It’s hard to lose a friend, even harder to lose a life long one. My thoughts and prayers to you and your friends family.
He’s back! Love stubbys to skip spotting sometimes.Tom 2 months behind no notifications, sorry for the loss of yourfriend...
I'm still adding tools and working on the shop
New grinder for dedicated tool shaping and sharpening plus a new benchtop drill on the way. Also adding stub drills for my small mill. I quite often run out of column using jobber length on the mill. The new bench top drill will get lots of use. The old one is just pretty used up and not accurate any longer. I plan on mounting new bandsaw blades and belt/disc grinder pads tomorrow. Then calibrate my lathe and mill. Hope they're on the money already.
Rick C.
Got to love the 70'sIt is good to see this thread active again.
I am out in the shop almost daily, but just to make kindling for the woodstove. Everything in the shop is a state of suspended animation, but for turning on the Zenith radio tuned to NPR. Opening the adjacent cabinet door with the September1971 Playboy Gate Fold of Crystal Smith pinned inside.
She is my muse.
Wearing red white and blue stars and stripes bell bottom pants. She had pretty feet and you can guess the rest.
Tom
I've done sand blasting and at the time we had 2 commercial Ingersoll compressors twin cylinders and 150gal. Tanks could barely keep up... At freightliner doing frames with one of those hf rigs that held a 50# bag of beauty... the volume of air is just staggering... But if you have a large tank you can charge like a 200gal propane tank it would take a while to fill but give you the volume to do a few hours of blasting before you have to stop and let the compressor catch up... I don't think any one tank or compressor would do the job...What does this group know about the HF media blaster? My wife gave me one for my birthday, it’s the 110 lb. I’ve watched a few videos but have never used this type, I have used the cabinet type. There’s a lot of mixed reviews, I think a lot of people try to blast with an air compressor that doesn’t supply the air needed for the tool. I’ll try it on my shop compressor and see how it does, if needed I can connect my compressor I use for nail guns inline and run both.