Wow! What an interesting read.
Keep up the great work Andy.
Thank you for the kind comment! Life has been a little busy lately...
Looking forward to seeing how you setup and cast the cross member for jb. Hope all is well on the farm.
Me too! Got any ideas? For the time being it appears it has been cast aside.
Andy, thanks for a new word - mull. I knew about 'mulling something over' as an expression of thinking something over in your mind, but I'd never really thought about it. But it sent me down a rabbit hole of the word's history and origin (etymology). It appears the word mill and mull have the same root, with mull being used for earth, dirt and sand, and mill being used for grains.
Learned something new today. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Thanks for the tidbit on mulling/milling. In my mind when you mill it you really change it's composition as in milling grain or milling a machine part. Mulling you really just reshape it to be more usable like in mulling over a problem. All is well!
Nice work on the muller Andy. Wait, when did you get a muller? That looks like a very handy sized unit. I also like the 'thresher' version that Olfoundryman(Youtube) has. Seems a little more compact and faster to use to recondition green sand though requires more work to process.
What are you casting next?
Muller? Where's a muller? I really want one.
I had trouble understanding Olfoundryman's thresher. Good word for it. I've watched a lot of his videos, he knows his stuff. I agree his design is compact and faster but it is so simple I wasn't sure I was seeing everything he had going on. Now I'm pretty sure he's just threshing it, as you say. Not sure it requires more work to process, loading the muller is tedious. And it has to run for several minutes. We'll see.
I'm, still playing catchup and living the dream through all the contributions to this epic thread.
I normally try to wait till I've caught up before making comments and I'm sure others will have commented on this already (but I haven't read those yet).
I just had to break my commenting rules to single out this quote as possibly one of the best I've seen on the internet in a while and it will certainly be going into my signature.
@Vieux: Not sure if you truly meant it the way you wrote it (and apologies if you didn't), but the way it comes out is brilliant (so I hope you did mean it this way)!!
I found his quote to be a little hard to understand, it takes some thinking, but, yes.
After mulling it over, I think a broom would make a good sweep. Lol.
Look forward to the casting of an aluminum crossmember.
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Me too, car parts is one of my goals and I appreciate JB giving me a valid task. And, when I fail, he already has a steel one ready.
That's what I meant when I wrote the comment. I hope Google translate correctly. I believe that work to do well or not to do quite. And for those who are doing the work necessary to tear off hands (they didn't do it) and eggs to fruit of their own kind.
We have such "experts" are called - "рукожоп" hands grow out of ***. I think in English, too, there is a similar name for such " specialists"
to put it in common Oklahoma vernacular, I would say "If you did that wiring job we'll cut off your hands so you won't do any more and we'll cut off your balls so you won't create any kids who will grow up with your skill level".
"Hands grow out of ***"
As with people, value lies in what you do; not just what you say! Paper proclamations', money included, carry far too much weight in today's world! One man with a diploma he thinks is a hammer, or an education, can be dangerous!
I have never seen a graduate of the old school mature and become an old fool!
Hmm, I have a diploma, I make hammers and I have a formal education.
I need to study, I know there's a compliment in there for me somewhere...
Ummm, Thanks Bobby!
A quiet weekend has passed!
I didn't have a quiet weekend. My son and grand daughter were here and they love life. We went here and there, and did this and that, and they wore me out. I'm not used to all this activity.
She is 16 and has no Studekota to drive
She and he hunted every evening and morning but the deer were elusive. Of course, they said they were going hunting, not killing...
Andy hope all is well , not like you to keep us waiting for news.
It has been a busy few days. Today my Zumba teacher and her husband are coming to finish her chairs and change tires. He races and seems he always is swapping tires. It keeps my tire machine lubricated and he brings tire supplies (valve stems, lubricant, etc.) so it's good for me.
I've got some pictures to post but it has to wait until I get some time. I trust all the Yanks will have a great Thanksgiving with their families and the rest of the world will roll along as if nothing happened.
My favorite Thanksgiving cartoon:
