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With the paint dry I mounted the completed aerofoil lifting eye. The tipped the machine on its side and proceeded to do the cladding on the driver side. Got that done and was starting on the passenger side when a friend stopped by and we gossiped for an hour. By that time we were both cold and we went our separate ways. At home my wife told me...
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- Birthday January 15, 1942
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John Larson's Blog > 715
Posted 12 February 2012
John Larson's Blog > 714
Posted 11 February 2012
Fixed the personnel door on the commercial shop first thing. The Iron Kiss sign was loose. Also fixed the inside glass window in the sand blaster so that I could see what I was doing. What an improvement! The cabinet uses at each of the four glove ports two sandwiched glass plates, the inside one is intended to be sacrificial and is held...
John Larson's Blog > 713
Posted 10 February 2012
I just sold another hammer. Hurray! A 20:1 100. Fortunately I have channels, cladding sheets, and floor and ceiling plates already prepared from about a year ago when I bought a massive amount of steel. That cutting was one of the early jobs done on the HEM-saw horizontal bandsaw. The stuff has been sand blasted and painted. So once I...
John Larson's Blog > 712
Posted 09 February 2012
Worked all day on the lathe project and got the delivery made and got paid. Feels good. :-) Tomorrow I have to clean up the 220 pounds of shavings. :-(
John Larson's Blog > 711
Posted 08 February 2012
Started to mount the cabinet to the tower this morning, but then my customer job arrived. I worked at the lathe non-stop for the rest of the day. Tomorrow looks used up also. It is making me some money.
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