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[Lil Foot]

The finished arbor.

 

[Lil Foot]

Mounted to the chuck.

 

[Lil Foot]

And held in the Hardinge 5C collet chuck.

 

[BXHoosier]

Nice work on the arbor.

Last week, I replaced the heater in my shop. The old one wasn’t vented so it was unsafe to run it in a sealed building. The BX was my helper for the project

 

[Lil Foot]

Wow, heated shop, I'm envious. Up north, I freeze half the year; down here in Peoria, I roast half the year.

 

[BXHoosier]

Made an attachment for my Hi-Lift jack to make it more useful. It has a chain slot and d-ring hole for winching and a jaw for clamping or spreading.

 

[BXHoosier]

Also built a couple of accessories for my Little Giant ladder. A set of trestle brackets to convert the ladder into scaffolding and a tool tray that hooks over the rungs.

 

[Lil Foot]

Made an attachment for my Hi-Lift jack to make it more useful. It has a chain slot and d-ring hole for winching and a jaw for clamping or spreading. View attachment 51059 View attachment 51060

I like that HiLift accessory! Way better than that cheap stock plate with a hole in it that you can flip 90 degrees.

 

[BXHoosier]

Thanks Lil foot. There’s a company that made the piece called a Jack Mate. On their website they say it’s discontinued though so I decided to make my own version.

 

[bearbait]

Not a difficult project but made it from leftovers and it beats letting my motor lay on the floor and also got me out for a bit. You boys do nice work and yea heat would have been great.

 

[Lil Foot]

Nice.
"Leftovers" projects are the best kind-you get something useful out of stuff that was just taking up space.
What does that motor power?

 

[bearbait]

Nice.
"Leftovers" projects are the best kind-you get something useful out of stuff that was just taking up space.
What does that motor power?

Not a great picture, this was when I was rebuilding my run to the lake after it washed out a while back before I graveled it. It's a 25hp Yamaha on a 16ft boat that I've owned for years, they are well suited for each other.

 

[Lil Foot]

I found this interesting, a tour of the battleship New Jersey's machine shop spaces.
There is some killer equipment in there. Large stuff, too.

 

[bird dogger]

No Shopsmith Mark V anywhere to be found!

 

[Lil Foot]

Gotta love that overhead crane track winding from shop to shop.

 

[Lil Foot]

An interesting tool that I've never seen before:

 

[BXHoosier]

That’s very cool Lil Foot. I’ve used facing heads before but nothing like that.

 

[Lil Foot]

I’ve used facing heads before but nothing like that.

Same here, I loved the Wohlhaupter heads- wish I still had one.

 

[BXHoosier]

I’ve ran a Wohlhaupter head a few times on the Sip jig bores we used to have at work.

 

[Lil Foot]

Never ran the SIPs; they restricted them to the Toolmakers, and by the time I got my Toolmaker's rating, they had closed down the main machine shop and gotten rid of the SIPs. (the shop had 4, plus a Moore)