Duck Pond Redneckery

[Duck]

Annnnyway, the set screws on the pulley were not seized. Came right out, and I was able to tap the shaft out with my new mallet and a half inch dowel.





Bearings are just bronze bushings. In this picture you can see the oiling holes in the casting were still plugged up. That's probably what kept the snow, humidity and bird poop out.

 

[Duck]

I cleaned up the shaft, blew out the oiling holes, put it back together, oiled it with my drill press oiling can, and after I spun it a few times it loosened up and spun easy like it's got ball bearings.

I cleaned up the sliders and the rail for the tail stock thingy, cleaned up the bore holes for the crank thing and the tool rest pivot, put it back together with Fluid Film, that stuff that flatbedders oil their chain binders with, and re-assembled it & it's all perfectly operational like new except its ugly from the rust and the 60-70 year old paint.

Now I gotta figure out where to get another motor pulley, and redo the motor mount & stuff. No idea when I'll get to that.



Half inch dowel, duct tape, 400 grit sandpaper.





Now I gotta post all this exact same stuff on the woodworking forum and see what kind of tips I can get from those guys who actually might know a thing or two about antique lathes.

All I know about a lathe is that it spins wood so you can make those baluster things for railing.

I've never operated one.

 

[Rigjockey]

Pretty cool!
The foot pegs for handles was genius.

 

[GAnthony]

Pretty cool!
The foot pegs for handles was genius.

well...even a .....




has a good day...........every once in a while........but genius...????

you're begging for your own meme........aint'cha...???????????



and it's coming............!!!!!!!!

 

[Rigjockey]

well...even a .....

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has a good day...........every once in a while........but genius...????

you're begging for your own meme........aint'cha...???????????



and it's coming............!!!!!!!!

Are you calling @Duck Grandfather a dumbass or did you not read through the thread?

 

[GAnthony]

Are you calling @Duck Grandfather a dumbass or did you not read through the thread?

oh, i read the thread, but never, have i ever heard anyone call him a genius...

until today

here's your meme..........

 

[krelithous]

go to a freaking store, buy a fan on a stand for like $20, point the summana bitch just as easily.....


dumbass.


i can't wait to retire, so i can do dumabss things like you


dumbass

like get struck by lighting

 

[389 Hood]

I wish I had the space to do work like that. I have a 2 car garage that's half tool bench, storage and tool boxes and the other half, car.

 

[GAnthony]

I wish I had the space to do work like that. I have a 2 car garage that's half tool bench, storage and tool boxes and the other half, car.

i wish i even had "that much" space, AND a garage..!!!!!

never had a garage, where ever i lived.

now that i have been involved in the sport of target/self defensive training, and reloading, i'd LOVE to have a garage and set it up with a HVAC system, heated flooring, and a full complement of benches and reloading presses.

i'd love to have the room you have.....

here is my mini reloading area........

 

[Duck]

never had a garage, where ever i lived.

WTF is wrong with you?

Every man needs a garage.

Without a garage, you lose man card points and have to compensate in some other way.

Do you even own a pickup truck??

 

[GAnthony]

WTF is wrong with you?

Every man needs a garage.

Without a garage, you lose man card points and have to compensate in some other way.

Do you even own a pickup truck??

i have owned several pick up trucks.......but that was back in my mechanic days, and early trucking days.

my past few cars since 2010 have been Toyotas.

i don't have a man card anymore, i sold it to the corner drug dealer, cuz he was an Guatemalan immigrant and needed proof, that his name Aribel was really a man's name, but he couldn't prove it.

and i like short walks on long beaches, wearing sneakers as to not get sand in between my tootsies....

 

[389 Hood]

That is sorta compact for doing anything. My first house has a 10' X 20' garage that housed a 1959 Cadillac. You figure at 19.5' long and 6.5' wide, there wasn't a lot of room to do anything. So, I erected a pair of 10X12 sheds. One for yard tools and the other for car tools.

In this house, I had to cut a section of sheet rock out in the garage to even fit my car into. WTF? The house was built in 2005. Were there no cars over 19' long? I had to have 7 more inches to clear the door bracing.

 

[Rigjockey]

That is sorta compact for doing anything. My first house has a 10' X 20' garage that housed a 1959 Cadillac. You figure at 19.5' long and 6.5' wide, there wasn't a lot of room to do anything. So, I erected a pair of 10X12 sheds. One for yard tools and the other for car tools.

In this house, I had to cut a section of sheet rock out in the garage to even fit my car into. WTF? The house was built in 2005. Were there no cars over 19' long? I had to have 7 more inches to clear the door bracing.View attachment 87575

How tight is parking a 1959 Cadillac at say... the local Dairy Queen?
I have noticed parking spaces getting smaller these days.

 

[389 Hood]

I like to park as far out in the parking lot as possible. It doesn't always work, because inevitably, some jackass has to park right next to you when there are dozens of other spots. Most people are lazy and want front door parking spots.

That car actually turned very well. It made a nice tight U-turn. My current long wheelbase pick up takes 5 lanes to make a U-turn. My Pete turns tighter.

 

[GAnthony]

That is sorta compact for doing anything. My first house has a 10' X 20' garage that housed a 1959 Cadillac. You figure at 19.5' long and 6.5' wide, there wasn't a lot of room to do anything. So, I erected a pair of 10X12 sheds. One for yard tools and the other for car tools.

In this house, I had to cut a section of sheet rock out in the garage to even fit my car into. WTF? The house was built in 2005. Were there no cars over 19' long? I had to have 7 more inches to clear the door bracing.View attachment 87575

damn man...that hood would make for a great reloading bench for me....

i can get at the very least, 9 reloading presses along the perimeter of that thing......and that'll cover nearly all the calibers and then some, that i shoot....

and also, i recall my mechanic days when cars like that 19 foot "Queen Mary" was a bitch to push into the garage when they would come in by hook.

i'd have rather pushed in a Sherman tank, than those monstrosities...

 

[Duck]

Forgot to post pictures of the dog jail door latch.

 

[Duck]

The dog jumps up on the door and his claws were tearing up the pine.

So I cut the rounded edge off the top of the door and replaced it with osage orange from a long-dead branch I thought was useless because it was split. I simply cut it down the split.

To keep it straight in the table saw, simply screw a straight piece of wood to the side and slide that piece up against the fence. Use short screws or it'll probably launch the workpiece across the shop.



This is the inside of that old rotted stick:



And here's the top of the door, which is now immune to the destructive power of dog claws.

That osage orange is so dense that I had to use the router to cut the rounded edges. The handheld belt sander with 60 grit was taking way too long.



No shiny finish. I just gave it a couple coats of Danish oil.

 

[Duck]

How to keep an outlet strip from falling off. Or anything with those stupid keyhole-shaped screw holes.

Just a little peg to keep it from sliding.

 

[GAnthony]

How to keep an outlet strip from falling off. Or anything with those stupid keyhole-shaped screw holes.

Just a little peg to keep it from sliding.

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you gotta be kidding me...??

this is how a power strip is mounted..

the machine on the left, is the cleaning media, the machine on the right, is the polishing media...

and LOOK where the power strip is......in between them....not hanging by a peg....





and look, this power stip is properly mounted to the back wall, over my reloading bench...






you just continue to be a...........

 

[Duck]

you gotta be kidding me...??

this is how a power strip is mounted..

the machine on the left, is the cleaning media, the machine on the right, is the polishing media...

and LOOK where the power strip is......in between them....not hanging by a peg....

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and look, this power stip is properly mounted to the back wall, over my reloading bench...

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you just continue to be a...........

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If you bump the one on the yellow wall, it'll fall off and you'll be cussing at the stupid thing trying to line up the holes with the screw heads you can't f*in' see..

And that cord that's still got the twist ties on it, that goes up to something above, that's gonna fall down when the cord yanks on it...

Because you're a