RedNeckGeek
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- Joined
- Jan 1, 2011
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- Butte County & Orcutt, California
- Tractor
- Kubota M62, Kubota L3240D HST (SOLD!), Kubota RTV900
Good Morning!!!! 61F @ 8:45AM. Sunny. High 79F. Winds light and variable.
Funny you should mention robots, Wng. I had an odd dream where I was in a factor full of machining robots, and almost got hit by one of them. Then I watched a man loading parts on one that remained in motion as he worked, and he had to time his movements to avoid getting clobbered. Don't know where that dream came from, but last week a worker near here was killed when a bin dumping machine came down on him, and a whistle blower at the factory came forward stating it was a long standing problem.
That said, I don't think I'd let a robot with a pair of scissors get anywhere near my head. It's bald enough as it is, and I kinda like my brains on the inside.:laughing:
Got the encoder aligned within 0.001" yesterday. Part of my problem was an Allen wrench that wouldn't slip into the holes in two screws that were under the bracket, so that the wrench had to move up into the holes. The screw heads weren't easy to see, either. Ended up using the belt sander to chamfer the corners of the Allen wrench just a tiny bit, but that was enough to be able to adjust those screws.
Then used the lathe to make an aluminum plug for the transmission on the old motorcycle. The hole was for the speedo cable, but the bike has an aftermarket electric speedometer on it. The hole is on the top, so I came up with the idea of using an o-ring to keep water out. I had an o-ring assortment from Harbor Freight on the shelf, but learned that the o-rings aren't very strong as they kept breaking as I tried to stretch them into position. Good example of getting what you pay for. I'll order a new assortment from McMaster-Carr on Monday.
There's a little dinner plate sized fairing around the headlight on the bike, and the previous owner had left two or three cables way over length, coiling the extra with zip ties. That made it very hard to install the fairing, so yesterday I cut out some wire and rearranged things until it all would fit. Also had to clean up some threads with a tap, but it finally all went back together. That's when I found that the battery had drained down to 5 volts, so there would be no test start that day. Two "smart" chargers thought they were hooked to 6 volt batteries, so I got out an old, dumb, 12 volt charger and left it on until the battery came up to about 11 volts. Then hooked up the Battery Saver, and will see today how well it did. Today I'll start looking for a parasitic load that caused the battery drain.
At the end of the day I gathered up the parts to reassemble the seat, and learned I'd been sold the wrong size rubber bumpers for the bottom of the pan. I also don't have the metal strips that go under the pop rivets that hold the cover in place, so I'll have to come up with some appropriately sized washers or spend some time with the sheet metal shears making some. Good thing I don't have anything else to do...:confused2:
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!
Funny you should mention robots, Wng. I had an odd dream where I was in a factor full of machining robots, and almost got hit by one of them. Then I watched a man loading parts on one that remained in motion as he worked, and he had to time his movements to avoid getting clobbered. Don't know where that dream came from, but last week a worker near here was killed when a bin dumping machine came down on him, and a whistle blower at the factory came forward stating it was a long standing problem.
That said, I don't think I'd let a robot with a pair of scissors get anywhere near my head. It's bald enough as it is, and I kinda like my brains on the inside.:laughing:Got the encoder aligned within 0.001" yesterday. Part of my problem was an Allen wrench that wouldn't slip into the holes in two screws that were under the bracket, so that the wrench had to move up into the holes. The screw heads weren't easy to see, either. Ended up using the belt sander to chamfer the corners of the Allen wrench just a tiny bit, but that was enough to be able to adjust those screws.
Then used the lathe to make an aluminum plug for the transmission on the old motorcycle. The hole was for the speedo cable, but the bike has an aftermarket electric speedometer on it. The hole is on the top, so I came up with the idea of using an o-ring to keep water out. I had an o-ring assortment from Harbor Freight on the shelf, but learned that the o-rings aren't very strong as they kept breaking as I tried to stretch them into position. Good example of getting what you pay for. I'll order a new assortment from McMaster-Carr on Monday.
There's a little dinner plate sized fairing around the headlight on the bike, and the previous owner had left two or three cables way over length, coiling the extra with zip ties. That made it very hard to install the fairing, so yesterday I cut out some wire and rearranged things until it all would fit. Also had to clean up some threads with a tap, but it finally all went back together. That's when I found that the battery had drained down to 5 volts, so there would be no test start that day. Two "smart" chargers thought they were hooked to 6 volt batteries, so I got out an old, dumb, 12 volt charger and left it on until the battery came up to about 11 volts. Then hooked up the Battery Saver, and will see today how well it did. Today I'll start looking for a parasitic load that caused the battery drain.
At the end of the day I gathered up the parts to reassemble the seat, and learned I'd been sold the wrong size rubber bumpers for the bottom of the pan. I also don't have the metal strips that go under the pop rivets that hold the cover in place, so I'll have to come up with some appropriately sized washers or spend some time with the sheet metal shears making some. Good thing I don't have anything else to do...:confused2:
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!
