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POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?
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I just saw it on Amazon and figured I would give it a try; here's the link. It drives up to 4A on a 24V supply, or you can take outputs to a separate driver. It has a bunch of different functions (simple forward-backward cycles), but I'm just using it for a constant, adjustable speed. Seems to be exactly what I need.
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That's sweet!
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I had a paying gig come through my little basement shop. These are what I will call "seal retainer rings". My customer wouldn't want to say anything further. A non-precision part, all dimensions plus or minus 10 thousand. I had four to do.
Photo showing a piece of the original stock... lots of boring
Photo showing a piece of the original stock... lots of boring
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Last few day i've been working on and off this set of rims few hours a day. I've wash them 4-5 times and wet sanded them. Two of them i left with tires just deflated them and took off the balance weights and marked there places. Other three i dismounted on my tire machine an after two coats of mat black paint, i mounted tires. One is bent that one may go for scrap all others are checked and ready to be mounted.
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Mundane project... but so critical for this family 
Tamper for the espresso machine broke... the internal shaft was threaded to the wood... with use, it stripped the threads in the wood...
Easy fix. Did not have regular 1/4-20 nuts, so took a nylon lock nut, machined the top to get rid of the nylon insert.
Then drilled the hole to allow the nut to be pressed in. Used a little bit of JB-Weld in the hole (just for added holding/securing of the nut)... Placed a piece of paper where the nylon insert was so the JB-weld would not go into the threads, and voila!
Went in like butter with the help of the 1-TON arbor press... you can see the piece of paper inside, at the end of the nut...
There!
But not finished until I make sure it works fine...
Yeah... the universe is back in balance... life is good. Come on hurricane Ian !!
Tamper for the espresso machine broke... the internal shaft was threaded to the wood... with use, it stripped the threads in the wood...
Easy fix. Did not have regular 1/4-20 nuts, so took a nylon lock nut, machined the top to get rid of the nylon insert.
Then drilled the hole to allow the nut to be pressed in. Used a little bit of JB-Weld in the hole (just for added holding/securing of the nut)... Placed a piece of paper where the nylon insert was so the JB-weld would not go into the threads, and voila!
Went in like butter with the help of the 1-TON arbor press... you can see the piece of paper inside, at the end of the nut...
There!
But not finished until I make sure it works fine...
Yeah... the universe is back in balance... life is good. Come on hurricane Ian !!
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Mundane project... but so critical for this family
Tamper for the espresso machine broke... the internal shaft was threaded to the wood... with use, it stripped the threads in the wood...
Easy fix. Did not have regular 1/4-20 nuts, so took a nylon lock nut, machined the top to get rid of the nylon insert.
Then drilled the hole to allow the nut to be pressed in. Used a little bit of JB-Weld in the hole (just for added holding/securing of the nut)... Placed a piece of paper where the nylon insert was so the JB-weld would not go into the threads, and voila!
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Went in like butter with the help of the 1-TON arbor press... you can see the piece of paper inside, at the end of the nut...
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There!
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But not finished until I make sure it works fine...
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Yeah... the universe is back in balance... life is good. Come on hurricane Ian !!
I love these types of projects. Fixing stuff around the house with your home machine shop.
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Wait a second! I just looked. You actually live further south than we do! My sympathy just dried up! lol.
Nice garden beds! Been debating similar. It seems everyone around here is doing the same thing.
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My project of the day wasn't in the shop...
I hitched up the trailer and picked up a 'scoop' of gravel... so... 'how much is a scoop?' you ask. Depending on who you ask, it's either a half ton or a full ton. After unloading it with a shovel, I think it's closer to three tons...
Anyway, my two daughters have a bad habit of digging mud pits in the yard where they park their cars. When they leave, they take off spinning tires... when they come home, they come flying in and slam on the brakes and slide to a stop.
So I filled their mud pits with the gravel...
... I then explained to them how to keep from digging the mud pits... again... and informed them that next time *they* might be paying for the gravel... and doing the shovel work.
Yeah... right... I'll let you know how that works out... lol!
-Bear
I hitched up the trailer and picked up a 'scoop' of gravel... so... 'how much is a scoop?' you ask. Depending on who you ask, it's either a half ton or a full ton. After unloading it with a shovel, I think it's closer to three tons...
Anyway, my two daughters have a bad habit of digging mud pits in the yard where they park their cars. When they leave, they take off spinning tires... when they come home, they come flying in and slam on the brakes and slide to a stop.
So I filled their mud pits with the gravel...
... I then explained to them how to keep from digging the mud pits... again... and informed them that next time *they* might be paying for the gravel... and doing the shovel work.
Yeah... right... I'll let you know how that works out... lol!
-Bear
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Haha, my ex girlfriend used to spin her tires when leaving and slam her brakes to stop sort of announcing she has arrived. After 2 broken CV joints and numerous tires she come to a conclusion that, that is not right. It all concrete and asphalt around me so no holes to dig and my street already is full of tire marks from me and my friends so it made no difference. Let them have their fun.