I find it amusing that my heaviest tool has the fewest moving parts. I believe it even beats my little Kubota (sans excavator).
What's Paul up to?
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Finally got the acorn table moved up the driveway:
Big casters, a couple of 2x8", and some clamps to keep them from slipping. A car jack, a bit of swearing, and boom, it's now outside my garage door, waiting for some CRS to make up the rails for my grinding jig.
At this rate I'll have it done by Christmas!
Big casters, a couple of 2x8", and some clamps to keep them from slipping. A car jack, a bit of swearing, and boom, it's now outside my garage door, waiting for some CRS to make up the rails for my grinding jig.
At this rate I'll have it done by Christmas!
Work has been insanely busy which has reduced how much work I've been getting done in the shop, and certainly my logging here.
But I did get my first solar-powered smithing heat yesterday:
I had been going to weld up a custom cart, but this $128 job from Home Depot is going to work just fine.
Getting the induction heater working was a nightmare. Significant damage in shipping ($300 partial refund at least), including a torn internal cooling hose, and a broken wire. I've had it mostly apart, inspected, and back together. Support from the seller was decent, but with a 24 hour turn-around.
My chiller is a little under-powered: I have to constrict the flow slightly to provide enough pressure to start up, but then it works fine afterwards, though I haven't put in a full day of work on it yet - just a few test heats.
But I did get my first solar-powered smithing heat yesterday:
I had been going to weld up a custom cart, but this $128 job from Home Depot is going to work just fine.
Getting the induction heater working was a nightmare. Significant damage in shipping ($300 partial refund at least), including a torn internal cooling hose, and a broken wire. I've had it mostly apart, inspected, and back together. Support from the seller was decent, but with a 24 hour turn-around.
My chiller is a little under-powered: I have to constrict the flow slightly to provide enough pressure to start up, but then it works fine afterwards, though I haven't put in a full day of work on it yet - just a few test heats.