2021 POTD Thread Archive

[GoceKU]

I'm not sure if I should feel inspired by you, or ashamed I couldn't keep up with you on my best day Keep up the great work!

We all have are good days, bad days, lazy days. I'm just waiting for the good ones to come. Thank you for the kind words.

 

[GoceKU]

It seems the 206 will have to wait, a family member called in a pinch. He paid for a vacation but on the way out of town his car maneged to leak almost all its oil. To many of you this vehicle is very familiar but there is something very different about it. It's a CRD ( Diesel ) This Dodge Caliber from the factory come with a VW 2.0 diesel engines, aisin bg 6 speed manual transmission, and this one somehow managed to develop a crack in the oil supply line for the turbocharger The fix wasn't that hard we found a used line and replaced it but the issue was everything including the catalytic converters were covered in oil. So couple of bottles of oven degreaser old pair of overalls and my pressure washer, i turn the power to the inspection pit off and let my family member lose to clean it. The degreaser did its job, all the oil and sludge come off the floor pans as you can see are like new. Few hours late but he was on its way to enjoy his vacation.

 

[ArmyDoc]

Not really a machinist quality job... more of a farming get it done cheap, fast and good enough job. But it met the design criteria of using only what I had on hand, and only using hand tools since I don't have anything else yet...
I got an old sprayer for a 3 point hitch. I wanted to adapt it to use on the Bobcat, which meant rigging it backwards and fabricating a bar to keep the pump from spinning. Nothing fancy, just a piece of angle iron, a plate for mounting and modifying some brackets I had laying around.

 

[Boswell]

it met the design criteria of using only what I had on hand, and only using hand tools since I don't have anything else yet...

Well done

 

[ArmyDoc]

Well done

Thanks. Projects are never done though. Right after posting that I engaged the PTO... turns out the pump is frozen. No sinificant damage, the adapter just spun on the pump shaft, but now I'm in the process of taking the pump apart to see if I can get it working again.

 

[GreatOldOne]

Stripped, cleaned, light referb & repainted my new to me York 100A vise.

Before:

The base allows rotation… but there was no pivot. So I turned a boss that would fit the central whole. Of course I tried to make this accurate - but something must have slipped as I had to enlarge the holes to allow some adjustment. It’s set-true now.


I’m still waiting on some stock to make a new handle, but it’s looking a lot better now.

My York 80 has a big brother.

 

[Brento]

First cuts on my milling machine!

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I felt no movement in the head table base or the column. Idk if i would push more then .05 on a with a carbide on my machine. I would like to get a decent 5/8 indexable EM for the roughing. I left .014 for clean up after i cut down the other side.

This will be the Tnut for my Lathe toolpost. My numbers were exactly where i wanted them to be at.

 

[BWSmith]

I'm reasonably proud of this. Long story short,a cpl years ago hit a deer on one of my sportbikes and well..... sucks being old trying to rehab.

Wrecked M/C is alllllmost done,and better than ever. But that's that,and this is this. It's a rehab thing,a way to build up my leg muscles before putting,hammer down on the go-fast two wheelers. It started as a '77 Fuji 5 speed,think survivor bike and that's about it.

New catalyzed enamel,w/clear coat.... over some Ebay factory (enough) decals. Bunch of work went into this,with some parts thrown in but for the most part it's mainly "factory".

Rode it yesterday for the first time..... it ain't no mnt bike,haha. 1st gear is too tall. Single sprocket on front "may" get swapped out.... and have an idea rolling around in my pea brain on how to change this. Will get back to y'all if the process gets going. It "seems" to be a flatland commuter bike? Which is what I wanted.

 

[BWSmith]

Oh yeah,the tires are 1 3/8X27. They're on/off rd hybrid Kenda. Not as fat as a true "gravel" tire.... pretty fast on pavement. Haven't tried a gravel road yet.

 

[wachuko]

OK,last one;

Bought this engine off Ebay to get the head. Have most of the pieces of the,valve grinding setup,ready to go. Just need to pop this off. Anyway,while yes I gave up a little hard won new space,the dang engine was living under the infeed extension on a really nice shaper in the cabinet shop.

Once the head's off,the rest can go to the race shed. Which is where the old desk ended up. Not putting the junky RAS on it. That needs to "go" like,can't stay here. But the desk makes some sense as a catchall table when I work on the bikes(motorcycles). 10X nicer than what was there. That was trash.... these gubment desk tops are just begging to be ground into submission with View attachment 374807cutoff wheels. Hole hog a 4" hole and you can use welding clamps and make it a disposable Kreg table? Leave it outside on your builds. Once it leaves here,we'll either shoot holes in it or use it as furniture down by the river.

So “need to go” is not really need to go…. More like “need to relocate to the other building