Can I borrow a clamp or 3. You never have enough clamps.
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I wish I had that many clamps!
I was just coming here to say I have clamp envy. LOL. CJ, the work you're doing looks amazing! I wish I was that skilled.
Highup, $14k for extra carpet they don't need? Yeesh. Maybe they think they can sell some to the golf courses for repairs or something? I dunno. Either the customer has $$$$$$$ or they plan to stiff someone if they pay afterward.
Can't remember if I had posted updates here or not. Internet cord outside got cut. Proprietary cable from Starlink. $130 before tax. Tax was 10.45%. Free shipping at least. Stepped in a cow turd when I went out to find that the cable had been cut in half. Still got an ear infection and am feeling cruddy. It spread to my left ear and developed a lump behind the ear. Taking antibiotics and using ear drops 4x a day. Right ear cleared up mostly at least.
Brother set his phone up as a mobile hotspot but at some point it slipped out of his hand, fell and broke. Mobile data got used up so we had no internet. Landline is on the fritz. Can't make outgoing calls. Incoming calls disconnect in less than a minute. I fell into a trashcan while cleaning up in the kitchen and hallway. Brother had kicked almost 20 empty bottles out of his room into the hallway and Mom was complaining about them.
Yesterday my brother's new phone and the internet cable arrived. I was so excited when I saw the UPS truck roll up (saw it through window after I'd just finished putting a new cartridge on Mom's insulin pump) I forgot to put pants on before I went outside to greet the driver and get the package. At least my cardigan was long enough to cover somewhat. LOL.
Bribed my friend with food and booze to get him to come out and climb the tower to put the new cable on. He also fixed the pole the dish is on to make it upright again. Saw that the old cable beat the hell out of the side of the house and put holes in the siding. It must have come loose in high winds after catching on stupid tree branches. New cable is secured better but is still caught up in a tree that needs to be cut down.
Mom has turned the living room into a bottle pit. Its like a ball pit but with plastic bottles. I had to navigate through it to pull the cable through the wall from outside. Then had to body surf over the bottles to get to the other side of the room and route it over the hutch on Mom's desk to attach it. I fell a couple of times and had to grab furniture ot pull myself up. Friend tested that internet was working and I took him home. He got his food from Mexican restaurant and some kind of booze to share with his wife.
Today has been a day of rest. Coordination is still ass so if I do any cleaning it will be while sitting down. I'm waiting for Mom to ask for dinner and playing around with my sketches in MSPaint.
Highup, $14k for extra carpet they don't need? Yeesh. Maybe they think they can sell some to the golf courses for repairs or something? I dunno. Either the customer has $$$$$$$ or they plan to stiff someone if they pay afterward.
Can't remember if I had posted updates here or not. Internet cord outside got cut. Proprietary cable from Starlink. $130 before tax. Tax was 10.45%. Free shipping at least. Stepped in a cow turd when I went out to find that the cable had been cut in half. Still got an ear infection and am feeling cruddy. It spread to my left ear and developed a lump behind the ear. Taking antibiotics and using ear drops 4x a day. Right ear cleared up mostly at least.
Brother set his phone up as a mobile hotspot but at some point it slipped out of his hand, fell and broke. Mobile data got used up so we had no internet. Landline is on the fritz. Can't make outgoing calls. Incoming calls disconnect in less than a minute. I fell into a trashcan while cleaning up in the kitchen and hallway. Brother had kicked almost 20 empty bottles out of his room into the hallway and Mom was complaining about them.
Yesterday my brother's new phone and the internet cable arrived. I was so excited when I saw the UPS truck roll up (saw it through window after I'd just finished putting a new cartridge on Mom's insulin pump) I forgot to put pants on before I went outside to greet the driver and get the package. At least my cardigan was long enough to cover somewhat. LOL.
Bribed my friend with food and booze to get him to come out and climb the tower to put the new cable on. He also fixed the pole the dish is on to make it upright again. Saw that the old cable beat the hell out of the side of the house and put holes in the siding. It must have come loose in high winds after catching on stupid tree branches. New cable is secured better but is still caught up in a tree that needs to be cut down.
Mom has turned the living room into a bottle pit. Its like a ball pit but with plastic bottles. I had to navigate through it to pull the cable through the wall from outside. Then had to body surf over the bottles to get to the other side of the room and route it over the hutch on Mom's desk to attach it. I fell a couple of times and had to grab furniture ot pull myself up. Friend tested that internet was working and I took him home. He got his food from Mexican restaurant and some kind of booze to share with his wife.
Today has been a day of rest. Coordination is still ass so if I do any cleaning it will be while sitting down. I'm waiting for Mom to ask for dinner and playing around with my sketches in MSPaint.
When I was a kid on the farm in Minnesota we called them cow pies. And yes I stepped in many of them barefoot, I think I can still imagine the crap squeezing up between my toes.
.....that's making my morning yogurt taste even better.
.....that's making my morning yogurt taste even better.
You eat pieces of **** for breakfast???
Zan, I got rethinking that in some peoples reality, how $14,000 isn't really a big deal. To you and me it is. It's like buying a decent used car. So that's $120,000 for carpet and wood flooring. Plus 450 sq feet of tile for the 6 bathrooms and a laundry tile, not to mention 5 fully tiled showers.
Looking close if I guessed, to $20,000 for all this.....there's still doors, cabinets, countertops and wood trim to be done.
..........oh, I forgot. The man had to clear the property and build the house. The area where he's at is wooded, with trees, huckleberries and brush so thick deer have a hard time walking through it.
That's one fun aspect of my work. Tho I don't get to see a lot of homes like this, very few locals have the slightest clue places like this are in our area.
This is the front door. it doesn't have hinges, it pivots. It's teak and 2 1/2" thick, not sure how tall or wide, probably 4 feet.
Pretty cool
Looking close if I guessed, to $20,000 for all this.....there's still doors, cabinets, countertops and wood trim to be done.
..........oh, I forgot. The man had to clear the property and build the house.
The area where he's at is wooded, with trees, huckleberries and brush so thick deer have a hard time walking through it. That's one fun aspect of my work. Tho I don't get to see a lot of homes like this, very few locals have the slightest clue places like this are in our area.
This is the front door. it doesn't have hinges, it pivots. It's teak and 2 1/2" thick, not sure how tall or wide, probably 4 feet.
Pretty cool
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So now cow **** comes in pieces? I'm eating yogurt..... It's soft and wet.
....and cold, not steaming.
Where do you think the term piece of **** came from. lol.
Cheap Chinese bearings. Guess you get what you pay for. On the plus side I’m getting pretty good at catching these things before they completely give out.
I just bought a 10 pack of bearings for my new to me bandsaw. $9 and free shipping.
I didn't look to see if they're Chinese.
...I mean, why look?
Do some places refer to cooking firewood as shitettes?
(Pay on briquettes)
My bandsaw bearings aren't all in good shape. Since the bearings don't spin often and don't take much load, everywhere I read, guys say use the cheapest ones you can find and they'll last a couple years.
Maybe better is better in a full production business.
Routers are probably a reason to buy better ones.
One of my bandsaws side load bearings went out. Probably original equipment.
One of the side load b eating screws was. Stripped out. It's oddball because the thread diameter and the boss for the bearing are different. 5mm and 6mm.
I decided the factory upper bearing design was too complex.
I'm building a
"simpler, less complicated and better designed"
upper bearing shelf says the flooring installer with and endless money supply."
I just learned how much I hate metric nuts and screws.
A LOT.
Fire the purchase manager and engineering department heads!
.....hell, off with their heads!
Between drills, taps, buying the wrong screws, screw types, screw lengths etc and $15 in gas for multiple trips to town.... I know I'm into this 60+ buckaroo ies. Angle aluminum, $2.50 10 bearings, $8.95.
Labor (slave) free.
Anodized T-track? .....already had it.
...it's those tiny little screws. Screwing is a good business
unless you're the recipient.
This lil' piece, with one stripped out screw is was was started all this.
The two side by side bearings are supposed to allow .006" in blade movement. The blades are .025 thick.
Why can't the factory drill the aluminum block to allow a simple .031" gap between the two bearings? If they did that, there would be just one lateral movement right or left required to center the blade between the bearings. This is way to complex.
The single thrust bearing is sorta ok, but the adjustments you make are hard to see and just when you snug up the Allen screw, the bearing moves a bit....... So you try again, and again.
One of the side load b eating screws was. Stripped out. It's oddball because the thread diameter and the boss for the bearing are different. 5mm and 6mm.
I decided the factory upper bearing design was too complex.
I'm building a
"simpler, less complicated and better designed"
upper bearing shelf says the flooring installer with and endless money supply."
I just learned how much I hate metric nuts and screws.
A LOT.
Fire the purchase manager and engineering department heads!
.....hell, off with their heads!
Between drills, taps, buying the wrong screws, screw types, screw lengths etc and $15 in gas for multiple trips to town.... I know I'm into this 60+ buckaroo ies. Angle aluminum, $2.50 10 bearings, $8.95.
Labor (slave) free.
Anodized T-track? .....already had it.
...it's those tiny little screws. Screwing is a good business
unless you're the recipient. This lil' piece, with one stripped out screw is was was started all this.
The two side by side bearings are supposed to allow .006" in blade movement. The blades are .025 thick.
Why can't the factory drill the aluminum block to allow a simple .031" gap between the two bearings? If they did that, there would be just one lateral movement right or left required to center the blade between the bearings. This is way to complex.
The single thrust bearing is sorta ok, but the adjustments you make are hard to see and just when you snug up the Allen screw, the bearing moves a bit....... So you try again, and again.
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Here's the new parts, the lateral bearings and the single thrust bearing. There's a tiny bit of adjustability in the two side bearings. If I squeeze them together, then snug them up, it almost pinches the blade. If I force them apart, then snug them up, I get .010" clearance, or .005" on each side of the blade.
.003", or about the thickness of a dollar bill. That's ideal from what I've read.
I'm mounting these two pieces on some angle aluminum, then this single piece fastens to the saw.
I still have to cut my bearings holder thingys to length, then mount them in a way that's adjustable.
I'm removing the old guide, then installing the new one. Not chopping up or hurting the saw.
.003", or about the thickness of a dollar bill. That's ideal from what I've read.
I'm mounting these two pieces on some angle aluminum, then this single piece fastens to the saw.
I still have to cut my bearings holder thingys to length, then mount them in a way that's adjustable.
I'm removing the old guide, then installing the new one. Not chopping up or hurting the saw.
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That bearing clearance is FREEKING difficult without a milling machine and it's super fine adjustments and repeatability.
Proper math helps in accuracy also.
It's still difficult on a drill press, and it took 6 attempts. On gap was about .050 too wide.
That's a spark plug gap thickness, not a piece of paper thickness. Not sure what happened there, bad math for sure. One was too tight. One was perfect but with no gap.
Has this perfected on my last attempt this morning.
I do have a very heavy cross slide for the drill press, and combined with a dial indicator, I eventually hit paydirt.
It ain't there, but the expenses are pretty much done with and I just need to finish mounting the parts I made.
I'll need a new blade too. The old one is obviously dull and doesn't cut straight. It's a 1/2" blade, the max size the saw. No need for a 1/2 inch blade. I'm thinking 3/8"
Oh, you can see all the drilled tapped holes, my attempts at spacing accuracy.
Quite an enlightening experience using the dial indicator in conjunction with the cross slide.
Never done this before. Machining 101.
Proper math helps in accuracy also.
It's still difficult on a drill press, and it took 6 attempts. On gap was about .050 too wide.
That's a spark plug gap thickness, not a piece of paper thickness. Not sure what happened there, bad math for sure. One was too tight. One was perfect but with no gap.
Has this perfected on my last attempt this morning.
I do have a very heavy cross slide for the drill press, and combined with a dial indicator, I eventually hit paydirt.
It ain't there, but the expenses are pretty much done with and I just need to finish mounting the parts I made.
I'll need a new blade too. The old one is obviously dull and doesn't cut straight. It's a 1/2" blade, the max size the saw. No need for a 1/2 inch blade. I'm thinking 3/8"
Oh, you can see all the drilled tapped holes, my attempts at spacing accuracy.
Quite an enlightening experience using the dial indicator in conjunction with the cross slide.
Never done this before. Machining 101.
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If you're not handy at stuff like this, use aluminum and red anodized aluminum. It impresses the ladies.
Router bits are prolly a lot like your bandsaw bearings. They’re cheap but you’ll get a while outta them. Blades, too. I’m not droppin $200 on a blade just to end up cutting MDF or poplar all day long. Not to mention some of them router bits have a crazy price that’ll make you think twice.
I read a comment about cost.
Guy said, you can buy one good bearing for $8 and it lasts 3 times as long as a cheap one. He added, the cheap ones are $8 for a ten pack.
.......math wins.
