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All my vices are junk , that’s all I got .

Some times you type like Mr Spock talks

It’s a really cheap one , she bought it when our central vac packed it in . There’s very little carpet in our house , she mostly uses it for dust n pet hair control. It’s loud & annoying for sure

To get this topic back on track ……… I just checked my Craptex CT 043 lathe , @640 rpm , fluttering around 100 Db . I though it might be lower than the vacuum cleaner in the house , close though.

We're down to one cat now , he's getting on in years but at 5 AM , he makes sure we know he needs to be fed. I'll be checking the Db on that tomorrow. :p

I had no idea I was living & working such a noise saturated existance !! I have a Db meter app on my phone now , it displays as a bar graph , perfect for a neanderthol like me ,even my hot rodded unit heater in the shop is approaching the orange zone of danger. The furnace and compressor...

The welder ( not me )deserves a great deal of credit , this could have gone sideways during that part , ending up as a mangled pile of dogshit , instead , I was presented with a correctly welded part that could then be shaped and reworked into what you see .

I had to build a cutting tool that would pilot off the threaded hole . I used a spark plug , to make a 12 x 1.25 mm threaded insert for a pilot . Some sanding , grinding , buffing , filing , thread chasing . re-cutting of the counterbores and it can now be re-painted. .

A friend dropped off a very expensive Ducati single sided swing arm yesterday , it’s off of a high end Ducati sport bike . The swing arm was damaged by over tightening the pinch bolts which clamp the eccentric hub in position , it’s how the drive chain is adjusted and locked down when the...