Follow up!!

The aluminum edging in a previous post is now in place. I used the edging to make a cover for two displays in the Biology museum.





These guys were watching me very closely. I had the feeling they were pissed off at something.

Hand stand

I was asked to make a stand to hold a very large crystal for the annual rock sale. As I was holding the crystal, I said my hand would be perfect if it were larger. LODI! Eureka has too much credit for inspiration, So I made this hand after mine but scaled it up by 1 and 1/2.

New projects

Project one is to make another one of these.(top three photos). It is a platform for a doppler sounder submerged in the bay. The instrument is to detect sediment from dredging.

Project two is to build a couple of animal skeletons displays for the museum. The excreted Aluminum runners just arrived. This will be interesting.(bottom two photos)

Stakes

The Biology Department every year asks us to make up some stakes for the Arboretum on campus.
These stakes hold signs giving the proper name of the tree or plant. Usually they ask for 100 or so, but this time it was for 400.
So I had to cut bend and drill 400. I know them personally, and will miss each and every one as they go out and do their job.
I think most of previous ones are getting sold to the same company I purchase these from, cause they look the same, just my opinion.

This is how I feel

I worked my way to the controls
I set the throttle as far forward as I could
I turned the nose of my chariot to the wispy sky
And never turned back

True relaxation

Work on WaterCraft

Success!

Horse makes sure you are doing things right.

Outstanding!

WaterCraft Ready!

Can't wait!

Great Eats!

WOW!

Forget camera to take photos of first experence on water... DAMN!

Oh well gotta do this again ;)

Cobra Sunday

My boss used to be a crew chief for a race team in a previous life. Evidently, once people know you can repair things and do it quickly you always get called. This Sunday he asked his friend Ron and I if we would like to go see some race cars. I said sure as my testosterone climbed!
These are some of the cars.

Marines

Sometimes you just gotta take a look and wonder.

What country can build something like this.

I know one thing for certain, I am glad to be on this side.

It' a bit buggy

These are made of cardboard, about 7 feet tall and gives me a shiver up my spine!

Old stuff / New stuff

Well the art department and engineering were getting rid of several pieces of equipment. After a microsecond, we decided to take the stuff on. Most of the pieces are just in need of a little tender loving care. These are the before shots.

The lathe is a powermatic 18" by 36" three phase 10 hp with outboard turning as well as variable speed. Nice gap-bed style with heavy stand. It needs cleaning and some tooling but all in all good addition to shop.

Here is the Surface grinder. It is a Proth 8" by 16" hydraulic, water bath, with magnetic holddown. This is a great find, makes our shop just a little more versatile. Downside, noisy and dirty. it just needs cleaning and setup.

So in the pile of stuff the department is offing is a Miller CP 200 (s) it is a 100% duty cycle mig-welder. We just need to get some diodes and clean it up. This is a great welder due to its capacity -200 amps- and duty cycle. So we can do some long and deep welds.

We are going to change out our delta 10" table saw to a 12" powermatic. This powermatic needs the surface cleaned and a fence. Since we were going to install a new fence on the 10" we will install it on this one. Also we are going to put in a router lift to the right. Looks ragged but great addition to the woodshop.

Here is an oven just laying outside so we grabbed it to augment our oven. Great for tempering as well as preheating for welding. Not a lot of work here just placement and plug.

The last item is a planer. This one is about twice the weight of our planer and about two inches wider. As planers go weight and width is all. Not sure how this one will pan out.

The interesting part about all of this is they replaced these pieces with new ones and just were going to throw these away!