Todays Project - What did you do today?
My hardware supply is officially out of control and has been for some time. It started out is its original boxes somewhat organized by size in a punch card file cabinet, but after years of use, many of the boxes have broken open and dumped their contents in the bottom of the drawer to be mixed together. I finally had enough and picked up about 300 - 3" x 3" x 2" polyethylene cups form the Surplus Shed a while back and started sorting. So far I've got the #4's, #6's and #8's sorted out to the point where I can see what's missing and re-stock. The #10's are the worst, so that will be another day, but I'm finally getting a handle on it.

If you have the need and a cabinet that will hold them, the cups are still available. They are currently 25 cents ea, but the Shed has 1/2 off sales several times a year, so it might be worth waiting for it.

Tom

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Thanks for that Tom. I just ordered 144 of the cups. I don't have the cabinets you have to put them in but it's a start at organizing my hardware. Especially the smaller stuff.

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I think they will work out well. It will be nice to be able to remove the cup with the size fastener I need and take it to the job, and to be able to see all of the fasteners at a glance.

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what I've been working on since like the first of march, my little 22 RMF

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fired up the furnace today, need a backing plate for a 5C Collet Chuck that I was given, crucible is full of cut up cast iron.

Will post a photo of the part tomorrow sure hope the mold filled completely

   
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yesterdays casting.

   
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Looks good Dave - now let us see what you turn that into (pun intended).
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probably nothing, from the skim cut I did across the backside it looks like its going to have a bunch of slag inclusions in it probably from me pouring too slow.

But it turned out nice and soft, looks like I was spot on with the temp and such did have one little moment with the burner but all in all I would say a good pour. To get good machineable cast iron you have to really stay on top of your game.

The part is intended to be a backing plate for a 5C Collet Chuck that I was given/traded for some cad work.

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I made this  today Big Grin

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Pretty heavy duty tripod there Rob. Is that going to support anti-aircraft armament?
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