Thread: What are you working on?

@ejmolitor37. I cannot tell from your picture what kind of wood that is. Belt sander at great tools. I also have a drum sander that is very helpful. I would like to make a horizontal wet drum sander, unfortunately I don’t have metal working tools. All in good time I suppose.

@Thaeris I think that work out quite nicely. Sort of a matched pair in opposition.

Great looking scales Eric

And yes sir Thaeris, that is a win for sure

Shaun, these are streaked horn. I was working on a Boker for another gent on FB, broke the originals at the pivot and offered to repair originals or replace. He chose replace and wanted streaked horn.

Thareis those a beautiful blades and scales Sir.

Man a drum sander would be awesome as well. I can find the drum sander attachment for my Dremel and I'm a bit bummed. Could have been handy, belt sander and single edge utility blade as a scraper. Worked like a charm

Originally Posted by Thaeris

Thanks !

Wood is certainly hard to work with !

Sure couldn't tell it from your work! Looks great!

I use my drum sander to flatten and even blanks. My drum sander is similar in operation to a planer. It has a 16” wide drum. It is pretty sweet to have.

Here's an idea for a simple thickness sander if you have a drill press. No shop now so I won't build one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWaF1ibGEwY

https://youtu.be/mWaF1ibGEwY
~Richard

Originally Posted by cudarunner

There was THUNDER in the Boars Nest's Garage This Morning

After several setbacks (including weather too cold to bother trying to heat the work area) and a few other things I got my Harley put back together enough to start it.

What a sweet sound to hear after so much time had passed.

Looks like I got everything done correctly (which was worrisome as the bike has assemblies like I've never worked on before) but no fuel leaks, and no oil leaks and the oil leak was the reason for the tear down.

On thing I've hated to use for years and years are worm drive hose clamps as they are just butt ugly! Especially when there is a 'tail' sticking out an inc. Oh they work but they are still ugly.

I picked up some of these to use to secure the new fuel line and they look just like OEM. Well I did get a bit anal and polished them up since they are SS.

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All I need to do to have the bike road ready is to finish cleaning up the air cleaner and mount the seat. It's supposed to warm up a bit more so maybe it'll be test ride time in a day or so

When you have to work on that Harley the worm drive ones are easily reused though..................

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Sort of clamp commonly used on CV joint boots on cars. I have the tool. It squeezes and pushes-in simultaneously.
Downside is they are not reusable and, in removing them, sometimes the rubber underneath gets damaged. A die-grinder across the ear is best IF you can get to it.
We used to commonly replace CV boots and those would accompany the boot. There is another type which took a different type tool. Another strange type. Nowadays, we simply replace the whole shaft.
For compactness, they are great. I don't miss them, personally.

I should have read further before my last reply.

A dull one similar to these to put them on and a sharp one to remove them.

https://www.harborfreight.com/10-inc...per-38496.html

Originally Posted by 32t

I should have read further before my last reply.

A dull one similar to these to put them on and a sharp one to remove them.

https://www.harborfreight.com/10-inc...per-38496.html

Atta boy, Tim!!