Re: [bolger] from one thing to another
There ain't no such thing as a free boat! But there is nothing more fun than fooling with them. Have fun.
JohnT
JohnT
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Pollard
To:bolger@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 8:06 PM
Subject: [bolger] from one thing to another
My daughter bought a sailboat ( day sailor) water got inside the center
board and rusted metal inside. It swelled up and got stuck in the
centerboard slot. I brought it home ground the swelled up fiberglass off
the outside. Put lead inside. Burnt up my disk sander. :'( Bought an
old South Bend lathe with lead screw and half nut worn out I drove to
Florida from Virginia to get it. Burnt up an alternator $250.00 ,
$200.00 motel bills, new fan belt $13.00 and darn near $500.00 in
gasoline and $545.oo for the lathe.
I needed this lathe to make a bushing for my sander threaded on the
inside and out. So needing to thread replaced the lead screw. Needed to
make a set of half nuts the thread the bushing in the lathe. Wanted to
mill out the half nuts to cast new ones in epoxy. May work?? No milling
machine! Took apart my drill press to make one out of it. I drilled
out the spindle in the lathe so I could put in a draw bar. Already had
#2 end mill holders, just waiting for a lathe. 8-) Made up a spacer to
go between the spindle bearings. If the bearings will preload properly
I will have a miil that is usable. With the use of an x,y axis that I
bought about a year ago to make my mill from I hope to mill the half
nuts with my new mill. I was going to bore them in the lathe but just
didn't have the needed stuff to mount them on a face plate and bore :'(
Hope to bore the nuts tomorrow and cast the epoxy nuts. I have no
idea whether they will be any good or not. Hopefully good enough to
make some bronze threaded inserts to be half nuts :-\ Finally when all
this is done I can fix my sander, epoxy coat the centerboard and give it
back to my daughter to go for a sail. All things considered I have been
having more fun than a barrel of monkeys ;-) . Have you noticed an over
abundance of the word hope in this communication?
? A new sander cost
$100.00so this was certainly a finacial bust.
Doug
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But all of the fun involved -- PRICELESS
--- On Mon, 7/14/08, Douglas Pollard <Dougpol1@...> wrote:
From: Douglas Pollard <Dougpol1@...>
Subject: [bolger] from one thing to another
To:bolger@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, July 14, 2008, 7:06 PM
My daughter bought a sailboat ( day sailor) water got inside the center
board and rusted metal inside. It swelled up and got stuck in the
centerboard slot. I brought it home ground the swelled up fiberglass off
the outside. Put lead inside. Burnt up my disk sander. :'( Bought an
old South Bend lathe with lead screw and half nut worn out I drove to
Florida from Virginia to get it. Burnt up an alternator $250.00 ,
$200.00 motel bills, new fan belt $13.00 and darn near $500.00 in
gasoline and $545.oo for the lathe.
I needed this lathe to make a bushing for my sander threaded on the
inside and out. So needing to thread replaced the lead screw. Needed to
make a set of half nuts the thread the bushing in the lathe. Wanted to
mill out the half nuts to cast new ones in epoxy. May work?? No milling
machine! Took apart my drill press to make one out of it. I drilled
out the spindle in the lathe so I could put in a draw bar. Already had
#2 end mill holders, just waiting for a lathe. 8-) Made up a spacer to
go between the spindle bearings. If the bearings will preload properly
I will have a miil that is usable. With the use of an x,y axis that I
bought about a year ago to make my mill from I hope to mill the half
nuts with my new mill. I was going to bore them in the lathe but just
didn't have the needed stuff to mount them on a face plate and bore :'(
Hope to bore the nuts tomorrow and cast the epoxy nuts. I have no
idea whether they will be any good or not. Hopefully good enough to
make some bronze threaded inserts to be half nuts :-\ Finally when all
this is done I can fix my sander, epoxy coat the centerboard and give it
back to my daughter to go for a sail. All things considered I have been
having more fun than a barrel of monkeys ;-) . Have you noticed an over
abundance of the word hope in this communication?
? A new sander cost
$100.00so this was certainly a finacial bust.
Doug
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My daughter bought a sailboat ( day sailor) water got inside the center
board and rusted metal inside. It swelled up and got stuck in the
centerboard slot. I brought it home ground the swelled up fiberglass off
the outside. Put lead inside. Burnt up my disk sander. :'( Bought an
old South Bend lathe with lead screw and half nut worn out I drove to
Florida from Virginia to get it. Burnt up an alternator $250.00 ,
$200.00 motel bills, new fan belt $13.00 and darn near $500.00 in
gasoline and $545.oo for the lathe.
I needed this lathe to make a bushing for my sander threaded on the
inside and out. So needing to thread replaced the lead screw. Needed to
make a set of half nuts the thread the bushing in the lathe. Wanted to
mill out the half nuts to cast new ones in epoxy. May work?? No milling
machine! Took apart my drill press to make one out of it. I drilled
out the spindle in the lathe so I could put in a draw bar. Already had
#2 end mill holders, just waiting for a lathe. 8-) Made up a spacer to
go between the spindle bearings. If the bearings will preload properly
I will have a miil that is usable. With the use of an x,y axis that I
bought about a year ago to make my mill from I hope to mill the half
nuts with my new mill. I was going to bore them in the lathe but just
didn't have the needed stuff to mount them on a face plate and bore :'(
Hope to bore the nuts tomorrow and cast the epoxy nuts. I have no
idea whether they will be any good or not. Hopefully good enough to
make some bronze threaded inserts to be half nuts :-\ Finally when all
this is done I can fix my sander, epoxy coat the centerboard and give it
back to my daughter to go for a sail. All things considered I have been
having more fun than a barrel of monkeys ;-) . Have you noticed an over
abundance of the word hope in this communication?
? A new sander cost
$100.00so this was certainly a finacial bust.
Doug
board and rusted metal inside. It swelled up and got stuck in the
centerboard slot. I brought it home ground the swelled up fiberglass off
the outside. Put lead inside. Burnt up my disk sander. :'( Bought an
old South Bend lathe with lead screw and half nut worn out I drove to
Florida from Virginia to get it. Burnt up an alternator $250.00 ,
$200.00 motel bills, new fan belt $13.00 and darn near $500.00 in
gasoline and $545.oo for the lathe.
I needed this lathe to make a bushing for my sander threaded on the
inside and out. So needing to thread replaced the lead screw. Needed to
make a set of half nuts the thread the bushing in the lathe. Wanted to
mill out the half nuts to cast new ones in epoxy. May work?? No milling
machine! Took apart my drill press to make one out of it. I drilled
out the spindle in the lathe so I could put in a draw bar. Already had
#2 end mill holders, just waiting for a lathe. 8-) Made up a spacer to
go between the spindle bearings. If the bearings will preload properly
I will have a miil that is usable. With the use of an x,y axis that I
bought about a year ago to make my mill from I hope to mill the half
nuts with my new mill. I was going to bore them in the lathe but just
didn't have the needed stuff to mount them on a face plate and bore :'(
Hope to bore the nuts tomorrow and cast the epoxy nuts. I have no
idea whether they will be any good or not. Hopefully good enough to
make some bronze threaded inserts to be half nuts :-\ Finally when all
this is done I can fix my sander, epoxy coat the centerboard and give it
back to my daughter to go for a sail. All things considered I have been
having more fun than a barrel of monkeys ;-) . Have you noticed an over
abundance of the word hope in this communication?
? A new sander cost
$100.00so this was certainly a finacial bust.
Doug