I can see a new product in your future. Of course a person who makes brooms, must make dust pans, its only natural. Its that or offer free rides on the brooms!
Cute, but broom makers are prohibited from making transportation jokes. The dust pan was just to make something rather than just bending up stock for drill.
Since you have the English wheel, you can pre- stretch the area where you are going to put the beads and it will be flat when you are finished. Another new toy to play with.
Good luck
I have so much to learn. I see the beads should shrink so stretching first should counter that action. I have not unboxed the English wheel yet, and need to go back to HF to buy their extra wheels. It only comes with a sharp radius wheel.
Nice stand. I have some bent I-beam that could be cut down and used like that.
Like most HF stuff where the brown gunk has to be removed and the tool adjusted, did you have to do either for it to shear properly?
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As in bent, rolled? Or just bent? Rolled would be very cool if it's rolled the easy way. Bent you just cut out the bends. Issue with bent is the flanges distort so it won't be flat in the bent area.
It was all out of adjustment, so I learned a lot about it as I was figuring out how to adjust it. The instructions were minimal. But it is 2017 and instructions are a thing of the past. It was not too dirty, however, just covered with grease and oil. And a shear needs to be kept lubricated.
The manual recommended an 8% gap between the shear blades and that would be 0.003" for 20 gauge. There is an adjustment to bow the moveable blade but I could never get a consistent 0.003" measurement across the full width. I settled for 0.003" on each end and less in the middle. When you load it, it will distort anyway. It is hard to cut 28 gauge on a 20 gauge setting so I'm pretty happy with the results so far.
If the broom fits, ride it.
Depending on the mood, I might be inclined for a test flight.
Keep up the fine work!!! I dig this thread -- so many fun personalities here.
Free broom for a picture!
PM your address and it will be on the way
There are a lot of misfits stopping in here, aren't there! I have no idea why
Andy: i'm not a fan of HARBOR FRIEGHT brand or imported tools, but your homemade stand has my attention. nice paint job and nice touch rounding off the corners so you or your helpers or grandkids won't leave part of their foot on the corners that could have been there.
i wish you the best on selling your parent's farm and with your marketing skills, personality and your gift of gab i'm sure you'll find a buyer soon.
are you setting up all this cool metal cutting, bending and forming tools to get ready for DodgeStudie? or maybe cause you might want to spiff up maybe 50 tractors and a CABOOSE?
Jim: i bet if Andy's wife was healthier and hopefully she will be a spot on the map marking Andy's farm as sort of the MIDWEST DISNEYLAND might be a possibility.
Thanks for your comment on the stand. While it is pretty utilitarian it is heavy does not move when you operate the shear.
Sheet metal tools are an attempt at making patch panels for may old rusty cars and trucks I have. I hope I learn to make some acceptable panels.
I am a reluctant seller of my folks farm. Our family homesteaded it in 1823, pushing 200 years. It is still a homestead in the original family and there are not many of those left. Even in Oklahoma where they were homesteaded as late as 1905 or 06. A lot of history there, including an incident during the Civil War when the Union Army cornered some Bushwhackers on the family farm. The family took refuge in the large log cabin and reportedly were firing south at the Bushwhackers and north at the Union soldiers, trying to get them all off the farm. Surprisingly there were some rather stubborn folks in my heritage. Glad that's not an inheritable trait.
My brother and brother-in-law and I put up the sign my brother had had made. Here they are strapping the poles together so Bob and I could set them in the holes. Brother and I had welded pins on the uprights to go into the ends of the crossarms so we could just slip them together in the field. Then we rely on the tension of the sign to hold everything tight. We packed dry concrete mix in the holes, 30" deep into still black gumbo.
And here's the finished sign, Bob, brother, and brother-in-law, all in a row. Busy highway, sign will get lot's of exposure.
I'm beat, left the house about 6:00 this morning, drove 4-1/2 hours, worked pretty hard hand digging holes, setting the sign, and cleaning on the house (not done) and driving 4-1/2 hours back home. I also loaded up my dad's whole house generator to use at my house. Air conditioning is getting to be more critical at my house.
Thanks for the comments, guys.
And thanks for all the visits!!
