Well what do you know, it's Friday again folks! 

Here "Two Weeks From Anywhere" I've been trying to gather my stash of old Delta machine parts into one location so I can determine if I have everything required to put together one of these.

I'm down to trying to find two parts for the table saw. I have one of the parts, but it is damaged hopefully not beyond repair after I broke it yesterday trying to straighten it.

It snapped just as I got it back straight. 

I don't think this will work to fix it. 

Here's a look at the part. NCS-55-S Front Trunnion Clamp with Worm and Shaft. Hard to tell in the photo, but there is also a crack just left of the worm gear. 

Must be a common problem as I saw several photos on The Vintage Machinery website with the same crack by the gear. 

It would appear that a previous owner forgot to loosen the Trunnion Clamp before trying to change the table angle. The worm gear tore two or three teeth out of the Sliding Trunnion Bracket which I do have a replacement for. I do believe I can make this part work while I try finding another. We have ways! 

 

 Refurbing that part is my plan for the weekend, What's on Your Weekend Agenda? 

Edited December 22, 20232 yr by Larry Buskirk

Nor sure how this weekend will play out. I was thinking I'd be in the shop doing something most likely on the lathe, but now I'm not ceratin. One of Marie's gifts that she got yesterday was an expensive houseplant from our daughter (I didn't even know there was such a thing as an "expensive" houseplant) so I may be trying to put together a stand for it. Then there's the baking thing, she's (Marie) still trying to get her stuff completed and it taking more help from me than it used to. Carrying things around, putting stuff into/out of the oven, doing some of the clean up, etc., etc., etc. So I'm not sure how all this will work out.

Hope you can find the needed parts Larry, quite the project

 

I expect to have a "sort of" quiet weekend.  Yesterday I started to feel a bit achy and just not right.  Took plenty of different meds last night and sort of slept in an extra hour today.  Got a heck of a sore throat this morning, but otherwise OK.  I've one last mirror to get framed up today and that's it except for the wrapping.  That, of course, is subject to change

Son is here, DIL is expected to fly in tomorrow - but we won't know for sure until later today.  She had a medical emergency come up yesterday, a severe allergic reaction to... Burt's Bees lip balm.  Swollen, cracked lips & very painful.  Been using the BB stuff for years without issue, and then... bam.  Doc took one look at her and asked, "been using the Burt's Bee's lip balm"?  Apparently it is a common enough sight in the dermatological world. 

 

In good news, last night our daughter & BF came in   So the young ones will be out and about visiting friends pretty much all weekend using our house as "base camp".  We'll all visit in between the comings and goings.  I'm going to try and lay low through most of it...

Nothing on my agenda as ambitious as yours, Larry. Don't have the tools or expertise to get too involved with metal work. I leave that to my son and his forge. He makes some rudimentary tools. No moving parts.

I'm still without a scroll saw and, now the planer is acting up. It's still usable, just can't lower it to much lower than 2" above the bed. When the repair shop notifies me to come get the saw, I'll take the planer in. They are so backed up, at least a two week turn around is normal. Longer if replacement parts are needed.  

In the meantime, the bandsaw is getting a work out with bandsaw boxes. A great way to use up some scraps.

 Putting the plan into action for Xmas eve open house on Sunday. The older daughters are coming in from Columbus tonight and tomorrow & are heading back home Sunday afternoon, they work on Tuesday so at least they can spend Xmas day with their own family. We will spend Xmas day at the youngest daughter's house cross town. It will be the new year before I know it. 

We had our Christmas last Saturday.  I can sit back and enjoy.  Going to an old friends house for Christmas brunch.  Life is good.

All except family gifts delivered. Oldest to get here Christmas Eve . Tonight and tomorrow we have Santa at the neighborhood gate house. So will be directing traffic. Working on some new top designs in shop. Got a couple bowls to add finish to. Sunday only one am service and a pm Lords supper. So makes for a kinda busy weekend. Also like Fred will be helping if called on in kitchen as the wife has lymphedema in right arm and not supposed to lift more than 10 pounds. 

1 hour ago, Cal said:

Hope you can find the needed parts Larry, quite the project

Thanks Cal. I'm pretty sure I've got both of the needed parts somewhere around here. 

Just not sure where that somewhere is. 

Some of that stuff was stashed away about 20 years ago. 

 

55 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

Nothing on my agenda as ambitious as yours, Larry.

Ambitious? 

It's one of those things that's been on, or in the "Bucket" list for a long time.

One of the machines has even been stored,...

 

As to that NCS-55-S, Front Trunnion Clamp,

We have the technology to make it better, stronger, yadda, yadda, yadda. 

Would like to get a box finished..by Sunday....we'll see...

 

Road Trip, today...will be driving past 2 Antique Stores in Urbana, OH....may have to stop in for a look around.....

2 hours ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

I didn't even know there was such a thing as an "expensive" houseplant

Fred, let me tell you about "our" flower bill...

 

2 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

I do believe I can make this part work

J-B Weld!

 

 

If the spirit moves me, I might do some shopping later this weekend.

1 hour ago, lew said:

J-B Weld!

Two of their products along with a small piece of aluminum and a thick washer to be exact. 

1 hour ago, lew said:

If the spirit moves me, I might do some shopping later this weekend.

After running to the store earlier this morning? 

I can wait until Tuesday. 

 

Fedex brings manna?

 

a few weeks ago i bought a package of 30 white corn tortillas at the grocery store, made by a local company.  don't remember what they cost, just a few bucks.  didn't really look at them, in the cart they go, scan at self check out, take everything home.

 

go to put them in the fridge, and see a blue mold spot on the top tortilla.  uh oh.  turn it over, yup, more mold on the bottom tortilla.  not good.  store is too far to worry about a return.  take pics, find the phone number for the local place, call, leave message.

 

2 weeks pass, get a return call, explain everything, send Jose the pics, and explain that somewhere between the factory and the shelf, someone is not handling the product correctly, and he is getting mold.  which is not good for the customer, nor for their reputation.  just want to let him know what is going on.

 

he gets my info, and says he'll send me replacement package.  wow.  thank you.

 

a Fedex envelope arrives this morning, open it, and find 2 replacement packages of tortillas, which should last me several weeks at the rate I eat them.

 

so, maybe Fedex doesn't bring manna, but they do deliver tortillas, and that's sufficient for today.

Road Trip results?

 

$16.09 for...( wait for it..)

Solid steel, no less...10" long, cutter is 2-1/2" wide..

Handles were milled as part of this thing, and can't be removed..

Cutter will need a good resharpening..

.

Kind of "chippy" and someone had given this a coat of.....Clear Coat?  

 

I am always looking for hand tools I don't have...might have found one?

 

28 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Road Trip results?

 

$16.09 for...( wait for it..)

Solid steel, no less...10" long, cutter is 2-1/2" wide..

Handles were milled as part of this thing, and can't be removed..

Cutter will need a good resharpening..

.

Kind of "chippy" and someone had given this a coat of.....Clear Coat?  

 

I am always looking for hand tools I don't have...might have found one?

 

 

Bruce has one of those, what is it? 

A knock-off of a Millers Falls Cigar shave?   Spokeshave. 

I have been playing with all the great gifts I got from my Secret Santa

 

(me)

 

 

 

 

Stripped the paint off of the Front Trunnion Clamp in preparation for the repair surgery.

First I'll fill this crack with some J-B Weld. 

 

 Looks like the keyboard needs a wiping down. 

And after I get that shaped, I'll be using some J-B Weld 3000# Super-Glue to attach a flat washer on the end that I still have to modify a bit to hold the rest from cracking. I'll also be reattaching the broken off guide ear and backing up the flat side with a 1/16" aluminum plate that will cover the whole flat side using the same Super-Glue. 

After that a little file work and a coat of paint and the repair (Other than the washer.) should be mostly unnoticeable. 

Notice the keyboard? 

Edited December 22, 20232 yr by Larry Buskirk

Yesterday I accomplished placing '24 sticker on vehicle license plates...oh, cleaned backup camera lenses too. Exhausting day when you factor in making breakfast, drinking coffee and a shower. Out early today. Finished up Christmas shopping as far as I can tell plus ran several errands. Youngest granddaughter was a great help even if it did cost me lunch and a gourmet specialty coffee. 

 

Still need to finish up a PowerPoint show for the family Christmas and photo album for our daughter and SIL documenting their move to their first house earlier this year. Will be helping Mrs. Grandma GrandpaDave prepare for Christmas. Christmas Eve AM church services and PM candlelight services. 

5 hours ago, DAB said:

go to put them in the fridge, and see a blue mold spot on the top tortilla.  uh oh.  turn it over, yup, more mold on the bottom tortilla.  not good.  store is too far to worry about a return.  take pics, find the phone number for the local place, call, leave message.

 

And now everyone will expect penicillin with their tortillas for no extra charge.

53 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

Looks like the keyboard needs a wiping down. 

Been snorking coffee out your nose again I see. Must've been pretty funny.