Spinster

[b.lindsey]

I can see the gears turning Carl....good to have you back!!

Bill

[zeeprogrammer]

I promised myself a post...and here it is.

Woke up this morning all ready to go. Took care of some mundane tasks and it's shop time!
 

The part to be made requires 1" of 1/4" square aluminum.
Grabbed a length and hacked off 2".
 

I figured I'd be optimistic and allow for only one 'fooey' for the wall of learning.
(But you already know I've taken 3 runs at this.  )

Then time for the vise to shave it down.

No it's not...

Snookered. I am called away.
Crap crap and...crap. 

So I'm thinking I can at least get a pic of the stock.

I mean, gee, it's the best hack job I've done. 

Snookered. Some one ran off with my good camera.
Crap crap and...crap. 

Okay. I'll use the camera that I can't get a good macro pic out of.
Snookered. Some one ran off with the memory card.
Crap crap and...crap. 

Oughta change my name. Instead of Zeep it should be Snookie.
No. That won't work. Won't work at all.

I think my name is crap.

Crap crap and....




crap.

Waste of a post.
Was going to be a great post.
Woulda been a contender.
 

[Pete49]

some days it doesn't pay to get outa bed Carl
Pete

[Dean W]

Dear Crap;
Please don't give up on this crap.  Remember, your crap makes us happy.
We need your crap.  Your crap makes our crappy world go 'round.
Keep up the good crap!

 

[cfellows]

OK, Zee, I uploaded my 3-year old avatar.  Now I'm real!

I hate having to remake parts, but it happens to me all too often.  Not sure why I have such a hard time getting it right the first time.

Chuck

[Bearcar1]

Didn't Louie Armstrong do a song about a guy named Snookie Z. Crapster?    "Hey man, there goes Snookie Z'..."


Zee', I am also glad to see that this project did not get forgotten about. Though it has been a while, the old memories are coming back and it feels good, thanks. 


BC1
Jim

[zeeprogrammer]

Dean! Noooo. I should never have suggested the name change. That kind of name can 'stick'. But I'll keep making crap, good or bad (for a while anyway).

Chuck. Good to 'see' you.

Thanks Jim.

Today is not looking good for machining either. Crap. 

[steamer]

No worries Zee......try try again!

Dave

[fcheslop]

Hi Zee, Nice to see you back in the saddle.
best wishes
frazer

[Dean W]

That kind of name can 'stick'.

What.. so now you want to be called "booger"?  Make up your mind!

You are just making things way too easy, Carl...
(Marv might have something to say if we could be a little less high-brow in this conversation.)

[mklotz]

Dean?  High-brow conversation?

Sorry, I simply can't mentally put those two together in any meaningful way.   

[Dean W]

Work it out, Marv.  Put a few asterisks between some of the words and draw a line under it.
I'm sure it will start to make sense sooner or later.   

(I'm sure glad all you guys are here!)

 

[mklotz]

Got it!

You're suffering from male-pattern baldness and your brow is elevating.  That's it, isn't it?  Yeah, that must be it. 

[Dean W]

Got it!
You're suffering from male-pattern baldness and your brow is elevating. 

Nope, but it makes me happy to know you can still form a theory, Marv.
Alas, still spending $14 every two weeks at the barber shop.  Upside is, the barber is now a young lady.

 

[zeeprogrammer]

Might I interject here? 
No worry guys. My threads are your threads.
Just keep it clean. 

Got some things worked out and a little bit of progress. Very little...

Here's the hack job I mentioned earlier...



Then I milled it to the height I needed and hacked it into two 'blanks'...



Then it was time to mount the rotary table (a little too early as it turns out). This is how I did it...



Then I mounted a bit of bar and milled a flat spot to place the blanks...



I found a Mac program to resize the pictures (but they didn't warn me it had a time limit!). Looking for a different freebie to do that as well as to adjust brightness. Suggestions welcome. I'd rather not use my Windows platform...I keep that one off the Net.

Note the Rube arrangement of dial indicators in the back.

It was at this point that craptitude struck again. Yes...'CRAPTITUDE'!!

Realization #1: I should have put the center hole in the blanks first. But I managed that by mounting the part on another spare part, clamping it onto the above work area, and drilling the hole. Had to eyeball it though because I didn't want to have to re-center the rotary table. Probably stupid. If I'm too far off there won't be enough 'side' to the part.

Realization #2: Once done I have to drill the center hole to the correct diameter. But there's a hole already there and the drill will probably follow that. I'm thinking when (if!) it comes to that time I can put a bit of spare aluminum on that and drill through that...hoping the drill will stay straight.

Realization #3: When I drilled the center hole there was sufficient vibration for my wonderful Rube creation to turn into...er...crap creation. Well we'll see how it goes. Milling the flat spot had no issues.

Realization #4: I haven't realized everything.

But hey...I touched my machines! This is a big thing considering how little time I've had for touching...anything. (I did get touched back by the vise I used to hack the blanks into two. Slipped and knocked my finger into some sharp corner. Hm...which has reminded me to look at it...oops...better get the Neosporin. At least it's the middle finger and will give a better effect when used appropriately at work.)

Good to see you Dave and Frazer.
Don't let the geezers keep you away. 

Dean...To answer your question...it's 'Zee', 'Zeep', 'Zeepster' (not Zeep-meister or Zee-meister yet), Carl, or as you can see below...'Hey'. Other names are reserved for use by those I love ('idiot' is a favorite as well as 'turd' and you can guess who is allowed to call me those). You see the implication right?