General Tech What did you work on Today?

Picked up a new bench vise off of Amazon, originally I was just going to mount it on a pedestal but then I figured I'd build a small welding table off the back end. Snagged a trash brake drum from a local semi repair shop for scrap value, some time with a wire wheel and it cleaned up nice, super heavy and makes a great base.



Used 1/4" plate to create the base to be bolted to the brake drum. Leftover 2"x2"x1/4" tubing for the post. 24"x24"x3/8" plate for the weld table. With the vise bolted to the weld table, i found the CG which is where I attached the post to keep everything balanced. Added some gussets to the bottom (doubt it's necessary but what the hell/weld practice), and some 1" x 1/4" and 1/8" thick backbones to the bottom of the weld table to hopefully help prevent warping. Left 4" gap between the backbones and the edge of the table to make clamping pieces easy.





Blended any sharp edges and rattled canned hammered black.





The vise is Amazon quality nice, not nice nice, but great for what I'll be doing; rotating head will be handy and the thing seems dang stout. The weld table height is the same height as my primary work bench so I can maneuver it around/next to it if needed for bigger pieces. Obviously I'm not going to be cranking on anything too hard in the vise with it mounted this way but the assembly turned out really stable. It's heavy but I can shuffle it around the shop without too much effort.

Gawynz said:

It's heavy but I can shuffle it around the shop without too much effort.

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you could mount a wheel that allows you to tilt it and roll it around. A wheel that doesn't touch the ground when you're working with the vice / table but as soon as you tilt it it rolls. Maybe a pair of wheels for stability.

With the next night or two supposedly being the nicest of the week and a storm coming in on Wednesday I wanted to get my OPE PM’d and put away for the winter.

I started by cleaning the decks on my 21” Snapper Walk-behind and my Toro ZTR so I can pressure wash everything tomorrow night and then change oil in both on Wednesday or Thursday night.







As I was closing up I had to snap a picture of the beautiful orange sky.


Mike

BCGPER said:

I’ve been the last couple of weeks trying to teach an old dog even older tricks. I’m pretty engine savvy, but this is the first flatly (not a jeep, for you kids) that I’ve ever worked on. It’s been a learning curve, to say the least.View attachment 123653

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Yes they are a different animal, I have owned several of them. I had the heads off of one working on it, a friend looked at it and said it looks like 8 Briggs and Stratton engines in there.

Last night after work I pressure washed all of the OPE and parked it back in the shop tonight to dry off and coated the undersides of the decks.



















One of the next couple of nights I’ll service the engines on the two mowers and put everything away until spring.

Mike

Today I pulled out every key in my household, matched them to locks and labeled all of them. What a pain.

Also so much time savings in the future.


Also I walked around with my grease gun and went to town on everything with a zerk. Kinda therapeutic

I built a grinder stand for two grinders, it swivels on the base so it can sit against the wall and be turned to the wheel you need

Gravy said:

Today I pulled out every key in my household, matched them to locks and labeled all of them. What a pain.

Also so much time savings in the future.

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Pain is right. I did that same thing when we sold our last house and then made a commitment to myself that I wouldn't get that upside down in keys ever again.

Mike

After bending one by hitting a rock I upgraded the lower A arms on the RZR with a set of the @Vonski engineered Tusk high clearance arms.

I didn't get any inprocess pictures but the runner now has 4.56 gears, let the break-in begin.

Myself. 7.5 mile trail run at Dupont State Forest in the morning. After lunch, an easy bike ride with graduates of a mentoring program I've been involved with lately. Ok, myself and some pretty good kids (under-privileged teenagers).

zmotorsports said:

With the next night or two supposedly being the nicest of the week and a storm coming in on Wednesday I wanted to get my OPE PM’d and put away for the winter.

I started by cleaning the decks on my 21” Snapper Walk-behind and my Toro ZTR so I can pressure wash everything tomorrow night and then change oil in both on Wednesday or Thursday night.

As I was closing up I had to snap a picture of the beautiful orange sky.

Mike

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Does you wife know how good she has it? Your the male version of what I’m gonna marry when my wife decides she’s had enough.

I drank some beers and built this hitch thingy organizer fantasmo today.

Beers and beads FTW!

Jesser04 said:

Does you wife know how good she has it? Your the male version of what I’m gonna marry when my wife decides she’s had enough.

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Actually it's me that has it pretty good.

Nothing fun going on over the past couple of days.

Just more of this crap, or should I say moving more of this crap.








I'm ready for spring already.

100% pure painintheassium.


Some of the shiniest oil I've seen in a long time

4x4_Welder said:

Some of the shiniest oil I've seen in a long time
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That's the EXACT color I need to paint my bumpers!

It should be easy to find plenty of "failed Explorer diff sludge brown".

Not exactly today, buuut ya.