MChat
Resident "Preacher Man"
Now your comment makes way more sense. I was very
about what you were saying.I see what happens when you miss a thread around here.
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Random stuff you made.
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Now your comment makes way more sense. I was very
about what you were saying.I see what happens when you miss a thread around here.
Boss
Rabble-Rouser
Conference rm table. On wheels for now.
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Funny, I have both of those jacks and some other similar ones. One I have almost exactly like the one on the right quit working last week. I noticed bearings falling out of it, got a magnet and picked them all up, took it apart, it has small ball bearings in the threads and a little U pipe screwed on outside the threaded block letting the bearings move back and forth in the threads and return end to end. Who knew? One of the screws had fallen out and let the bearings go. Shortened a new screw for it and loctited them both in, should last longer than I do now.I've always thought someone needs to make a kit to convert a high-lift jack into the same geometry as an old school bumper jack for those kinds of uses.
They existed along side each other for the first 50yr but the latter died out with no good replacement.
Void_of_Light
Keeping I.T. real
I figured it was time for a proper pool bar this year.
tracyb
Well-known member
The one above for the center punch.
This one for the scribe:
Been using these punches for years...
best scribe i've had is just like shown above, but with a carbide insert brazed for the scribe edge.
and a center punch sharpened correctly will continue to work harden until it hardly needs sharpening.
no way I'd be using threaded insert
This is not a proud inventor brag post 
but it saved me ~an hour of fucking around:
Needed to add a missing countersink to a lock screw detent hole in the handle of an otherwise GTG Hazard Fraught plate compactor
because the tapered section of the spring loaded locking bolt on 1 side couldn't drop in far enough to let threads under the knob engage
Could only get an inch of radial clearance unless I disassembled the folding handle . . . yeah, nah
I present to you the fuckit-let'smakethisafiveminutejob-o-matic:
Janky contraption = 1/4 hex impact driver + extension + 1/4 hex to 3/8 square adapter + 3/8 sq. drive to V-jaw tap chuck (, I know) holding a round-shanked countersink I got in the '80s from my grandpa. That ridiculous combination of egregiously misused tools took 1 minute to assemble & 2 minutes to git 'r' dun . . .
. . . before I could even wise up and/or feel ashamed of myself
but it saved me ~an hour of fucking around:Needed to add a missing countersink to a lock screw detent hole in the handle of an otherwise GTG Hazard Fraught plate compactor
because the tapered section of the spring loaded locking bolt on 1 side couldn't drop in far enough to let threads under the knob engage
Could only get an inch of radial clearance unless I disassembled the folding handle . . . yeah, nah
I present to you the fuckit-let'smakethisafiveminutejob-o-matic:
Janky contraption = 1/4 hex impact driver + extension + 1/4 hex to 3/8 square adapter + 3/8 sq. drive to V-jaw tap chuck (
, I know) holding a round-shanked countersink I got in the '80s from my grandpa. That ridiculous combination of egregiously misused tools took 1 minute to assemble & 2 minutes to git 'r' dun . . .. . . before I could even wise up and/or feel ashamed of myself
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