I did this
Which one is you?
Up at dawns crack this morning. Self isolation incinerator time. A personnel bon fire really. I've got a cord n a half of trimmings stashed in our "garden". It'll take most of the day to burn. No neighbours will be affected by smoke ruining there drying or entering their homes. A very still day the moment..
Wikey put the c=kybosh on the pyromaniac thing for a few hours at least when she came out with a basket of washing. I tried convincing her the the wind was going in the totally opposite direction to smoke it out. No joy. While her back was turned I snuck the remander to the fence post I replaced the other day to keep things on the boil. Then went out to the shed to remove more gasket material from the spare 550/4 castings. A couple of nice ali weld repairs done on the alternator side. Then I heard an "What do I tell you!! I innocently replied " Tell me what? Things went quiet and I continued on with my current task.
I did come up with a cunning plan. So cunning in fact you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel. Next time I have the incinerator rouring I'm goig to put a couple of 10mm bars in the hot ash and see if I can make a couple of tyre removel spoons as I've never been able locate my small tyre lever set since getting back into bikes last November.
Actually that's something I could do. Binge up on lathe tutorials YouTube style. I'm self taught largely aside from a crumby book and likely doing stuff the stupid way.
I do have carbide tip tools for some things but grind my own for head chamber shapes which have turned (ho-ho) out well, but some of the others have been rubbish. Never spent an apprenticeship sharpening drillbits that a mate can do freehand on the grinder.
But for now I'd better get back to work. Sigh.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
I finished the brake piston today.
I'm glad I wasn't charging by the hour, would be $400 plus gst at garage rates. Would have knocked an hour off if id started with a piece of bar nearer the right size.
The 1mm holes won't be missed, I'm sure the fluid will get past the piston without them.
I live centered it when required, the tailstock got In the way from time to time.
Patience was the key.
I appreciate there's a guy on here that made his own crankshaft, conrods & all from scratch, but it's the small victories.
" The tailstock got in the way from time to time" sounds like something Nodrog would post.....
Dave - lathe work ain't hard once you can read the dials, lol.
We had quite a good workshop at home. Once the old man was happy I wasn't going to lose body parts he let me go. Slot car parts. Recon Bosch dynastart armatures for Whiting and Waltho - all pocketmoney
At high school during the intro to the lathe session I got a strange look when I asked what thread pitches they had the change gears for. Ours couldn't cut threads...
Teacher was even more surprised when I brought in what I wanted to screw cut - and did it in class.
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