Recent content by LinuxMercedes

Here's a picture of what I'm dealing with: The conrods are one-piece things that you snake onto the crankshaft. I need to put a new one on the right hand journal, since the one that was there now looks like this: The bearing feels fine (no play) and I'd rather save the $25 if there's a way...

I'm rebuilding an air compressor pump and I need to pull a ball bearing off the crankshaft so I can replace a con rod. The bearing is one of these and it's pressed up against a shoulder on the crankshaft. There might be just enough of the inner race protruding that I could maybe drive it off...

Looks very neat. Are the current power lines to the buildings enough to run your tools, or are you planning to upgrade those at some point?

Not much of an update, but I picked up these drawers for $20. They needed a little tweaking with a hammer and dolly to sit square and a few tack welds where the spot welds had broken. The drawers were also full of odds and ends including a couple of square wrenches that fit my lathe toolpost...

Thanks! I always like reading posts where people 'make do', rather than buying fancy new tools. I got the idea from a thread on removing stuck chucks; apparently it's not unheard of for shops to just throw a big 4-jaw on a lathe and never remove it. It's not unlike a really big boring head for...

Sorry, had some technical difficulties. They should be back now!

Now for the hole that will actually hold the boring bar. I'm going to machine this hole with the holder in the T-slot so it will be dead-on center when I'm done, so I'll be doing the opposite of what you usually do and holding the tools in the lathe chuck instead. First, centerpunch the hole to...

I got a set of boring bars with 3/4" shanks for a ridiculous price and I need one to bore a hole on a part I need to make for my VW Rabbit. People want absurd money for used boring bar holders and I couldn't find one that would fit my lathe well. So, obviously, I made one from scratch. About...

Man, that rotisserie is neat! I think the weak point for your winch setup is going to be the joists themselves. I would consider building a metal frame shaped like a big # to help spread the load across several joists and to allow you to attach the frame at several points along the joists so...

What you want to do is run both switches in parallel so if either one switches on, the sump pump switches on. You can do this by plugging both switches into the same circuit and making a Y cable with two male plugs and one female plug. Kind of a reverse of this splitter: BE CAREFUL; if one...

When I bought my truck, it had a step bumper with a trailer hitch ball on it. A while back, I managed to jacknife a trailer into the bumper while trying to back out of my driveway and bent the bumper up pretty badly. I pulled the bumper off, put on a trailer hitch, ziptied the license plate to...

Since I figured pine wouldn't take kindly to me trying to broach a keyway in it, I drilled and countersunk two holes for some blunted wood screws that will sit in the keyway on the output shaft. Hopefully that'll hold it pretty well in combination with the friction fit. Fit it onto the...

As I expected for a very cheap lathe, getting my Hendey up and running is turning into something of a project. Not that I'm complaining! One problem it has is the pulley on the transmission output shaft is concave, so the belt wants to run off the pulley when I run the lathe clockwise. It's...

I usen plain ol' furniture wax on my table saws (and hand planes, etc). Put on 4 or 5 coats and it'll be plenty slick.

Glad you like it, Richie! I picked up a couple more lights to add; seems I can never have enough.