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

[matthewsx]

Locks disabled, now I need to start moving mill tooling into it....

 

[erikmannie]

I am doing a project for my brother which is 304 SS brackets for a fence. The material is .125” thick. A lot of holes to be drilled; I didn’t even finish.

I posted a picture of the drawing that he texted me.

You’re looking at the back side of the holes. They still need to be cleaned up, starting with the oily fragments of paper towel!





I am also posting pictures of his neighbor’s fence that he is (mostly) copying. My brother’s design is different in that all of the 1” X 6” slats are on the far side of the 4” X 4” posts, & he is using ipe (hardwood) posts. In other words, somebody looking from the street would pretty much only see the slats.

 

[jwmelvin]

I made some parts for a tortilla press I’m working on; eccentric adjustable hinge (purchased cam handle):

 

[dkemppai]

Locks disabled, now I need to start moving mill tooling into it....

So having just 'disabled' locks on a couple of HF boxes. (Yeah, that really irritated me about the design!)

What I found the best thing to do was to take a small sanding disk on a die grinder, and taper the front side of the plastic locks. Basically mimic the angle of the back side, or even slightly flatter. This way you can pull it open, push it closed, but the remaining spring tension on the latch acts like a detent.

The safety issue with big boxes is of course if you move them around on casters, they could open up and the whole thing could tip over. I tried to get the boxes to open by moving them, but the detent was enough. For a fixed box under the bench, I'm sure you'd be fine.

The masterforce boxes (that used to be the best deal going) have a detent mechanism, or lock that's released automatically. The whole front is the release (a much better deign). Apparently the really good boxes only allow one drawer open at a time, but alas those are at least 6x out of my budget!

 

[wachuko]

Not a big project... we have been in Puerto Rico since last week and returning on Nov 2... Last time we were here, we fixed the apartment. So this time around there was not much really to do. Taking advantage that we can work remotely and doing so from here to use the afternoons and weekends to visit family.

Being an apartment there is no space for any serious tools... task today was a security pin for the sliding door. Had to cut it to size and use a file to round the end...




Now it works fine without the risk of hitting (and breaking) the glass on the other side...



Over the weekend also visited my biological father (long story, but now spending time with him whenever I am in the island) where they had some food for us... Rice with crab meat and crab meat stew (arroz con jueyes y salmorejo de jueyes. ), red beans with ham, malanga, and for desert some pumpkin flan... a feast! But I digress...





Anyway... reason for mentioning that is that we were having a few beers and needed a beer bottle opener... Papo pulls out one and mentions that he made it (he is a retired machinist) back when he was working, this is probably more than 30 years ago...



So I look at him and tell him "challenge accepted!" hahahahaha... so now, when I get back home, the next project is making an opener out of a piece of stainless steel... I will need to buy some stock as I do not have any stainless steel for this...

This one is his... trust me... it has seen lots and lots of use






I have one that I bought several years ago... that is not the point... the point is, he made his, so now I need to make one as well, lol...

 

[FOMOGO]

We recently sold are home on Culebra. Glad to have one less house to keep up, but will miss friends, and the island in general. Will probably go back and rent or house sit in the future, but not this year. Looks like everyone was having a great time. Cheers, Mike

 

[wachuko]

We recently sold are home on Culebra. Glad to have one less house to keep up, but will miss friends, and the island in general. Will probably go back and rent or house sit in the future, but not this year. Looks like everyone was having a great time. Cheers, Mike

Sad to learn you sold the house in Culebra... such a beautiful place. But I can understand the hurdle of maintaining another house.

We will sell the house in Orlando when we move to Ocala... and try to keep the apartment in PR. My siblings (and wife's siblings) keep telling us to sell it as we spent most of the time with one of them... but it is nice, from time to time, to be just the two of us relaxing...

But when it is time to let it go, well... we will do the same as well...

 

[GoceKU]

Sometime i think there is no honest people anymore. Few weeks ago i order set of 4 continental ecocontact 6 tires for the 607. Its a big car and they are expensive but now at the end of the summer tire places give big discount because next year those tires will be with old DOT. Only 3 tires showed up, so i called the place and told them i'm not paying till i get a full set i've been burned before. Right then i know i was dealing with a bad company. They immediately try pay for the 3 when we deliver the 4 you'll pay for it. I stood my ground and finally they said pay for one tire and for the rest when we deliver. How much when i ask 80e, i know the price was more than 100e a piece so he was reading his cost. So i go 3 tires 245/45R18 for 80 $ and a month later more then 20 called they finally told me they can't deliver one more, and they don't want any more money but i had to go to there warehouse. I even made them to put it in writing, i don't want to get sued over couple of tires. Left my car in there parking lot went on foot two places down the street also a tire store ask there they don't have that tire but they had 2 tires in the same size at 60% discount 2020 Dot so i bought them now i have 5 summer tires for the price of 1,5 continental tires. So with two 28" tires in hands walk to my car all the staff of the bad place watching me, throw them in the trunk and drove off now that was a real karma moment for them. When i got back i was motivated so i did lots of tire organizing all the lada tires went on the green rack and all 16" tires went vertical up to the ceiling.

 

[erikmannie]

I mounted these CXA lathe tool holders that I bought on eBay. I also bought the “extrusion spacers” on eBay.

I used a boring head to counterbore the extruded aluminum so that the top of the bolts would be *uniformly* (!) just under flush with the surface of the aluminum.













Ya gotta love drilling holes in your backsplash!

 

[Janderso]

It is painful but attaching racks to the back splash is pretty common and very handy.