2025

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  1: good Snow
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  2: good Snow
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  3: 2025-01-05_20-07-07.jpg
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  4: Half of the auger wasn't turning - shear pin..
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  5: 2025-01-05_20-08-43.jpg
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  6: After snow blowing
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  7: 2025-01-07_10-09-41.jpg
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  8: Dying fan - 2016-2025 not too bad
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  9: Retro reflector (corner reflector) - if you look at it - all you see is your eye with the pupil centered.
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  10: Retro reflector (corner reflector)
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  11: Made this adapter for Norma, thin wall. It is for her press for installing snaps.
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  12: Made this adapter for Norma, thin wall. It is for her press for installing snaps.
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  13: Using my prescription safety glasses - I like the screen sides - hard to find.
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  14: 2025-01-16_15-16-02.jpg
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  15: Divider valve keeps leaking..
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  16: New Crush washers from McMaster
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  17: This is NTPF (F for Fuel which has no spiral gap) with a copper crush washer. Some stripped hex drives, but can't find new parts. Graco was a waste of time - as are many US companies today.
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  18: Repainted tool box from 1934. I think this was my grandfathers tackle box originally - but ended up as my first tool box when I was a teenager.
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  19: Making an adapter for a snap press (sewing) Strange M16-1.0 thread.
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  20: Making an adapter for a snap press (sewing) Strange M16-1.0 thread.
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  21: Have some porcelain clay to play with
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  22: Inside an old lubricator pump.
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  23: Kiln Repair - teflon sheet to form repair mud.
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  24: Making saw table so it can be adjusted square.
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  25: Making saw table so it can be adjusted square. Using block so tap always starts straight.
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  26: Making saw table so it can be adjusted square. Bottom plate installed - grub screws sticking up
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  27: Making saw table so it can be adjusted square. Table square with blade.
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  28: Making saw table so it can be adjusted square. Holes each side of blade are for allen wrench removal/install.
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  29: Old floor of kiln
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  30: Repairing bottom edge of kiln.
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  31: New floor of kiln
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  32: New lube pump
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  33: Had to rewire because I put the mounting hole about 25mm to far..
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  34: Self tightening cresent wrench. Actually works - quite well!
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  35: Self tightening cresent wrench. Actually works - quite well!
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  36: Special pliers for removing stripped philips nuts.
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  37: Super stuby alan wrenches
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  38: Japanses exacto knife holder that doesn't get loose.
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  39: Removing old lube system
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  40: New lube system - drilled tapped.
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  41: Removing old - mounting replacement is going to need a new plate.. You can see the air in the system - this shows it is back draining when it shouldn't..
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  42: 1/4" hex wrong size? Why?
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  43: Back side of table with old lube lines removed.
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  44: Had to remove the Y scale to change the fittings all over the Saddle.
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  45: They ground a place for the wrench - but not deep enough.
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  46: Time for a nap underneath the milling table..Turns out it was a copper line! There was one plastic line that I had to make a 4mm-to-1/4" tube cuppler.
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  47: Time for a nap underneath the milling table..Turns out it was a copper line! There was one plastic line that I had to make a 4mm-to-1/4" tube cuppler.
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  48: Time for a nap underneath the milling table..Turns out it was a copper line!
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  49: Looks like it was getting plenty of way lube.
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  50: We can see the new 4mm push-to-connect fittings. (I changed them out for all metal stainless later.)
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  51: 2025-03-11_20-33-35.jpg
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  52: Making bracket for lube meters
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  53: Making bracket for lube meters. One of the holes was in the wrong place!
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  54: Assembling the lube meters stack
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  55: Assembling the lube meters stack
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  56: Assembling the lube meters stack
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  57: Assembling the lube meters stack.
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  58: Ground down a deditcated wrench for the pencil air grinder.
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  59: Ground down a deditcated wrench for the pencil air grinder.
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  60: Ground down a deditcated wrench for the pencil air grinder.
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  61: Kiln reassembled and the mortar fired - the grey turns to light pink.
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  62: Lube-pump Piston end.
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  63: lube-pump disassembled.
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  64: Nice center closing vise.
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  65: Nice center closing vise.
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  66: Nice center closing vise. Pins for mounting it.
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  67: Scketchy setup - These grinding disks aren't made with the 1.25" hole.
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  68: Scketchy setup - These grinding disks aren't made with the 1.25" hole.
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  69: Tiny soldering iron with computerized controls
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  70: Just a hair to small so I had to bore out 21 and 22mm
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  71: Just a hair to small so I had to bore out 21 and 22mm. Used a bit of spray and wipe for coolant.
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  72: First time I used this asian boring head - mounted on a kwik-switch-200. Works well. Not a Wohlhaupter, but works.
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  73: Color coded my sockets.
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  74: Never though I would use this mag base as much as I do.
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  75: easy to move now.
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  76: Asking for trouble - 1mm carbide drill
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  77: put a cone for starting taps.
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  78: Reversing tap started for pointed end taps.
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  79: Reaming - ended up a tad oversized - will stick with single point boring.
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  80: 2025-04-01_20-40-53.jpg
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  81: Swaping out an ugly supermess for a pretty Millimess
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  82: ebay pictures Need to sell this and find a metric replacement.
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  83: ebay pictures Need to sell this and find a metric replacement.
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  84: ebay pictures Need to sell this and find a metric replacement.
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  85: ebay pictures Need to sell this and find a metric replacement.
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  86: ebay pictures Need to sell this and find a metric replacement.
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  87: ebay pictures Need to sell this and find a metric replacement.
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  88: Thread and every thing had brown stuff that wasn't rust.
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  89: cleaned up well with acetone. Reads out sub micron
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  90: didn't have replacemnt for broken switch - ordered.
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  91: Switch broken off - was able to locate a new one.
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  92: Mahr bench micrometer.
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  93: Starrett Bench micrometer/ indicator calibrator - Art's.
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  94: Starrett Bench micrometer/ indicator calibrator - Art's.
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  95: I seem to have an indicator addiction.
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  96: Could be time to clean my bench?
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  97: Repaired C-clamp - looked like there was a defect in the original casting? Lower left.
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  98: I used 100% nickle rod for the first time thinking it was cast iron - not sure - might have been wrought steel. Easy to weld with.
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  99: Tim's plane seriously needs a bath.
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  100: Got the Microcode II back together with the new switch - everything works.
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  101: Weaping hydrant.. got a rebuild kit - but the packing nut seems like a loose fit?
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  102: Routing out the sperometer plate - using Stephans recipe.
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  103: He said 0.1mm step down - seems he might have meant 1mm?
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  104: I ground the endmill so it had a chamfer.
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  105: I ground the endmill so it had a chamfer.
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  106: I ground the endmill so it had a chamfer.
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  107: Something is wrong? I checked and checked - I think it was the beta software.
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  108: Something is wrong? I checked and checked - I think it was the beta software.
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  109: Treasures from Art - X-mas in April!
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  110: Treasures from Art - X-mas in April! Mystery item - figured it out - someone worked VERY hard to make this - electric contact for micrometer head.
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  111: Treasures from Art - X-mas in April! Will be the stand for the Bench mike I'm making.
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  112: So They used a CMOS buffer so there was zero current flowing through the micrometer threads.
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  113: So They used a CMOS buffer so there was zero current flowing through the micrometer threads.
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  114: Lots of work - I think shop made?
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  115: This is how it would work - but it doesn't hold the head square.. I'll have to fix that.
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  116: Turned a brass collet
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  117: Split it
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  118: Just need a hole for a grub-screw
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  119: Cutting copper for jaws for a vise.
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  120: Everything but the grub-screw hole tapped
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  121: Norma's Irises in bloom.
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  122: Drilling grub-screw hole
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  123: Trying to drill out old broken off probe
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  124: Not much surface to align with.
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  125: Using centering scope to line up the mill
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  126: Left hand drill -
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  127: Trouble drilling - so had to disassemble the indicator
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  128: Washing machine repair
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  129: Failed contact in Washing machine
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  130: Indicator side opened
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  131: This is the setup I used to drill indicator
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  132: new Powder coating gun
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  133: Made a better diffuser
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  134: With just a point, I can find deviations in the surface plate.
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  135: This is the 254TPI (0,1mm pitch) micro adjuster.
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  136: I need to wait for the M3.5 nuts to lock the alluminum screw feet to fully test.
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  137: Adjusting the flat so it is perfectly level - attempting to drill the probe stud out -
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  138: This is the indicator, has no model number - just a serial number that they can't cross reference. Strange.
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  139: 2025-05-16_16-50-58.jpg
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  140: Setting up to sharpen the lead-trim carbide blade.
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  141: D-bit grinder works well for this.
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  142: Now that it is sharp, it makes cleaner cuts - less rolling over of the leads.
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  143: C5 collets are size limited
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  144: 2025-05-18_22-16-53.jpg
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  145: Disassembly of D-bit grinder
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  146: Disassembly of D-bit grinder
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  147: Some lathe work
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  148: Thread cutting M30-1.0
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  149: C5 collett to ER32 conversion - made a ring to match the old
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  150: Boring out to press on to the ER32 shaft
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  151: C5 collett to ER32 conversion - made a ring to match the old
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  152: Doggy set up to mill key-slop
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  153: 2025-05-27_18-39-09.jpg
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  154: Threaded sleeve pressed on to match C5. It expanded the sleeve enough had to take off a bit.. PITA
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  155: 2025-05-28_21-23-43.jpg
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  156: 2025-05-31_11-59-34.jpg
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  157: 2025-06-02_16-29-02.jpg
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  158: 2025-06-02_16-33-33.jpg
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  159: Changing oil in lathe - break-in is over - the magnets I put in the oil path did their job - big one on the bottom of the tank as well.
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  160: Replacing oil - slow sphon.
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  161: Tim's recording studio progress - floor is complicated.
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  162: Tim's recording studio progress - sloping roof - walls should not be parrallel?
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  163: Tim's recording studio progress - special windows.
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  164: I've been collecting some glass ware for doing some chemisty work.
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  165: I've been collecting some glass ware for doing some chemisty work.

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