What Did You Buy Today?

[Aukai]

Weren't you supposed to pre drill it, hello....

 

[brino]

To make these fit a mini-lathe tailstock, I have to grind off the tangs. For the price I paid, I don't feel bad about grinding them.

Don't just lop them off blindly...... be sure to leave enough to eject them from the tail-stock.

-brino

 

[WobblyHand]

Weren't you supposed to pre drill it, hello....

The corkscrew went in fine, without distortion. But it was made of the weakest material and distorted when I tried to pull the cork. I just checked, the corkscrew is magnetic.

 

[WobblyHand]

Don't just lop them off blindly...... be sure to leave enough to eject them from the tail-stock.

-brino

For a mini-lathe, at least my mini-lathe, one needs to grind it all off. If you leave some of the tang, the taper won't even seat. It will eject as long as the "tang" extends 2-3mm past the end of the taper.

Top one doesn't quite seat correctly. Will spin under load. I need to grind it a little bit more. Bottom taper (Jacobs arbor) I had to fully grind off the tang. It seats correctly and is ejected properly in my mini-lathe.

 

[wachuko]

Not joking about the corkscrew. I bought this while in China in 2000. First use, in the desert, far away from anywhere, on a bottle of wine netted me this and an unopened bottle of wine. I was so astonished, I saved this corkscrew and brought it home. Had to use the knife blade to cut out the cork. Cork everywhere, including in the wine.
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Bottom line... nothing was going to stop you from getting to the wine.

 

[WobblyHand]

Bottom line... nothing was going to stop you from getting to the wine.

You better believe it I had bought that knife with the corkscrew in a department store, a few days earlier. As evening fell, we were gathered around while sitting on top of a giant sand dune, 30m high?, and someone pulled out a bottle of wine. I said, (confidently,) I got this covered. Got to say, we had quite a laugh when pulling the cork resulted in a stretched corkscrew. That was before having the wine. After that, I was determined. No cork was going to stop me.

 

[hman]

@Logan 400, @woodchucker, @C-Bag ... Just to add to the party ... check post #183 at https://www.hobby-machinist.com/thr...did-you-make-in-your-shop-today.67833/page-19
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Post #6 at https://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/metal-drawers.77137/#post-649377

I'd have posted the photos here, except I keep getting a strange error - "Parsing response failed" when I try.

 

[woodchucker]

@hman nice. I like those bottom cabinets. I just found one in wood the other day similar size, but it's going to my son this weekend. That was a good find at Ikea.

 

[woodchucker]

@hman how light is the steel on those?

 

[C-Bag]

@Logan 400, @woodchucker, @C-Bag ... Just to add to the party ... check post #183 at https://www.hobby-machinist.com/thr...did-you-make-in-your-shop-today.67833/page-19
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Post #6 at https://www.hobby-machinist.com/threads/metal-drawers.77137/#post-649377

I'd have posted the photos here, except I keep getting a strange error - "Parsing response failed" when I try.

I remember those….now While we were discussing this I did a quick search and did something I usually never do and that’s a general search and missed this, it was in the free section! I hardly ever look there either.