Hi Tom best wishes from the Indian Territory and I'll attempt to check in on a more frequent basis.....
Rick C.
Rick C.
Bike builders that have machine tools/shops
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Well in 6 days I called three times total, of those left two voicemails and sent one text. The guy who’s leasing (I guess?) my friends shop told my friend that I need to stop calling because I’m too annoying… uhm what? My friend is clearly in need of cash, trying to sell a bunch of tools and materials and looking for more construction gigs so I dunno! I don’t know what’s wrong with these CA people….
Time to seek a new source? Between FB Market and Craigslist.....
Tom
Tom
It’s not a big loss, but I passed up a lot of other good deals. Like a plasma cutter for $50. This tool is probably frustrating to use. I had to make a couple of bronze bushings on a mini lathe once. The fken tailstock didn’t let me drill deep enough for both parts in one shot. It’s a sign from above to not waste time with this garbage and wait till I have a shop to put real tools, maybe only go regular fab tools for now. A plasma cutter, a weld table, a saw. Oh I know a guy has a little ryobi for free…
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Got that little ryobi bandsaw. Will see how it cuts later. Got a wood blade that’s prob ok for aluminum too. Thinkin where to put it. I have 3-4 tools I would mount on a solid surface now, may be time for a new table/cart build.
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A sharp wood bandsaw blade will work fine at 250 SFPM, with light oil lube. In my experience. But.
Using wood bandsaw for cutting Aluminum - The Home Machinist! (chaski.org)
Tom
Using wood bandsaw for cutting Aluminum - The Home Machinist! (chaski.org)
Tom
Right Tom. I tend to use C clamps to hold small table top machines in place in a small, crowded shop for quick position changes. New bench space is always a useful project too Tony.
Rick C.
Rick C.
I can't say I have used a band saw much as I can remember. Though back in the 70's our household had a scroll saw. Mostly good for soft wood like balsa wood.
There was building scale model boats powered by glow plug engines. Think that the idea was to test it out in the bath tub. I guess I was gullible.
I did listen to instructions on carving a wood propeller. I was seen making a solid balsa wing. Spars and paper doped over would have been nice. Kit form I did mess with that.
I saw one of my windsurf crowd have in his van a jig to put together a fiberglass windsurf board into. You know custom made himself, one of the outliers? Kudos I say!
I used to have a 2.9 square meter windsurf sail I used on a sinker 85 liter narrow 8ft windsurf board. It was El Nino back in the 90's at Half Moon Bay Harbor, rigging in the rain at dawn.
Wind so strong that it was necessary to walk into the wind on a slight slant to not get blown over. A hand over nostrils to keep them from wind shutting them closed along with sand blowing in your eyes, now you are into it!
Only I missed knowing that while I was there, in a bar Neil Young was playing a place smaller venue than the Catalyst in Santa Cruz.
Bla Bla,
MT
There was building scale model boats powered by glow plug engines. Think that the idea was to test it out in the bath tub. I guess I was gullible.
I did listen to instructions on carving a wood propeller. I was seen making a solid balsa wing. Spars and paper doped over would have been nice. Kit form I did mess with that.
I saw one of my windsurf crowd have in his van a jig to put together a fiberglass windsurf board into. You know custom made himself, one of the outliers? Kudos I say!
I used to have a 2.9 square meter windsurf sail I used on a sinker 85 liter narrow 8ft windsurf board. It was El Nino back in the 90's at Half Moon Bay Harbor, rigging in the rain at dawn.
Wind so strong that it was necessary to walk into the wind on a slight slant to not get blown over. A hand over nostrils to keep them from wind shutting them closed along with sand blowing in your eyes, now you are into it!
Only I missed knowing that while I was there, in a bar Neil Young was playing a place smaller venue than the Catalyst in Santa Cruz.
Bla Bla,
MT
Yeah this saw does the job for small stuff, need a metal blade and stronger motor.
I’ve only used Real bandsaws before this…
I’ve only used Real bandsaws before this…
Best for that would be a portable band saw with a bigger plate, and a new base to either mount on wall or bench. There are planty of you,tube videos on that, and get one from Harbor frieht, if you can't tind used..........Curt
Well it looks like I am back in my machine shop soon. Today I ordered soft jaws for the Bison three jaw chuck. Side job for a grade school buddy.
Same lathe jaws in 2008 @ $24 US, are now $53. Need machinable lathe chuck jaws for difficult to hold parts. I would post photos but need the IT dude to sort photo down load and import protocol.
Same lathe jaws in 2008 @ $24 US, are now $53. Need machinable lathe chuck jaws for difficult to hold parts. I would post photos but need the IT dude to sort photo down load and import protocol.
Buddies are important. Best to you Tom.
Rick C.
Rick C.
Glad to hear you're back at it, Tom. This latest round of arthritis has lasted so long my clothes are out of date. I was out in the garage myself yesterday pushing piles of crap around trying to remember what it was for. What's in this box, has yielded some surprises. I have been ordering parts and the folks have been stacking them up in the garage for me.
Out of stock and the price increases on a lot of things has been surprising, Two months from China is about right.
Steve.
Out of stock and the price increases on a lot of things has been surprising, Two months from China is about right.
Steve.
This project began last year, and seemed simple enough at the outset. Buddy has collected telegraph insulators for ever. Table mount display is the requirement. The insulators are a three piece affair, the glass insulator, wooden intermediate called a cob, and the steel mount to a cross bar.
The crossbar mounting (bolt) has what looks like a 5/8" wood screw to mate with the wooden cob and about a inch of unthreaded 1/2" terminating in a round head flange. Other side of the flange is the draw bolt fitted in a telegraph pole cross bar. The draw bolt bit is to be replaced with a short 1/2-13 stub.
I hit the wall so to speak being able to grip the round between the flange and cob mount threads of insulator post they call them.
Administrator: I know this is not MB related but it has relevance in the machine shop thread.
The crossbar mounting (bolt) has what looks like a 5/8" wood screw to mate with the wooden cob and about a inch of unthreaded 1/2" terminating in a round head flange. Other side of the flange is the draw bolt fitted in a telegraph pole cross bar. The draw bolt bit is to be replaced with a short 1/2-13 stub.
I hit the wall so to speak being able to grip the round between the flange and cob mount threads of insulator post they call them.
Administrator: I know this is not MB related but it has relevance in the machine shop thread.
I went fishing to day. Well, I actually used a tool, ya know, a whatchmacallit that has a long handle with a strong magnet on the end to pick up ferrous material.
The landlord had a re-roofing job done on a building on the opposite of the driveway.
Just like the workers that removed the trash last time they did not clean up and lots of metal and nails of all sorts in the drive way.
Some other guy is to clean up the grounds, but never showed up since the work was completed.
With the landlord being who he is and time will tell when I am elsewhere, I really needed to get this done.
I did a pattern to try an cover where stuff may be left to put a nail in a tire.
A bigger type with wheels would have been better, but I just used the puck size magnet on the long pole handle and dragged it as I walked. Occasionally I would check to what I got.
I know the longer nails that use a hammer probably. Of those, I saw anywhere from 1 to 3 inch lengths.
What is with the smaller type of nail, maybe using the air tool to use a string of nails, I suppose, in an air gun for nails?
See attached photo with some metal wire left attached to threads on the small nail. Bread bag plastic closure in picture to show relative size.
Are the wires sort of looking welded to the nail threads in two places part of sort of like a machine gun bullets ganged together to facilitate running a bunch of nails in the air compressor powered nail tool?
I thought that or that it makes the nails stay in the wood better?
MT
The landlord had a re-roofing job done on a building on the opposite of the driveway.
Just like the workers that removed the trash last time they did not clean up and lots of metal and nails of all sorts in the drive way.
Some other guy is to clean up the grounds, but never showed up since the work was completed.
With the landlord being who he is and time will tell when I am elsewhere, I really needed to get this done.
I did a pattern to try an cover where stuff may be left to put a nail in a tire.
A bigger type with wheels would have been better, but I just used the puck size magnet on the long pole handle and dragged it as I walked. Occasionally I would check to what I got.
I know the longer nails that use a hammer probably. Of those, I saw anywhere from 1 to 3 inch lengths.
What is with the smaller type of nail, maybe using the air tool to use a string of nails, I suppose, in an air gun for nails?
See attached photo with some metal wire left attached to threads on the small nail. Bread bag plastic closure in picture to show relative size.
Are the wires sort of looking welded to the nail threads in two places part of sort of like a machine gun bullets ganged together to facilitate running a bunch of nails in the air compressor powered nail tool?
I thought that or that it makes the nails stay in the wood better?
MT
