Path: nntp.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jim Wilkins" Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking Subject: Re: Who's Working Today Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 18:19:00 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 2 Message-ID: <1049k1k$126o2$1@dont-email.me> References: <10496as$v063$1@dont-email.me> <1049cik$htup$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:19:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="94988af1173ef3dab3671e9d03da1e19"; logging-data="1121026"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX199lhCMYnSB1OW+KgDqs6mQLhvO/kkoNvQ=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:kRMSm+TRxEbX5WFtGjsK9pIt0uQ= Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V16.4.3505.912 X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: <1049cik$htup$1@dont-email.me> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 16.4.3505.912 "Snag" wrote in message news:1049cik$htup$1@dont-email.me... On 7/4/2025 1:25 PM, Bob La Londe wrote: > Here I am in the shop finishing second operations of a stack of molds so I > can get them shipped. Gravity cast lead molds, but one interesting soft > plastic mold I can't show anybody. > I did a little weed eatin' this morning . Needed a trimmed place for the new tractor , since I'm about to tear into the front axle . Wore out bearings and leaking seals , I'll get it apart then order parts ... And while waiting for those parts I'll do some work on the JD 317 . It's got about 43 years of "stuff" sloshing around in the fuel tank and frequently blocking the fuel supply . Two or nine other things that need doing , we'll see which ones make the list . Snag ------------------------------------ Made a tool to disassemble the sink spray head in my shower. It's a relatively expensive nickeled one that seems out of stock or discontinued now. The valve spindle sticks open in hot water. The tool is a plug half knurled and half threaded 1" - 1.5mm (??) that depresses the spindle against its stiff spring until the handle can be unhooked. No O ring in HF's metric kit fit but one from their inch kit restored it like new. Synthetic brake grease (high-melting) initially loosened the original O ring but then swelled it. Greased the front end of my garden tractor, perhaps for the first time in 15 - 20 years. It's from backwoods Maine where the Sears service seems to have been a bit lacking. Hacked and hoisted out a surface root the mower deck was catching on the trail to a woodshed. Splitting firewood, only Oct & Nov left for 25/26. First in, last out. Rebuilding that worn-out splitter in ~1999 taught me about hydraulics. In effect the splitter was free, I think the $200 was for its new but defective Tecumseh engine which IIRC $3 fixed. I bought it from a pawn shop and second hand dealer who knew values. He gave me some deals in exchange for listening to his stories. jsw