I swear The Wifely Unit would call me and tell me to come home from work to kill a spider first.
I have been drug out from under cars I am working on, woken up while sleeping, interrupted while using the bathroom and called on my phone while outside to come kill spiders in this house before.
And with that, I’m off to work.
Thank God it’s Friday.
Damn, it’s too early in the morning for this shit.
Sent in by Steve….
He figures that averages out to about a thousand dollars a shot.
Damn am I glad I quit drinkin’.
If ya don’t fail once in a while ya ain’t trying the way I see it.
I guess we’ll start with the loss and get that out of the way.
Like I said, it might be different if I knew what I was doing but I try not to let fear stop me.
Sometimes you get experience the hard way.
I’m sure someone will let me know what the hell I was doing wrong there. I’m thinking I didn’t have it spinning fast enough and I was also feeding too fast at the same time.
Definitely more practice needed.
I also need to get serious about finding a way to mount my phone so it doesn’t fall on the damn floor too.
So that didn’t turn out so well but I did have a win, the follow up to the messed up drill press at work where some dumbass welded the Morse Taper for the chuck into the spindle.
I took my wedge in to work.
3 whacks on one side, spin it 180 degrees and one more whack.
I was actually surprised it came out that easy.
Once I got it out I tried to use my MT2 taper reamer up in there to clean it out but it feels like it’s a bit out of round.
What a surprise eh?
The heat of welding the fucker in there couldn’t have been good for it.
I have a new taper and a keyless chuck coming plus a couple more blank tapers.
Next I need to smear some Dykum on a taper and see what I’m getting for a contact patch before I get too serious with the reamer.
This is one of those Baby Steps kinda thing. I don’t want to go Hog Wild right out of the gate, I want to sneak up on it a little at a time.
So there ya are, a win and a loss.
Batting .500 for the week.
Could be worse.
Starting here.
I’m like, speechless!
Hopefully the dumbass won’t be able to have stupid children now either.
This is but one future option. It makes wood gas and runs a generator, all in one unit.
Apparently it is a functional prototype only at this moment in time, the website says that it is “Patentable and will be updated soon”.
There are a lot of people working to perfect Bio Gas Generating units that can be installed on your property that transforms wood scraps, and household wastes into a burnable gas that can be used to run a small generator to keep a battery bank charged up.
For those who don’t live in Sunny climates and can’t use Solar Power reliably.
Wood Gas Generators have been around a long time and have been proven to work.
They can be made to power vehicles and have been used all over the world since WWII.
Smaller units have been designed and have been used to power modern gas engines in small trucks also.
There are even “Micro Wood Chip Gasifiers’ being built that can be used to power small engines, gas grills and cook stoves.
This one has me very, very intrigued.
This guy Mike Reynolds solved the problem I kept seeing of how to generate air flow without having to use some kind of electric air compressor or hair dryer.
He used a smog pump run by a belt off the crankshaft after the thing gets going.
Skip to 5:50 in this video to see it working.
There are some creative people out there and the internet is making sure that the current crop of wannabe tyrants who are deliberately trying to destroy our way of life and our economic systems so they can reduce our standard of living to one notch above slave are going to have to rethink their plans.
You may not be able to commute fifty miles one way back and forth to work easily or take a pleasure drive like in the old days but with some of these gasifiers in various sizes at your disposal you would be able to generate some electricity, work a garden, haul groceries once in a while and take care of a small farm.
All using wood chips leaves and branches or wood pellets.
That may not be quite so viable in Fly Over Land or the South West part of this country but I guarantee you it would be more than doable above most of the 45th Parallel .
Anywhere there is an abundant supply of burnable Bio Waste actually.
However, those are plans for an “Emergency Use” unit and have been proven to be problematic because of the tar it also generates that tends to foul engines.
I would instead direct you to this website that has a plethora of alternative plans and resources.
Some people are pretty ingenious.
As the saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat.
There is also another driving force behind the resistance to this tyranny of late.
A very powerful motivator.
Some of us just wanted to be left alone.
The people who think they can run the entire planet just because they were born into a certain family or have access to unlimited funds are going to learn the same lesson every tyrant in history has learned, the hard way.
Being a tyrant is a fatal condition.
Clear back in the 1990’s.
No joke.
The good news is that millions of people are finally waking the hell up.
The bad news is that the ones who took The Jab are the walking dead and don’t know it yet and the coming famines are going to decimate the total population.
Harden your hearts, Death on a scale no living human has ever seen is coming.
We were warned but nobody was listening.
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….