George, that's our team captain. I'm the one on her bum because I fell first step into the water, LOL

At least you didn't fall head first. Would plunging your feet and head make it a bi-polar plunge?

Frosty The Lucky.

When i was a teenager we used to do polar bear swims. We would get in a pool filled with ice water and swim a mile. 2 brothers i grew up with did it one year using a butterfly stroke. They were like fish in water where i am more a rock.

So I am on a mission to put into use all the stuff I have acquired over the last year or get rid of it.

Well maybe get rid of it.

 

So one item I spent some time on this weekend was a Grizzley 6" Jointer.

I powered it up and ran a board through it and it worked GREAT!!.

I ran a scrap of rough sawn 2x4 through.

 

 

This is the other side of the board for comparison.

 

 

One pass looked great

 

 

As you can see the bed is pretty rusty,

 

So with some WD 40 and a scrub pad.

 

Here is yesterdays couple of passes

 

 

Then I coated in WD40 and left it over night.

 

And here is todays results.

 

 

The million dollar question is would you do a couple more scrubs trying to get rid of the stains or spots?

 

ARMY

SE Oregon.

1 hour ago, ArmySoldier72 said:

a couple more scrubs trying to get rid of the stains or spots?

Nope. You have it in great shape, certainly well enough to use. Besides, the stains and spots add character and do not impact the precision of the surface for its intended purpose.

--Larry

Not unless it stains the wood. It looks good now, are you going to use it or sell it?

Frosty The Lucky.

thank you larry and frosty, 

I think I will finish it up tomorrow, put it all together and give a few practice pieces a run through.

I plan to give the tables and the fence a lite coat of pastewax or beeswax.

 

I fully intend to use the jointer. 

First project is taking some rough sawn lumber that used to be a loafing shed for the cattle and building a 8-10' work bench in the woodworking area of my shop. I figure joint a long and short side to true them up and laminate enough boards to make a 24" wide bench.

 

I will have to get some updated shop pictures.... But I moved the blacksmithing stuff to the back area I framed in. 

in the linked post, there are 2 pictures.. that started out as my smithy and have transitioned into a woodworking area.

 

https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/66519-what-did-you-do-in-the-shop-today/page/854/#comment-770006

 

ARMY

I get a tetanus shot friday on the yearly visit to the occupational physician. Was 10 year so renewel was in order.

I cannot lift my arm above my sholder because of the pain. I cannot remember ever getting a vaccine that hurts this much. It is driving me nuts! Even with painmeds i cannot do anything that requires movement and power. 

Luckely i can drink beer with my left hand.

This past winter i had someone show me how to use a table saw as a jointer. You just need a level between the fence and the board. Move the level as you move the board through the blade. 

Gaewoon, i just had one a couple months ago. It was a bit sore but nothing that kept me from using my arm though. 

I hate intra muscular injections, when we got the Covid shot my arm was stiff ached for a few days Deb's hurt for a week and was almost immobile for two days.

I got my last tetanus shot in the butt cheek, it was only a little tender for a couple days. Given a choice I want it in my Gluteus Maximus! The muscles in your upper arm are several smaller muscles so there's less room for an injection to disperse. The Glutes are large muscle groups and meds disperse faster with less pain.

Frosty The Lucky.

Billy normally nothing. Last time, nothing. All those covid vaccines, not a thing. The yearly flu shot, nothing.

This one, crazy!

And it was not that the nurse was an animal, no perfect, didn't feel a thing at that time.

Frosty, if it hurts than, i cannot sit and i spend daily couple of hours in the car driving to the ships for work. 

Shots don't make my butt hurt enough to keep me from sitting or driving. A little tender is a LOT different than I can't lift my arm. 

Frosty The Lucky.

My sunday consisted of daily farm chores first,

I finished the jointer cleaning and put it back together.

The blade guard is on hand, but I think the spring broke.  I am going to take that apart and check.

 

And my test cut was a perfect 90 degrees.

I got into a few other tasks before my body told me I was done....

I replaced the blade on my old horizontal band saw

Ran a test cut, cutting 25' Succor Rod in half.

Started to replace the tires on my portable bandsaw  (what a bugger).

Started converting a cast iron table saw body into an outfeed table. 

 

FUN weekend. 

 

ARMY

Went to go to the hardware store yesterday. My truck took a long time to start at first, i thought huh whats going on here. No problem the rest of the day. This AM same problem. Fuel pump getting ready to go. I started to find a new pump to put in but have made the decision that come this weekend it will become someone else's problem. 2013 GMC 1500 crew cab 4WD with 105K on it so i should get a pretty good trade in. 

With the exception of 2 Fords i have owned, a Ranger given to be by my dad when he got stationed in Puerto Rico and an F150 he sold me when he got his new F150,  i have had a GMC truck my whole life. This weekend i am thinking about a new Toyota. 

As a side not i am old enough to remember when the Ranger was a full sized truck. We had an F250 Ranger when i was a kid. 

37 minutes ago, BillyBones said:

i have had a GMC truck my whole life.

Billy, We were a ford family growing up. 

When i first sat in a dodge ram back in 2000, i was impressed.  I got my first Ram in 2005, special edition bought through military car sales while i was deployed to Iraq, it was the Daytona limited edition 1500.  I have never looked back.  When I moved to idaho, I switched over to the 3500.  I love the pulling power (CUMMINS!!) , the roominess inside, the decent MPG.....it has been an excellent farm truck, pulling tons of Hay and Equipment, and pulling our camper into some pretty sketchy places.   

 

ARMY

I have always thought if i want a truck that is going to be a dually, 4wd, diesel, and haul a ton of brick i would go with the Dodge. For a general purpose, run to the hard ware store, and haul the boat to the lake on the weekend i would go with the GM. Ford i think makes a good truck i just do not like driving them. 

Since my truck is down my dad has let me use hos new Ranger to get back and forth to work. He just bought the truck this past Nov. so it is a 2025. I do not like it. I feel like i am sitting on top of it, throttle response is sluggish, and just way to many gizmos and touchscreens. 

Before i went back to work in a machine shop i spent the better part of 20 years under cars and trucks, rebuilding transmissions, differentials, and transfer cases. One thing i have learned is that there is no best or worst. All cars and trucks have there problems. 

What i hate about new trucks now id i can not get a truck. I do not need power windows or locks, i do not need AC, i do not need remote start, i do not need 3/4 of the gadgets they come with now. I want a truck, not a luxury car. 

When I was getting myself established, in Alaska after moving out of the folk's place I was buying and driving beaters and discovered there really wasn't much difference between the big 3's pickups. My one real complaint with Dodge trucks was the starter noise. Dodge owners assured me they lasted just as long and the gearing made them better. Yeah, I worked in a shop and replacing starters was bread and butter. You couldn't convince people not to just grind the starter till the engine caught. Chrysler starters burned out about 2:1 compared to the other two makes together.

I certainly agree, I HATE the useless bells and whistles in new vehicles. Gages? HAH, take your eyes off the road, focus on the little screen select a menu and select what you want to see. Sure it only takes a few seconds but you do know what can happen at highway speed in a few seconds? Yes? 

There has been an engine gage warning lite on in our Dodge Journey since maybe 8 minutes after driving it off the lot. The dealer nor Chrysler can do anything about it. Without charging us a couple hours to analyze the problem, THEN they'll make an appt to repair it. . . Maybe, there are no guarantees on electronic repair work you know.

I oh SO loved my 67 Chevy short bed 1/2 ton with the 327. I'd rebuilt it to correct a knock and adding a "few" high performance parts just sort of happened. Like any of my friends in Cal. would speak to me if I'd rebuilt it stock.

It wasn't a hot rod by any means but it was snappy and the suspension kit made it handle nicely for a pickup. The radio, cassete player I put in was more complicated than the instrument pane. Speed, RPM, oil pressure, temp, charge and hi beam indicator and it was all covered.

Frosty The Lucky.

 We have laws about not using your cell phone when driving, then auto manufactures turn around and put all those touch screens in. Seems a bit backward. 

Fuel, temp, oil pressure, speedometer, is all i need. 

My first car i had a Pioneer stereo cassette deck with a set of 6x9 speakers. High tech audio for the time. 

 

You forget the tacho but you also miss a pedal.

A tach is nice but if you pay attention to the engine they're not necessary and the clutch is only necessary for starting and stopping. Still need the 3rd pedal.

Frosty The Lucky.

Gewoon, i first saw that as "taco". I would never forget the tacos. 

When i was drag racing the only gauge in the car was an oil pressure gauge. Like Frosty says, you learn to shift by feel and sound. 

There is a joke here in the states, want to keep a millennial from driving your car, buy a standard. My daughter can drive a stick but she is a rarity. You almost have to order a car or truck with a stick now in the states. Everything is automatics. 

My dad's truck i have been driving is an automatic and has no tach. My GMC is auto but has a tach, i never realized how much i look at one now that i do not have one. 

Ford is coming out with a standard that has no clutch pedal. When you shift a servo in the trans releases the clutch instead of a pedal. Sort of like how a dual clutch, which are junk by the way, works. 

Dsg are really nice. You can smoke 2 clutches instead of 1. Always fun when they trailer and manouevre at low speeds

Sure that the ford is a manual? And not an automatic with requires shifting gears? They also excist and are safer.

I believe stellantis had an automatic that was a manuel. A dog of a gearbox, very slow to change gears.

Most people i know racing need a tacho, makes it easier in the corners to learn wich gear to select and to avoid overrevs.

Oilpressure is mostly a yellow light low and a red lowlow (and stop) with them.

Different style of racing i guess

Definitely different. Drag racing is just go fast in a straight line for 1000' (used to be 1/4 mile until changed when Scott Kalitta was killed) or short track 1/8 mile. 

I read an article about the Ford trans. From what i gathered it is a standard. 

When i was working in a tranny shop we did a lot of those dual clutch trans. Ironically none were for the clutches going out, we did put new ones in though, if you are going to rip out the trans may as well put a clutch in, they were for servo failure and computer reprogramming. 

Speaking of clutches ever seen a top fuel drag clutch? absolutely massive. But it also has to hold 10,000 HP and lasts 4 sec. They are replaced every run but the engine is also rebuilt every run. The pits are where drag racing is fun. You have 30 mins to get the car back on the track. Watching a top fuel race team is like watching poetry in motion. 

When I went to the drags in the 60s 200mph and 6 seconds was unheard of. Low 7s and 196 was fuel dragster (rail) country, funny cars ran in the high 7s. At the time the fastest funny care was Mr. Cal. Automotive driven by Tex Collins. Many racers used the San Fernando drag strip as a tune up strip and didn't push there. If there hadn't been a "highway" bridge crossing the shut down area just after the sand traps entry it would've been a better strip for go fasters if it wasn't THE most dangerous strip in S. Cal.

What shut it down was a run away rail, it was going straight but when the front wheels hit the sand traps it dove into the sand the  engine and passenger compartment rail vaulted into the overpass. Flying, burning debris caused several wrecks and lots of damage to vehicles on the multi lane overpass. I didn't see the wreck, I sat the hot pit gate facing away from the finish and had a bad view if I stood on my chair. 

I did see Tex "lunch the mill" (for you old timers) in the Mr. Cal Automotive car. It was a gas funny car running a very hopped up V12 Allison airplane engine pushing about 3600 HP and more torque than a couple semi engines. 

About a week later his wife (who's name I don't recall) blew her fuel funny car to pieces when it blew a tire just as the engine was reaching red-line. Pieces of the slick literally stripped the fiberglass body off the frame and cage in small pieces, She got the engine shut down but one slick under crazy power had the car doing a flat spin down the track in flames.

She walked away before the safety crews got to the wreck. Tex was laughing almost hysterically in the pits. Mrs. Collins was walking away in a smoking fire suit so what the hey. It was even better when she got to their slot in the pits and started whaling away on Tex. 

Good times. <sigh>

Frosty The Lucky. 

1 hour ago, BillyBones said:

Definitely different. Drag racing is just go fast in a straight line for 1000' (used to be 1/4 mile until changed when Scott Kalitta was killed) or short track 1/8 mile. 

I read an article about the Ford trans. From what i gathered it is a standard. 

When i was working in a tranny shop we did a lot of those dual clutch trans. Ironically none were for the clutches going out, we did put new ones in though, if you are going to rip out the trans may as well put a clutch in, they were for servo failure and computer reprogramming. 

Speaking of clutches ever seen a top fuel drag clutch? absolutely massive. But it also has to hold 10,000 HP and lasts 4 sec. They are replaced every run but the engine is also rebuilt every run. The pits are where drag racing is fun. You have 30 mins to get the car back on the track. Watching a top fuel race team is like watching poetry in motion. 

Go see rallying. Complete rebuild of a rollover in a night. Suspensions, brakes, engines, ... crazy!

But sometimes the pits is more fun than the racing itself