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Just piddled around the shop today.
Made a pair of widgets for a neighbor out of a scrap of metal he brought me.
And yes, I know the jaws on my vice are deplorable. Replacements will be made. From the leftover stock the neighbor gave me.
Mystery steel.... Always a crapshoot. The file test was no problem, didn't seem overly nasty. The sawzall cut through it with a 24tpi bimetal blade with no trouble.
But cleaning it up? Whaaaaat? Ended up using a brazed carbide tool in the fly cutter to do the nasty work. Had to touch it up a time or two, because carbide and interrupted cuts.....
But it came out nicely. Unfortunately, the fly cutter loves to throw nuclear-hot chips everywhere. And there's no power feed on my mill yet......
Ouch, ouch, ouch, hot, hot, ouch, ouch. That's after brushing most of 'em off. Little burns all over.
Not too bad when it's on the arms, but when one lands on my shaved head...... that'll bring a tear to your eye.
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Non shop related, here's 8 days worth of eggs....
I also made a thinga-majig for the vice... I have a handful of old mild steel balls, so I grabbed a few and milled a flat on them. Saw Adam Booth using one
on one of his projects. I had never thought to put a flat on one side, I'd just cram one in between the vice jaw and the workpiece and go.
Other than that, I cleaned up my mess, organized some stuff, shot a rat under the chicken coop, had a beer and watched some YouTube machining videos.
All in all, a productive day. (actually, weekend)
Made a pair of widgets for a neighbor out of a scrap of metal he brought me.
And yes, I know the jaws on my vice are deplorable. Replacements will be made. From the leftover stock the neighbor gave me.
Mystery steel.... Always a crapshoot. The file test was no problem, didn't seem overly nasty. The sawzall cut through it with a 24tpi bimetal blade with no trouble.
But cleaning it up? Whaaaaat? Ended up using a brazed carbide tool in the fly cutter to do the nasty work. Had to touch it up a time or two, because carbide and interrupted cuts.....
But it came out nicely. Unfortunately, the fly cutter loves to throw nuclear-hot chips everywhere. And there's no power feed on my mill yet......
Ouch, ouch, ouch, hot, hot, ouch, ouch. That's after brushing most of 'em off. Little burns all over.
Not too bad when it's on the arms, but when one lands on my shaved head...... that'll bring a tear to your eye.
..
Non shop related, here's 8 days worth of eggs....
I also made a thinga-majig for the vice... I have a handful of old mild steel balls, so I grabbed a few and milled a flat on them. Saw Adam Booth using one
on one of his projects. I had never thought to put a flat on one side, I'd just cram one in between the vice jaw and the workpiece and go.
Other than that, I cleaned up my mess, organized some stuff, shot a rat under the chicken coop, had a beer and watched some YouTube machining videos.
All in all, a productive day. (actually, weekend)