What did you do today?

[Arcane]

I yanked Doozer's chain a bit...😆

[AD5MB]

received a set of 4 1-2-3 blocks from China. now I need to order another set. this set contained 2: 1-2-3 blocks, and 2: 25-50-75 blocks. I wanted 4 alike, I ended up with 2 and 2.

[rrrgcy]

Um, bought some treasure (to me) cheap. Only way with vintage.


Anyone know what the far Left 2MT item is? Tri-shaped only tip sharp w divots, and marked “Made in U.S.A” “G S Pat.” and 11/16” ?

[challenger]

Got me another redfish.

[bborr01]

Dishwasher broke (stopped pumping out waster water, refused to start up new washing programs again after I drained it), spent most of saturday fixing it. Had to take it out and disassemble it. First I thought it was an eletronic error but all the components looked pristine. After that I disassembled the pumps and heaters so I could reach the drain pump, inside that I found a shard of glass wedged in the impeller preventing it from moving, I tested the pump independently and it worked fine so that was probably it.

Reassembled and it started up and ran a test program, it worked! Well the first time I saw it was leaking water, so I had to stop and redo all the hose clamps. Also lifted it on two chairs so I could look under it and watch for leaks. But it ran a program from start to end properly and no leaks.

So now this thing just needs a better filter, pretty crappy filter to let a glass shard through.

Most modern dishwashers have a garbage disposal built into them and they need to have big enough holes in the screen to let larger food in to be disposed of. BTW, a friend of mine had exactly the same problem and bought a new pump for their dishwasher. Found the same problem when he was getting ready to put the new pump in. His wife had broken a glass in the dishwasher and it must be she figured the dishwasher could take care of it.

[bborr01]

Um, bought some treasure (to me) cheap. Only way with vintage.


Anyone know what the far Left 2MT item is? Tri-shaped only tip sharp w divots, and marked “Made in U.S.A” “G S Pat.” and 11/16” ?

Looks like some sort of spade drill, maybe with a special sharpening job for drilling some odd material.

[DennisCA]

Toys for the kids, building a catapult for the kids. I am building two copies to be exact. It's gonna be inspired by the Da Vinci catapult so the turned dowel will go in the center and there will be a ratcheting wheel and trigger mechanism to let it go.



I don't have a wood lathe anymore so I had to improvise using my metal lathe. I think I prefer using it over the wood lathe, at least for making simple parts like this what I want to be perfectly round and consistent. Used a leather to cover the ways and also had dust extraction.

[Steve Steven]

Anyone know what the far Left 2MT item is? Tri-shaped only tip sharp w divots, and marked “Made in U.S.A” “G S Pat.” and 11/16” ? Looks like a “hard rock “ or “black” drill for very hard metals

[Bented]

Back when they made things so they could be taken apart to fix, were fixable and whoever made them didn't die of embarrassment at the state of what you find when you get past the outer layer. There's no pride in 99% of what's made now

Yes there is, however most now buy equipment strictly on price, why buy a tool that costs $150.00 when you can buy another manufacturers tool for $29.95?
I buy two of these at a time for general shop use, bought 2 this July and one still works, one went in the scrap when it failed last month. $22.00 each'
Can't beat it, use them for low priority work, measuring standard fasteners, mill finish stock, rough machining and general measuring.

Why use a Starrett tool to measure hot rolled steel stock?

The people that work in the high end of manufacturing still have pride in the products that they make, you will not ever buy them because of cost.





When they stop working toss them. https://www.amazon.com/VINCA-DCLA-06...54&s=hi&sr=1-6

Thank you China.

[J Tiers]

What did I do today? Well the most recent thing was "attending" via zoom, the service for my half sister Katia, who died of Covid a few days ago. That came right after a silly city commission meeting that I was glad to get out of early, but not very happy about the reason I did.
She had just gotten married in August.

[Dave C]

So sorry. Words aren't much help, but I am sorry for your loss.

[The Metal Butcher]

Very sorry to hear that, Jerry.

[lakeside53]

Jerry, that sucks. so sorry

[DennisCA]

My condolences Jerry

[10KPete]

I'm so sorry to hear this!! Our prayers to you and yours.

Pete