POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

Had a pretty good leak in the backhoe bucket cylinder where the lower hyd line connects. It had been welded once before by someone. Cleaned it up and layed in several beads. No more leak. Took it up the hill to test it out, and dug up a rock for some bridge wash out repair, and it performed well. Mike

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Mauzinette said:
I made a bunch of shop rags from all the worn out clothes, bedsheets etc. that were waiting to be thrown out. I try to use shop rags very sparingly, but still... never enough of these.
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My trick for making shop rags is taking an old saw blade and grinding teeth off and sharpening it to a knife edge. Mount to a table saw, and it cuts thru rags easily. So much faster than a utility knife or sissors.


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toprecyler said:
My trick for making shop rags is taking an old saw blade and grinding teeth off and sharpening it to a knife edge. Mount to a table saw, and it cuts thru rags easily. So much faster than a utility knife or sissors.


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With a close fitting insert I hope! I'll bet that does work well.
 
Pulled the QCGB off, req all of 10 minutes. Was happy about that!
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Same old goopy grease mess as with everything else.
Less complicated than the apron but still a lot of bits and pieces. Nothing broken or overly loose on initial inspection.
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Not much left on the little Clausing other than the headstock. Need to strip the saddle and get it painted at some point.
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Clausing's solution for the open bottom gear box was to cast a slope into the main mount so it can drain into the chip pan. Nice little detail.
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Got tired of carrying the telescope in and out of the house... building a dolly for it... 10" wheels/tires, 5/8" shaft. Going to use 2x6 for the base.

36" wide in the back. In the front 12" wide with swivel base to make it easy to turn.

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And of course, forgot to order two shafts... not sure how, but managed to pick the single shaft package instead of the two...
 
Extra day at home this week so I’m finally getting to putting the quarter-round down in the back bedroom. I’ve been agonizing over this for weeks, not because of the quarter-round itself but because of the way the baseboard is done.

It’s a 1912 house and both bedrooms have big, bay windows. In order to get away from sharp outside corners on the plaster walls they ran the plaster in a nice radius and then followed the same curve with the baseboards. That meant my quarter-round was going to have to be curved as well.

So finally today I bit the bullet and got down to it. The first piece I kerfed at about 3/16” spacing which wasn’t quite enough. To compound matters, I’m using regular lumber yard material which in this case is finger-joint pine which obviously isn’t going to be ideal. So it didn’t quite make the curve before I broke it. The second attempt went better. I kerfed at about 1/8” spacing and that was enough to make the radius. Man, air nailers are soooo handy for stuff like this where you really don’t want to let go of the piece but still need to nail it too.

Thankfully there were only the two curves to deal with and the rest of the joints are either inside mitres or copes which are a little more predictable. Thanks for looking!

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extropic said:
@wachuko
Please tell us where you bought the kit. I want to look around there and try to figure out what is intended by offering wheels w/ bearings in a kit with pillow blocks.
5/8" axles? 1/2" EMT 2 hole straps (any competent hardware store) work just fine (and cheap too).

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:bang head: Something you need to understand... if there is an easy way and a hard/complicated way to do something... I will take the most hard and complicated path... not because I like doing that, but because I lack the wit to know, or identify, the easy way... I should have asked my father-in-law. He is quick to come up with easy solutions like the one you suggested.... son of a gun...

Not a kit already available... I just put a kit together to do this...

This is what I got:

2 Pack (yeah, now I will have a spare shaft for any other projects! ) AR-PRO (2-Pack) 5/8” x 36” Zinc Plated Steel Rods Designed for Use as an Axle Shaft on Hand Trucks Dollies Wagons
4 Pack AR-PRO 4.10/3.50-4" All Purpose Utility Air Tires and yellow Wheel - with 10" Inner Tube, 5/8" Axle Bore Hole
3 sets of 5/8" set screw shaft collars
2 sets of 5/8" Pillow block bearings

There are several house around here, being built. So I just go over to the trash bin and pull out discarded 2x6... that will be used for the frame.

Oh, and to make the swivel front steering, I got these to insert into the two pieces of wood, with a piece of shaft and two collars...

5/8" bore bronze flange

Now I am thinking if a bolt would have been fine for this task... goodness... I need help.

I am trying to make something like this:

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And was using 2x6 instead of 2x4 because the pillow blocks were too wide for a 2x4.
 
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