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These Decorations took about three or four years . And since water I knew would flow down the hill, the rest was easy. I bought a Montgomery Wards cement mixer in the early fifties and everything I do has been from trial and error. All the rocks are hand formed concrete over welded up forms using rebar and metal lathe. I have a large swimming pool pump with a good sized filter system. The curved 2 3/8" oil field pipe I had curved for my over head light poles at the mini golf course at the go-cart track and paid for the pipe and his bending labor I exchanged for go -cart tickets. I had some curved pipe left and brought them with me when we retired and used some on that stairway. The hair strainer for the pond I made using some wholly plastic the same as Lowes has over their garden area. I have more good sized water falls but can't find the pictures and too lazy to go take more. The pump house is inside some rock formations that can't be found by folks looking things over or going in there and trying to hurt themselves. The big concrete door is built like everything else, so it stays hidden. Our land to the lake water is sloping to much to grow anything so a few terraces I told Bernadette was the answer. No drawn up plans . I did think I was going all the way to the waters edge with this kind of scenery but some high school buddies made me change my thoughts for they wanted use to go with them and travel america.. That made wife want to go motor home permanently. I sure am glad I won that argument... Sometimes Bernadette would fill the mixer with sand and gravel and the portland but I would empty the mixer in to the wheel barrow and do the rest. Lots of pvc lines and hydrants first then think all night long what I would try to do the next day.. This time in my life was probably the most interesting thing I ever did so there was no work involved. The water comes out of the lake for a fee of 150 a year but it also is used on all the outside greenery.
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I was at the junkyard again and I found a newish pipe threading machine. I have no idea what was wrong with it but I striped it for parts. Wondering what to do with the new found parts I came up with this idea. Working with long parts in my lathe things can get flopping around. I made an adapter and put this on the back end of my spindle. It hold the long rods and keeps them from flopping around. I tried it out... Works great.
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I've had it in my head for some time I'd like to have a small metal lathe but I would also like to have a small mill as well. I've been watching CL for a few months and haven't seen anything that interests me. So, I've been looking at the Grizzly combo machines but I'm not the biggest Grizzly fan. What does everyone think of these machines? Specifically the g9729, it seems as though that would more than satisfy the needs(wants) of a not so serious hobbyist. Combo lathe/mill
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I saw a thread at another site about the removable center point in some live centers. I have the One way live center. I lost the point once a while ogo but did find it hiding in a drawer. I had often thought about making some extras on the metal lathe and decided to go ahead and do it. I found out that it is a "zero" Morse taper. Didn't even know there was such a thing. Jump to Morse - The taper angle of the Morse taper varies somewhat with size but is typically 1.49 degrees (around 3 degrees included). I figured setting the angle of the tool post slide would be almost impossible so I chucked up a drill chuck with a #2 taper and mounted a dial indicator to copy the taper to the tool slide and cut a taper on some round stock I had. Well it still wiggled around in the hole so I set upon the task of getting it right and kept moving it a few thousandths Until I got a snug fit as needed. Made up a bunch of blanks for use too. The one mounted in the live center is threaded with 1/4" thread and is removable. The center can be mounted in the metal lathe and any tip I wish to make can be turned to exact center for the live center. A pin can be inserted into the hole to lock the live center from turning. This end is made to fit in the pen nib holes to for use while sanding the plating off. I double nutted it so it will be the same when removed and replaced. The other blanks can be use for other purposes later on. While I was at it I put some larger stock in and made some #2 taper blanks. I didn't change the angle and turns out it was close enough. Drilled and threaded holes in the ends of these for a draw bar which will be a great help when I go to turn them later on. In my searches I found Morse Taper blanks are also available form various places. Here's a link for reference. https://www.victornet.com/tools/Blank-Morse-Taper-arbors/20.html
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Early August I took my step-father to the 38th Annual Tippecanoe Antique Tractor & Power Show. First time I had ever been too and from what we heard, maybe the last. It was hotter than Hades most of the day so it was kind of rough to see everything. I was really concerned about "Pops" being 91-1/2 y/o so we sat under the big tent a lot and drank free ice water as needed. All-in-all it was an enjoyable day if for no other reason than to get him out of the house for a while and do something he would enjoy. On the way out, I happened to stop by a vendor who had several small items on a table for sale...this one caught my eye and his was OK with me taking pictures. There was no price on it so respecting the old adage, "if you have to ask the price, you probably can't afford it" I didn't ask... I did do a little research and found some info and other pictures HERE AND HERE Also a You-Tube video of one running following the pictures... ManSon -- Small Machines Inc. West Los Angeles 25 California Just a really cool, fully functional self/manual feed mini metal working lathe. Motor is under the head stock spindle. Complete with accessory kit. Just a little different angle of above picture. Even has a coolant catch basin under the bed.
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Found this hammer head at an estate sale and bought it for the novelty of it. I have this hammer and thought I may be able to share the handle with is and treat it as a kit. They both have 3/8" fine threads but the screw driver was too long for the new ball peen head. There is only 2" hollowed out in the stem so I decided to make a handle for it. I found this piece of brass from a candle stick I saved from a previous project. As luck would have it it had 3/8" fine threads already in the end of it. Stuff does go right sometimes. Mounted it on the metal lathe and turned it down to 7/16". Found a suitable piece of Mahogany, drilled it and epoxied the two together. Turned it on the wood lathe and gave it a CA finish. Cut the head off a fine thread bolt to use as a connector to mate the hammer head and handle together. Then I got the idea to cut a tip off a Phillips screw driver, drill a hole in the 3/8" connector and mate the two together. So now the handle has a Phillips screw driver when twisted apart. I enjoy piddling around with projects like this. Gets the creative juices flowing.
