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

Hardly anything remarkable but I finished up this thread stand today. Kind of like an oversized spool holder, it allows a person to use the larger overlocker cones on a standard straight-stitch machine. Purists will say you’re not supposed to do this but what the heck, I guess I’m not a purist.

Two pieces of scrap that started out like this….

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…turned into something like this….

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…to essentially do this.

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Thanks for looking. :)

-frank
 
francist said:
Hardly anything remarkable but I finished up this thread stand today. Kind of like an oversized spool holder, it allows a person to use the larger overlocker cones on a standard straight-stitch machine. Purists will say you’re not supposed to do this but what the heck, I guess I’m not a purist.

-frank
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Frank,

So the plastic spool holder on my Tippman boss has always bothered me. From Day 1 it's been bent. It works, but bugs me every time I used the machine. It's just cut out of some soft plastic. It was probably cut out with a die. I have been threatening to make one out of steel or aluminum for a long time. I don't know why wood didn't cross my mind before. Thanks for the idea. Wood would be so much faster to fabricate! Of course, it's still one more project to try to find time to do...

Dan

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So, cleaning up the shop. I came across a caliper my wife brought home from work that they were getting rid of.
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It's cheap, Chinese-y, and feels really crunchy. Let's just see how terrible this thing really is! Pull out the gauge block set, and check it at a few points. Figure that 4" has got to be the worst...
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OK, wow! Not bad at all for a probably $10 caliper that was getting tossed out! It's crunchy, so I won't use it for critical stuff, but it should more than suffice for out in the garage. And it won't eat a set of batteries every month like the cheap import digital calipers!


Of course that also reminds me. My set of blocks has been missing three since the day I've gotten it. (came with a surface grinder about 10 years ago...) Need replacements for the 0.1150", 0.8500", and 1.0000" blocks. Anyone have some partial kits laying around they'd be willing to horse trade for? :)

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But it's already so close to RAL 6011 Reseda Green, a very respectable color for machinery!
 
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