Thursday, June 27, 2013

Leblond lathe gets a DRO part two - Y axis

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       Saw where some kits have a mounting plate like this for installing on as cast surfaces. Made my own out of aluminum flat.  Scale...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Leblond lathe gets a DRO part one - X axis

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                                   X axis glass scale alignment check.   Sensor mount clears taper attachment. Scale would just fit u...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Road trip Idaho, Wyoming and Montana

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                       Jackson Hole, going to ride the tram                                                   Tram Looking up       ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Vintage Amana Microwave repair

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 Our 1980 vintage Amana radar range's timer went goofy. Touch pad generated random numbers. As you can see the time displays 3608. I f...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

Tiling and new internet dish

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                                                                Laying the field                                                       ...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Tiling with QEP lash clips

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      The first tile we picked got back ordered and then Ragno changed the scheduled production date to indefinite. This is the same stuf...

Metal Halide floor lamp conversion

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 Sue had this antique 3 arm floor lamp that took a mogul base 300 watt three way lamp for the uplight. The plan is to modify it to use a 1...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

self leveling underlayment

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    Wood dowels were used to secure baseboard. Dowels were stuck in holes drilled in the concrete walls. I think I will glue them back on....
Monday, January 21, 2013

tile removal and thinset grinding

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              Removing tile. Started with an air chisel and custom dust collector box           Switched to an electric hammer which di...