BillyBones

Could be for use in a lathe or something similar. If the lathe turns clockwise a right hand drill will not cut. We use left hand drills all the time in the machinery i run.

I always thought that was the common method of storing the chuck key when not using the drill. The key for my drill press is one of those 4 way types that has a magnet in the center. I just stick it to a convenient spot on the drill press.

Last year i hung 2 interior doors in the house. They are hinged in the middle so they open kind of like accordion style. While hanging them one of the doors it fell over and smashed the coffee table. Not as big and heavy as those but still not something i want walloped with.

Frosty, they do indeed make sugar free gatorade. Now about the electrolyte levels i have no clue. My Dad is diabetic as well and he swears by the fruit flavored water, Clear Fruit i believe is the brand he drinks. I have not bought any for years, about 25 now as my youngest is turning 28 this year, but what about Pedialyte? My middle daughter her favorite drink when she is out in the hot sun in 95* temps is milk. Yes milk, i cannot imagine how sick i would get drinking milk in the heat. I will stick to lightly sweetened tea with lemon and maybe a twist of fresh mint.

But if you get everything organized you do not get to find stuff that you forgot you had.

Put the gatorade in the freezer for a bit to get slushy. That is my preferred way of having one.

JHCC, definitely liking the cart. Makes my litle make shift one look like, well makeshift.

Listening to your inner voice is a good idea in just about any decision you make. The amount of times i regret not doing so is countless and has led me down some troubled paths.

Scott, with out the plastics we would not get the cool grabbers that have dinosaur or Godzilla heads on the ends either. Well we could but much easier and cheaper to mold them out of plastic.

All those hooks i have made that are not up to par for what ever reason are on the wall of my shop. They are used to hang up tools, apron, measuring sticks, scroll forms, etc., etc. Like Iron dragon says i as well make a lot of hooks, they sell pretty well and can be priced cheap enough so just about anyone can afford to buy one and have a hand forged item in their home. Making hooks is also a good way of practicing finials. As far as hooks go another skill can be achieved making drive hooks. upset corners. Do not look at a hook as just something to hang something from. For example a gate latch or cabin latch is just a hook with a round eye and 2 staples to hold it secure. The hook is just a shape and it is up to you as to where and how that shape is used. One of my favorite, and best selling hooks, is a kind of hook/hasp combo. The hook is riveted to the hasp so that it pivots into the staple that goes through the slot on the end of the hasp. The other end i will do either an eye for another staple or a hinge depending on how i feel at the time. A bit hard to imagine so here is a pic You can also get quite fancy with hooks

My wife uses a modern one of those to get cloths out of the washing machine. She did not think about how high the machine was when we bought them a few years ago and can not reach the bottom. My grandmother before she passed was in a wheelchair and had one made of wood.

This past weekend i was working on a wall sconce and at the top were 2 rings that needed to be welded. While doing them i was thinking back to my first forge weld. Then at how far i have come from doing everything possible to not have to make a forge weld to today it is just another step in the process. Although i still can not for some reason get that drop tongs down, but i have found work arounds. But something i found intimidating is now just as mundane of a task as setting a rivet or punching a hole.

My one goal of going to Quad state last fall was to meet Thomas. I spent the day Friday and our paths did not cross, most of the day Saturday till i was heading out. That was when we finally met. Regretfully at that time i was in a crunch and could only spend 10 or so minutes. Even though our face to face meeting was brief, from interacting here i count him among freinds. My prayers to his family.

Tennon. after looking at it though i think if i do anymore like it instead of riveting the supports i will just drill holes and use them as another place to anchor it with. Or maybe put the supports on top instead of the bottom. Then just 2 screws going through the support and the angle iron.

Made the wife some 45* hooks for the porch. also made a wall mounted brazier, under estimated the amount of material needed so the mounting brackets still need made and attached. Also only got 4 of the 8 rivets in, was getting a bit wore out so i called it a day. So i just held it up to give an idea how it will be hung.

That looks pretty old that is for sure. No idea myself on anything about it. But if you are looking for a ball bearing try your local transmission shop or heavy line mechanics. It was not uncommon for us to change bearings in stuff that had 1/2" or bigger ball bearings.

I used one of those big umbrellas like you put in the center of a picnic table when i had my forge outside.

Gordon, i have maybe a dozen wrenches i have bent into a shape needed. Even one that we cut in half and i brazed back together just to prove that a braze was strong enough to use. I would just use an oxy-acetylene torch, heat to red and then bend to shape. I gave up rebuilding transmissions a couple years ago and went back to work in a machine shop. Our wrenches are flat so you may want to look for machinist wrenches as well.

Scott, you can buy one brand new for about $300 (US) on line. The ones they carry look a bit stronger as well. The jaws of the vice instead of being that high above the anvil face are flush with it.

My dad drag raced in the late 60's through till the 80's as well as most of his freinds. The street we lived on had provably 10 or 12 guys that all drag raced. Everything from rail dragsters to just hot rods. Fun times. My first car i got when i was 13 was a '70 Nova. I used to go through the school parking lot setting off the rich kids alarms. They were new back then.

I remember when i was a teenager and my buddy had a Ford LTD, huge land yacht, giant trunk, and a bunch of us would get in and sneak into the drive in. Good times. We also had a local drive in that showed adult movies. There was a sand and gravel company behind it and you could get up on the gravel mounds and watch the movies. Car shows are pretty big here. 5 or 6 times a year our down town is closed off and there is a car show. People here love cars. We even have spontaneous car shows where a bunch just end up in big parking lot. Frisch's Big Boy used to be the hang out on weekends till it closed then it became the Taco Bell parking lot. Dont ask how i know that 2 of the traffic lights on that road with the Taco Bell are exactly 1/4 mile apart.

Made this little guy for a freinds wife. Quicky out of 5160.

Needed some stakes for my beans to grow up on so i grabbed a couple lenths of 1/2" round bar and knocked these out pretty quick. Not real pretty but quite functional.

JHCC, if i were you i would go and ask the local building inspector. When i was building the porch on my house it had to be anchored to the foundation of the house. That center anchor was a definite no-go for that purpose. Ended up having to run bolts all the way through with a washer and nut on the backside. That was for a porch though and not railing. What i do know about concrete anchors is that the ones that are held in with an adhesive are about the strongest you can get. I also know that depending on if the anchors go in horizontally or vertical will make a difference with the building code. A search for "Ohio building code concrete anchors" turned up a bunch of info. I did not go deep just a quick gander. Also local building code may differ from state code.

Frosty, i just went a couple weeks ago to my supplier and got some 12' long 1/2" square 1018. I bought more than one obviously so it was a bit cheaper when buying bulk but out of curiosity i asked what the price for just one stick would be and it was $23. So going with that i would guess that a 20' would be around $40. So guessing that 5/16" round is about half the weight of 1/2" square, $20 provably isnt that far off.