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01-17-2005
posted by Franz
Quote:
Originally Posted by cutter
Wy, you're not all of a sudden pimping for wanking web, are you?
(there is no vise thread here.)
Hmmmmmmm, we could copy & paste, just to piss Robin off. Of course we'd
delete any of his inane comments in the thread just to protect his "intelectual
property".
Than again, Cutter would have to go back to workin on the vise.
01-17-2005
Wyoming
Cutter, I could have sworn there was a sorta/kinda cut and paste of the
vise thread already in the early days of this board. Most probably wrong
and it was just a mention of Chuck & Joey trying their best to cover their
rears over there in your original vise thread. By the way, is the vise
still sitting in the bucket of gunk?
01-17-2005
posted by Wyoming
Cutter's Vise--continued
Cutter, I took a look and you are absolutely right about the vise thread.
What I did find under the search "Cutter's vise--continued" post #6 is
Ron's link to the original post. I figure if its good enough for our
Fearless Leader its more than good enough to read here.
01-17-2005
posted by Franz
When Joey offered to sue for copywrite infringment, I decided I'd let him
see if his fat a55 could cashthe check his big mouth wrote.
http://www.shopfloortalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=115&highlight=cutter+vise
Evidently, his a55 still can't find a lawyer willing to represent his
stupid mouth.
01-17-2005
posted by Wyoming
Franz, Once again you've done the legwork for a kid. Thanks for the
heads-up link...I thought it was in here somewhere, but thought Ron's link
was the only mention of it.
01-17-2005
posted by
Cutter
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wyoming
Franz, Once again you've done the legwork for a kid. Thanks for the
heads-up link...I thought it was in here somewhere, but thought Ron's link
was the only mention of it.
Awwww but guys, thanks for keeping it sort of alive but that's not even a
good preview; heck, there's not any photos except for the few that
morpheus posted down there at the end. I fight with myself over the agony
of putting it all together again but I gotta tell you, that would be a
chore - hours & hours of editing for my limited skills. It is one thing to
do daily or periodic updates to a thread like that & quite another to try
to recreate it in one or two days, or even a week.
Moreover one thing that made it work was that so many other people
contributed with their own pictures & experiences, which remain their
intellectual property. Omitting those comments or pics would make some
awkward holes in the thread. So I have remained conflicted about the whole
thing. And I am too busy to deal with it anyway.
I really didn't mean to object to re-posting the link, Wyoming. I was only
pointing out that storts would have to go there & register to read & see
the photos. I still get an occasional email from WWeb notifying me that I
have a private message from someone who read it & is trying to reach me;
of course, I am not allowed to read those messages but ...... well, what's
a mother to do?
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cutter
01-17-2005
posted by Wyoming
Cutter, But...but...but...is the big sucker still sitting in a bucket of
gunk or not? After all that's been said about it a alot of us are starting
to think of it as family.
01-17-2005
posted by
Cutter
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wyoming
Cutter, But...but...but...is the big sucker still sitting in a bucket of
gunk or not? After all that's been said about it a alot of us are starting
to think of it as family.
Ah, sorry Wyoming. I meant to answer that, got all dewey-eyed over the
discussion of it & forgot.
When Pete & crew got ready to pour the slab, the bucket of diesel had to
be moved out of the way, of course and then Juan - that thief of a plumber
-burried the Zep bucket in a pile of dirt. I eventually pulled the vise
out of the bucket and set it on my porch where it sat until a couple of
months ago. Finally I carted the can into the shop, set it between the
front doors & dunked the Wilton back into it. It has resided there for the
last couple of months. I probably should be keeping my eye out for a chunk
of larger I-beam to make a better "ram" out of and then fab up something
to replace those chains that I tried to secure it with. Obviously, I have
to find some better way to hold it down while I try to break a bigger
jack.
Remember Shane? That vise may be my stump.
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cutter
01-17-2005
posted by Wyoming
Cutter, If you don't mind concocting a witch's brew that your local dump
will only take on one of those "free ride" days for toxic waste without
charging you an arm, leg and a couple of extra appendages you might add
some lacquer thinner and ATF to the diesel. If the local dump doesn't
offer any "free rides" forget it.
03-19-2005
posted by
Cutter
Spring is coming so I am beginning to feel like getting serious about
getting this sucker finished & my stuff moved from the old barn. But first
I have to have some storage ready. I bought these 2 commercial shelving
units from Travis out at the Hootenanny, same guy I got my little anvil
from. They are 7ft 4 inches tall & 2 feet deep; one is 48 inches wide, the
other is 42" so I figure they add about 90 square ft of storage & should
be a big help. I'd like to have a dozen of them but then I would have a
storage building instead of a shop.
35 bucks each.
They came out of a big drug warehouse, pretty used but not used up.
That's about as rough as it gets, most of the shelves really look pretty
clean. The top shelf just happens to hit right in the middle of the higher
purlin so I can fasten the top to the wall, then fasten the standards to
the lower purlin & they should be tip-proof.
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cutter
03-19-2005
Franz
Cutter, where are the diagonal braces that are supposed to be on them
shelves? Did you forget to load em, or are you just plannin to use the
flat stock for a project?
03-19-2005
posted by
Cutter
T'weren't none. That's why I'm tying them to the purlins.
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cutter
03-19-2005
posted by tonycamco
cutter your doinhg a fine job!!1
03-27-2005
posted by MikeLMR
Just stumbled across this while looking for floor paint suggestions and
ended up spending hours reading all the posts
Thanks for writing all this down its really fascinating to read,
especially from the perspective of someone living in another country.
Thanks ~ Mike
03-27-2005
posted by
Cutter
Thank you, Mike.
It's good to know we can entertain an international audience.
What makes these threads so much fun for me is the participation,
comments, suggestions & encouragement. And sometimes these guys can keep
me from making mistakes.
Stay tuned, there will be more to follow from time to time & other
subjects that might interest you.
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cutter
03-28-2005
posted by MikeLMR
I'll be keeping an eye out for ideas to borrow
this is our new garage base, it's hardly on the same scale as your shop
though. It's going to be a pre-fabricated concrete structure and about 20'
by 12'3"
03-28-2005
posted by
Cutter
Well, we just take what we can get, Mike. I am trying to move from 2400 sq
ft into about 720 sq ft. Its a bummer but I am still grateful to have it.
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cutter
03-28-2005, 07:33 PM
posted by rodburner
If'n ya ain't got room for all the toys i'll come up and carry some back
down here to my shop
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Billy
03-28-2005
posted by
Cutter
Billy, I'll make you a terrific deal on a Chinese wood lathe .
I nearly forgot - and a Star window shade cutter! I even have most of
another Delta 14 inch vertical wood & metal bandsaw, a 1950 model with a
good gearbox! I sure do need to part that thing out on ebay, too.
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cutter
05-27-2005
posted by
Cutter
Let there be light ........
For a change I thought I'd post something I've done for the shop building
in the shop building thread. The 3 phase converter was really a part of
it, but I wanted it in its own thread, same for my welding table, the
Parker vise and just about everything else I've done for the last 8 or 9
months. But I finally got around to installing some decent lighting mainly
because I was really sick of putting up with those buzzing sodium peroxide
or hydrogen chloride or mercury vapor or whatever they are - outdoor
floods. They served their initial purpose pretty well because at the time
I installed them I had nothing else on hand & they sure as heck beat
nothing. And they were a cheap get-by while I ordered something better.
But I got the new ones in months ago & they sat uselessly in my garage
until last weekend.
These are cheap 2-tube flourescents with electronic ballasts, using T-8
tubes in the daylight shade. I have no prior experience with them & I
didn't really expect them to be as good as I had been led to believe
because I have had lots of experince with old regular fluorescent
fixtures. But these little fellers are terriffic, just as good as linngl
said they were in his shop and way beyond my expectations. I had ordered 8
of them & really wondered if they could possibly do the job, at times I
even wished I had doubled the order & so forth, not that it made a hell of
a lot of difference so long as they were all still in the box. But they do
a splendid job. And thank God, they come on instantly so I no longer have
to remember to go out & flip the switch at least 5 minutes before I expect
to have light.
This picture was taken without flash to sort of show the ambient light
level provided by 16 32-watt tubes. It was taken well after dark, about
10:30 pm and it really doesn't even begin to show the real effect. But
maybe you can get the idea. Unfortunately, I didn't think to take a
"before" shot.
And to sum it up, the fixtures cost exactly $22 each; tax included, they
totaled $190.52. The tubes were priced at about $2.50 each online, if I
recall correctly but I ran across a lucky deal at one of my favorite local
salvage stores & got a case of 36 for $20.
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cutter
05-27-2005
posted by
Cutter
and let there be air ......
Since I finally got the lights on, the 3 phase converter built and the big
air compressor therefore powered up, it was time to do something about
getting the air sorta plumbed into the shop & get the hoses up off the
floor. My friend Jay down at Jay's Fast Oil Change, Quick Car Wash and
Outlaw Mini Bikes mentioned that he had a new retractable hose reel on
account of Harbor Freight had a half price sale on the $120 model. So I
stopped by. I didn't really need a 50 foot retractable reel for my little
shop; I rarely have occasion to reach for an air hose except on weekends
and even then, it is usually just a whiff here or a puff there. Mostly I
need air when I power up the plasma cutter & that's hardly an everyday
thing. I bought the old Campbell Hausfeld because I don't like to listen
to a small compressor work itself to death when I am trying to concentrate
on what I'm trying to do. I would much rather hear that big air pump chug
away for 5 minutes every half hour or maybe once a weekend. Anyway, back
to the story: Harbor Freight had an open frame reel, without hose for
$24.99, another open frame reel with 30 feet of hose for 29.99 and a small
wheel with closed sides & 30 feet of hose for $29.99; all 3 models were
manual. I decided I liked the small one with hose because of the swivel
arrangement & the compact size; besides that, the open frames ones are
really flimsy -looking. But when I started looking for the stock item,
there were none to be found on the shelves in that section of the store.
So I headed up front to ask if they were sold out. On the way, I passed an
end cap of them, on sale for $21.99.
Once I got this thing out of the box I realized that I didn't really have
a decent place to install it. I wanted it to be on the north wall, near
the middle so the hose would reach either end of the building. I do not
want more than one or 2 drops on account of my wall space is going to be
taken up with benches and other equipment. So, long story somewhat
shortened, I had to make a mounting "post" out of a scrap of leftover
purlin.
The good part of this job was that I got to use the big Clausing drill
press on a real job for the first time. If you recall, it is also 3 phase
so it was also dormant until I got the converter built. The mounting post
is anchored to the lower purlin next to the side door and is also anchored
to the floor. There is room under the reel to install another hose
bracket, something like a water hose hanger.
Next little detail I hope to get done soon will be installing my antique
GE ceiling fan, a real cast iron one with the umpteen pound rotor. You'll
want to watch for it for 2 reasons:
1. because most of you under 50 - 60 years old have probably never seen
one, and
2. you will probably be on tenterhooks to see whether it's going to need a
coat of new paint.
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cutter
05-27-2005
posted by MangleWeld
Cutter just go ahead and paint it, you know how you love to paint. Shop
looks good. JG
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The gene pool could use a little more Chlorine..
06-10-2005
posted by
Cutter
Ceiling fan
Things have seemed a little slow around the old SFT forums this week,
especially tonight so I decided to drag out the pictures I have been
saving of my shop ceiling fan I mentioned a post or two back. I found this
old fan hanging in the little step-down garage of an empty house several
years ago where I was invited to be the sole participant of a private
"estate sale". The woman who lived next door approached me about taking a
look through the garage after the family had looted all the furniture &
goods in the house proper. She said she was commissioned by the old
fellow's 2 sons who lived several hundred miles away & would split
whatever $$ she collected with them. I took her word for that.
Anyway, I arrived over there one evening to find that the windowless
garage was sealed, the overhead door having been nailed shut years before
and there was no electric service & hadn't been for several years. After a
few minutes of scrambling & searching through the heaps with a flashlight,
I arranged to return the next day with a couple of lights & a long
extension cord. The only thing I was sure of was that I wanted to rescue
this old fan that I could see hanging from the exposed ceiling joists.
This picture maybe gives you some idea of what it was like to peer up at
it with only a Maglight except it was lots dustier than this, but it
looked like a keeper to me:
I realize that you might be asking yourselves why this goofy old fart is
going to all this trouble to post pictures of a ceiling fan in a
supposed-to-be welding/fabbing forum, right? Well, I'm doing this for 2 or
3 reasons:
1. this is my shop building thread & can do it if I want to
2. it is a fan in my shop building now & it has proved to be a worthwhile
addition to the shop
3. because you may not have ever seen a motor like they used to build
unless you're pretty old yourself and you ain't likely to see one in the
junk they'll be selling you for the rest of your lives.
So I went back the next day & removed this old GE ceiling fan. I had to
loop a nylon tiedown over a brace in the attic & more or less winch it
down. This old sucker weighs in at 55-60 pounds according to my bathroom
scales. The rotor alone weighs nearly 20 pounds, considerably more than
the average modern ceiling fan, blades & all. The housing is all cast
iron, including the lower oil & bearing cup. Here is the motor,
disassembled:
That shaft is about 5 inches long by about 7/8 " diameter (didn't think to
measure it so I'm guessing); notice how clean the oil on it is compared to
what you would expect in any old machine of nearly any sort. You can see
all the individual coil windings around the motor case; all of the wiring
is covered in cloth insulation. Those threads on the end of the shaft are
left handed to that they tighten in the same direction as the rotation of
the motor.
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cutter
06-10-2005
posted by
Cutter
This next part is the bearing assembly that supports the 20 pound rotor
(rounding off here - it might be only 18 pounds) and the paddles. It has a
cute little trick engineered into it. Notice the spiraled groove cut into
the bushing surface:
That is top view of the oil pump, so to speak. I just love that feature.
That groove carries oil from the bottom of the cup up the bearing & shaft
surfaces as the rotor spins and keeps them constantly lubricated. I
suspect this has a lot to do with the prime conditioin of this old dude.
Then when the oil accumulates at the top of the bushing it returns to the
bottom of the cup through the weep hole that you can see at about 12
o'clock in the photo. Here is another view of it, this one from the
bottom:
So I cleaned all that up, punched out the weep hole, wiped a thin coat of
grease on the shaft & slid the rotor back into place and began
reassembling it.
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cutter
06-10-2005
posted by
Cutter
This is a shot of the thrust bearing and one of 2 washers that make up the
bearing complement. Again, notice how clean they are, relatively speaking.
I wish I knew what kind of oil has been used in this old sister over all
these years. The ball bearing part is sandwiched between that washer in
the photo & another that remained inside the cup assembly. I neglected to
try to photograph it. But you'll see the cup in the next couple of
pictures.
Notice that you can see a brass ring inlaid into the surface of the fiber
washer; that gives the thrust bearing a sort of flat race to roll on. It
shows no wear to the naked eye. These 2 components are turned upside down
as we view them here; the rotor rests on the washer, then comes the
bearing and next comes the other washer which rests inside the cup. And
the cup screws onto the end of the motor shaft (with left-hand threads).
So here we are, assembly almost complete.
The part that I have been referring to as the "cup" is that tubular part
with the bulge around the open end. The thrust bearings & the oil are
contained within the tube-shaped part, the wiring and switch are housed in
the bulge. And you can see the ring with threaded holes that carry the
blade arms or paddles. I ran into a little problem here in that the
previous owner did not have the original screws so he had mounted the
paddles using little bolts & nuts which was a little bit goofy & not very
safe. And the bolts had evidently wobbled around enough to damage the
threads so I had to chase them out & hunt down some 12-24 flat head
screws. And that took a little bit of doing because these days, 12-24's
seem to be kind of exotic or something. But I finally found some in one of
those little special screw displays at 20 cents a pop. I feel pretty sure
they should be brass with domed heads but all I could come up with locally
was galvanized flat heads. So they will have to do.
(edit: oops, I forgot to include this picture )
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cutter
06-10-2005
posted by
Cutter
Once the fan was all back together (except for mounting the blades to the
motor), I had to rig a mounting bracket for it & install that to the roof
truss. So I cut a piece of 1/4 inch plate & bored three holes in it;
again, I got to use my big old dirty Clausing drill press. I guess that
some day I'm going to need to get one of these restoration nuts to come
clean it up for me. I can't seem to find the time or motivation for that.
But you know what? All that accumulated grime doesn't seem to hurt the
running of it one bit. It bored these 7/8ths " holes in a few heartbeats -
that is, after I took a few minutes to rig up a couple of "emergency"
hold-downs.
Then I knocked the nuts off the lower truss bolts & slipped the bracket
onto them, re-installed the nuts, etc.
And finally I summoned help, got my son over here & I hauled the thing up
a rope & pulley rigging while he stood on the ladder and worked the fan
into the hook. I just could not do with 2 hands what wound up taking four.
Then I installed the paddles, filled the oil cup, wired her in and here
she blows.
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cutter
06-10-2005
posted by Franz
Cutter, I know exactly where you stold that fan from, the Hilton Candy
Kitchen. How in hell did you manage to get it, I been tryin for years.
What did you do with the other 5 of them?
06-10-2005
posted by
Cutter
Here is a side view, taken from a ladder:
Now a little bit of historical note about this fan, beginning with the
data plate:
I feel reasonably sure that with enough effort put into a search, I could
find out what year this old doll was manufactured and my original guess
would have been sometime in the 1930's. I can remember seeing similar fans
in use in the stores & movie theatres of my childhood. But if you really
want to see a classic display of them, hunt down a copy of the movie, To
Kill A Mockingbird and watch those old fans rotate at about 30 rpm in the
courtroom scenes; it was one of the most effective bits of stage dressing
ever. Somehow they conveyed an impression of stifling heat & humidity and
frayed nerves and they really heightened the drama of the entire movie.
But I did do a little searching recently & came up with this website for a
company (Vintage Fans, LLC.) in Keller, Texas (about 15 miles north of
Fort Worth) that restores & sells antique fans. On their page of
UN-restored ceiling fans, I found the twin to mine and the date given is
circa 1920. Look at the first fan, top right on this page:
Unrestored Ceiling Fans
I thought it was interesting that their fan also lacks a cover for the
bottom of the cup so that the wiring is exposed, just like on mine.
So we are looking at an old machine that was manufactured 80 or maybe 85
years ago and first used sometime in the 1920's. Can you imagine that any
household appliance you might buy in your lifetime will still be useful 85
years later? I seriously doubt that any of us will buy a new shop tool
that we can expect to be in use even 50 years from now. We are really
looking at a historical footnote to the past, to a time when "Made in
America" actually meant something important. At the time this fan was
made, it probably cost the average guy about one week's pay. A family
regarded it as a pretty important investment in their comfort and they
expected it to last accordingly. Another little note comes to mind: I
timed this fan after I flipped the power off & it freewheeled for a minute
& 20 seconds before coming to a complete stop. I think that says something
about the quality.
So as it works out, I get to enjoy this one now and it really moves a good
amount of air. I have not installed a speed control on it & haven't
decided if I want to. It spins at a pretty fair clip, faster than those in
the movie. It hangs 10 or 11 feet above the floor & for summer heat, I
probably want it to do its best to scatter the air. Come winter, I might
want to slow it down.
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cutter
06-10-2005
posted by
Cutter
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franz
Cutter, I know exactly where you stold that fan from, the Hilton Candy
Kitchen. How in hell did you manage to get it, I been tryin for years.
What did you do with the other 5 of them?
I'm glad to know you recognized it.
You know, I've had this fan around for several years & never had installed
it. It was too heavy to hang in my living room unless I did some extra
bracing in the attic & I really didn't want it there anyway. So it has
just taken up space waiting for its time to come.
Now I have to drag the old Westinghouse home & decide whether I can make a
blade arm for it. My only hope locally couldn't come up with one from his
stock and a 3-legged ceiling fan just don't have much going for it.
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cutter
06-10-2005
posted by Hero
Quote:
Originally Posted by cutter
Now I have to drag the old Westinghouse home & decide whether I can make a
blade arm for it. My only hope locally couldn't come up with one from his
stock and a 3-legged ceiling fan just don't have much going for it.
Cutter, (this just off the top of my head as I avoid work this morning)
On that blade arm, mold, then cast it. Surely one of us here does casting?
If not, Im willing to bet that Chipmaker over at Frugalmachinist.com would
help ya out. Crap, phone ringing now. Shoul have never mentioned work.
Anywho, something to think about.
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Appointed Keeper of the Red Rocks (By Decree of Cutter)
"Im on my way. Uh, where am I going?"
06-10-2005
posted by bgott
Nice old fan! I've thought about ceiling fans in my shed but the ceiling
is too low. Besides running something long into it when I tried to move
stuff around it would swirl the dirt around too much.
06-10-2005
posted by Wyoming
Quote:
Originally Posted by cutter
:Now I have to drag the old Westinghouse home & decide whether I can make
a blade arm for it. My only hope locally couldn't come up with one from
his stock and a 3-legged ceiling fan just don't have much going for it.
Cutter,
Try posting a photo of that old Westinghouse fan's blade arm. The GE you
have is the spitting image of a ChiCom one I bought up at WalMart several
years back for the shop...as far as the stylized blade arm design. You
never know, you might just get lucky and have the Westinghouse clone out
there as well. The GE clone cost around $15-$20.
06-11-2005
posted by
Cutter
Well Wy, I got my doubts. First off, the blade arms are cast all right -
cast iron or steel. One of them has been brazed already. And they are
solid and heavy; all the new ones I have seen for the last 25 years are
just pot metal shells with only bottom profiles & hollow on top. There
would be a big weight differential & that's pretty important.
But the old Westinghouse has stamped & formed steel blade arms. I might be
able to make one to match them, although I probably would have to make a
pair so they would come closer to weighing the same. Truthfully, I don't
have any urge to hurry about it anyway. Don't have a pressing need for
another fan. The only reason I have this one is because I found it
abandoned in a rent house workshop sort of room. It is a 3-speed with
switch issues that I would have to do some conjuring on.
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cutter
06-11-2005
posted by Franz
Till I read that 3 speed switch part, I was gonna mention Home Desperate
has a whole shelf full of fanblade brackets. If he gets the damn blades
mounted I may have to do some pencil work to figure out the connections on
them 32 coils.
06-11-2005
posted by Wyoming
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franz
If he gets the damn blades mounted I may have to do some pencil work to
figure out the connections on them 32 coils.
Franz,
Pencil work? With 32 coils you better get ready to shuck your shoes and do
some Jethro cipherin'. Lets see...when my dad tried helping me with new
math when I was a young duffer I think it went something like, "...ought
and ought makes naught..."
06-11-2005
posted by Franz
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wyoming
Franz,
Pencil work? With 32 coils you better get ready to shuck your shoes and do
some Jethro cipherin'. Lets see...when my dad tried helping me with new
math when I was a young duffer I think it went something like, "...ought
and ought makes naught..."
Most fun ever with the "New Math" was when an old Italian storekeeper
splained how the hell the new math worked to a school auditorium full of
parents and "teachers". Storekeepers had been using a system of pennys
dimes and dollars for years.
After that, we were entertained by the packet learning system. The smart
kid in class could make good money sellin Xerox copys of the answer sheet
to the rest of the class.
BTW, that motor is 16 pole, and the switch configures it to either 4, 8,
or 16 poles to deliver 3 speeds.
06-11-2005
posted by storts
To Cutter
Quote:
Originally Posted by cutter
Well Wy, I got my doubts. First off, the blade arms are cast all right -
cast iron or steel. One of them has been brazed already. And they are
solid and heavy; all the new ones I have seen for the last 25 years are
just pot metal shells with only bottom profiles & hollow on top. There
would be a big weight differential & that's pretty important.
But the old Westinghouse has stamped & formed steel blade arms. I might be
able to make one to match them, although I probably would have to make a
pair so they would come closer to weighing the same. Truthfully, I don't
have any urge to hurry about it anyway. Don't have a pressing need for
another fan. The only reason I have this one is because I found it
abandoned in a rent house workshop sort of room. It is a 3-speed with
switch issues that I would have to do some conjuring on.
What a buetiful masterpiece!!! Bet that would bring a grand at some antiqe
dealer,,,gorgus,,,Jack!!!!!!!!
06-12-2005
posted by 90blackcrx
About that drain thing, I know my state has any types of drains in garages
or shops because people dumping oil in them.
Who knows though
07-16-2005
posted by
Cutter
some moving pictures
Well, I have been a bit negligent in posting developments here in the
cuttershop so I am going to throw up a bunch of pictures today of what's
been happening during the last 6 weeks.
I had been trying to move a few things from the old barn but work and my
physical limitations kept getting in the way; more than physical
limitations really because what happens is that when I get tired my
give-a-damner don't. And when that happens, nothing else happens. So I
finally located my old moving company buddy and he & his 2 man crew threw
a bunch of my stuff into the "new" shop for me one Sunday afternoon in
early June. Things got kinda jumbled up in a hurry.
And the old woodworking stuff just kinda got heaped on top of itself in
one corner. I was having trouble trying to get the settings right on this
new/old camera so the quality sucks worse than usual.
Hmph, that picture doesn't begin to do it justice; it's a bigger mess than
that now than it was then.
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07-16-2005
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Cutter
I decided to hang onto my first old real workbench. I bought this old
green bench from a Texaco station in about 1972 for 5 bucks. I remember
that it was covered in grease & snow and the dealer, a man named Harold
Densford thought it was real funny that I would go to the trouble to haul
it home. At that time, it fit my needs quite well. I guess you could say
I'm attached to it; this is the 7th location I've moved it to.
And that yellow kitchen cabinet thing at the end came out of John
Peacock's house when they remodeled their kitchen. It's full of pulleys,
taps & dies, some electronics parts and I have used it as a grinder bench
for 30 years. All those plastic boxes are just moving boxes, full of parts
& pieces to be sorted and put away.
I tried to arrange most of my storage cabinets & shelving over on the
other side of the building, that being the south side. The door from my
house is on the north side so I figured I'd try to keep the working area
near the door & the parts & pieces clutter towards the south.
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