Thursday, June 18, 2020

Quick Update

I still haven't finished the Tumico Terrors.  I found the metric ER16 collets needed to be torqued a bit too much to grip, so I found some el cheapo ER16 Imperial sized collets for not much coin.  Ordered and finally arrived.  How do you store them?  I mean, they aren't very big atoll.  I dug a bit on Thingiverse.com, and found a neat little box.  A bit of additive machining... (3D printer), and it squirted out this.


quite literally squirted out

A bit plain jane, but, hey.... I remember a bit of Confusion 360.... so  whip up a round tuit, and stick it on the lid.  Yeah, like that!



Had a quick trip to the third coast, and couldn't resist my pawn shop rounds there.  Each of these were about $5 or $6....  Less than 25 bucks invested.  Neat!


Some treasure in there as well!!  Who makes CDC brand drills?  The two largest  rows in the index are CDC brand, HS, USA.  Ex-Navy????



Also a bit of misc stuffus....


USN issue.  Wonder what was in it originally?

And some cheapo tools in the metal box....  What could I put in there instead??

Sine Table - open

Sine Table - closed


Lots of fun stuff.  But I gotta get back to the Tumicos.  Almost done with them....



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6 comments:

  1. Spartan-CJune 18, 2020 at 5:33 PM

    Where's my vacuum cleaner???
    That drill index, I've seen that brand in my past, kind of like Sears and Roebuck Dunlap brand. That's all I remember.
    You go a sweet deal on that sine plate, you stole it!!!
    You did great. Back to my vacuum cleaner...

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    1. STxARJune 18, 2020 at 5:40 PM

      To be clear, there were junk tools in the tin box. I had the sine plate already...

      And the vacuum is still there!!!

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  2. PhilJune 18, 2020 at 8:37 PM

    Still a nice score.
    Interesting solution for storing the collets.
    They can be a pain to store because they wind up taking up so much room when you try to keep them organized.

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    1. STxARJune 19, 2020 at 7:03 AM

      I'm gonna make another one for the metric ones I think. I only have a few of them. And the raw material for the printer is mostly out of stock. Red Menace....

      I bought a book on organization once. Lost it for over 2 years within a few days. "How To Be Organized In Spite of Yourself."

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  3. SteveAugust 11, 2020 at 8:11 AM

    My place on the third coast is Port Aransas.

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    1. STxARAugust 12, 2020 at 7:51 AM

      I live a bit north of there. Not sure how living in Port A would be. Too close to the water for me!

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