Tips in general, little discussion , just the tips,

AHS · Oct 22, 2022

michiganbuck said:
Tip two: Zip-lock bags Sharpy marked make a decent small or any parts for OK safe storage.

I suggest you upgrade the bags to freezer bags. The ink will fade on regular bags, quite often just before you need to read it. It lasts much longer on freezer bags.

triumph406 · Oct 24, 2022

Wear hearing protection, if you don't and you run noisy equipment etc etc it's not a matter of if, but when you get tinnitus.

Tyrone Shoelaces · Oct 25, 2022

Ditto - eye protection if you don’t want to be going to the A&E department on a regular basis.

Regards Tyrone.

challenger · Oct 25, 2022

Sell me valuable tooling for really cheap.

BobH · Oct 26, 2022

When disassembling something with small parts or springs, place it in a plastic bag and work inside the bag. When things go sproing at least you can find the parts. Bob

michiganbuck · Oct 26, 2022

- With not having a blower for a surface grinder the spark stop wall can be replaced with a box of sorts that will extend a little longer than the long table to allow an angle spark bump to contact a downward angle so as to direct sparks into a container.
- Under a bench grinder, one can install a rain duct pipe to catch the sparks and direct them to a bucket.
- For knife sharpening and the like where a slow grinding wheel is better a motor can be set in a position and a belt to a bench grinder..so just use the bench grinder as a bearing spindle.
- and as I have said..for a brand new grinder or one that has been cleaned often a strip of 1" masking tape can be placed to cover the opening where sparks bump off the column and get into \o the works of the grinder. Painted the tape lasts for years.

michiganbuck · Dec 22, 2022

New tip I just saw on the net...
A door will wear the hinge and begin to sag so it drags at the bottom, or starts rubbing someplace usually at the top.

The tip is to pull the top hinge pin and then shim wedge the door back to straight...then with the door in that position look to see how the (pin empty) hinge is out of pin alignment....Take a wrench and bend the ears of the door side to match pin alignment location. I guess one might pull the next lower hinge and do some bending there also...or wedge the door to the best place and bend all the hinges on the door side(?)..Yes I am looking for any advice because I have never tried this tip.

I have never done this but my son Matt just bought a house with a front door that drags and the top hinge place was made deeper..and the lower hinge had some popsicle sticks added by the past owner..and that fudge job is failing...
So I am going to give this a try.

The back door was dragging so I used my belt sander and whizzed off what was needed .. there was space for the sander motor so that was easy to eyeball about .010 clearance so a dollar can slide through...The front door is rubbing and heavy..no way to know how much to sand off with not pulling and testing a number of times.
->I have never tried this, so mine and yours are at our risk.
Buck.

Nerdlinger · Dec 22, 2022

Pinch a thin, flat plate between headstock and tailstock centers to see if they are concentric…any misalignment will be amplified by the plate. Likewise, pinch a 6” rule between the tip of your turning tool and the OD of your stock….the rule should be straight up and down…any height error will be amplified by the ruler. I cant believe how well it works!

Ox · Dec 23, 2022

Never thought about the tailstock thing, but then - I don't think I've ever used a dead center up front before.
Maybe once in another life I s'pose, but it's been a LONG time ago.

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Think Snow Eh!
Ox

FredC · Dec 23, 2022

BoxcarPete said:
As it happens, we are. The lakes haven't frozen yet. I heard that Whitefish point (eastern UP) is the warmest part of MI right now, totally buffered by the water surrounding it.

Well, that makes sense. The water troughs I filled yesterday did not freeze anywhere near as deep as the ones that were already cold. Warm water takes a tremendous amount of cooling to freeze.
Others have given hints about how to reduce heating bills. Something I am doing is emptying the ice maker once a day, I toss the ice out the back door. The refrigerator has to dispose of a lot of heat to make new ice. Ever little bit helps.

The cold weather thread was a little chit-chatty, then a couple members got a little testy and it got closed while I was typing. So, I copied and pasted this reply over here. Hope the idea of using the ice maker to contribute to warming the house is OK.

James H Clark · Dec 23, 2022

Tyrone Shoelaces said:
When you’re drilling brass be sure to take the edge off the drill. Just a little rub with a small emery stick, or an old file at a pinch , will do the trick.

Regards Tyrone.

This also good for cast iron and bronze.
JH

michiganbuck · Dec 23, 2022

And on the quickly closed "weather thread", I was about to add some warm boots in the trunk can be a frozen toes saver, put your hands in your pants when they are about to freeze, use your turn signals early.

dstig · Dec 23, 2022

EVERYTHING on the welding table is hot...until proven otherwise. So don't touch!

michiganbuck · Jan 6, 2023

Often dresser drawers and the like may get too much friction. Nylon like a strip cut from a discarded milk bottle would make an excellent slid-easy, friction reducer but most glues won't stick to nylon.
The tip, put a tab of masking tape on the nylon's bottom side and then glue it in place with Elmer's glue.
Elmers because it stays water soluble so in the future one can just soak it away.

Ox · Jan 6, 2023

Glue won't stick, but somehow masking tape will?

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Think Snow Eh!
Ox

Farmer Phil · Jan 6, 2023

dstig said:
EVERYTHING on the welding table is hot...until proven otherwise. So don't touch!

I know two men who are absolutely brilliant across the board who will never learn this lesson.

guythatbrews · Jan 6, 2023

To store your crummy 1" ratchet straps easier assemble them like they are ready to use. Tie a stopper knot in the very end of the strap that doesn't have the ratchet on it. When you are done using pull the knotted side until the hook reaches the ratchet, fold the hooks in, and wind up the strap around the ratchet.

Now i don't get aggravated every time i use them.

michiganbuck · Jan 6, 2023

Ox said:
Glue won't stick, but somehow masking tape will?

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Think Snow Eh!
Ox

I may be premature on the masking tape, I should conclude the test this weekend
and get back to the subject. I have tried a couple of other tapes that did work.

aribert · Friday at 12:16 PM

guythatbrews said:
To store your crummy 1" ratchet straps easier assemble them like they are ready to use. Tie a stopper knot in the very end of the strap that doesn't have the ratchet on it. When you are done using pull the knotted side until the hook reaches the ratchet, fold the hooks in, and wind up the strap around the ratchet.

Now i don't get aggravated every time i use them.

I roll the cargo straps up and tie a double sided Velcro strap around the cargo strap - much less of a mess than I used to have in both my P/U and SUV since I carry several of the 1 inch straps in each vehicle plus a couple of 2 inch cargo straps in the P/U.

Greg White · Sunday at 3:15 AM

when your coveralls get some miles on em,the snaps get loose,on the cuffs or the belly ones,
screeze the male part in your bench vice ( vice is more accurate than pliers) just a smige this will tighten the snap up,start small ,test and repeat til satisfied

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