For the new and uninitiated, *STBD is an acronym for a phrase I coined a couple of years ago when I had THE BRONCO FROM HELL.

I have used it since, basically it covers Red Neck Repairs that you run into by some complete retard that either doesn’t know what he is doing or tried to fix something on the cheap.

This episode is one for the books, I’m tellin’ ya.

There is a once very nice and very expensive drill press at work.

Expensive as in well over a couple of Grand when new, a Clausing Variable Speed Drill Press.

As is what seems to be typical of old industrial equipment, this thing has seen better days.

I use it occasionally, first I had to clean the nasty thing up as it has downright been abused.

One of the things I noticed when I was cleaning it up, is one of the most Bone Headed, Stupid As A Box Of Rusty Hammers, cases of SHIT THAT BUBBA DID that comes to mind in recent memory.

For anyone not familiar with these machines, you can change the chuck on them by knocking a small arbor shaft out of the hollow drill post quill with a small wedge and a hammer.

If you have never seen or done that, watch about the first minute and a half of this video and you will see exactly what is going on there.

The inside of the quill has a slight taper machined in it and the arbor also has a taper. It is a Morse #2 Taper.

Basically when you shove the male arbor into the female quill, the two tapers will meet and create an interference fit.

These work great for up and down or back and forth shafts that spin.

They don’t work worth a damn for spinning side loads however.

This is why Milling Machines have a way to hold the tapers in mechanically, usually with a threaded rod that screws into the end of the taper.

This brings me to The Shit That Bubba Did on this drill press.

Drill presses do not have a way to run a threaded rod down the quill.

Therefore, drill presses are not meant to be used as a milling machine. The side load knocks the arbor loose and it drops out onto the work piece, spinning at rather high speed.

Bad things happen at that point.

So as I am looking at this drill press, I noticed something looked funny.

As I got in close I found this,

That Semi- Keyhole indentation there is supposed to be where you stick the wedge in to knock the arbor and drill chuck out at.

Some complete Jackass, welded the arbor to the quill.

On both sides!

This kind of thing is what gets people fired.

On the spot.

It’s also a damn good way to get a busted lip if I ever find you doing it.

You have just ruined a precision machined part on a piece of machinery that costs a couple thousand dollars.

Mad?

I was dumbfounded that someone could be that ignorant.

After I walked away for a few minutes to cool off, it occurred to me that the most obvious reason for this is that some complete dumbass was trying to use this drill press as a mill, the arbor and chuck kept vibrating out and they decided to cure that problem permanently by welding it in.

Permanently being a relative term in this case.

Enter Bustednuckles and one of his little friends.

Lots of light, a good place to rest my arm to keep it steady, a Dremel with a tiny burr bit, face shield, gloves and LOTS of patience.

BOTH SIDES!

I got a real good feeling of playing Dentist.

After I pretty much got the keyhole shape dug back out, I went in with the heavy equipment.

You can’t really see it very good in that picture but at the very bottom of the bigger hole on top, is the top of the arbor that needs to be driven out with a wedge.

Of course I didn’t have one.

I have about 15 of them out in the garage though.

I ran out of time to try much of anything else but I figure I have a real good shot at getting that thing out on Monday.

When, not if, I get that bastard out of there, I also have a Morse Taper #2 Reamer out in the garage I am going to take in with me to clean that inner taper back up properly.

Then I am going to order a new arbor, with a brand new keyless chuck on it to put back in it.

I’m telling ya, no jury of my peers….

Thank Fucking Fuck It’s Fucking Friday!

Got to bed an hour late last night, got woke up by a text message from a relative at exactly Midnight and had to fumble fuck around to find my glasses to read it.

Went back to bed and woke up at fucking FOUR THIRTY this morning because I had to piss. The alarm goes off at Five so I said Fuck It and just stayed up.

It’s gonna be a long day because one guy took today off anyway and now I have had shit for sleep.

I can already tell that when I get home I am going to fall into my recliner and take a nap. There is only so much coffee can do after all.

I can just see him grinning.

Now ya know why…

Stupidity that is painful!

False advertising sucks.

No Way!

So now you think I have Gomer Pyle running in a loop inside my head or something?

‘Fraid Not.

That whole Conspiracy Theorist thing?

Yeah, it’s more like a Coming Attractions kind of thing ya know?

There were literally people trying to warn us about these Mrna Vaccines and the intention to use them for population reduction clear back in the 1990’s bub.

Thirty years ago.

Just because the government and some private companies have unlimited budgets to spend on just about any diabolical idea they can come up with doesn’t mean that those diabolical plans don’t get leaked to someone.

And eventually to someone else who knows who else to tell so that it gets out.

These so called Conspiracy Theories are more than usually well grounded in Truths That Weren’t Supposed To Be Leaked plus research, educated guesses and evidence.

What was it I saw a while back, that at least 25 “Conspiracy Theories” had been proven to be true?

Bet me there are way the hell more than that.

More than likely twice that.

Sure there are plenty of Whack Jobs out there with their Tinfoil Hats screwed on a little too tight,

But you have to be WILLFULLY IGNORANT these days to dismiss some things you hear out of hand without doing at least a little checking.

Personally, I figure you have to have an above average level of intelligence and a great deal of patience just to be able to weed through all the BULLSHIT the damn Media and the Government puke out every damn day anyway, might as well open your mind a little and , at least briefly, entertain that because you know the Bullshit is being peddled at maximum velocity on purpose, that it might be because they don’t want you to even think about looking into WHAT THEY AREN’T talking about.

They work very hard at keeping everyone’s attention diverted, that is the Media’s entire purpose now.

I would much rather be challenged to find the things they don’t want talked about and hang out with people of like mind.

The alternative IS NOT AN OPTION for me.

I caught a couple of glimpses of this clumsy ass attempt by the Commies In Charge to sucker in the stupider ones still left amongst us to voluntarily, “Register Your Garden” and thought to myself that these rotten bastards are running right through the playbook.

I mean, come on!

Do they seriously think we can’t see what comes next?

LOL!

So as I was skimming through some of my usual reads tonight, I skipped on over to COME AND MAKE IT, a U.S. Expat over in the Philippines trying to make a go of it and he was kind enough to post this graphic.

Apparently it came from The Ice Age Farmer, someone else you should maybe be paying attention to eh?

Juuust in case there is some poor fool that wanders in here and can’t figure out why this is such a BAD IDEA, allow me to instruct you to STUDY THE HISTORY OF COMMUNISM FOR FUCKS SAKE!

I have said repeatedly that FOOD IS THE COMMUNIST’S FAVORITE WEAPON.

True to form, they are currently using it as one all around the world.

I haz a sad for you Commie Asswipes,

Unfortunately, I lost all my gardens in a tragic canoe accident last year.

I tried to email you and say Thanks but it keeps coming back as undeliverable.

I wanted to make sure you know I appreciate it!

And the U. S. Government had absolutely no problem killing thousands of Americans to do it.