What did you do today?

[Tundra Twin Track]

Good job on saving from scrap yard,that’s a great looking bandsaw Tim!

[Cenedd]

On holiday in Italy - don't hate me, it's well deserved!
Firstly: driving. Who has right of way? That's right, the one most willing to die...right now! The even more disturbing thing is this also goes for pedestrians too! Patience, give way, give and take? Nope, they've never heard of the concepts. How there aren't more accidents is a real testament to the power of religion....cos I can't see any other reason there aren't more bodies!

Next, I think I've caught 'machinist' Went on a boat trip and spotted a pipe stamped "
2"-150 316
". Ooh, marine grade stainless, well that makes sense. 2", obvious. 150 threads per inch seems a little ambitious though, especially in stainless! Yup, I had to go look up class 150 flanges. Is it a terminal case?

[30BR Shooter]

Tim Clarke that is well worth keeping. So graceful looking. With the employee and consumer protection laws we have now such a design would not be offered for sale. Too many pinch points where the stupid among us would hurt themselves. So sad. That looks so much better than the stamped steel wheel covers my Grizzly BS has.

[Peter N]

This was more like this week, rather than today, as I had my first day back at work after being off for a month.
It's the first stages of a cylindrical grinding attachment for my surface grinder, that I'll need for another project - this was a sort of a side project that occurred partway through the other one.
Alignment just visually checked using a couple of transfer punchs (the pointiest things I had to hand) in the holes for the centres looks good all the way along.
Still loads more to do, but at least I've started it.

[Willy]

Nice work Peter!
This project likely deserves a thread of it's own to do it justice.

[JustJim]

I made a jig to grind my cold chisels. I'm not very good at grinding by hand, so I raided the scrap pile and found a few pieces of stock about the right size. It works pretty well but I'll fine tune the slot after my sine plate arrives, since it winds up grinding on the right side of the chisel a little more than the left side. Anyhow, so far so good but a little more work needed.

[RB211]

Had surgery, all is fine, was planned.

[Dan Dubeau]

Kicked the can down the road a bit farther on my coke forge side draft exhaust hood. Bed frame angle, with 10ga sheet filler. Still need to ring roll the pipe flange for the top, and cut the opening. Then get it plumbed in inside the shed. Hopefully before the first snowfall, that's my goal.



I've not had much shop time lately. Won't have much in the next couple weeks either

[Dan Krager]

This is the brass work for the hand plane I'm restoring. All this except the two washers started out as a 2" x 4" x 1/2" brass bar. It was fun doing it because brass is so easy to work.

Next up is 9 pieces woodworking for the fancy adjustable fence.

DanK

DanK

[Noitoen]

Designed and cut a table accessory to help cutting thin Stainless plate on the CNC Plasma.

[Cenedd]

Finally got round to getting the offcuts of worktop from the 'new' kitchen. It's been stored outside for about a year but when I checked it before it was as flat as I could measure it (which, I'll admit means absolutely nothing!). Definitely an upgrade on my previous "surface plate"! The Bosch dust shoe for the grinder was also FAR better than the 3rd party one I'd tried previously - almost dust-free with extraction!

[ImFred]

Is that plaskit?

[Cenedd]

Nope... unless Google has failed me, at least
It's Silestone which is, I believe an alternative brand to Quartz. An artificial mix of bits of stone and presumably resin. It's quite hard and impermeable so stuff doesn't soak into it. At least makes it feasible to use a height gauge for measurement and layout. Maybe I'll even get round to making a comparator stand at some point! I suspect that's the wrong name but I mean the type of surface gauge that has a bumper on the front so you can measure squareness...or lack thereof.