Todays Project - What did you do today?
Back shingling the shop.
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Getting there Greg. Is that a sump pump discharge pipe sticking out of the wall?

Ed
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A sink drain, when I was running the heating pipes from the boiler I put a 1/2 inch pex line between them running from the house to the shop. In winter I get 160 deg water to wash my hands, in summer not quite so hot.
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Looking good Greg. What are you going to do with all your time when you are finished?

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Tom im sure your the same as me, the list is so long now I'd need to live to be 150 to get caught up let alone the new things I think of.
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(07-10-2013, 10:18 PM)f350ca Wrote: Tom im sure your the same as me, the list is so long now I'd need to live to be 150 to get caught up let alone the new things I think of.
At the speed the years have me slowing down, living to 150 won't do it. Smiley-signs131
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Nothing too flash - In fact, downright ugly but it did the jobBig Grin

I made a dual purpose pin wrench and a hook wrench to take apart the spindle pulley bearing assembly for my mill. The pin wrench I made when I initially stripped the mill down failed, as the pins bent. This got put on the shelf until I saw it today.

This time I used roll pins, as they are harder. As there are two nuts that need removing, I used one block of scrap steel and three pins to cover both spacings. The hook wrench is simply a piece of pipe cut in half with a 1/4-20 thread for a screw.

   
   
   
   
   
   

Note the damage done by whoever had this mill previously Bash
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It's always a shame to see damage like that when you tear down a machine. The former users/abusers must have been real hacks.

Nice job on the wrenches Darren.

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Good idea using the roll pins. Did you weld those in or are they just press fit.

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Thanks guys

Fortunately, the damage here isn't critical but it does make you wonder about the quality of the "machinists" that had it...

The pins are a press fit. The excess the poked through the back was ground off so as not to foul the use of the other side.
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