Tool and cutter grinder build

well, until I fix the numbers, I put some graphics numbers I had on the dial and covered them with the clear vinyl. It is the stuff they make the "wraps" for cars with instead of painting them. it is pretty durable stuff. I filled the lines with black paint. The lines came out perfect, I have to decide how to redo the numbers. I can machine them off and restamp them but they will be recessed slightly . Not sure how that will look. May have to do the whole thing over again, but that will be later. It will do for now.
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I am frustrated with this hand wheel so I am quitting where it is. it is usable and really not that bad, but someday, I will remake it more perfect. ( being a bit of a perfectionist can be a bad thing because nothing is ever good enough. I see all the flaws and mistakes where someone else sees something fantastic.) None the less it will do for now. I put a spin handle on it and the screw works flawlessly. It raises and lowers the head smoothly with almost no wobble or play. I couldn't expect it to be any better. I do have to make a brass pointer for it yet.

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I was going to machine little brass ends for the vise like handles on the various clamps. This would have taken many hours and yes it would be beautiful, but I got another idea and it only took 5 minutes and really works well. I found these little thread protector caps for bolts at the hardware store and thought I would try them. They work great and give a cushion to the handle when it slides to the end. they just push on and I kind of like them, so I will leave them until I decide if something better is in order. Also they only cost 26 cents a pair!
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I am having a lot of trouble seeing and focusing lately. A blood vessel burst in my right eyeball a few days ago and it looks like a big ink smear. It has cleared some, but they may have to repair it, or I can lose the eye. this is really messing up my judgment trying to align things to cut or draw or anything. it is like trying to work with one eye and not used to it. I noticed I am having trouble aligning to drill holes especially. I really don't need this in the middle of all the projects I am working on, but I guess that is the way things go. I am not happy about the thought of being a one eyed machinist.

I'm going to the shop an see if I can mess some thing else up. ( just kidding, I will try not to mess anything up)
 
Hey Mark,

Shouldn't have said anything about the handwheel. Few would have noticed anything, myself included.

Be careful in the shop and go get yourself fixed up. I'm sure I speak for many when I say we want you around for a long time. :)
 
Mark- Best wishes with the medical issues.
I love the handles with the bolt protectors. If you had said you were doing that I would have been disappointed. Now that I see them they look great! Very clean and modern looking. I am stealing that idea!
R
 
rwm said:
Mark- Best wishes with the medical issues.
I love the handles with the bolt protectors. If you had said you were doing that I would have been disappointed. Now that I see them they look great! Very clean and modern looking. I am stealing that idea!
R
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Yea , it sounds like "cheaping out" but I really like them. They do look nice.
 
wrmiller19 said:
Hey Mark,

Shouldn't have said anything about the handwheel. Few would have noticed anything, myself included.

Be careful in the shop and go get yourself fixed up. I'm sure I speak for many when I say we want you around for a long time. :)
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I try. Sometimes I think God is warning me. I have survived two heart attacks, three strokes , open heart surgery, have a pace maker, looking at risky curated artery surgery in the near future, I live on a morphine pump to help keep me out of my wheel chair for part of the time each day, suffer from severe neuropathy that affects my walking, balance, and forces me to use catheters 6 times a day and I am in stage 3 renal failure and and now my eyesight. This is really starting to suck, BUT I keep going and spend hours a day in my shop doing what I love. I have appointments to see surgeons in March.


Yea, I could have kept quiet, but I wouldn't want you to think I was perfect :D. Sometimes us old guys screw up too. Usually I would cover it up and call it a revision :grin:. If you ain't makin' any mistakes, you ain't doin' nuthin'.
 
I have most of the split cotters made now. I found the easy way to make them when you do it after like me, instead of machining them at the same time as boring the hole, is to measure the length of the slot in the whole. I put my cotter in the vise on the mill and cut the notch until it is the same lenght as the slot I measured. They fit perfect. Cut them in half and install them.
 
Hi Mark
All the best with the medical issues.
Getting old (63) makes me feel Inadequate, i can do most things, but a lot, lot slower. LOL
I love the work you do, i am a perfectionist as well, but i find as i get older, i forget or overlook things that needs doing.

All the best Jeff
 
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