Hay Bear, tig and a monkey fist

         Hay Bear, Crescent Iowa. Made of round hay bales.

vacation in the shop

                                               Uncanning governors

                                                             Making chips

                    Governor can parts...It took me three days to make 17 of them.
                    Used carbide insert bits for the first time. They cut fast but did                               interesting things with thermal distortion of the parts.

                 Shaper cuts a key slot for a belt pulley reduction.

Flip down trailer license plate

The car hauler plate used to be under the left side tail light where it got beat up by rocks and road debris.  It was hard to see and prone to be torn off so it got moved to the dovetail on a flip down cover.

        Plate light is LED so slamming the cover down won't kill it.

                        Flipped down for loading over the dovetail

   Hole to lift it with. Hinge is 1/2 steel round and 1/2 schedule 80 pipe. Hinge has enough clearance so rust shouldn't stick it.

    Frame is 2X1/4 angle pieced together from scrap that was too short. Milled the slot in the support arm on my new to me Tree vertical mill.

                                                   Install in progress

some pics

                                                         Bat Signal

                                       Drain plate made of HDPE

                                       Rapid feed pin replacement

                                                      HDPE shim

Tree 2UVR-C mill

Got me a mill...

 From HGR In Euclid Ohio shipped by Dohrn. I picked it up at the terminal in Omaha.
                                    http://www.hgrinc.com/
                                   Marshall Michaels was the guy
  Tree 2UVR-C's have power feed on X,Y and Z axis and are stiffer than a Bridgeport. The next larger size Tree doesn't have a nodding head. I'm guessing this one was built in the late 60's. There is a Tree user group on Yahoo.


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                     Door 105 inches trailer 103 tight fit

                                  Took some time to get it through

                      Dumped the air ride bags for height clearance

             Need just a little less height, flattening the trailer tires did it.

                      Hard on tires but what you gonna do?

                     Clears the door frame by 1/2"

            Flying 2,300 lbs, pulled to the side so it doesn't destroy the trailer fender.

                     Landed on 3/4 pipes so it will roll.

           Shipped with the head inverted to get the center of gravity lower. A lot of the head gearbox oil ended up in the motor but it seems OK.

                                           Rewire to 240 from 440

Exmark lazer idler rebuild

Buddy Dave brought his Lazer mower over for some fixing. The real issue is one cylinder loses spark when it gets hot. We moved the coil/pickup a little closer to the flywheel magnet instead of buying a new coil assembly. We will see how that works. While it was under repair we noticed that one of the belt idlers had a shot bearing. Upon examination we could see the spot welds that held the idler together and decided to attempt to just replace the bearing instead of replacing the whole deal. I had a few new 6203 both sides sealed bearings for alternator repairs on my stock. Turns out these bearings fit.

We used 1/4 X 5/8 bolts to put it back together.

Jetter

Made up a Jetter for cleaning drain lines to fit my pressure washer.

Suttner foot operated valve, 3/8 jetter hose and a lazer 4.5 nozzle.

                                     Three orifices back and one forward

                                                In the cleanout

                                       Not me but It could happen

Leblond lathe gets a DRO part two - Y axis

       Saw where some kits have a mounting plate like this for installing on as cast surfaces. Made my own out of aluminum flat.

 Scale needs to be aligned with the sensor heads path. These plates give adjustment for this.

Painted the mount gold as I did not have any gray. X axis scale is .00005" resolution and Y .0002".   Go this from  http://www.drokits.com/
Very pleased with it.

Leblond lathe gets a DRO part one - X axis

                                   X axis glass scale alignment check. 

 Sensor mount clears taper attachment. Scale would just fit under the cover and this way is protected and leaves room for the follow rest. Real glad it would fit like this and got the low profile scale for this purpose.

                                                           Testing

Road trip Idaho, Wyoming and Montana

                       Jackson Hole, going to ride the tram

                                                  Tram Looking up

                                                Jackson Hole from the top

     Behind the GMC are a couple of experimental nuclear jet engines. 
                        These are in Arco, Idaho at the EBR1 museum

           EBR1 museum the first nuclear electricity was generated here in 1951
              Link to experimental breeder reactor museum
                                 

             Control room from the 50's. I recognize some of this stuff, it's like what the old power station I work at used to have.

                  Sue fixing to start it back up. Link to Idaho national lab below
                                            
                   https://inlportal.inl.gov/portal/server.pt/community/home/255

                    Close up of one of the nuke jet engines. Link below about it.
                     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion

                        We got in a cattle drive along with the Meadow Gold guy

                 Sign above door said it would be open tomorrow!  We didn't want to wait so we ate across the street

                                                       Along the road