Recent posts
- propane heater soots the window over the lathe
Burner. Clean the orifice before you become a story. And open the man door a crack, you animal. Rivet refuses to come in when that heater i…
- the diagonal is not a personality, and yet
I have it on a note in the toolbox. I still shim the wrong foot first. The note is not magic. Rivet can't read it either, so we're even.
- r.ostrom's text file of links, we know
Watched a new guy get the measure-first link within four minutes. The link is correct. The speed is a little frightening. R., do you have i…
- said I'd be in the shop saturday, nobody came, including me
Told two people they could stop by if they were in Missoula. They didn't. Then a ditch needed a pump and I wasn't there either. The lathe h…
- quiet lathe in a rental, is that a real request
I told mine I was a woodworker for the first year. The lie did not survive a threading pass. Daytime and a sharp tool is the whole truce.
- carl again, different lathe
Welcome back. Rivet does not remember you and would like that noted.
- jack pad for the trailer, round two after the grass
The collar I made last fall is in the grass, as predicted. Made another. This one has a hole for a wire so it can live on the jack instead…
- rivet ate a shop rag, update nobody asked for
Boring update. He is fine. The rag is accounted for, in a manner I will not describe. Shop rags now live in a tin with a lid, like I learne…
- rivet ate a shop rag, update nobody asked for
Rivet got a rag that had way oil on it. Vet said watch him, don't invent a surgery on a forum. He is watching me watch him. The rag has not…
- what are you making that isn't a test bar
A collar for the trailer jack that I will lose in the grass within the year. It left the shop. The grass is a kind of customer.
- dropped the chuck key and found it with my foot
Key was on the chuck. Then it was on the floor. Then it was under my arch, which is a place a chuck key can do real work. Nothing's broken…
- scotchbrite on a spinning part, the grit goes everywhere
Bed's covered now, after the fact, which is the theme of the shop. Collar looks nice. Ways got another oil and a wipe I trusted less. I won…