well my dreams of having the shop all cleaned up by today went out the window, I ended up working Monday and Tuesday and didn't get to the lake until 3 am on Wednesday which of course ment that most of Wednesday was shot all to hell as well. I spent what time I had on Wednesday and Thursday and Friday working on my sisters trailer, on a good note that project is almost done.
So I finally got to work on the shop on Saturday the first project was to clean up the area around the post that needed replacement. Once that was done and I could get some good measurements I fabbed up the new post, For those of you that care the post is 5 inch square with 1/4 inch walls, the top and bottom plates are 3/8 inch. The top plate has a 1 1/16 inch hole for a jack post screw and the bottom plate has a 3/4 inch pin the sits in a hole in the floor to keep it from kicking out.
The next step was paint, I decided on a quick rattle can job, wiped it down with acetone and then hit it with 2 coats of primer then 2 coats of high heat satin black (left over from rebuilding a smoker last year).
While I was waiting for the paint to dry I started on a copy of Jack Olsen's 2 faced clock.
Once the clock brackets were painted it was time for break.
4.5 lbs small mouth bass
1 lb crappie
This morning while waiting for my minions to show up to help set the post I drilled and tapped the holes to mount the clock, and the clamps that hold the conduit to the post.
Here is the post in place.
Once it was up I started on reattaching everything
I painted the elec red so its easier to see.
When I went to put the grinder back in place I noticed that the pedestal was in rough shape so I decided to pull it apart and clean it up, well as usual that led to finding a few issues, the biggest being that the cast mounting plate was cracked and about to break, so not only did I have to clean up the pedestal but had to make a new mounting plate as well, glad that I bought more 3/8ths than I needed.
Took the wire cup brush to the ped and then hit it with 2 coats of primer and 2 coats of john deere green that I had in the paint cupboard.
Here is the machine that this base is from
HB RCouse
Since I had it apart I pulled the eye shields off and took the glass out to clean it up and while it was apart I painted the light cover and the shields.
well that's where I ended for the week not as much as I wanted but a good start and having the new post in takes a load off my mind.
Oh I also picked up all the steel for the shelving when I was picking up the post.