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

[NCjeeper]

I made saw dust. Getting the winter preps ready.

 

[ChazzC]

I made saw dust. Getting the winter preps ready.
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Those look much too nice to feed the wood stove.

 

[mksj]

Ordered a new Kohler faucet from eBay, FedEx gorillas had there way with the shipping box, came torn up and bent. Snapped the arm part of the faucet off. Unfortunately it is a cast piece and looked like potted metal to me, Grohe and some of the better brands are all stainless steel and much stronger. The piece that broke only is not thread and only had about a small amount of metal in the faucet neck that connects arm part. My thinking was to fill the neck portion with epoxy and then thread a new section.

Fedex box upon arrival




Broken support for faucet arm in, cleanly snapped from the base.


Added a plug to the base neck, backfilled with abiut 1" height of epoxy and then tapped the base neck with a M18 x 1.0 tap manually on my mill, a bit awkward to do but didn't want to spend the time to make a jig to stabilize the base.


Turning a replacement part out of bronze rod, threaded one end with a M18 x 1.0 threaded section to thread into the base neck. Fortunately a had a M18 tap that I use for my proximity stops, and the thread major and minor size worked for this repair. It required a full thread to the step with no relief. I cut a round O-ring relief at the other end that slips onto the arm. When fully threaded into the base and locked there was a few thousandth gap between end of the plastic bushing and the neck of the base.


Bronze replacement part needed to be sized and threaded accurately so when assembled there was no vertical or horizontal play in the neck. Plastic bushing has a little button that locks it into a hole on the the swivel arm.

 

[piper184]

Wow, nicely done!
Isn't is $#%#@$^%$% of a thing when you have to rebuild a brand new part because nobody give a @#%@#%@#% about the job they do?

The number of people I hear say "XYZ is a big company, they can afford it" just really frost my corn flakes! They are the same people that complain about the prices of everything going up! Well, buddy, your poor work attitude is part of the reason things cost so much!

OK, sorry for the mini-rant. It just really hit one of my hot buttons.

You did really nice work and should be proud of it!

 

[tq60]

Should have filed a claim and got another one.

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[matthewsx]

Over the past couple of days I’ve been cutting up the cab to get rid of the rust. I have panels for the sides and the cab corners but none for the middle so I’ve been making those. I found out the hard way that anywhere with rust is too thin. Then I ran out of gas on the welder.View attachment 508442View attachment 508443View attachment 508444

If you have oxy acetylene just wire brush the rusty areas and hit them with a big oxidizing flame. Everything bad will burn away leaving only good metal you can weld to.

Learned that trick from Mike Anthony who helped me restore a Triumph TR4 and could do amazing things with metal.

John

 

[Dhal22]

That appears to be a ‘big box’ retailer grade Kohler faucet. Built to virtually plastic quality specs.

 

[Shiseiji]

Living up to my moniker, I've been destroying lots of 3mm ply learning some of the in's & out's of my 40w d~ 19-5/8" X 12-1/2" bed diode laser. More accuralty the open source Lightburn application. Here's the latest, 2 boxes with fixed dividers, a 3 cell and a 4 cell.

 

[projectnut]

Ordered a new Kohler faucet from eBay, FedEx gorillas had there way with the shipping box, came torn up and bent. Snapped the arm part of the faucet off. Unfortunately it is a cast piece and looked like potted metal to me, Grohe and some of the better brands are all stainless steel and much stronger. The piece that broke only is not thread and only had about a small amount of metal in the faucet neck that connects arm part. My thinking was to fill the neck portion with epoxy and then thread a new section.

Kohler makes several different levels of plumbing fixtures that at first glance appear identical. Several years ago, we were doing a kitchen and bath remodel project. We had gone to Home Depot, Menards, Lowes, and other big box home improvement stores to look for plumbing fixtures.
When the plumber came to discuss fixtures and installation he brought along a price list. We were shocked at the difference between his prices and those at the big box stores. That's when we found out about the different product levels. While they may all look the same the least expensive models were actually plastic. As the prices increased so did the quality of materials. The least expensive models are actually considered throw aways. There are no repair or replacement parts available from Kohler. As you climb the price ladder the quality of the materials and warranty time increases. If you purchase their top-of-the-line fixtures they have a lifetime warranty on both parts and labor.

 

[MikeWi]

IMHO, the problem isn't Kohler so much as the shipper. That's retail packaging, and not meant to be shipped that way. The seller should have packed it properly.