2021 POTD Thread Archive

[NCjeeper]

Any other small grinders that I should research ?

Any name brand 6x12 sized would be where I would start. I recently picked up a barely used Harig. It is nice.

 

[finsruskw]

After a lot of fiddling around trying figure out how to do this I managed to get one of these knocked out using my vise break and hammer
Would like to make some sort of jig to press the two close bends in using the press brake.
Need to make 40 of them.
Ideas anyone??
Material is 1/8 x 1" HRS
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[woodchucker]

if you had a hydraulic press you could make a form for each of the bends, or 2 at once.

 

[brino]

Yesterday I made a simple flat wrench.

I recently got another Milwaukee M18 tool; a grinder:


Which I am currently using with a wire-brush wheel to clean rust off metal before welding.
The problem is getting the wire wheel off; None of my wrenches are thin enough to get in to the nut!


I usually end up using a small pair of channel locks, but that got old!

So I found a stainless sheet scrap, traced an existing wrench, roughed it out with the plasma, then sanded the profile and filed the flats:







I still want to drill a "hangy hole" in the handle end, but for now it works!

-brino

 

[NCjeeper]

I played a wood worker and I made some stairs today. They go to the top of my office which I use for storage.

 

[Shootymacshootface]

Watch out for that last step, it looks loose!

 

[westerner]

Those stringers were not cheap. What species are they?

 

[NCjeeper]

Those stringers were not cheap. What species are they?

I made the stringers out of 2x12x12 spruce. They were about 33 bucks a board. I had to watch a couple of You tube videos to learn how to make them.

 

[westerner]

Nice. Getting a long stair run like that done right is a worthy accomplishment for an amateur carpenter.
Is spruce the standard wood for such things?
Out here it would be Douglas Fir, and triple that price....

 

[NCjeeper]

Thanks. It took a couple of tries of layout. I finally settled on 7.5" rise and 9" run. I just barely got 12 steps in the 12 foot board.