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

[FOMOGO]

An Elderly Irish lady visits her physician
To ask his advice on reviving her husband's libido.
"What about trying ******?" asked the doctor.
"Not a chance" she replied. "He won't even take an aspirin".
"Not a problem," said the doctor. "Give him an Irish ******.”
"What on Earth is Irish ******?" she asked.
"It's ****** dissolved in his morning cup of coffee. He won't even taste it. Let me know how it goes," he said.
She called the doctor the very next afternoon. "How did it go?" he asked.
"Oh faith, bejaysus and begorrah, doctor, it was terrible. Just horrid, I tell ya! I'm beside meself!"
"Oh, no! What in the world happened?"
"Well, I did the deed, Doctor, just as you advised. I put the ****** in his morning coffee, and he drank it. Well, you know, it took effect almost immediately, and he jumped straight up out of his chair with a smile on his face, a twinkle in his eye and his pants a-bulging. Then, with one fierce swoop of his arm, he sent the cups, saucers, and everything else that was on the table flying across the room, ripped me clothes to tatters and passionately took me then and there, right on top of the table. T’was a nightmare, I tell ya, an absolute nightmare!"
“Why so terrible?" asked the doctor. "Wasn't the sex good?"
"Freakin jaysus, it was the best sex I've had in me last 25 years, but sure as I'm sittin' here, Doctor...
I'll never be able to show me face in Starbucks again!

 

[DLF]

Today, I finally got around to unboxing my Evolution toothy saw... I've been kinda on target lock with my Nardini, so no welding or chop sawing the last couple months.

Here it is next to the abrasive chop saw it's replacing. I won't get rid of ol' smoky, I don't think a tooth saw can completely replace an abrasive saw. I've just run this one hard on paying jobs and everything else for years and the bearings are shot, the brushes need replacing, and the armature needs to be turned. It is a USA made saw, after all, it just lived its life in abrasive dust and grit. Anyway, I'm pretty excited to put this new saw to work.

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Congrats. It cuts really well, including bar stock but for large diameters it's a little scary

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[DLF]

Made some bushings so I can install leveling castors under the lathe. This gave me the oportunity to play with the blow torch and blue them.

I also managed to properly and consistently part on the lathe. Until now this was a scary operation but after hard work (read youtube + trial and error) and blowing a couple of inserts now I can part using power feed

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[Firstram]

Those may have been flint knapping videos!

 

[EricB]

Just for giggles I made an infinity cube. Machined from a 1 1/4" cube of 6061 using a 1/8" dia end mill on a Sherline machine. The finish isn't great. Lots of tool flex and the part gets increasingly difficult to hold.

 

[GoceKU]

Today i got my brothers Ford in the garage, he says it needs a tune up and a check up. First i check the oil, what oil it has no oil in the engine, check the sticker its 10k over for a oil change. Did an oil change, it was a struggle to remove the oil filter, also change the air filter an cabin filter. Took it on a test drive it drove terible, knoking from the suspension misfiring, poping. So i got it back to the garage, the suspension was a stabilizer link i changed it. Then i took off the spark plugs, clean them with a wire brush, set the gap and measured the ignition coil is has two coils on itself one was good other bad, so i bought a new one, it come with a heat shield and a heat tab. With the ignition fixed, drove it again it now it was driveble the tires are going bad but for around town they will do.

 

[pontiac428]

Goce, try this next time he brings the car to you:

No oil? Sorry brother, I can't fix that, it's operator maintenance.

 

[wachuko]

I am with @pontiac428 - that is just abusive... to completely do not care about the amount of work that you have to do to fix his f*-ups!! Man... I am sorry... but I love my sibblings, and I have done a lot for them... but at some point I have had to tell them that they need to fix and pay for their sh**...

I just do not know how you do it man... I just do not know...

 

[snoopdog]

Cut the unusable casters off the brake table, and replaced, decided to add adjustable feet.

 

[rwm]

Today i got my brothers Ford in the garage, he says it needs a tune up and a check up. First i check the oil, what oil it has no oil in the engine, check the sticker its 10k over for a oil change. Did an oil change, it was a struggle to remove the oil filter, also change the air filter an cabin filter. Took it on a test drive it drove terible, knoking from the suspension misfiring, poping. So i got it back to the garage, the suspension was a stabilizer link i changed it. Then i took off the spark plugs, clean them with a wire brush, set the gap and measured the ignition coil is has two coils on itself one was good other bad, so i bought a new one, it come with a heat shield and a heat tab. With the ignition fixed, drove it again it now it was driveble the tires are going bad but for around town they will

Way back when, when I was in the car business, we called a dash like that a Christmas Tree!