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Recycle centers only take stuff that can be re processed and that they can sell. Rubber gets shredded, paint is multi mixed mixed into cheap 'Blah' colors, paper re cycled, and metals sold to smelters. They don't take construction debris either.

The $$ I gave to the attendant is basically a TIP to allow me to browse and help myself. They frown on folks stealing garbage and my TIP is real cheap shopping.

Yep...a $$ tip has let me to a lot of great finds over the years at town recycling centers. That's the secret wit the gatekeeper.
 
   / Show What Tool You Made* #253  
I'm making some shafts on the lathe using HSS cutting tools. Got tired of standing there with a brush or an oil can which provides either too much or too little cutting oil. Decided to get a setup for directing cutting oil onto the work. But I didn't like the prices for a purpose built tank and pump, or the idea of yet another gizmo to be plugged in and maintained. So I rigged this thing up using a Harbor Freight air tank ($19), a Grizzly magnetic oil stand ($35) and some fittings for an adapter. The adapter I made up has a hose barb on both ends. One end is for a feed tube inside the tank and the other end is for an output tube leading to the oil dispenser. I put about a gallon of cutting oil in the air tank, and installed the adapter (with a bolt taped to the feed line to keep it on the bottom of the tank). I pressurized the tank to a few pounds, and there you are - a very precise amount of oil delivered to the working point. The whole setup can be easily moved to the drill press or milling machine as needed. I keep the tank underneath the lathe on a shelf out of the way, but for the photo I set it up with a short piece of tubing just to show how everything fits together. It seems to last a long time on one pressurization, presumably because the volume of oil dispensed is small compared to the volume of pressurized air in the tank.
 

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   / Show What Tool You Made* #254  
I'm making some shafts on the lathe using HSS cutting tools. Got tired of standing there with a brush or an oil can which provides either too much or too little cutting oil. Decided to get a setup for directing cutting oil onto the work. But I didn't like the prices for a purpose built tank and pump, or the idea of yet another gizmo to be plugged in and maintained. So I rigged this thing up using a Harbor Freight air tank ($19), a Grizzly magnetic oil stand ($35) and some fittings for an adapter. The adapter I made up has a hose barb on both ends. One end is for a feed tube inside the tank and the other end is for an output tube leading to the oil dispenser. I put about a gallon of cutting oil in the air tank, and installed the adapter (with a bolt taped to the feed line to keep it on the bottom of the tank). I pressurized the tank to a few pounds, and there you are - a very precise amount of oil delivered to the working point. The whole setup can be easily moved to the drill press or milling machine as needed. I keep the tank underneath the lathe on a shelf out of the way, but for the photo I set it up with a short piece of tubing just to show how everything fits together. It seems to last a long time on one pressurization, presumably because the volume of oil dispensed is small compared to the volume of pressurized air in the tank.

I like it!! And portable too.

Terry
 
   / Show What Tool You Made* #255  
I'm too cheap for even the air pig .... small weed sprayer tank ... hand pump style ..... and a limiting valve on the end to regulate the flow .... move it from drill press to lathe to band saw ....
 
   / Show What Tool You Made* #257  
A friend of mine works in the woods running forestry equipment. He needed a tool to turn the pin in the locks of the chains on the machine, so here's what I come up With

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A friend of mine works in the woods running forestry equipment. He needed a tool to turn the pin in the locks of the chains on the machine, so here's what I come up With

A nice gadget you thought up there. Looks to be a lot easier than the way I do it. I am going to steal that one. Thanks for posting.
 

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