2018 POTD Thread Archive

[MAKEITOUTOFWOOD]

Got my mill moved in. Continued with the clean up.

 

[ddickey]

ddickey:

Nice job on the knurling tool. I built the same one from Tom's site. (Not as nice as yours.)

Could you post a link to the wheels you bought? If I remember, Tom's design calls for 1/4 X 1/4 X 5/8 wheels, which are somewhat hard to find. I bought wheels that size. But that was a long time ago, and I don't care for the pattern they make.

Thanks!

Thanks Bill,
I got mine here. Not the cheapest but I wanted a quality wheel. Convex, circular pitch, 25tpi.
https://www.accu-trak.com/knurls_convex/gkv.html

 

[jdedmon91]

Got my mill moved in. Continued ether the clean up.
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Looking good what kind of mill is it


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[bill70j]

Thanks Bill,
I got mine here. Not the cheapest but I wanted a quality wheel. Convex, circular pitch, 25tpi.
https://www.accu-trak.com/knurls_convex/gkv.html

Excellent. Thanks!

 

[MAKEITOUTOFWOOD]

Looking good what kind of mill is it


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It's a Fray #7

 

[jdedmon91]

Worked on some simple shop projects

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[mattthemuppet2]

made a Delrin compression washer for my bike

installed

and some curtain rail adapters

 

[silverhawk]

Last week, someone was stopped aside the freeway with emergency flashers. The last thing I wanted to do was to get to work, so I stopped to help. I quickly found out that the individual could not get their jack underneath the car (hint: don't lower your cars, folks). I finagled the jack underneath, and lifted the car.

Then we found out they didn't have a lug wrench.

So I headed back to my new-to-me truck to see if I could find mine. I'd only had the truck for a half month, so this was something I needed to learn. And that's when the new realization hit me ....

I didn't have a lug wrench or a jack for the truck!

I didn't even have the bracket that holds the jack and wrench down. It typically sits underneath the front passengers' seat, but where it was was a threaded hole that would allow water to permeate the interior. Not good.

So, a quick call to a dealership, and they can't even find a part number to order. A check to eBay, and someone out there is charging $120 for the assembly. I fired off an offer that was rejected. Rather than face up to a low-ball and buy it, I grabbed parts from Home Depot, picked up my spare Kydex sheets, and bought a bottle jack from Harbor Freight. Then it was a matter of assembling a frame. I heated the Kydex and formed it around the jack (I didn't want a potential hydraulic fluid leak), and then riveted the thing together. I know it's ugly (I didn't want to unbury the welder, nor did I have the right size of rivets, but those can always be replaced later).

I did have to trim a panel to get it to fit, but unless you know what you are looking for, you'll never see it.

The other thing was that I didn't have a 6mmx1.0 hold-down bolt, so I turned some 1/4" threaded rod to the outside diameter and used a metric die to cut it, coated it with Loctite, and created my own hold down bolt.

Now I feel more comfortable having the tools in place..

 

[dave_r_1]

It's a Ram, so you really should also keep the biggest set of tools you can buy in it as well...

 

[silverhawk]

It's a Ram, so you really should also keep the biggest set of tools you can buy in it as well...

I had to put a full toolset in the Jeep under the back seat. Fun, but be prepared for it breaking down somewhere.