2020 POTD Thread Archive

What is the difference between an introvert being required to work from home and an introvert who goes in to the office? The introvert at home doesn't feel as taxed by interactions and is finally willing to go to the store and pick up wood for a project long overdue.

Seriously, this project has been on the docket for years. A few years back, I picked up a Gerstner full of machine tools, and recently a Harbor Freight wood tool box. They have sat on 2x4's on my mechanics creeper since then, namely because my car project is too low to use the creeper, and I didn't have the room. It was made from 2x4's, 2x6's, and plywood. All of the joints are half-lapped at the corners. The legs (2x6's) were only lapped on the 1.5" side for the two shelves.

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For the legs, I just clamped them together and made all of the kerf cuts at the same time (this will keep things in the right distances). I used a hammer and chisel after the saw to get it flat.

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Glued the legs on (the front two were glued to the top shelf, and the back two legs glued to the bottom - this would allow me to assemble and glue everything together in two parts later).

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I did the same for the cross brace in the back.

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All glued together :

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I need to get it anchored to the wall before we experience another earthquake, but I finally have the tool boxes off of the ground and room to walk around.

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It is definitely stout. The lower shelf has my indexing head, angle vise and tooling for the mill. That's a bag of green sand for casting (when I finally get around to that).
 
I've always gotten my rubber gloves and face masks from Harbor Freight.
I got an email this morning informing that they will no longer sell these items to the public but will instead donate them to hospitals in the areas they serve. Cool move.

I have about a half box each of rubber gloves and surgical masks in my shop. I took all but a handful of them to my local fire station yesterday.
 
Saved a crankshaft today.
Original keyway was all wallered out on the PTO end so I tried my hand at cutting a new one 180* off from the original location.
 

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Of course, now that I’m about 3/4s of the way through milling the toolpost, the speed control on my mill has decided to give up the ghost. I think it’s just a bad potentiometer (I hope it’s just the pot) but I can’t get a replacement till next week. Boo.

it’s not just a bad pot. Well, the pot was bad... look at the wire wound segment. Completely buggered.
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Spent Sunday routing around in the control box, and after much scratching of head and hemming and hawing with my multimeter, it looks as if the SCRs and Power Diodes have let the smoke out.

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Sigh. Off we go to Farmell / Mouser and anywhere else on the web that might have them. Good job I stumbled across this site:


this chap has been through my my pain as well.
 
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Here'w a look at a simple mount for the steering rack on my son's rat rod project, It looks klunky to me and I asked him if he wanted me to pretty it up, his answer, "It's a rat rod, it only needs to be functional". Klunktional, look that up in your Funk and Wagnell.
 

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I cleaned up an old Starrett 57A scribe that my dad gave me. It was a bit rusty and had some ancient masking tape stuck to it. Evaporust and a few minutes with the buffer seemed to have done the trick.
I also disassembled this little Jacobs chuck and it got the same treatment. This is going on my sorely underpowered Craftsman drill press. The capacity is 0 - 1/4". Anything bigger goes to the mill.
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