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

If they work, take care in devising a paint strategy. When the AC is running they may see condensate. Powder coating is probably satisfactory but may break the budget.
I think I'll let them be raw steel, and let the mill scale protect them for now. If they start to rust badly, I'll hit them with brush-on Rustoleum. I had thought of it but there's no solution at present.

We are entering heating season so for several months it will be drier rather than moister.

Rick "noting that damper shafts in ducts are often raw steel and don't seem to get past surface rust" Denney
 
Given that I can't see clearly right now I need some diversions. I thought about buying a box, but making one for this would just give me time to tinker. I have plenty of 1/4 acrylic that the paper stuck to, and won't release from without a haze from chemical or a chisel. So easy to use it for stuff like this. Needed a mount for my sand blast cabinet for the vibrator/speed control. Glued most of it together from my own homemade brew of glue, but screwed the top on (bottom actually the way it will be mounted).
The glue is the shavings from the plastic either from cutting on the band saw, sanding, or melting. Throw it into a little jar and add acetone. Hours later you have a glue. Yes I could have used C/A. But what fun would that be.
One thing left to do, is bend up a bracket to mount it to the cabinet, and mount it.
My only unknown for the moment is will I need cooling vents, and if I do, can I use a cloth to keep the media out. We'll see.
The cabinet is working real well.
I cleaned up the wheels, many were worse than the rusted one shown. After blasting a light hit with a wire wheel. A lot cleaner than blasting rust all over the place ... I wound up protecting the bearings with duck tape, and a wire to make sure it stayed put. My first one did not and got grit in the bearing.
 

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First attempt was a complete FU with candle wax . Really not what was needed for protection of flutes when shipping . Back to the drawing board . :)
 
Get to work drinking bottles of Maker's Mark so you can reuse the signature sealing wax! Egg nog is better with Bourbon, just like mom used to do it!
With a couple thou end mills here , I think the plastdip is out of range . I'm going to try the Poly in a minute . :encourage:
 
You can blend plastic bags into paraffin and get a harder wax... might work better. Similarly, you can add oils into paraffin.
Blending in some toilet sealing rings will soften it. Those are microcystalline wax. The combination of paraffin, cutting oil, and seal ring wax makes a nice extrudable tapping wax. Make thin bars, slide into the hole, tap. And the chips pump out.

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Leadscrew is the last part on the Clausing that needed 60 years of old lubricant and metal chips cleaned out of.
Been saving it for last because I knew it would be a pain, didn't disappoint in that respect.
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Whoops
Went to mount my new leveling casters yesterday with the 5/8-18 to 3/8-16 adapters. Unfortunately I need 3/4-16 :( Not sure why I had 5/8 so entrenched into my mind, I even had the original bolts out and in hand a few days ago!IMG_8879.jpeg
 
Leadscrew is the last part on the Clausing that needed 60 years of old lubricant and metal chips cleaned out of.
Been saving it for last because I knew it would be a pain, didn't disappoint in that respect.
There's a MrPete video where he spins a leadscrew (I can't remember if he put it in a chuck on another lathe and used the tailstock and a live centre or just left it on the bearings and spun it with a pistol drill) and uses pieces of garden twine soaked in solvent (acetone probably) to clean the threads.
 
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