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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - stevec - 07-25-2014

On a matter of less importance and skill, today I answered my wife's (the winemaker) request to make her a clamp for her wine filter.
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It has become evident that the two original clamps don't tighten the front and rear plate adequately in the middle.
The second time this happened I stopped the pump and got a C (G or J or whatever) clamp from the shop and clamped between the black handles. Problem solved, no more spurting out!
Several batches on I noticed my wife's critical eye of the shop clamp near her wine so I decided to make a rust proof dedicated clamp for her.

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Because I didn't have any alu wide enough to make the "C" (G or J ?)
It had to be made in three pieces fastened with 2 3/8-16 SS socket head capscrews.

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The clamp screw was made from brass rod (yes, I single point threaded it, 16TPI on the lathe.)
I had the black bakelite handle in inventory.

In all the clamp consists of 11pieces (including screws and locking setscrew for the handle).
Too big a project for me but my wife is delighted and isn't that the most important thing? 17428

Smiley-eatdrink004

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - DaveH - 07-25-2014

Steve,
Very nicely made Thumbsup and your wife is delighted ...........'priceless'
Smiley-eatdrink004
DaveH

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - EdK - 07-25-2014

Very nice Steve. I like the chamfer job. That should last her awhile. Wise decision to keep the wife drunk and happy.

Ed

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 07-25-2014

Nicely done, Happy Wife, Happy Life and you got you clamp back

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - tackit - 07-25-2014

It came out good, very nice job Mick.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 07-27-2014

Another none metal related post.
My sister and her husband have a cottage on a saw mill site they bought from my aunt 30 or 40 years ago. It was her dads sawmill. It hasn't operated in about 50 years, but there has been mills there from the mid 1800s.
Most of the mills around here stored they're logs in the water to keep pine beetles at bay. The bottom of the bay is littered with sunken logs, some BIG some small.
Generally you need a permit and jump through many government hoops to extract these but this time we beat the system.
A small hydro dam was built on river in 1910, it raised the lake level about 10 or 12 feet. The flooded land was never purchased. My sister pays property taxes on land where the logs sit, although its under several feet of water.
You still wouldn't be able to salvage them as they remain the property of the original owner. Now the catch, my aunt held on to the timber stamp when her dad passed away, they're her logs.
According to fish and wildlife its fish habitat if they're below 15 feet, these are at the most in 10 feet of water.
My nephews backed a boat trailer into the lake and winched a couple onto the bunks and brought them down.
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Both turned out to be pine, been in the water preserved for 50 to 150 years.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - dallen - 07-27-2014

thems what you call money logs, hope you can get some big ones.

DA

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 08-02-2014

5 days work, 23 face cords of firewood. Charlie was home and helped, by far the fastest I've ever gone through a load.
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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - DaveH - 08-02-2014

Wow!
Smiley-eatdrink004
DaveH

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - TomG - 08-02-2014

Greg,

We priced out some for the cabin and it was $50 a face cord for a semi load of 8 foot logs (25 face cords). We didn't think we could use that much up here before it rotted, so we opted for a smaller amount cut and split for $75. How does that compare to the price up there for seasoned hardwood?

Tom