Todays Project - What did you do today?

[ETC57]

Great cabinets, thanks for the post!

[dallen]

big job today, made 4 bevel washer's for a repair job that I am fixing to start on a straight razor that the handle got hot somehow and wrinkled up and one side broke in too. Sad part was it was my favorite razor.

   

[sasquatch]

Ya gotta SLOW down when shavin!!! Lol

[sasquatch]

Today besides running a few last minute errands to prepare for the snowstorm we're supposed to get, went and picked up a truck load of pine cutoffs from a planing mill, then delivered them to my sons and piled them in his woodshed.
Makes excellent kindling!!

[dallen]

Sas, times all I got. But I can shave pretty quick when I want or need too.

[ml_woy]

(12-19-2012, 08:36 PM)dallen Wrote: big job today, made 4 bevel washer's for a repair job that I am fixing to start on a straight razor that the handle got hot somehow and wrinkled up and one side broke in too. Sad part was it was my favorite razor.

How did you hold those small washers to turn them? A chuck or mandrel?

[dallen]

cut them off of a brass rod in my micro lathe,

[sasquatch]

Spent the day "FINALLY" Putting together a belt and disc sander i started building maybe 5 years ago!!!! Lol (That is PATHETIC) !!!!

Anyway have it running, tracking, now just a couple more little bugs to straighten out.

Did i just hear you say,,, "YOU PROCRASTINATOR?" Lol

[f350ca]

No you heard us say where's the pictures. 5 years sounds pretty reasonable on some of my projects.

[TomG]

I'm in the process of converting the lighting in my home over to LED's and my latest victim is the energy sucking 500 watt halogen floor lamp in the living room. LED's typically have around a 50,000 hour lifetime as long as they stay cool, so the first order of business was to make a heat sink capable of keeping the beastly 100W LED comfortable. There are extruded heat sinks available, but I of course I wasn't able to find one that met my requirements so it was out to the shop. The stock was parted from a 6.50 piece of round aluminum and a mandrel pressed into one side to mount in the dividing head, then using a 3/32" x 5" slitting saw I proceeded to cut the 45 fins. This was one of those projects that didn't seemed pretty simple and straight forward at the start, but ended up taking around 3 hours to finish. Tomorrow it'll get some holes to feed the wires through and some mounting holes on the bottom. It should be illuminating my living room tomorrow night.

Tom