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My friend Chris works as a docent at Meadow Brook Hall, which is an 88,000 square foot 110 room mansion in Rochester Hills, Michigan, which was originally built from 1926 till 1929, by Matilda Dodge Wilson. For more information see:
My wife decided that she needed one more feeder, so I converted a two-arm bird feeder pole to a three-arm pole. The larger birds and the Oriels are hesitant to go to the feeder closer to the house. They are more comfortable using a feeder further from the...
Back in April I designed and built a riser for my aerobars to create a more comfortable position for my forearms while using the aero bars on my mountain bicycle. Here is a link to the post.
I do have a nice Innerstate boring and facing head, that looks like this.
The facing head would have certainly worked. I felt that feeding in with a 1” diameter cutter would be quicker. Once I figured out how to eliminate the chatter, I believe that it was quicker.
My first attempt to face the boss was to use a 1” endmill and use the quill to plunge the cutter into the boss. Due to the interrupted cut the finish was badly chattered. For my next attempt I locked the quill in the fully retracted position and used the knee of the Bridgeport to control the feed...
Thirty years ago, my friend Mark rebuilt the calipers on this 1965 Corvette by adding stainless steel sleeves to prevent corrosion of the bore of the cylinders. At the time they used the original piston. They replaced the seals with lip seals that were the original seal design that had a very high failure...
I still have to install the pole and make the 2nd swing arm. Attached is a link to a one minute 22 second video showing the machining steps that I used to make all of the parts. It turns out that there are a lot of st...
I chose to use Dual Shield Flux Core wire (FCAW-G) to attach the cross plate to the tube. The plate is 3/8” thick and I was concerned with penetration if I used short circuit MIG. Here are the parameters that I used:
Recently I remodeled the family room. As a part of the renovation, we replaced the windows. The swing arm that supported two of the bird feeders was attached to the frame of the old windows. We didn’t want to attach the swing arm to the new windows, so I designed a sturdy 1-1/4” black pipe pole...
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