Looking out the window. Its sunny and nice. I want to get the ski in the water.
The "Whatcha Doin Today" Thread
I assume that many members here are doing lots of small, but interesting things throughout the days.
While those things might not warrant a 1000 page thread I thought it would be fun to have a thread that people could post the small things.
Be it a job done on a bike, or car, or just something fun you did.
Me?
I took the CB1100F for a state inspection.
Also waxed it, adjusted the timing chain, and a few small squawks that it had.
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What did you guys do over the weekend?
While those things might not warrant a 1000 page thread I thought it would be fun to have a thread that people could post the small things.
Be it a job done on a bike, or car, or just something fun you did.
Me?
I took the CB1100F for a state inspection.
Also waxed it, adjusted the timing chain, and a few small squawks that it had.
What did you guys do over the weekend?
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This is interesting to me. I cast my first slug tow years ago this coming Christmas. I have been hooked ever since but have like zero time to do anything. 
^nope. The crank will break. We've covered this, hahahaha.
In other news, I am currently taking a metallurgy class, and today I got to play with sand casting for the first time.
We did it as a lost-foam process using sand and Styrofoam, but it gave us the general idea of how lost wax or something similar would work. I cut a crap star out of my piece of foam and cast that.
Now I want to mill it flat, and grind and polish it to mirror finish, just for shits and giggles. Down the road I'll play around with trying to cast nicer things, but this was a fun way to learn the basic process behind it. Sorry if this is only interesting to me, lol
Speaking of trips..... I cruised through the outlet mall up there in Dawsonville labor day weekend. Wife wanted a Disney hoodie. And a t shirt (funny a Cinderella t shirt looks NICE on her boobs).Today I decided to take a long trip and not stop till I ran out of money. Made it all the way to the mail box.
I am planning to give one of those Alphatig 200's from AHP a shot after the first of the year. I have been seeing really good reviews on them. Wife says new tv first though.
I have an old 74 ford f350 with a holmes 440 on the back. Cammed up FE under the hood and a straight shift. And my tires are coming apart. I will poke around for retreads. I want to convert my NPR to 19.5s and use its 16s on the Ford.
I certainly am not above driving to nashville for tires. take the wife to the hill country might ease the expense of tires.
I certainly am not above driving to nashville for tires. take the wife to the hill country might ease the expense of tires.
Screwed the pooch just now. Forgot about a local online auction and missed out on a Fimap toolroom lathe for 250.
Losing ebay auctions for needful things.
Oops. Meant to say cat 50. lol
The fat girl is a van norman 26 which currently lives in my box truck.
Brochure here:
Van Norman Machine Tool Co. - Publication Reprints - Van Norman No. 26 and 36 Ram Type Milling Machine Brochure | VintageMachinery.org
Mine is a '39 model and has some weirdness. The overarm is different and some other things are different than the later ones. It needs some repair, so I am collecting cheap tooling on ebay while repairing and setting up a permanent home for it. This involves adding a new concrete pad to my existing area.
The fat girl name comes from someone seeing it in my box truck, taking up most of a 7x16 box with the ram removed and sitting behind the machine, saying "man she is one fat bitch". He was used to seeing my smaller machines.
I plan on repainting the machine while repairing. Normally I wouldn't but this machine's finish is in really poor shape and flaking pretty bad. I want to paint one of these on the side of the column (I am leaning toward the second, about 3 feet tall and very subtle):
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The fat girl is a van norman 26 which currently lives in my box truck.
Brochure here:
Van Norman Machine Tool Co. - Publication Reprints - Van Norman No. 26 and 36 Ram Type Milling Machine Brochure | VintageMachinery.org
Mine is a '39 model and has some weirdness. The overarm is different and some other things are different than the later ones. It needs some repair, so I am collecting cheap tooling on ebay while repairing and setting up a permanent home for it. This involves adding a new concrete pad to my existing area.
The fat girl name comes from someone seeing it in my box truck, taking up most of a 7x16 box with the ram removed and sitting behind the machine, saying "man she is one fat bitch". He was used to seeing my smaller machines.
I plan on repainting the machine while repairing. Normally I wouldn't but this machine's finish is in really poor shape and flaking pretty bad. I want to paint one of these on the side of the column (I am leaning toward the second, about 3 feet tall and very subtle):
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