What did you do today?

[DennisCA]

Rye bread last night, traditional recipe that's been made by grandmothers on both sides.

The recipe is kinda fluid but I've tried to lock down a batch size that gives 10 ish "loaves".

1200ml water
50g fresh yeast
1.5 - 2 tablespoons salt
400g rye flour
500g coarse wheat flour
1-2 dl of wheat bran

https://i.imgur.com/1Gfx1B4.mp4

500g of wheat flour is an estimate, I tend to have to add more flour until the dough gets the right consistency. Rye dough is kinda messy to work with, doesn't develop gluten like wheat when worked so it's like glue and likes to stick to things. Anyway when it's at the proper ratio it's still sticky but not loose in consistency. Important to have a well floured worksurface.



The center hole is traditional, can make it with a suitable glass. Also poke a bunch of holes in it with a fork. The cutouts make nice little breads, the kids love to eat them when still hot, split them open like a hamburger bun and put in some butter.



Most of it goes in the freezer.

Traditional meat & potatoes dinner, fried sliced pork belly (uncured), the drippings are used as sauce and also for dipping the rye bread in. So you want fatty meat that produces a lot of drippings.

[Bruno Mueller]

I continued to work on the Eureka tool. The production of the shaft was somewhat complicated. This has two excenter integrated. To realize this on the lathe was not easy and took a good hour with dial gauge until everything was set.

[Bruno Mueller]

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[Dan Dubeau]

Looks very nice Bruno.

[The Metal Butcher]

Flying today. First time in 13 years.

[mattthemuppet]

oh my gosh, I'm glad I just ate lunch, that looks fantastic!

[Tim The Grim]

I’ve never needed a spider. Now that I’m retired and feeling up to it, I’ve been doing weekly trips to the range.
Now I need a spider to do some barrel work I’ve put off for years. Nothing fancy, just a unit that takes the place of the cog hub on my Royal collet closer.
This way I can leave the Royal sleeve mounted on the spindle to maintain decent concentricity and just swap out 3 screws to mount the spider when I need to.
I brass tipped the screws using some old 360 I had.

[Dave C]

Spent yesterday and most of today trying to get used to the new phone that my daughter gave me for my 81st birthday. My previous phone was an iPhone 7 that she gave me about 3 years ago. I was happy with it, not proficient, but happy. This new one is an Android and to say I am not comfortable with it would be an understatement.

[Cenedd]

Tim The Grim Nice. I've had occasion to want a spider but mainly to stop the back end of the stick whipping round and killing me. For the record, how many years is it acceptable to out this off?!

Dave C Unlike an iPhone, an Android phone isn't a set spec/quality. Provided it's a decent one, you'll find it every bit as good as the iPhone. I wouldn't have suggested a switch; not because one is worse than the other but because there isn't (for most) an advantage in switching (either way) but there is the pain of the learning curve and if there's no benefit to it, that's just irritating. Good luck.

[ChazzC]

Spent yesterday and most of today trying to get used to the new phone that my daughter gave me for my 81st birthday. My previous phone was an iPhone 7 that she gave me about 3 years ago. I was happy with it, not proficient, but happy. This new one is an Android and to say I am not comfortable with it would be an understatement.

I've come to realize that there are two types of people in many respects: Computers Apple vs. PC (loved the ads); Phones iPhone vs. the World; Cameras Nikon vs. Canon. That's as far as I am going, and I request that others try to stay on technical topic!

[Dan Dubeau]

I've come to realize that there are two types of people in many respects: Computers Apple vs. PC (loved the ads); Phones iPhone vs. the World; Cameras Nikon vs. Canon. That's as far as I am going, and I request that others try to stay on technical topic!

I agree. All of our brains are wired different. I had an IPhone 6 and suffered through it for 3 years. When I got my Samsung android it was a breath of fresh air, and it just worked the way I wanted it to. No fuss or fiddling around, I took to it like a duck to water. I'm not a fan of the Apple environment. I have friends that are the complete opposite.

[danlb]

Spent yesterday and most of today trying to get used to the new phone that my daughter gave me for my 81st birthday. My previous phone was an iPhone 7 that she gave me about 3 years ago. I was happy with it, not proficient, but happy. This new one is an Android and to say I am not comfortable with it would be an understatement.

It should be up to the person who gave you the present to work with you to help you get used to the new phone.

It does not matter which direction that you go. Once you are used to the Apple way of doing things, it becomes fairly natural. Same with the android. It just takes time. Both have a few simple ideas that are not necessarily intuitive. After you use the Android for a while, it will become natural. It took me a couple of weeks to wean myself from iPhone to Android. Now when someone hands me an iPhone (as in the woman from china who was using it for a translation service yesterday) I have no idea what happens when you hit the buttons or swipe / tap the screen.

I am not in the camp that believes some people are apple and some are android. What I do believe is "what you are taught first becomes the natural way to do things and that's a strong barrier to change."

[J Tiers]

......................................... What I do believe is "what you are taught first becomes the natural way to do things and that's a strong barrier to change."

And that very correct conclusion is VERY well known by Apple, and Microsoft. Look how well it has worked in the computer world. An OS that is almost certainly technically superior, is still only a minor player in the world of consumer computer OS'

[ChazzC]

Two more fixture plates:


The one on the left is 3" x 4" with 1/4-20 holes and was cut from a 4" x 16" plate I got on eBay (same plate as the 4" x 4" plate for the lathe). This one is 3" wide so it fits in my 3" milling vise without changing the jaw setup. The one on the right is 4" x 5" with 10-32 holes & T-Slots, cut from a 7" x 13" Sherline plate (which also "donated" 7" x 8" & 2-1/4" x 5" fixtures plates). All I did to the smaller plate was square & cleanup the saw-cut edges; on the larger plate, I also created rabbets so that I could clamp it in the 3" vise:


Yes, the rabbets aren't equal, but I didn't want to get too close to the T-Slot:


If look closely, you'll see that I relieved the rabbeted corners with a 3/8" x 60° cutter. And yes, I got a little carried away on my deburring wheel.

[Tim The Grim]

Tim The Grim Nice. I've had occasion to want a spider but mainly to stop the back end of the stick whipping round and killing me. For the record, how many years is it acceptable to out this off?!
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I sold my dirt bike in the factory parking lot and then backed my pickup to the loading dock. A 9” SB lathe bought from my employer (* or so I thought *) for $300 in August of ‘84. My 1st basement lathe. I gave it away when I moved from NJ to El Paso in ‘99.
Here I soon bought a nice used 10” Rockwell and later replaced that with the brand new13x40 ENCO about 10 years ago. So 38 years of lathe ownership without a spider.

* My Plant Mgr. pocketed the cash.* When the owner and his wife returned from overseas a few days later, I asked her for a receipt for the lathe purchase.
I got my receipt… but I also rolled my tool boxes out the door later that day.