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Decided to try my hand at large ice molding for drinks this weekend. First, we need an object. I modeled a 401 Buick Nailhead piston in Solidworks and printed at half scale: That turned out, so I made a couple of centering fixtures. Hot glued the pieces together, inserted into a water...

I am happy with the 15L heated ultrasonic cleaner and the 36000 mg/h Ozone generator.

I got tired of the standard dust collection on my miter saw not being effective on this very specific setup I have for a high-volume job I am doing. Enter the printer. In place, with blade at cutting depth for this job: Did about 300 cuts last night. This works much better. I did run it in...

I picked up a 4" dust right "starter kit" at a local auction for a song. It has hose, two 4" quick connect handles, as well as the bench and floor cleaning attachments. Rather than buy their machine-side adapters, I have been printing my own. This one is for my jointer. Please ignore the mess...

This setup is extremely task specific, but it works very well. 3D printed adapter to get to shop vac hose, subsequent adapter that jumps to 4" dust collector. 3D printed zero clearance insert for the lift. I am cutting 1/4" deep on a 3/8" bit, so the bit is partially in the fence as well. I...

I got rid of my Oliver 20C 5 years ago or so. That was a bit too much lathe for my needs. My Delta has the VS reeves drive setup, and is 110V. I can grab the model number later. It's not a mini. 12" swing, probably a 3-4 foot bed.

I would look for a used one, personally. I am a curmudgeon like that, with an affinity for machines that are older than I am. I don't do much turning, but I picked up a delta variable speed 12" lathe on a stand from a client for the equivalent of $150 in labor a few years back. Put a Nova chuck...

I am building a thein baffle to improve my dust collector separation, and needed to make the 4" intake duct tangent to the main housing. Rather than piece something together with plywood and PVC, I just fired up solidworks and printed exactly what I needed. I may upload this one, as it saves...

Tube forming today. Needed some oval tubing, the closest size to ideal was astronomical to ship, so I decided to make some at as close to "ideal" as I could get. Printed these this afternoon: 2 walls, 50% infill. Built a box with oak scraps to contain them while they were printing. Clamp the...

Last night was the cutting jig for the intake runners. Works well as a clamp block in the evolution saw, too. Mark tube with sharpie, scribe line using the block. I'll grind/sand up to this line.

I put the 10" mark right on the tip, then measure with a tape. +/- 1/32 is going to be fine on these.

I'm starting to work on building an intake and headers for my straight eight Buick. I purchased plasma-cut flanges, but they are in multiple pieces. I needed a reasonably accurate way to measure center to center on the original parts, so I printed these guys. They'll work.

I couldn't find my metallic sharpies, or I would have used those on the dark blue one for sure. Hence the reason to print shop organization items!

I have a set of T-handle wrenches. They came in an odd rack that doesn't really work with any of my other tool storage. I decided to separate the sets (metric, SAE, torx), and make racks for them. Did them with a French cleat for hanging, but they will stand on their own as well. I also made the...

I call it the radius on the working end of the finger plus springback, myself. More than that would be an adjustment or tool wear issue.

You need the 36 then! https://www.diacro.com/equipment/model-36-finger-brake/ That 24 should do 16 at full width. Sometimes they are finicky to get adjusted, and I have seen worn fingers do weird things.

I had the 4-volume service manual for my 1998 back in the day when you could buy them from GM (2003-ish). These days I purchase the CD versions as I have a PC and 32" monitor in the shop for reference. I see that they are available at Rock Auto for $23.99. They do also list the Detroit Iron...

This was the application that pushed me over the edge for getting a printer. Metalworking applications.

I just ordered a Centauri Carbon and a pile of filament as my first printer. I almost did the P1S with AMS, but came to the conclusion that I can learn on this one with single filaments. I'll watch for a tool changer if I look to upgrade in a year or two if I need multi-material.

Leeson makes motors with tabs for Unisaw mounting. Please, if your saw cabinet has the rounded hole like in the picture I posted above, do not hack up the cabinet to cobble a 56 frame motor into it. If it were my saw, I would find an original RI motor and have it rebuilt before I adapted one...