Recent content by PaulL

I wound up with a small chiller unit. Except it doesn't provide enough pressure. Close - if I choke the return the Hester's alarm stops and I can proceed for a while. I have a bigger unit on its way.

@Dabbler - found this very short video of a low-tech blanchard grinder: Darned near to what I've been rigging up for my acorn table, without the automation.

Ok, I got the pin "done enough". First step was the fat end: I was worried about this, but I guess I shouldn't have. Trammed it in easily, and then it cut directly on radius. Next was running @thestelster's procedure, for which I had a ton of extra stick-out to test diameter with. It was...

I haven't reported my progress: I left this part sit fallow for a bit while working on a couple of others. Working up my nerve again, and thinking about @thestelster's one-cut technique and how to incorporate it intelligently in the order of operations. I'll come back to it. Meanwhile, after a...

Google used to offer a product that was wildly successful and led to significant revenue. But now that DoubleClick's reverse takeover is complete, they no longer choose to delight their customers, instead relying on lock-in and driving traffic to advertisements instead of providing user value...

A little (even further off-topic) more colour on the continuing enshittification of Google search: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ The events recounted are around the same time I left a different division for the same reason - the move from technical leadership "business"...

I'm in! One Saturday (not yet chosen) in September I have to host our street party here. So if we do it that day on have to host. Please choose a different day ;-)

"little things". Oh my sweet summer child.

Aw, she was such a good dog the few times I met her. Hang in there, John. Paul

Even then I'm sorely lacking in tail support - just the 3/8" stock seems to have plenty of flex at 1 1/2" stick out. And with a collet chuck I have even less reach with my tail support.

Well fsck. Ok, don't make it that way. Do the thick part first and hold it by the 1/2" long thicker section? That doesn't leave me enough length to engage the tail support while cutting the 5/32" section. Or find a smaller lathe. A friend has a cruddy little unimat that might be just right.

I'm having the same doubt. The line of tape I applied to my cross-slide is coming away after about 6 months. A mess, frankly. I'm considering milling a shallow channel on the edge of the cross slide to accept the next piece and sort out some recessed cap screws to hold it captive at it's edges.

Made part 7, simple turning and threading, plus a hole aligned using part 4a from yesterday. It will recive a short pin which aligns with a hole on the plunger body. Also discovered I was turning tapers when using my tailstock - 8thou thou over 1"! Of course I found out by not checking the...

Yep. Some years prematurely, certainly, but I have a friend who knows the value and how to move it. Not a problem I want to leave my spouse with. Need to formalize that into the will, which needs updating anyways.

I'm sure there are. But this is *my* seat-of-the-pants not-quite-standard I'm-still-learning-how-to-do-this machine!