2021 POTD Thread Archive

[FOMOGO]

Caught up on a few things I've been wanting to get to. First was a 12" Delta sander that I got from a pawn shop a few years back. It was wired for 220, so I couldn't test it in the store, but I figured the motor, which looked to be new, was worth the $100 I paid for it. Hauled it down to the shop today, and ran some juice to it. Switched it on, and it started doing the shimmy, like Ann Margret dancing across the floor. Checked it for run out, and it had about 1/4". Put the disc in the press and got it straight, and then chucked up the hub, and faced off about .060 to get it trued up. Runs pretty nice now, but I think I'm going to pull it back off and static balance it on a setup I made years ago for motorcycle wheels, to get the last little bit of vibration out of it. The next job was installing the pulse width fobmodulater/rheostat on the mag drill, and reworking the spindle attachment for the through spindle coolant. You couldn't turn the attachment on the spindle by hand, and the spindle was getting so hot you couldn't touch it after a minute of running with no load. The coolant ring had o-rings top and bottom, and when machined they had failed to chamfer the the ring on the two outside diameters, and the metal was even with the uncompressed o-rings. Faced off, and chamfered both ends. Next I wanted to tuchup the o-ring sealing surface on the arbor But I couldn't reach that feature with it in the chuck, so for the first time, I used the spindle taper on the lathe with a 2-3 adapter which allowed me to get it done. Reassembled everything with an added thrust washer, and it now works like it should, and I have variable speed on the drill. Sorry pics are a bit out of order. Mike

 

[Firstram]

the pulse width fobmodulater/rheostat

Do tell more about this. I have an old Hougan that runs too fast for the larger dia cutters.

 

[FOMOGO]

Here you go https://www.amazon.com/HiLetgo-Cont...refix=ac+motor+speed+control,tools,239&sr=1-9

 

[Firstram]

Thanks!

 

[Dhal22]

Nice job. Looks like the bar is open. Assuming Happy Hour starts at 5pm, make mine a Makers Mark Manhattan, orange bitters, shaken senseless, served up in a frosty martini glass, with a slice of orange. I tip well, if you have a hot young bartender. Cheers, Mike

Grey Goose/Tito's for me please. On the rocks with a couple of lemon slices. And hot young bartender as well please.

 

[GoceKU]

When do you find time to do your projects?

It's tough, with the brutal hot summer this year i'm not having much luck, everything is taking 2x as long. I Also sleep very little.

 

[GoceKU]

The heat wave is not showing any sign of going away, so i called around and after few days of searching i managed to find and buy me a air conditioner gauge set. Reason being the white elephant that i charged the A/C few weeks ago stopped working. So i put the gauges straight to work, and to my surprise the pressures wore OK. That lead me to do some electrical diagnosis and found a fuse that keep blowing and then found the wire going to the compressor shorted to ground. Repair and replaced, that fix the A/C, my new gauge set worked excellent.

 

[KevinM]

 

[GoceKU]

Few days ago i repair this bumper, left it in the sun to bake so the filler can shrink down, is showed few small cracks, but i'm not going for perfection, so i got my brother to give it a wet sanding, it still has few bad spots but i decade is good enough, so i loaded my paint gun and painted it. The color i used seem to be old or bad quality, it was very transparent and did not lay down flat, i had just enough to get full coverage. I waited an hour for the paint to dry till i mounted it, now the rest of the paint and wrap looks old, i've told myself i'm not going to paint it all.

 

[rwm]

I knurled some stainless and made a thumb screw.



I like my knurls shallow with a flat top.

It goes here:



Robert