Recent content by GeddyT

The list of projects for which a CNC mill would come in really handy has been growing out of control, and this has really been weighing on me. There are a lot of things in my life that haven't been in their right place, and this is a big part of the feeling that the walls are closing in that...

One more update for today because I don't want to cut big holes in the wall of the house during a thunderstorm... This update is going to be about my luck with vehicles. Bad luck, specifically. There is a cruel irony in the fact that my friend--who could easily be fooled into heading to the...

Another fun little manual machining job involving Andrew's abused and constantly broken mini excavator: It started in May, with Andrew asking me to what we could do about a seized track idler wheel. He brought it over, and we pressed it apart. The stock setup for this wheel is a typical...

For the price, they're pretty decent. I think I wouldn't trust them to hold up too well if used as roller cabs on the included casters and moved around a lot while full of heavy stuff, but they might. Even though they're screwed together, they seem sturdy enough. I would prefer to not have to...

Now we hop in the Wayback Machine and travel to Fathers Day. MGT knew that the graveyard of furniture occupying an entire wall of the shop had annoyed me for some time. Every time she upgrades a desk or a nightstand or a dresser or an end table, the piece that gets replaced is "temporarily"...

Alright, priest molestation jokes are kind of early 2000s, sure, but it was at least a little funny! But alright, then, tell me what the one just to the left is doing, then. The one that stops halfway down. [Drops mic and walks off stage crying]

I read "house priests," and I just thought it was referencing how molested my house has been over the years. I mean, what's this stud doing!?

If progress can be measured in bodily pain, I've made a LOT of progress this weekend! Sneak preview: I'll explain these present day horrors when I'm done catching up on the backlog, though. In the meantime, some fun machining projects that I took on between work and work... Both of my kids...

Hurco update: [A tumbleweed slowly rolls across the screen as crickets loudly chirp in the distance.] With the Hurco update out of the way, what else has been going on? Thanks to a week of too-hot-to-get-anything-done sunshine giving way to too-wet-to-get-anything-done rain, I have a bit of...

Going to issue a correction. Typing up that last post made me wonder if I can look up order status for that lip seal and see if it's stuck somewhere. I looked up my order, and the price per meter was actually only $1. So cheap, in fact, that I ordered two different profiles just to cover more...

Sorry. Left you hanging again, didn't I? I'm decently well, I guess. Been sick a lot this year, plus work has been really crazy. Maybe those two things are related... Unfortunately, you're still pretty caught up on getting the Hurco back together, although there's a bit of backstory left to...

So here's a question: What the hell is that!?... It's what I asked myself as I examined the machine with the covers off. This is the exact same nylon tubing that feeds oil to the various bits and bobs on the machine, only it's coming out of the back of the saddle and going to... nothing...

Alright, this is probably going to be the biggest update from the last several months. The good news is there'll be plenty of pictures. It started with the Christmas pool table. When I built the shop, the plan from the beginning was for it to be a shop. I pictured a situation like what I...

Okay, I have time to chip away at the list of updates a bit... There's an interesting cultural phenomenon that's happening, at least in my area: Teenage boys are super into fishing. I would have never predicted that. I've loved fishing my whole life, and I've been taking my kids fishing since...

"Greener" is really hard to find, unfortunately. I may complain about it, but there's not much around here that pays better for a college dropout like me. If that weren't the case, I would have no problem complaining to LNI, as I would have far less to lose. Maybe some day, after the kids are...