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

[pontiac428]

Cooking up some more end mills tonight . I need to figure out the special sauce for dipping these in for flute protection .

Looks like you've been busy!

Check the inside of the free box before you waste your time: I used to do this with free Priority Mail boxes until they started printing USPS all over the inside.

Isn't that like robbing Peter to pay Paul?

 

[woodchucker]

Had a late thought. Have you tried a heat gun? For returns I found that even the $.50 blow dryer from the thrift store will free the adhesive as I pull the label off. Then return the stuff the same way it came. Can't say for sure, but I've heard a heat gun will free the flap on a give away FedEx box good only for overnight delivery. Flip it inside out, a little hot glue, and, look at that! A box FedEx will accept for motor delivery.

yep, tried a heat gun. It's stuck . When it comes off the glue is left, and some paper. Naptha is the best I can do, but there's lot of scraping, and gouging. And still remnants. I also have some lexan, same deal, if the paper is not removed in a reasonable amount of time and its exposed to sun or other elements, it may not come off. The plexi came from a car guy and he was storing it under his cars.. so oil and sun.
The lexan came from the shop of a deceased guy, and his widow said he died like 20 years ago, and the lexan was stored near the windows.

 

[mmcmdl]

Another 50 done and another 100 in the UC . I'm not running out of containers full .

 

[mmcmdl]

That's a lot of end mills, do you have your own grinder?

Not since 1986 . These have been packed away since then .

 

[mmcmdl]

Another 37 . Yes chazz , I've been busy and haven't heard a response from Matt up in Calgary . He's been busy with the next generation machinist . I used to make these holders , but found out that end mills are sharp . Doing another 150 tonight and calling it a night .

 

[ChazzC]

Another 37 . Yes chazz , I've been busy and haven't heard a response from Matt up in Calgary . He's been busy with the next generation machinist . I used to make these holders , but found out that end mills are sharp . Doing another 150 tonight and calling it a night .

That’s ok, if it doesn’t work out then it wasn’t meant to be.

BTW, I only use single-end end mills.

 

[Firstram]

yep, tried a heat gun. It's stuck . When it comes off the glue is left, and some paper. Naptha is the best I can do, but there's lot of scraping, and gouging. And still remnants. I also have some lexan, same deal, if the paper is not removed in a reasonable amount of time and its exposed to sun or other elements, it may not come off. The plexi came from a car guy and he was storing it under his cars.. so oil and sun.
The lexan came from the shop of a deceased guy, and his widow said he died like 20 years ago, and the lexan was stored near the windows.

Paper towels saturated with goo gone will usually loosen the old glue.

 

[rwdenney]

The guide would definitely need to be narrowed, but I was thinking a notch.

You mean one of those accurate cross cut sleds that's been on my "I'm a gunna." for as long as I've owned the saw?

Yup. Stefan Gotteswinter built one for his cheapie bandsaw that I admired. But it still needs to be easy to switch back to horizontal crosscut, because it’s a slow saw and those don’t have to be attended.

Rick “on the list but maybe not that high on the list” Denney

 

[woodchucker]

Paper towels saturated with goo gone will usually loosen the old glue.

Tried that.

 

[Shiseiji]

Check the inside of the free box before you waste your time: I used to do this with free Priority Mail boxes until they started printing USPS all over the inside.

Yep, that's why I said FedEx and not USPS. So many more companies are using heavy packing paper now, often it can be used to cover smaller boxes and simply camouflage everything.