Smart Shop tips!

[bindian]

Everyone should have a set these wrenches.View attachment 681337

Only if you want to bust your knuckles all the time.
Happy New Year hugs, Brandi

 

[pmsmechanic]

Only if you want to bust your knuckles all the time.
Happy New Year hugs, Brandi

You need to listen to Keith Appleton on YouTube. Just to bug some viewers he brags about how good his (Barco?) adjustable wrench is. Once you realize what he is doing with his dry British humor it's actually quite funny. He rebuilds smaller steam engines.

 

[aczlan]

You need to listen to Keith Appleton on YouTube. Just to bug some viewers he brags about how good his (Barco?) adjustable wrench is. Once you realize what he is doing with his dry British humor it's actually quite funny. He rebuilds smaller steam engines.

So they only blow up his shop if the relief stops working vs the whole block?

Aaron Z

 

[lman]

Everyone should have a set these wrenches.View attachment 681337

I've been looking for a 19/32 SAE in that style. Where do I find one?

 

[BackRoad]

I have two of those adjustable wrenches...one SAE and one Metric.

On occasion I've sent the nephews after the Metric wrench, when I just have the SAE one in hand...

 

[PILOON]

Everyone should have a set these wrenches.View attachment 681337

Don't laugh!
I once rec'd a flier that advertised "metric cold chisels"

Then there are 'metric ratchets'. I kid U not.

 

[Big Barn]

Using Handi Angle shelving drops




for brackets and tool hangers

 

[user.69169]

You're supposed to dip table knife in mashed potatoes, them peas stick to them.
That's how we do it in Virginia

I am shocked at de lack of eatin skills showin up here. Virginia I can understand bein so close to de swamp and all, but no proper raised person uses fork near a pea. Shoot maybe you just too poor to have proper pea knife in yer table setting.
Proper pea knife got wide blade wid bend to provide cocmfortable bed for pee on trip from plate to mouth. Dat groove become more valuable as time goes on and a man ages.

 

[the old grind]

Most of my pocket knives have a groove in their blades, if not for eatin' peas, but that could still save me a trip to the kitchen. :cool2:

Terry, If those are punches and dies in the blue rack there doesn't seem to be a sharp punch among 'em.

 

[Big Barn]

Most of my pocket knives have a groove in their blades, if not for eatin' peas, but that could still save me a trip to the kitchen. :cool2:

Terry, If those are punches and dies in the blue rack there doesn't seem to be a sharp punch among 'em.

They are being saved up for the day I find a surface grinder Jon.

Either that or design a jig to hold a spin index for my belt grinder.

 

[BukitCase]

Peas - I remember a "poem" from when I wuz in 2nd grade -

"I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life -
It makes the peas taste funny, but it keeps 'em on the knife" -

(Now, if @ 75 I could just remember where I laid that hammer down) ... Steve

 

[fried1765]

Peas - I remember a "poem" from when I wuz in 2nd grade -

"I eat my peas with honey, I've done it all my life -
It makes the peas taste funny, but it keeps 'em on the knife" -

(Now, if @ 75 I could just remember where I laid that hammer down) ... Steve

In 5 more years you may not even remember that you had a hammer.

 

[the old grind]

Cover the bed-ways and chuck 'em up in the lathe. Use muffler clamps to attach an angle grinder to the tool-post if you lack a TP grinder.

Turn lathe and wheel spindles in the same direction so where the wheel contacts the punch they're moving in opposition.

The op is called a spin grind and is easier than most folks think to set up. Punch points aren't critical and can be dressed as needed with file strokes and switching the lathe spindle back to it's normal rotation. (toward us)

Surface grinder will clean up the dies

 

[bindian]

I have two of those adjustable wrenches...one SAE and one Metric.

On occasion I've sent the nephews after the Metric wrench, when I just have the SAE one in hand...

I got a left handed one and a right handed one.:laughing: I also have a left handed Ford wrench:thumbsup:.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Fuddy1952]

 

[Big Barn]

Cover the bed-ways and chuck 'em up in the lathe. Use muffler clamps to attach an angle grinder to the tool-post if you lack a TP grinder.

Turn lathe and wheel spindles in the same direction so where the wheel contacts the punch they're moving in opposition.

The op is called a spin grind and is easier than most folks think to set up. Punch points aren't critical and can be dressed as needed with file strokes and switching the lathe spindle back to it's normal rotation. (toward us)

Surface grinder will clean up the dies

Thanks OG! That is what I will do!

 

[JK22]

Using Handi Angle shelving drops

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Love the shelving. What did you use for the oval support braces? Recycled or made?

 

[Big Barn]

Thanks JK. I assume you are referring to these triangular corner braces. They are OEM parts.

 

[JK22]

Thanks JK. I assume you are referring to these triangular corner braces. They are OEM parts.

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Sweet! Where did you find those? I googled around and couldn’t find anything similar

 

[Big Barn]

Sweet! Where did you find those? I googled around and couldn’t find anything similar

Try this

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