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

[silverhawk]

Be careful. You might pay to have flaps put on the cars, too, as well as some fender paint repairs where they kick up those rocks tearing out of there.

 

[WobblyHand]

POTD started later in the day. My PCB's arrived from JLCPCB, China in the afternoon's mail. These custom PCB's are for my ELS project, using a Teensy4.1 processor. (Have a thread on this.) Was real excited to receive these boards. These were the first boards I have designed in maybe 40 years, and the first I have ever done using open source tools. Surprisingly, I paid $5.47, including shipping for these 5 boards. I sent the Gerbers to them on Sept. 15th, and received the boards today, Sept. 28th. These cheapie boards are not lead-free. I bought them because they were so much cheaper than the PCBWay boards, that I ordered (and have not received yet).

Soldered up the components and mounted the display. Everything lined up. Had to stack a couple of washers, because I needed 11mm hex spacers for the display, but only had 10mm spacers. I'll get some correct spacers, or machine down some bigger ones. Was staring at the board, wondering if it was ok. The simple stuff checked out, no shorted planes, the power seemed good. So went down to the shop for the smoke test, also known as first power on.

I didn't connect any cables to the board, my connectors have yet to arrive. But I did plug in the power. The display turned on and was grey. I wasn't expecting anymore, since I had forgotten what was in this particular processor. It turns out, it was an earlier version of my code, where I got the stepper motor direction wrong. I remembered this, because it was cutting left hand threads instead of right hand. The display came up and things were running! What a great surprise. I had thoughts of smoke and destruction, but, this was better. The single board seen on the bottom, replaces the three discrete assemblies seen further up. Much more robust assembly than that cobbled together rats nest. Tomorrow will bring more testing, but this is a great start.

 

[Doug Gray]

Very cool project Wobbly!

 

[dkemppai]

Made a detour on a trip this week to pick up the lathe after the rebuild. With two days of driving, it stayed in the back of the truck for the night. Unloaded it from the truck, and it's safely on the floor again. Looks way better (pun). Probably spent more than I should have on the rebuild of this old iron. Was considering painting it, but think I'll leave that for the next guy.

The ways were worn about .015" near the head stock from what I was told. It's silky smooth compared to what it was.

Next steps will be to get it back into it's home in the basement. A few minor things to clean up. Then reinstall the DRO scales, and get serous about a VFD. Next will be some form of ELS. If that goes well, I'm pondering an 'electronic taper' attachment. And maybe then a nice 6 jaw chuck, and then...

 

[GoceKU]

Today was a very busy day in the big garage. I started with test polishing part of the hood on the 605. I had the hood and front fenders resprayed couple of years ago so the paint is not too old but it seems to have some oxidation. I did two passes with a foam pad and cheap polishing paste it come out good, the lover part still has lots of oxidation it will take a bit more work and the middle of the hood is worse. At that point i stopped and moved to cleaning the garage, the middle bay had a engine and a half just sitting there. All that got moved, the plan is to get the big car trailer out and apart. Last thing is that my new summer tires for the 607 arrived, i ordered a set of 4 but only 3 arrived. Having had to deal with bad companies contacted them and reached an agreement to only pay 1/3 of the price and full price when they deliver the tire that is missing. I can't wait to have those quiet tires on that car.

 

[BGHansen]

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

Or dig them deeper so next time they get stuck! The balancing act is you'd like to see them, but not have to clean up after them. Our daughter has the nickname "Hurricane Jennifer". She'll come over to cook some elaborate dinner which tastes great, but Prego over noodles works for me. Her "elegance" usually involves at least 3 pans and numerous mixing bowls which are naturally left on the stove (dirty) and in the sink (dirty). Always a debris field left behind, hence, the nickname. She'll run us out of something in the pantry and not put it on the shopping list. Always annoys the wife as the rhetorical question is, "where's my blah, blah, blah?". Uh, Hurricane Jennifer just blew through.

Not being too much of a d*ck about it, but it was pretty funny when she moved into her own place. I'll move a few of her choice Wustof knives around. "Hey, have you seen my Wustof paring knife?" "Yeah, I think I left it in the basement. I needed to stir up some stain." "What!?!?!" "Just kidding. . . Isn't it nice when stuff is put back where you expect to find it?"

Bruce

 

[ChazzC]

I got tired of putting up cardboard behind the mill to conceal the jumble of stuff on the wall whenever I was taking photos of a project. With the help of YouTube, I figured out the blind hem foot for my wife's vintage Kenmore Sewing Machine (she never used this attachment, and can't remember when she last used the machine), and with a (clean) used shower curtain & a handful of screw hooks I made a "Shroud:"




I actually impressed myself with the finished result:



And NO, I'm not taking orders: if I could figure it out, so can the rest of you! The sewing machine is packed away in the spare room closet for another 20 years.

 

[wachuko]

Made a detour on a trip this week to pick up the lathe after the rebuild. With two days of driving, it stayed in the back of the truck for the night. Unloaded it from the truck, and it's safely on the floor again. Looks way better (pun). Probably spent more than I should have on the rebuild of this old iron. Was considering painting it, but think I'll leave that for the next guy.

The ways were worn about .015" near the head stock from what I was told. It's silky smooth compared to what it was.

Next steps will be to get it back into it's home in the basement. A few minor things to clean up. Then reinstall the DRO scales, and get serous about a VFD. Next will be some form of ELS. If that goes well, I'm pondering an 'electronic taper' attachment. And maybe then a nice 6 jaw chuck, and then...




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Oh man, paint looks fine!

I got tired of putting up cardboard behind the mill to conceal the jumble of stuff on the wall whenever I was taking photos of a project. With the help of YouTube, I figured out the blind hem foot for my wife's vintage Kenmore Sewing Machine (she never used this attachment, and can't remember when she last used the machine), and with a (clean) used shower curtain & a handful of screw hooks I made a "Shroud:"

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I actually impressed myself with the finished result:

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And NO, I'm not taking orders: if I could figure it out, so can the rest of you! The sewing machine is packed away in the spare room closet for another 20 years.

This is great. I need to do the same. I had bookmarked the one recommended by David... it is a heavy duty clear vinyl curtain... Initially I thought about using a welding cloth, but that sucker is way too heavy... plus I wanted to allow light to come in...

It is amazing how far out chips will travel...

 

[ChazzC]

Oh man, paint looks fine!

This is great. I need to do the same. I had bookmarked the one recommended by David... it is a heavy duty clear vinyl curtain... Initially I thought about using a welding cloth, but that sucker is way too heavy... plus I wanted to allow light to come in...

It is amazing how far out chips will travel...

Actually, chip bounce is secondary: most of the time it will be stowed above the mill. The stuff on the wall & the bench to the left of the mill detract from photos of the work – here's what it looks like without the Shroud:


A little distracting, plus lighting over the bench can make unwelcome shadows.

I used a polyester shower curtain liner, which was a pain to work with because it’s lightweight but also less trouble once in place.

 

[wachuko]

Ohhh you did it for photos... I need it to avoid having chips all over the garage...