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

[erikmannie]

My friend Jack had never used a grinder. Here is is putting a second edge on his Karambit knife which began life as a railroad spike.



Here it is before the hand filing:



…after more work with a flap disc and a poly-strip wheel. It took 6 man hours to get to this point. On to hand filing now.





Hand made, oven baked scabbard. Just like Mom used to make!

 

[tjb]

. . . $100 don't go to far at the diesel pump any more .

Nope. I built a trailer that has a fifty gallon tank for off-road diesel and a fifty gallon tank for gasoline. Last time I filled both it was around $400. Prices have come down a little since then, but it'll still cost a dollar or two.

 

[finsruskw]

LOL , I just scoped a 2072 out on CL . I had to make a trip over for diesel for the Kubota and the truck . $100 don't go to far at the diesel pump any more .

Dave, What are they asking for it?

 

[GoceKU]

First day of the year, i started with making a wooden plug for one of the water touts. I could use my pocket knife but it was faster on the lathe. I also had a very hard time to find an alternator for the astra, i could only fine the older style with the fixed pulley not the clutch type. The place that sell it guarantees that it will work, which is a must, because it's so tight and it also has a vacuum pump on it that is oil feed. I really don't want to do this job twice.

 

[CJ5Dave]

Might have needed to post this in the I Can’t Weld thread. My Harbor Freight welding helmet needed a headlight. Epoxied a sheet metal channel on and stuck a magnetic Harbor Freight LED oval light on it. Can pull it off when not needed, batteries die, or spatter clouds the lens.

 

[NCjeeper]

Well, my big Jet lathe should have come with a lead screw and rod support bracket, but it didn't. I assume the original owner removed it at some point and then it got lost. I decided to make one. 3-part video series on it will be coming out in a couple of weeks. I used aluminum bronze for the individual supports.

 

[wachuko]

Looks and sounds familiar. Don't neglect to do occasional citric acid flush. I was reluctant in doing it because I read somewhere that it can "destroy the espresso machine..." I went through replacing almost all the brass and rubber parts in the group head and it was just marginally better. Flushing the machine several times as described below brought it back to like new condition. My machine is a dual boiler with a rotary pump.

Descaling Your Reservoir Espresso Machine

" When descaling a machine we use either straight white vinegar or 1-2oz of citric acid in 64oz of water.These compounds will not harm you or your machine if fully flushed from the system.Water Reservoir or Pour Over Espresso Machines Fill the reservoir with straight white vinegar or 1-2oz of...

www.chriscoffee.com

Ariel

Oh yeah... ...backflush with Cafiza every so often... and at least once a year I take it all out to soak in Cafiza... replace rubber parts, teflon gaskets, screen gets replaced (old one cleaned and ready for next clean cycle), lube everything, etc.

Funny story is that my daughter moved to an apartment a few weeks back... baby has grown up... ... anyway, I told her (since we are moving and need to get rid of some stuff) that she could take anything from the house for her apartment... Guess, just guess what she took with her.... Let me give you a clue... Notice anything missing?



Now at her place...



On other news... have not touched a project in awhile... between family activities, having to do some honey-do's-this from the list... and moving stuff over to the new house...

Not only am I behind on the projects (normal for me), but I gave away one of the projects I made... the base to raise the Pro-Ject brush arm for the turntable... Now I have to make another one for me...

 

[snoopdog]

Thankful for the work, but dang it's boring, the laser wasn't cutting very good on these, holes not very good, they were notified.

 

[Winegrower]

Not long ago I made a Hemingway tailstock die holder, with a simple and excellent clutch design. You can cut threads under power right up to a shoulder and the clutch releases automatically. It works great for dies, and I realized it would work for taps as well. So I built a tap holder using an ER32 collet chuck to hold the tap. This mounts just like a die would with set screws to hold it in (They’re on the far side, not showing in the picture). It works just like it should, and now power tapping on the lathe is a lot like using a tapping head on the mill.

The ER collet chuck originally had a 1” straight shaft that I parted off to a stub. I forget why I bought this piece in the first place, but I never used it, so the sacrifice was an easy decision.

 

[twhite]

Not long ago I made a Hemingway tailstock die holder, with a simple and excellent clutch design. You can cut threads under power right up to a shoulder and the clutch releases automatically. It works great for dies, and I realized it would work for taps as well. So I built a tap holder using an ER32 collet chuck to hold the tap. This mounts just like a die would with set screws to hold it in (They’re on the far side, not showing in the picture). It works just like it should, and now power tapping on the lathe is a lot like using a tapping head on the mill.

The ER collet chuck originally had a 1” straight shaft that I parted off to a stub. I forget why I bought this piece in the first place, but I never used it, so the sacrifice was an easy decision.

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Excellent idea. Now I have a new project to work on.


Cutting oil is my blood.