What did you do today?

[Tim The Grim]

Working on another prosthesis prototype for the college students.
This pic shows why I have threaded holes in my vise top.

[Dan Dubeau]

Spent some time this morning melting down some scrap Al. It's been many months since I've done any casting, so while I poured some ingots, I was re hydrating my sand, and working it over by hand to bring it back to life. Tried to ram up a mold for some more shelf brackets, but had the drag dropout on my just before lunch. I'm going to do some more casting tonight after dinner, as I need some more brackets for lathe tooling. My crappy sand always takes a few castings and rammings to get into decent shape. Can't wait to make some better stuff.






This was a non scientific mix of 6061, and mic6, with a few chunks of a356 in a few batches too.

[flathead4]

Working on another prosthesis prototype for the college students.
This pic shows why I have threaded holes in my vise top.

I don't see your pic and I am curious. I got a used vice when I bought my Bridgeport and there are threaded holes in top of the jaws.

[junkaddict]

Made a chuck adapter for the rotary table to make doing a bolt circle easier.

[junkaddict]

To complete this, a ridiculously overbuilt desiccant dryer.

[Richard P Wilson]

Made a chuck adapter for the rotary table to make doing a bolt circle easier.

I did something similar, but made the adapter about 1 1/2" larger in diameter than the chuck, so the bolts holding it to the table are accessible with the chuck in place. Saves having to dismount the chuck from the adapter each time the assembly is put on the table.

[Dan Dubeau]

Doesn't look like much, but I had to move a lot of stuff to get here. Excavated the Tormach computer from the lower side cabinet, and relocated it to the over head shelf I put up yesterday. Original power cord was 2" too short, and I felt like Doc in Back to the future, perched up there trying to gently yank a bit more cord. Dug through my giant bin of "why do you save old cords" and found one 4" longer.

I haven't really been able to stand in that nook for a few months without moving a bunch of stuff, but some slow and steady work of putting up shelves, building some storage, and putting stuff in organized/categorized bins up on shelves and drawers has netted me a lot of free space, and the use of my machines back. I can now freely move from machine to machine, and all the way around my welding table without having to move cords, unplug/plug in, move buckets of material/tools/scrap, or move anything in general. I think I finally have a usable shop the way I want it. A few more quick little "shop" projects, and I can get started on a few builds I've been back burnering for far too long.

Might finish them tonight, but I'm going to give some indoor golf a try this afternoon. We'll see if the back is up to it, I haven't swung a club since august.

[The Metal Butcher]

A stand, but for what...?

[PStechPaul]

My little "Stinger" shop vac has been making squealing noises on start-up and running poorly, so I figured the motor bearings needed cleaning and lubrication. I had to entirely disassemble it, and I thought the main bearing was a sleeve type, but when I finally popped it out, I saw it was actually a ball bearing. When I got it all back together, I found that it was blowing air, but no suction, so I thought I had reversed the stator. But when I reversed it, things were much worse. Then I realized that there would be no suction without being mounted on the bucket, so I reversed it back, and now it works properly. I guess I had some brain fog. I thought I had more pictures, but these are all I had.

[reggie_obe]

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A stand, but for what...?

For whatever a Yuppie, DINK, Preppie, Hipster wants to put on on it.
How much did you get paid to make it?

[The Metal Butcher]

For whatever a Yuppie, DINK, Preppie, Hipster wants to put on on it.
How much did you get paid to make it?

Well that's pretty damn harsh. It's for me.

[eKretz]

One heavy ass hipster if you need to bolt it down with bolts that big. Arbor press stand?

[reggie_obe]

Well that's pretty damn harsh. It's for me.

Not intended to be so. I like it, looks sturdy.

You're missing the mark with making stuff.
Usable, needed parts, no.
Fleecing city slickers of their money by selling them "Industrial Chic", yes!

[junkaddict]

A stand, but for what...?

I like that thing.

[junkaddict]

I did something similar, but made the adapter about 1 1/2" larger in diameter than the chuck, so the bolts holding it to the table are accessible with the chuck in place. Saves having to dismount the chuck from the adapter each time the assembly is put on the table.

I thought about that, but it is not a dedicated chuck, and 4 1/2" was the biggest stock I had on hand. Even metal from the scrap bin at my local metals yard is getting kind of ridiculously expensive.