2021 POTD Thread Archive

[jwmay]

Moved a ton of landscape stones, made this plate for my horizontal bandsaw, and made a picture frame with my daughter. After an hour of fiddling around with hand tools, I drug out the tablesaw so I could be done before dinner. She did get to use a handplane, a handsaw, a rasp, a file, and an air nailer. I call that a win.

 

[francist]

Had another “hey, this works…” moments in the shop this afternoon. I had a bunch of slats that I wanted to space evenly over a fixed length. Trouble was my slats weren’t a convenient dimension — they were all the same because ran them all through the planer at the same time, but I didn’t take them to any particular size, I just stopped when the saw marks were mostly removed. So, trying to figure the math was going to be more effort than I wanted to put in.

Then I thought of an adjustable parallel to use as a gap width gauge. Well my one little Lufkin doesn’t go wide enough but my miniature planer gauge did. It only took a few minutes of trial and error to get the gauge set so that all the gaps would work out evenly. After that I just leapfrogged along screwing down one slat and jumping the gauge over to position the next one. Worked great, and probably the most use that little gauge has seen in years!



Thanks for looking! Oh, the slats are for an outdoor potting bench I’m throwing together (gardening potting, not pottery potting)



-frank

 

[pdentrem]

Cool! I thought that they were duck boards since it is on the wet coast!
Pierre

 

[silverhawk]

@francist, you can also use that to make molds for casting aluminum parts. The slats will allow you to stash a bin underneath to catch the green sand that falls through, and then move the tubs out of the way to use it as a potting bench. Looks good!

 

[francist]

@francist, you can also use that to make molds for casting aluminum parts. The slats will allow you to stash a bin underneath to catch the green sand that falls through, and then move the tubs out of the way to use it as a potting bench. Looks good!

Yes exactly the same. This gets a sliding bin too to catch the spill-over and two solid panels to close the top. They’re all just loose so you configure them wherever and in whatever order you want. The bin can be used for mixing soil as well, just as you’d do with the casting sand.

 

[Peyton Price 17]

just because you can doesn't mean you should. from 8 inches reach to 18 inches! found the rod at the flea market and turned and threaded the end for 1/4-20. it looks so bad but it is useful. now I can poke my eye out

 

[GoceKU]

Every few weeks i'm doing my own oil changes, too many bad experiences at mechanics. Today i found myself scratching my head, as you can see i found the crash copper washer totally squishy and the drain plug square destroyed. I'm sure it not me and my car doesn't visit many shops, but then i remember i had it for wheel alignment and the bill was higher than usual, the owner is a good friend of my so i called him, he check the bill and there was repaired oil leak replace drain plug and gasket. Just as he said that i told him guess what, don't tell me they stripped it. No they did not replaced it just over tighten it he replayed you're lucky they are known to strip them or crack the oil pan. I keep my cool ask him who otorased that work the car was there just for a alignment, he keep quiet he know i was upset. That is why business like that have such a bad reputation, i'm pretty sure they used and impact driver on it. Anyway i did not have a new drain plug but i had a new copper washer OEM and finish changing the oil i also took a photo comparison of older oil filters and today's one they are getting smaller and smaller, all the filters are oem for my car.

 

[jwmelvin]

As the first use of my BP clone (disassembled, moved, cleaned, added VFD), I made a driver bit for the knee crank:

The brass was some leftover I had, hence the large cross hole. The center is stainless and the two are affixed with Loctite 603.
Got to use the spindexer and rotary table.

 

[GoceKU]

A friend sent me this picture where someone had cut the spokes of a rim, that reminded me i need to switch to summer tires, so 3 of my cars got there summer boots on and one got new brake pads. One caliper feel a bit stiff pushing back the piston, also the discs are getting a bit on the thin side, i don't have the parts to replace them so they will have to wait till next time it's going on jacks. The new impact driver worked well, but i still got a good workout caring all the tires off and on the rock. doing all the work in my first bay made me realized i needed new lights there. So after i was done with cars i attached new LED lights in a X configuration. But i'm not sure if that was smart, because i realized how dirty and messy my garage is, i'll need to do something about it. That will push back the little niva .

 

[MikeWi]

You have an amazing amount of energy @GoceKU I get exhausted just reading your posts!