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Working on a new tiny shop
vtsteam:
Gee David! I hope you're okay. That's a hurricane! :( :( :(
My shop was everything I hoped for today and this evening. a small electric oil filled radiator on a timer kept it comfortable for working, and I was just a few steps away from the house. My wife calls it my bunker. :poke:
Here are the promised photos:
The over-center link in the closed position:
What it looks like on the inside while closed. The two horizontal pieces butt against each other when the link is closed:
And what it looks like opened:
There's a nice snapping action when it closes.
The motor frame was riveted together with simple headed-over pieces of 1/8" rod.
DavidA:
Thanks for the pictures. Ingenious.
I haven't been in the shed (either one) for the last couple of days. But I need to get in the big one and move the Denford lathe to it final position. This will require the use of crow bar and rollers.
The bad weather is due to start showing itself late today or tomorrow. We seem to be getting a lot more high winds than we use to. Gusting 50 to 60 mph is becoming common.
Not much we can do about it.
Dave.
vtsteam:
The need to cast pulleys for a new Gingery lathe modification, means I need casting capability in the new tiny shop. This is qoing to be quite a challenge this time of year!
I located and started to dig out my bin full of aluminum greensand as a first step:
That's a 3 foot tall green table on the left with 3 feet of snow on top of it. The end of the bin I want is the green square buried in the snow, to the right!
vtsteam:
Free at last! Dragging over the snow to the tiny shop....
When I finally got it indoors, and opened the lid, I was encouraged to find the molding sand had dried out completely -- meaning I wouldn't have to defrost it -- just re-temper it with water. Ordinarily that would have been a pain, but in this case I was glad not to have to deal with a solid block of frozen sand!
vtsteam:
I was going to re-temper the sand this afternoon, but checking the weather I decided to wait a week, unless I figure out some way to keep it warm overnight in the shop. We have coming what the weatherman has called "the most robust arctic surge of the season" through Tuesday -- sounds like this already difficult winter is about to get even worse with high winds and sub zero (F) temps. Maybe adding water isn't a good idea at this point!!!
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