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

For anyone interested, here is the link to the mini hockey pucks.
The pucks are only $0.65 each but the company has dramatically increased shipping since I bought them. It is much more efficient if you buy a lot at a time.

www.ministicks.com

Mini Hockey Puck- Buffalo NY Bulk Hockey Pucks

Mini Hockey Puck keychain or magnet. 1.5 inch in size. It's a mni mini hockey puck. Very cool small hockey puck.
www.ministicks.com
 
rwm said:
For anyone interested, here is the link to the mini hockey pucks.
The pucks are only $0.65 each but the company has dramatically increased shipping since I bought them. It is much more efficient if you buy a lot at a time.

www.ministicks.com

Mini Hockey Puck- Buffalo NY Bulk Hockey Pucks

Mini Hockey Puck keychain or magnet. 1.5 inch in size. It's a mni mini hockey puck. Very cool small hockey puck.
www.ministicks.com
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No kidding…17.00 for shipping… ufff
 
Shipping has gone up a lot but that is gouging! I suppose if there were enough interest someone here could buy a bunch and redistribute. Sending 4 pucks in an envelope USPS should be about $6 to most of the country.
 
Out in the shop early this morning I cleaned up some old mandrels that I think were for
a tire balancer from olden days. I was missing one of the 3-4 inch mandrel halves so
decided to make one from a cylindrical piece of unknown steel of fairly close dimensions.
The first was to center drill the cylinder using the lathe and then drilling and boring the
hole to one inch diameter. Previously I had made an adjustable mandrel to fit one inch
so used that to machine the 32 degree taper using the compound to produce the taper.
It was a long process generating "blue hairlike chips" and generally unpleasant effluvium.
I'm not sure what this will be used for but it would be handy for machining the outside
of pipes or hydraulic cylinders. P1040033.JPGIt took a little head scratching to determine the angle of the part and actually it isn't real critical anyway. I used
a sine chart after I did the math part to come up with 32 degrees.
P1040035.JPGI drilled the hole to 63/64 inch and bored out the last 15 thousandths for a nice fit. That was the first operation
so the hole was concentric to the taper when done.
 
Short little project checked off this morning, here pictured with my morning dose of caffeine. I bought this rotary table new shortly after I got a mill. It never quite worked right in that there was considerable backlash even with the lever flipped all the way over to engage the hand crank, and it just cranked poorly. I opened it up. Unknown to me there is a setscrew stop in the 4 o'clock position on the casting around the hand crank. While it was open I cleaned up the bore between the leadscrew crank and the eccentric collar, just using some emory cloth taped to a rod mounted in a cordless drill. Not a Stephen Gotteswinter quality result, but good enough for my work.
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I made two things today. A tool post handle, and a broken pulley. This pulley and I have been together for several years. But I just put it in service last week. Evidently I had something too tight…maybe.
Luckily I had a different pulley, and was back to fun in ten minutes.
 
Hmmm..... I'm just chuckling seeing the PULLEY !
I actually did this little job sometime in the last few months , I had posted it on a Tractor forum.
Oh ! I forgot , I made a VERY THIN Sleeve for the trailing wheel of my 5 ft. Rotary Mower ,
a "Bush Hog" to many folks.
( I couldn't seem to load the machining pic,but yeah,i bored and turned a Pipe Bushing. Ended up being about a .045 wall thickness. )
The pulley is off an alternator from a 1979 Mitsubishi Truck, well a captive import actually a DODGE D50.
The groove was too narrow, it was designed with probably a 10mm belt in mind and my Japanese
Yanmar diesel tractor . This really felt like THE
OLDEN DAYS of AUTO repair. This was a whole $37 dollars , and guaranteed FOREVER !
The original Hitachi Alternator been unavailable for quite some time. New alternatives exist but having to add a new type regulator can take the cost to $175 plus.
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Worked on the base for the DF-1237.
All the steel is 3/16 wall. Two lower stretchers were added after this was taken.
There is a 3/16 plate to go on the top stretcher at the near end. The headstock will bolt to it. The tailstock end will bolt through the 3x3 tube.
Also order custom tinted paint from Sherwin Williams for the base and to re-do the chip pan.
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Levelling legs.
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I love my new Primeweld MIG180!
This is possibly the nicest bead I have ever laid down.
(Yes I know there's a crater at the end.)
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