Todays Project - What did you do today?

[TomG]

(03-13-2016, 09:40 AM)EdK Wrote:

(03-13-2016, 08:19 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: The LED's don't hold a candle to the CFL's.

I have to disagree with that. I much prefer LEDs over CFL.  

Ed

Same here. Nearly every light in my house has been converted to LED's and my electric bill is a small fraction of what it was. The only exception is the shop lighting, which I recently upgraded to T8 fluorescent, but I'm considering converting that to LED's as well.

Tom

[Roadracer_Al]

Our local CostCo sells both LED T4 replacements and complete units. IIRC, the bulbs are $19, and the fixtures are $29.

I've been buying up the fixtures one at a time and stock piling them.

When we moved in 8 years ago, I did my shop with a mixture of free 8' fixtures and second-hand CL-find T8 fixtures, and now the ballasts are dying.

[Sunset Machine]

(03-13-2016, 09:40 AM)EdK Wrote:

(03-13-2016, 08:19 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: The LED's don't hold a candle to the CFL's.

I have to disagree with that. I much prefer LEDs over CFL.  

Ed

Huh? I wrote that backwards! I've had two CFL's smoke and one showed a little cherry glowing up near the ceiling. I don't like them at all.

[TomG]

Lol

[Mayhem]

(03-14-2016, 08:23 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: Huh? I wrote that backwards! I've had two CFL's smoke and one showed a little cherry glowing up near the ceiling. I don't like them at all.

[Sunset Machine]

Here's another brainfart. The bottom of the button is supposed to be zero. It's not and I bored anyway..

[Mayhem]

I feel your pain Sunset.

I completely screwed up my calculations on the pins of the charging pin removal tool I made on the weekend. Fortunately, one more pass made the mistake go away and I was able to do it again. Unfortunately, very few jobs have that room for error and often you have several hours into a part only to wreck it in 2 seconds.

[Sunset Machine]

I can make another pass at it. Funny thing is that I was dialing in against a round surface and kept telling myself it was a bad idea. I was right!

[f350ca]

Needed 7 - 28 tooth #60 roller chain sprockets. At $20 each I thought I'd try making them. Took a LOT longer to draw than cut on the plasma table. Only 1/4 thick, think they should be about 3/8 but this is a low load slow situation so they should work.

[the penguin]

So far I spent the majority of the day in the shop, cleaning and sorting. I had a quick job to do, so I spent almost all of the last 3 hours looking for a 1/8" carbide end mill. I finally found them, in the first drawer I looked in and multiple times afterwards. I thought they were 1/4" carbide end mills, I either need new glasses or learn how to read......................DAMN!!

I did find a few items, I was looking for, the odd nut and bolt, and other hardware, the 1/8" carbide end mills are a the red arrow