POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

[woodchucker]

I made a screw from a photo today. Last weekend I was at my niece's farm and she is working on a couple of chairs and a table. Missing one screw, I said I think I can make that (probably buy it at Home Depot for 2 bucks) LOL.

Anyway it was fun to make it from a photo. Looks like it should work.

The original
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The one I made.
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nice..
Went to the victorinox store today.. we are up in Ct watching my granddaughter while my son and DIL are at a wedding. Some top brass at the company decided to strip the store to only have discontinued items, we went in last year they had their product line, this year mostly watches, a very small amount of swiss army knives, some so fat that no way would you carry it in a pocket, more like a back pack.. I asked why , were you not selling stuff. They said when they had all the merch they were busy, now, not so much, people look, but don't buy much. The person that decided this thought that people would buy it online, so lets just sell discontinued merch.. what a braniac...

 

[mmcmdl]

Room . I am making ROOM ! Trying to shoehorn a 14" x 60" Republic lathe into the garage . So far , I'm fighting a losing battle but I'll eventually win the war .

 

[Just for fun]

After morning chores I goofed off for a couple hours. Made it to the shop in the afternoon and made a cross slide lock kinda like what Mark @mksj has on his.

 

[GoceKU]

I'm sure if this counts but most of the cutting and shaping i did in my machine shop. I put down some laminate flooring on one of the level in my house. The wooden flooring is getting hard to clean and it's lacquer is wearing off, so to protect it and make it easier to clean i decided to cover it with some fake wood. I had to move all the furniture to one side of a room then to the other once i've lay down the flooring. All together it took 3 nights, i'm working 3 jobs now so spare time is non existent.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

Tried fixing a transmission leak on my friends Fairlane 500, unfortunately without much success - the C4 transmission it has is renowned for leaking.

In the process had to repair a stripped out pan thread by carefully cleaning up there remaining threads with a form tap and making a longer bolt.

You can also see some previous work I did

Today I mostly worked on a new to me 8" rotary table. Made a missing lock handle and stripped out down to clean and regrease. Works really well.

 

[wachuko]

Happy wife, happy life and all that… setting up her craft room…

 

[great white]

Happy wife, happy life and all that… setting up her craft room…

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I’ve got no issue with doing/making things for the missus, but that “happy wife happy life” is total BS.

I went that way with my first wife. Did everything for her and it wasn’t a bad relationship overall. Never fought, always got along, almost like living with your best friend.

But I came to realize you need to make yourself happy so you’re happy in the relationship. I came to find that there was no joy in my life and I was limping the relationship along by doing “happy wife happy life” BS. I realized that if the wife isn’t happy and makes you miserable because of it, the way to fix that is not to go to extremes to make her happy but to look her straight in the eye and confront the issue. If they don’t like that, then the marriage was a sham to start with and to be quite blunt about it; you are being used. Thats not a marriage, at least not one I want to be in.

That relationship ended and it didn’t end well.

Current wife understands that I have to be happy first and then I can make her happy. She appreciates it when I do things like breakfast in bed and such, but she never expects it. She prefers that I do things for her because I want to, not because she’s being a bit “b**chy” that day.

As far as I’m concerned, she’s the perfect woman and a keeper until I go into the ground for the last time.

 

[wachuko]

I’ve got no issue with doing/making thibgs for the missus, but that “happy wife happy life” is a total BS saying.

I went that way with my first wife. Did everything for her and it wasn’t a bad relationship overall. But I found you need to make yourself happy so you’re happy in the relationship. I soon came to find that there was no joy in my life and I was limping the relationship along by doing “happy wife happy life” BS.

That relationship ended and not well.

Current wife understands that I have to be happy first and then I can make her happy.

As far as I’m concerned, she’s the perfect woman.

I always have told my wife that I do not want to grow old and learn she has had regrets…

You know “I did not do this or that because of you…”

So I made sure she has fulfilled all her dreams… or most ot them anyway…And I have done the same…. We are only in our 50’s so I hope we have many more years to fulfill more dreams/goals…

The me first versus her first, that is all bs for us… we are a couple and sometimes she is first or I am first…. Knowing that at times we each have to work harder is normal…

Her crafts brings her joy…knitting, sewing, embroidery, making this or that…. And she gets that the equivalent for me are tools in the garage…or some vinyl records, or whatever it is that I want to learn next…

I have been blessed with a woman, a partner in life, that it is the best of me…. No relationship is perfect, but knowing that we can work through anything, makes it so…

I should not be drinking when I reply… back to my wine… Cheers!!

 

[682bear]

Tried fixing a transmission leak on my friends Fairlane 500, unfortunately without much success - the C4 transmission it has is renowned for leaking.
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In the process had to repair a stripped out pan thread by carefully cleaning up there remaining threads with a form tap and making a longer bolt.
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You can also see some previous work I did
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Today I mostly worked on a new to me 8" rotary table. Made a missing lock handle and stripped out down to clean and regrease. Works really well.
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What model C4? And where is it leaking from?

I have a '64 Fairlane with the 'green dot' C4 that is a leaker... I know where it is leaking from, just don't know how to fix it...

-Bear

 

[great white]

What model C4? And where is it leaking from?

I have a '64 Fairlane with the 'green dot' C4 that is a leaker... I know where it is leaking from, just don't know how to fix it...

-Bear

I’m not sure what you guys have going on because I literally can’t remember how many c4/c6 equipped vehicles I’ve had over the years and not one transmission problem or leak that didn’t come from a worn output seal, which is to be expected on higher mileage vehicles…