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I'm still working on the billing, but I'll end up doing better than I originally thought. I don't want to make a habit out of tearing my hair out for weeks at a time for next to nothing. Thanks for your guidance in the beginning!
Finally decided to re-purpose my old desktop hutch into a woodcarving station. Lotta gifts to carve !!!
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Originally Posted by StagLefty
Durka-Durka !!
I finally found enough time sitting still to cut up a few of my favorite shirts that I've worn until there wasn't enough left of them to be considered clothing. I'm discovering how much little stuff I can get done during a 45 minute Zoom meeting.
I will probably be set for a very long time when it comes to cleaning patches.
Last edited by JohnnyDrama; 12-12-2020 at 11:33.
While I was making the Christmas boxes, I broke my vise. The threaded lock for the swivel base decided it didn't want to hold tight anymore. I finally got around to fixing that. Basically, both the inside and outside threads had flattened out over time and under pressure they would just slip.
You can see here that when I tried to clean up the threads, there wasn't enough material, or I was using the wrong die, or whatever, but it didn't work. I found this extra bolt with the same thread pattern and it worked inside the female portion.
So I used my new to me portaband and cut each one and joined the good base to the good threads.
I tacked it a bunch of times and cut my wife loose on the bench grinder to flatten everything back down.
At the beginning, I cut the dowel out of the tightening shaft thing so I could asses the threads, knowing I could weld it back together again.
I took the time to bevel the edges to create a space for the weld bead to lay, tacked it back together, ground it down, then realized I got excited to weld and welded it back together without actually running it through the barrel first. Whoops.
So then I just ground down the flare at the end and let my wife try a couple of tack welds around the perimeter once I ran it through the barrel.
Here it is all finished up and now it works again.
Hey, Irving. Nice work! I remember when you started getting into welding. Did you end up taking any classes?
No sir, just watching You Tube videos. A class would be nice since It'd force me to actually practice. I'm bad at just sitting down and practicing for fun. I usually end up just doing a project.
Some skills are learned for the skill, some skills are project driven.
Like parenting.
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