2020 POTD Thread Archive

[tjb]

Got this shelf in last night and today I got my old grinder in place.

Only regret is I shoulda put the shelf one notch higher. It’s a little short for working in the grinder and hurts my back being bent over but I’ll have to see how it goes. Plan is to replace that grinder eventually anyways.

Nice, neighbor. We're about 50 miles east of Atlanta out I-20 - a little further east than you are west. My wife's sister lives in Mableton. That's pretty handy because when she comes this way to visit, or vice versa, she can make an MSC run for me.

Regards,
Terry

 

[Ianagos]

Nice, neighbor. We're about 50 miles east of Atlanta out I-20 - a little further east than you are west. My wife's sister lives in Mableton. That's pretty handy because when she comes this way to visit, or vice versa, she can make an MSC run for me.

Regards,
Terry

You live real nearby me then. I used to live in mableton I live in snellville now. If you ever need anything let me know. I got large cnc turning center and mill aswell as some manual machines

 

[tjb]

You live real nearby me then. I used to live in mableton I live in snellville now. If you ever need anything let me know. I got large cnc turning center and mill aswell as some manual machines

Oh, man, we really are neighbors! Several years ago, I worked in Stone Mountain. Went through Loganville every day. Was in Snellville quite often. That was back when I never hit a traffic light on US 78 until I was in Loganville. There was one there; the next one was at Scenic Highway. Only a small handful more before you were at the Mountain. That was a long time ago.

Let me know if you're ever out my way.

Regards,
Terry

 

[silverhawk]

I inherited an old sewing machine from my great great grandmother. It goes nicely with the dresser from 1907. This sewing machine is a Singer model 66 treadle sewing machine, built between June 22 and June 24 of 1910. It came to me by way of my dad's uncle, and the way those gentlemen took care of things, I knew it would function again. I could feel the grit in the mechanisms on a slow rotation by hand because of sitting for sew long (sorry about that pun), so today I took it apart to clean and oil it up. When done, it felt magnificent, actually.

This thing is still smooth (just like their old shotgun). I need, I mean want, a few attachments for it (the business end, it came with the bobbin winder already), but it will function just fine as is, frankly! I might even sew my wife a few anti-viral masks (I'd rather use this one than the other one I got).

 

[Hawkeye]

I used to rent a room from an old gent who had two of those. One loaded with white thread, the other with black. Good for anything he needed.

 

[FOMOGO]

Those are nice machines. My grandmother had one like it, and my grandfather who was a Singer repairman among many other professions over the years, upgraded it to electric for her. It sometimes seems people forget how well things can actually be made. Cheers, Mike

 

[Superburban]

When I was a kid, my Grandmother had a treadle singer sewing machine. Back then, I wondered why she kept it. Now I would love to have it. Funny how we see things different as we get older.

 

[mmcmdl]

Just a FYI , the Singer family owned half the property around Ostego Lake up in Cooperstown , the other half was owned by Augustas Busch of Budweiser . They must have sold alot of sewing machines and beer back then .

 

[GoceKU]

Today i had a job to make two digger bucket pins, the guy with the digger supply the material. I had to make caps, which i made from 4140, drilled chamfered and welded. The Oe pin was 1.5inch in size, the material was metric 30mm so i had very little to take off, i did drill the inside for grease fitting, also the guy wanted them a bit longer so i made them to his specs. The material that was supply was very hard, you can see the difference in finish from the caps.

 

[finsruskw]

Was the original broken in the center??