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The one I bought is a brushless motor and it's rated at half the speed yours is. It would be nice if it was 1725 because that would work better for making this into a belt sander, a disc Sander or even a belt sander. This one doesn't have a mounting plate on the bottom which surprises me. It's pretty heavy and there are double nuts on the front of it indicating that it was mounted directly into a fan shroud of some sort.
I can make it go a lot faster with the right size pulley, but that eliminates direct drive. It was 30 bucks I just couldn't pass it up. If I could attach a drill chuck to it it would make one hell of a mixer for self leveler. A bit heavy but it would work 😁
 
The one I bought is a brushless motor and it's rated at half the speed yours is. It would be nice if it was 1725 because that would work better for making this into a belt sander, a disc Sander or even a belt sander. This one doesn't have a mounting plate on the bottom which surprises me. It's pretty heavy and there are double nuts on the front of it indicating that it was mounted directly into a fan shroud of some sort.
I can make it go a lot faster with the right size pulley, but that eliminates direct drive. It was 30 bucks I just couldn't pass it up. If I could attach a drill chuck to it it would make one hell of a mixer for self leveler. A bit heavy but it would work 😁

How about a concrete mixer version of a margarita maker. You could call it High up on the rocks.
 
My carpenter friend just sold me a 10 inch Ryobi sliding miter saw, unopened, for $100. Bought it 6 months ago but didn’t have time to open it for a few months. When he looked at it, he realized it wasn’t cordless. Too late to return it. Looks really nice. Pretty compact too. Has led blade alignment.
 
How about a concrete mixer version of a margarita maker. You could call it High up on the rocks.

I don't do enough self leveler and I haven't done anything in concrete for a couple of decades.
I wonder if my neighbors would like this 24/7

https://www.google.com/search?q=roc...ate=ive&vld=cid:77b8469a,vid:I0avPXuwiEE,st:0With a shaft speed of 850 RPM this looks damn near like it could be direct drive with the roller powered like the one above.
I'd still like to experiment with a sander or a grinder to see what speeds could be made to work with a large pulley.
 
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I’m waiting on hurricane Elsa to cross over so maybe I can get one day of fishing in before vacation Is over. Yesterday I watched the kids swim and ate a brothers-in-law hamburger
 
I don't think I need that many margaritas. Neat idea though.
I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my half horse Dayton 850 RPM
motor that I got from Habitat. It says farm use/fan. I figure it would run one of those 15-in fans that you see hanging from the ceiling in a shop, greenhouse or a commercial chicken coop.
If I can find a 12-inch stone for it it would make a hell of a grinder. 😁
I already rewired it from 250 to 120 and added a cord. Purse like a kitten and there's zero movement in the shaft.
Maybe if the tiny pulley I can make a rock tumbler with an old automobile tire..... You know, a tumbler for those man size polished rocks.
To quote the song, Just keep it between the navigational beakons!
 
Rusty, sorry to hear about your friend.

We had an elderly friend who lived to be 91 and should not have been driving. He flipped his truck when he was 90 and was fine. He would blow through stop signs without even slowing (particularly when they added new stop signs to streets that hadn't had them before) and he nearly crashed in to me a few times. Nice old man. Very nosy and always up in people's business. He once followed the police in to a house that was being raided for drugs. They had to very politely ask him to please step back for his own safety. No one wanted to yell at a 90yr old man. I feel very badly for his cat TweedleDee. His dying wish was for someone to take care of her so my friend who just passed away Saturday is the one who took the cat in. As far as I know, she still had the cat.

Service is today at 1pm. I'll have to ask her son what happened with the cat. I hope he didn't have the cat put down like her son did with the dog. I'm hoping it won't be too hot out there.

I had a rough night. Between my shoulder and kidney stones on both sides -- but mostly on my right) I had trouble getting comfortable. I had to take about 1500mg of Naproxyn to be able to get to sleep. Left side is still giving me fits. I'm hoping the stone is not stuck.
 
New shortage item: Midweight joint compound (purple lid). Nobody has it. Going to green lid. But it’s a pain to sand.
My friend says they are putting up drywall on a job and I can have any stuff left over. Might get a few sheets for free.
 
Went to the funeral. It was rather short due to the outdoor nature and it being so hot. At least it was cloudy but it was very high humidity. There was a reception at a little diner in town. We met some of the family of our late friend that we hadn't seen in years. They acknowledged that we had been a huge part of her life. We took care of her and her husband for many years before her husband passed away and we took care of her for the few months she remained in the house before moving far away. Her caregiver was at the funeral. Very sweet lady. She's considered part of the family. The minister actually let other people speak and talk about our memories of her. The general consensus was that she was the sweetest most kind person we ever met. She gave me the experience of seeing what it was like to have a grandmother who spoiled the grandkids. Always offering ice cream and cookies. She would make extra blueberry pie when my sister came to visit because my sister could eat a whole pie by herself.

After the diner we went to see our friend. His gf had been sent home from work because her heartrate spiked but her blood pressure dropped and she nearly passed out. There's something not right with how her brain is sending signals to her heart and vice versa. So she needs to see a cardiologist again. The baby woke up while we were there and he crawled to my mother to be held. The bass singer Geoff Castellucci put out a version of Misty Mountains Cold so I put that on and it immediately got the baby's attention. He crawled closer to the TV and stared. Any time that singer is on, he stops and watches.

Former town veterinarian's son was out trying to level my friend's driveway. Got some of it done but he needs more rocks. There's a guy who has been working on my friend's yard-- cutting weeds & such. Friend bought him a lawnmower and weedeater so the guy said he'd work on his yard for free for a year. He works hard even in the heat. Started raining just after he finished.

Got kidney stones in both kidneys-- worse in the left one though. I tossed and turned all night. If I slept on my right side my shoulder hurt. If I slept on my left side my kidney hurt more. Sleeping on my back made both sides hurt. Mom woke me up at 2am over a door being open and a cat getting where he wasn't supposed to go. My whole lower back is sore and it hurts to move. 1500mg of naproxyn didn't do much. Hoping both stones will pass soon. I had lemonade at the reception so I hope that will help.
 
Gave an old Craftsman band saw away just to get it out of my way. 1956 model. needed a motor. I still have a 12" Grizzly and a 16" Craftsman.
A little over 20 years ago I bought a 12 inch Jet bandsaw just to do one job. It was an octagon home with wilsonart laminate downstairs and Pergo select laminate in two upper octagon sections. I always made my straight cuts freehand. There is no way I was going to freehand a 45 or a 22 and 1/2. 😁
The only place I had to store it was in the carport
I bought it on sale. Sold it for almost what it cost me to buy it. I really like the saw, but just didn't have much of a use for it. I didn't want to let it sit out in the carport for a year and get rusty and then try and sell it, so as soon as the job was completed I talked to the retailer I'm asking if he wanted to buy it. Worked out good for me because he got the sale price same as I did. 😁
 
Went to the funeral. It was rather short due to the outdoor nature and it being so hot. At least it was cloudy but it was very high humidity. There was a reception at a little diner in town. We met some of the family of our late friend that we hadn't seen in years. They acknowledged that we had been a huge part of her life. We took care of her and her husband for many years before her husband passed away and we took care of her for the few months she remained in the house before moving far away. Her caregiver was at the funeral. Very sweet lady. She's considered part of the family. The minister actually let other people speak and talk about our memories of her. The general consensus was that she was the sweetest most kind person we ever met. She gave me the experience of seeing what it was like to have a grandmother who spoiled the grandkids. Always offering ice cream and cookies. She would make extra blueberry pie when my sister came to visit because my sister could eat a whole pie by herself.

After the diner we went to see our friend. His gf had been sent home from work because her heartrate spiked but her blood pressure dropped and she nearly passed out. There's something not right with how her brain is sending signals to her heart and vice versa. So she needs to see a cardiologist again. The baby woke up while we were there and he crawled to my mother to be held. The bass singer Geoff Castellucci put out a version of Misty Mountains Cold so I put that on and it immediately got the baby's attention. He crawled closer to the TV and stared. Any time that singer is on, he stops and watches.

Former town veterinarian's son was out trying to level my friend's driveway. Got some of it done but he needs more rocks. There's a guy who has been working on my friend's yard-- cutting weeds & such. Friend bought him a lawnmower and weedeater so the guy said he'd work on his yard for free for a year. He works hard even in the heat. Started raining just after he finished.

Got kidney stones in both kidneys-- worse in the left one though. I tossed and turned all night. If I slept on my right side my shoulder hurt. If I slept on my left side my kidney hurt more. Sleeping on my back made both sides hurt. Mom woke me up at 2am over a door being open and a cat getting where he wasn't supposed to go. My whole lower back is sore and it hurts to move. 1500mg of naproxyn didn't do much. Hoping both stones will pass soon. I had lemonade at the reception so I hope that will help.
I'm glad you got some acknowledgment from the relatives that what you did to help take care of them was appreciated. You always seem to be there to help anyone in need, so you're much better person than me. I do my part when necessary but you seem to be helping out literally everybody. That would wear me out.
 
I'm watching a television show on Oregon public broadcasting. It's called Oregon Artbeat. They usually have two to four artists during each show during a totally different things. Since I was about the fellow that's on there now is a guy that had an early age in life attempted suicide and ended up blind. He then became addicted to meth and ended up moving back into his parents where he's sobered up and at some point got into woodworking.
His suicide attempt left him blind.
He makes wood bowls on a lathe. He even cuts up pieces of wood and glues them together or laminates them together to create patterns in the wood before turning the bowl on the lathe. Wow is an understatement.
He's a perfectionist. Checking out the clamped laminations on the block of wood before he glues the pieces together for the final time, he uses a knife to feel if the board joints to see if there's any more sanding that needs to be done to eliminate any gaps.
So anyway, here's this guy standing at his wood lathe turning a bowl and feeling it with his fingers as it's turning at a zillion RPM.
He says, I know that you're not supposed to put your hand on something spinning this fast....
.....but I don't want this bowl to look like it was made by a blind guy. 😁
Everyone needs an attitude like this guy.
 
......ok, if you can't handle the whole thing at least the last 3 minutes.
The show is over they're ready to go and they get one last call and here's how they play it out.

Daris probably won't like this one because he likes "original" music like he grew up with rubbing sticks on rocks and howling at the moon. 😉
 
Spending money today.

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