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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Pete O - 01-07-2017

I can not imagine -26C, have not seen a winter temp colder than about +2 here for several years. I made the mistake of using 100% clear polycarbonate sheets for the 3 skylights on my shed roof, I get 3 strips of unfiltered sunlight that move through the workshop over the course or the day. I got sunburnt in there yesterday and the machines were hot to touch. Going to have to swap the clear for tinted sheets.
Greg, don't even think about using that classic canoe as a snow sled. I saw a vid of a guy towing his kids through the snow in a fibreglass canoe behind a 4-wheel bike a while ago. He broke the canoe in half.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - EdK - 01-07-2017

(01-07-2017, 07:15 PM)Mayhem Wrote: WTF - are there chips on the base of that mill Ed?

Slaphead busted.  Blush

Ed

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - EdK - 01-07-2017

(01-07-2017, 07:28 PM)Old Minger Wrote: -23c at Whistler the other day

Is that all? Wuss. Big Grin

Ed

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Hawkeye - 01-07-2017

With all the wax, it'll go really fast on the water that's laying all over the ground.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Dr Stan - 01-07-2017

(01-07-2017, 07:15 PM)Mayhem Wrote: WTF - are there chips on the base of that mill Ed?

Nice job on storing the stock.

I'll refrain from saying what the weather is like over here right now Cool

I have a very good idea.   Should I spill the beans ? ? ?  Angel

Was in Perth in June, so Fall weather.  Still quite nice and all we needed were our Cracker Jack blues.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 01-08-2017

You should have let me know Stan - I would taken you out and about.

When I was a kid in the UK I use to have an old mini bonnet (hood) for a sled. It worked wonders. This was in the late seventies and early eighties when we use to get a lot of snow in the East Anglia's. I went back for the first time in 1999 and there was virtually no snow that winter.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Mayhem - 01-10-2017

Actually did this on Saturday but completely forgot about it until I handed it over yesterday.  However, I just looked and I forgot to take a final pic with the shaft insitu.  Doesn't matter, as all I had to do to the shaft was polish it.

This is off a wet stone grinder that my neighbour has.  It has started to wobble to the point that he can no longer hone blades properly.  It is of Chinese origin and had nylon bushes which have worn out.  So, I set about making some bronze replacements.

After cutting a section of stock to length, I faced both ends and drilled a hole through the centre and bored it out to 10 though under final dimension.  I then turned up an arbour to hold the stock and turned the OD of the flanges.  I plunged a cut for the eventual parting line and then either side of the flanges.  This way, when I parted them, I could easily chuck them up and face the flanges to the final dimensions.

I made them a press fit into the housing and then used an adjustable reamer with a pilot and extension to finish the ID to size.

Some pics:

On the arbour (angle makes them look different lengths but they are the same):

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Parted and faced, and next to the old ones:

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Pressed into the housing and ready for reaming:

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RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - f350ca - 01-10-2017

A mix of wood and metal, Needed 6 pulleys to hoist the canoe up into the rafters of the shed. Now anyone can go out and buy them only a true hobbiest would spend 3 days making them.

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Aluminum pulley, brass bushed, on a steel spacer sleeve. stainless flat bar for the strap with ash cheeks.

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - EdK - 01-10-2017

Gorgeous!

Ed

RE: Todays Project - What did you do today? - Pete O - 01-10-2017

Oh dear. The cheap aluminium pulleys that are holding my wood-strip canoe up to the shed roof have just become completely unacceptable.