You gotta get that trapeze outta your bedroom...
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Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?
- Thread starter Dan Dubeau
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Right now I’m telling the universe that I’m buying a half dozen spotting drills so that the ones I bought come out of the woodwork.
Dan Dubeau
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I wish it was a cool story like that. Basically rolled my ankle walking on loose gravel, and almost went down but caught myself. In the process of windmilling (while holding a 36" pipe wrench) I must have contorted myself enough to pull a muscle pretty good. It doesn't seem like that long ago my injuries had much cooler stories behind them lol.
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
I tried that with my countersinks a couple weeks ago. Also figured I'd find them today when I put the new ones I bought away in the place I keep them, but they're still MIA. Who knows. But then again I have the ability to look directly at the thing I'm looking for and not see it at all. For all I know I picked them up and moved them today without even realizing it lol.
Still have a bunch of stuff from work unaccounted for so I'm still holding out hope they're in there. I know it came home, I just don't know where I put it....I need a few other things from there too which is partly why I started cleaning up today....
You deserve to lose all your spotting drills. Spot drilling woodwork and then writing of it on a machining site, gads have you no decorum man ?
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
Funny enough, I found 3 spot drills while organizing today (3/16", long 1/4" and a 5/8"). Maybe they're David's and he has my countersinks? lol.
Dan Dubeau
Ultra Member
The little Jacobs chuck i picked up at the pickering tool show last week had a short stub arbor attached. It was in poor shape and bent. I made up (modified existing?) Some wedges from small beam cutoffs and pressed it off after tigging a nut on the end.
Last pic shows my previous one (import) that's had the same #43 drill in it for years lol. All I need to do now is make an arbor for the new one. Thinking I might make a step arbor to cover a few collet ranges, or maybe a tts one. Undecided....
Didn't feel like doing much, but just forced myself to chip away at some small stuff. Designed and programmed the drive wheel for the grinder this morning after fighting with a virtual machine,and cad install yesterday. Might cut some foam tonight after dinner. Trying to find some motivation to dig back into the grinder and finish it off........
Last pic shows my previous one (import) that's had the same #43 drill in it for years lol. All I need to do now is make an arbor for the new one. Thinking I might make a step arbor to cover a few collet ranges, or maybe a tts one. Undecided....
Didn't feel like doing much, but just forced myself to chip away at some small stuff. Designed and programmed the drive wheel for the grinder this morning after fighting with a virtual machine,and cad install yesterday. Might cut some foam tonight after dinner. Trying to find some motivation to dig back into the grinder and finish it off........