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’.

This’ll give ya a Chubby.

H/T to The Tactical Hermit for passing this along.

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.