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

GoceKU said:
In any battlefields there will be bombs and landmines left behind. Every so often there is a report on TV for construction workers finding bombs from WW2. The suburb i'm in was farm lands 25 years ago so no such things are present, in nature i'm always careful and most of the forest have been logged once since then so any surface bombs are exploded.
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My son is going to University in Berlin, Germany. He was evacuated from his apartment for a day last Fall because a WWII bomb was found and removed about a block away.
 
He learned to speak German in Berlin, as a High School Rotary Exchange student, so he has the local accent. Nobody realizes he is American.

Before his Exchange experience, I had no idea that there were regional accents in Germany. Apparently, they are quite pronounced.
 
Provincial said:
He learned to speak German in Berlin, as a High School Rotary Exchange student, so he has the local accent. Nobody realizes he is American.

Before his Exchange experience, I had no idea that there were regional accents in Germany. Apparently, they are quite pronounced.
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sure just like here in the states. Go to Louisiana bayou and sometimes it can be hard to understand what someone is saying, especially if it's fast. And especially if you are hard of hearing :rolleyes:
 
woodchucker said:
sure just like here in the states. Go to Louisiana bayou and sometimes it can be hard to understand what someone is saying, especially if it's fast. And especially if you are hard of hearing :rolleyes:
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Try to understand any young lady if you are hard of hearing! They all talk so fast, and run the words together.

Robert Heinlein wrote a short story where insurgents communicated in "code" simply by having teenage girls talk to each other on open channel radios!
 
Everywhere is the same, even my very small country (150 mile across) every city has it accent, every time i go south they speak too fast, cut word and use foreign words. That said when i don't understand them i ask 'what' in my accent (Што) and they immediately say you must be from kumanovo.
 
GoceKU said:
Everywhere is the same, even my very small country (150 mile across) every city has it accent, every time i go south they speak too fast, cut word and use foreign words. That said when i don't understand them i ask 'what' in my accent (Што) and they immediately say you must be from kumanovo.
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As I understood it, in that part of the world travel is not efficient. This means people move around less, and local cultures mix less than say in the US, where you can drive 550 Miles (880km) in a day and still have time for dinner when you arrive (due to our large interstate highway system), etc.

I don't think this is bad, it's just the impression I received from talking to someone from geographically near you. Actually, I wish less people were moving into where I live... ; )
 
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dkemppai said:
As I understood it, in that part of the world travel is not efficient. This means people move around less, and local cultures mix less than say in the US, where you can drive 550 Miles (880km) in a day and still have time for dinner when you arrive (due to our large interstate highway system), etc.

I don't think this is bad, it's just the impression I received from talking to someone from geographically near you. Actually, I wish less people were moving into where I live... ; )
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Try living next door to California!
 
dkemppai said:
As I understood it, in that part of the world travel is not efficient. This means people move around less, and local cultures mix less than say in the US, where you can drive 550 Miles (880km) in a day and still have time for dinner when you arrive (due to our large interstate highway system), etc.

I don't think this is bad, it's just the impression I received from talking to someone from geographically near you. Actually, I wish less people were moving into where I live... ; )
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Lately more and more people are moving abroad, manly in germany, were skilled labour is paid better and there is less corruption. Highways in my country are good, considering its a mountainous country. I've traveled over 1500 km in a day to another country and back and still sleep in my own bed at night, its the border crossing, pay tolls that take more time than there.
 
so I started making a pulley for my lathe the other day. Then covid came and knocked me down a little. Now feeling like I can get some more work done, I went into the shop for a couple of hours, and reached my physical limit.

The pulley is made of Aluminum, My Clausing Mill has Aluminum (pretty sure it's not zinc) pulleys. I made mine from 6061 T6 T65..
Do you think I will need to anodize it to prevent it from wearing out? I don't know if the Clausing is anodized.
The reason for the new pulley is so I can attach a bicycle brake rotor to this and be able to stop the lathe in a heartbeat if necessary. The existing pulley didn't have the needed stickout.
 
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