping npt threads. sounds like I'm killing the cat and I always feel like I'm about to break something.

he got the brakes hooked up ok, so he's happy. As long as I don't have to do another one, I'll be happy

 

[GoceKU]

Last few day i've been driving a set of tires in my trunk, so today i finally found a few hours to find me a set of 4 rims and get them sanded to steel and painted, two of them have tires on them, i'll have the tire place changed them, i don't have the time and equipment to deal with them. It was a dirty job and i was in a hurry to get them done so only a picture after i painted them.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

made a new cell phone holder for the tripod we use for taking family photos and the like. The old one was good at spitting the phone across the room, this one should hold even my wife's phone securely

 

[mmcmdl]

Picking the low hanging fruit tonight . Being the only one in the plant tonight , just cleaning up some easy projects to get off the books .

Had to bore , broach and drill and tap wheels for set screws . These are the remaining 3 of the W/O . Cleaning out the small Vidmar in here as its' contents have multiplied over these past 3 years . Have to roam the plant every hour or so on fire watch duty . All furnaces , ovens and dies still up and hot . We keep them running avoiding a 4 day start up after a shutdown . Gonna be a long lonely night !

 

[Buffalo21]

Today, I made a dozen 1/4” x 2“ sch 80 nipples that were 1/4” mnpt on one end and 1/2”-13 bolt thread on the other end. The will become part of some kind of engine block drain set up, apparently Caterpiller’s drain plug, was a 1/2” bolt on a 1938 era road grader, the owner wants an actual drain valve. The adapter will thread in and be sealed by a nylon washer and a jam nut.

 

[Tim9]

I decided to give a try at building the mill vise outrigger as described on one of Joe Pieczynski YouTube videos.

Outrigger vise stop