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.