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[GTSSportCoupe]

Have another set of those cool powered bench legs, so I'm making myself a faux Roubo bench.

Some crappy oak wrapped around an old chunk of laminated beam. Beam as a core to give it mass so it doesn't bounce around.

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I'll add a long vise to the side, just not easy to find acme rod and nuts around here. Could use regular threaded rod I guess. Just slow.

Still need to wire up the legs, and make a little shelf underneath it so i don't lose all those dogs, but it's getting there.

Time for a leaf blower clean up.

Very nice work!!

 

[seapotato]

Thanks, should be nice. Clamping weird shaped s*** at comfortable heights will be freakin luxury.


Decided for the side vise, I've never attempted threading on my lathe before so it was a good chance to try it.

Kindof interesting mixing and matching the gears to see what thread counts come out. Looks like 8tpi, a fine thread of some sort ( didn't let it go for the full inch to count lol) and then the coarse 6tpi acme I was looking for.
Should be a 4th option too. No idea what that might be...
Really need a follow rest for something this long, but it worked ok. As long as I took light cuts. Some fine tuning to go.

Haven't quite figured out how I'll cut the nut plates just yet, but that's wednesday's fun.

 

[seapotato]

If my hourly rate was 5 bucks, these would still be really expensive

But, at least I know how to do it now.

Hopefully I'll finish this glorified workmate today.

 

[bikersmurf]

If my hourly rate was 5 bucks, these would still be really expensive

But, at least I know how to do it now.

Hopefully I'll finish this glorified workmate today.


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cool.

Same could be said for my labour intensive Hood spear that’ll out last the rest of the truck (& possibly us). Sometimes ya can’t put a price on crafting something yourself.


Never underestimate the value of a workmate… I did most of the milling on my hood spear on a beat up workmate with a carbide bit in a router.

Yours looks nice enough to even mill an exhaust manifold on it…

 

[bikersmurf]

400k and still going strong… 1,000,000 here we come… at less than 5k a year average it’ll take a few years.

 

[seapotato]

cool.

Same could be said for my labour intensive Hood spear that’ll out last the rest of the truck (& possibly us). Sometimes ya can’t put a price on crafting something yourself.


Never underestimate the value of a workmate… I did most of the milling on my hood spear on a beat up workmate with a carbide bit in a router.

Yours looks nice enough to even mill an exhaust manifold on it…

Yeah it was a fun learning process. Slow on a 120 year old lathe but that's part of it's charm lol.

If I need dead flat I have a 400lb slab of steel on my other bench, this will just be nice for small jobs.

Just some wiring and the shelf now.

Here it is cranked right up to titty height.

 

[cruiserpilot]

Very cool!

 

[bladedog]

To be politically correct, that is Moob Height!

 

[seapotato]

To be politically correct, that is Moob Height!

Well, depends on how pendulous you've become in your old age.

Walnut in a tube sock a half inch off the floor, or still perky glass cutters.

You know, to be politically correct.

 

[seapotato]

Randomly browsed past these guys. They're on the island somewhere.

An Innovative Canopy Camper For Your Truck - Elite Outdoor Fabrications

Our Wedge style camper is a true 4 season platform. It’s lightweight and weather-proof design will keep you comfortable in any condition

www.eofcanada.ca

 

[stevebradford]

Morels are popping in the Sooke hills already.

 

[cruiserpilot]

Morels are popping in the Sooke hills already.
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Snow all gone?

 

[stevebradford]

Snow all gone?

Long gone.

But a month or so ago I did find these amazingly perfect frost crystals that only form in conjunction with a form of wood fungus.

 

[crustyBJ60]

Natures snow cone

 

[seapotato]

Natures snow cone

Now it that fungus had a little magic to it, you'd be on to something...

 

[seapotato]

After 20 years of savage abuse, my s***ty Chinese press was bent in most directions.

It also has repeatedly been an inch too narrow for something, so it seemed like a good time to make it wider.
Gained about 8" and I suspect it's stronger.

Bradford's piglets came in handy.

At some point I'll find a better jack for it, but I have a guitar experiment coming up and wanted the press to be less s***ty for it.

 

[stevebradford]

Always wanted to put a lexan blast shield on mine for pressing out those Toyota 3B water pump bearings.

 

[seapotato]

Always wanted to put a lexan blast shield on mine for pressing out those Toyota 3B water pump bearings.

That's what the proper OSHA safety squint is for.

 

[stevebradford]

 

[cruiserpilot]