What - non Festool - tool / workshop related gizmo/stuff did you buy today?

[PaulMarcel]

It doesn’t appear there are many other death metal fans here lol

Not much of a death metal fan, but love prog metal. Monuments and Northlane are always in heavy rotation.

 

[rst]

In the commercial glazing company I work part time, I am by far the old man at 71.  Their are probably four out of the 16 glaziers that are in the 40s, the rest in mid 20s & 30s. While country is prevalent, most van radio stations are set to classic rock.  The young guy that is the main heavy glass shower installer usually plays 60s and Motown when I working with him.

 

[Michael Kellough]

It would be sad to be limited to just one genre of music but my all time favorite albums are the three made by King Crimson in the early eighties when the group was fronted by Adrian Belew; Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair. Happily, my Joni Mitchell loving wife approves, and I appreciate Joni.

 

[Packard]

I bought a 5 pound capacity vibratory tumbler from Harbor Freight.  Also a bag (50 pound) of playground sand.  It’s intended purpose is to finely sand some small wood parts.  The sand is to be the media.

The first hiccup is that the sand, which Sackrete packaged in a plastic bag, unlike all its other products, was wet through and through.  They probably dumped close to a gallon of water into the bag.

Last night I put some sand in the oven and baked it to remove the water.  But this morning I found that I miscalculated, and I am currently baking some more.  So, at this point I still don’t know how well it will work.

I have a good deal of observational experience in tumbling metal parts, which our company did on a regular basis, but none on wood parts.  So this afternoon I will find out how well this will work.  Stay tuned.

 

[Packard]

I bought a 5 pound capacity vibratory tumbler from Harbor Freight.  Also a bag (50 pound) of playground sand.  It’s intended purpose is to finely sand some small wood parts.  The sand is to be the media.

The first hiccup is that the sand, which Sackrete packaged in a plastic bag, unlike all its other products, was wet through and through.  They probably dumped close to a gallon of water into the bag.

Last night I put some sand in the oven and baked it to remove the water.  But this morning I found that I miscalculated, and I am currently baking some more.  So, at this point I still don’t know how well it will work.

I have a good deal of observational experience in tumbling metal parts, which our company did on a regular basis, but none on wood parts.  So this afternoon I will find out how well this will work.  Stay tuned.

I posted this in another thread.  I am duplicating that post below as an addendum to my post above.

Addendum: The tumbling experiment was a complete bust.  The sand did remove some of the wood.

But parts of the wood were softer than the rest, so the parts look like they have deep gouges in them.  Also, it is difficult to remove the residual sand from the wood.

And, the end grain appears much rougher.

And, the wood now looks dirty.

So, overall, a really bad idea.  Back to hand sanding

 

[hdv]

For me, it's mostly hard rock from the 70's (Deep Purple, Rainbow, AC/DC, the first albums of Queen, etc.). But there's lots of metal as well. Savatage in the original line up was great. Dream Theater is on quite often. Not sure what to make of Nickelback when it comes to genre, but I do like their music.

Maybe it's a bit weird after the above, but I also am a fan of Jazz and Fusion. Sadao Watanabe, Tom Scott, Jan Akkerman, and Ray Charles can be heard in my workshop regularly a.o.

 

[Michael Kellough]

Variety is the spice…

 

[Cheese]

...and Ray Charles can be heard in my workshop regularly a.o.

Big fan of Ray Charles & Aretha Franklin.  [smile]

 

[Crazyraceguy]

[member=66485]hdv[/member] all you need to add is Led Zepplin, Rush, and Alice Cooper it would be most of my Spotify playlist or custom stations.
There's some David Alan Coe, Charlie Daniels, Hank Williams (both) and the usual southern rock too.
But I can go off the rails with Spin Doctors, Chevelle, Puddle of Mud, Rage against the Machine and some Punk/Skaa from the 90s-00s

Your list and the first 3 of mine are the lion's share though.

We seem to have run off the rails here? well off topic.

 

[rmwarren]

I have 2 genres that get most of the airtime:

70's "art rock", Kansas, Boston, BOC, Heart, Rush, Skynyrd, Pink Floyd, Eagles, Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac, Little Feat, Nugent, Joe Walsh, Santana, Steely Dan and so on. Standard FM rock.

80's/90's popular music was mostly lost on me, then I got deep into the emerging Americana/Singer Songwriter and indie wave. Jeffery Foulcault, Lyle Lovett, Ryan Bingham, Peter Mulvey, Bodeans, Patty Griffin, Mary Gauthier, Martin Sexton, Josh Ritter, Joe Ely, Jason Isbell, Hayes Carl, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer. Add in western classics like Sons of the Pioneers and Marty Robbins + George Winston for quiet times and it becomes tough to pigeon hole.

After all this time I find myself less likely to seek out anything new, seems like my tastes have kinda stagnated.

RMW

 

[hdv]

Ha! [member=58857]Crazyraceguy[/member] : I didn't want to make the list too long, but that's really uncanny how many similarities there are in what you list. Of course Led can't be overlooked. Just like Frank Marino and Yngwie J Malmsteen.

But that Ska-thing... Yes! The Specials, Bad Manners, Madness (the first 2 albums).

But I do agree, we might have lost the rails somewhere along the line in this thread.  [embarassed]

 

[rmwarren]

And back to our regularly scheduled topic: I picked up an ER20 collet holder to use for gripping fasteners and rod to be ground down, etc. Used here to hold 5/16" stainless carriage bolts while I ground off part of the head for use in some 8020 t-slot.

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The shaft is 20mm so it will fit in cheap linear rod mounts if I need to whomp up a precise fixture of some kind. ID of the thru-bore is 13mm, up to 1/2" stock will fit thru it. I'll need to add a set of metric collets, the adapter and imperial collets was around $25.

RMW

 

[ChuckM]

70's "art rock", Kansas, Boston, BOC, Heart, Rush, Skynyrd, Pink Floyd, Eagles, Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac, Snip

Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Chicago, Bee Gees, Bread, Foreigner, Jim Croce. Linda Ronstadt, Carpenters, Rod Stewart, Mary MacGregor, Dr Hook, Procol Harum, Lobo, etc.

 

[Crazyraceguy]

[member=8712]Richard/RMW[/member] I got a set of ER20 collets last summer, with a Morse #3 taper. That fits the spindle of my Smithy machine. It's a combo mini-mill and metal lathe. It's just as "junk-tastic" as the ShopSmith, with the un-cannily similar name, but it was cheap and fits in a small space.
I never thought about using them to hold objects by hand though?

[member=66485]hdv[/member] it was Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies that started it for me. I am always stunned by people who have never even heard of Rainbow. Those same people will know Deep Purple and Dio, very Rainbow adjacent, and still not know? How? All those different singers/sounds and hardly one hit wonders, over many years. Can't leave Joe Satriani out either.

Sounds like we are all "of a similar age" (mid 50s-Mid 60s) except [member=44099]Cheese[/member] ....he's old  [big grin]

 

[Cheese]

And back to our regularly scheduled topic: I picked up an ER20 collet holder to use for gripping fasteners and rod to be ground down, etc. Used here to hold 5/16" stainless carriage bolts while I ground off part of the head for use in some 8020 t-slot.

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The shaft is 20mm so it will fit in cheap linear rod mounts if I need to whomp up a precise fixture of some kind. ID of the thru-bore is 13mm, up to 1/2" stock will fit thru it. I'll need to add a set of metric collets, the adapter and imperial collets was around $25.

RMW

Now that collet holder is a GREAT idea [member=8712]Richard/RMW[/member] ...I'm always using a pair of hex nuts to hold fasteners and that's a losing proposition.  [sad]

Where did you pick these up from?

 

[rmwarren]

[member=44099]Cheese[/member]

Amazon... I was mistaken on cost though, almost $40 total.

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[member=58857]Crazyraceguy[/member]

They hold really well, only needed to hand tighten so far. The 20mm by 100mm shaft is perfect for handheld work. I just clamped the linear rod support in a vice and tighten the set screw for hand filing, etc.

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RMW

 

[rmwarren]

[member=8712]Richard/RMW[/member] I got a set of ER20 collets last summer, with a Morse #3 taper. That fits the spindle of my Smithy machine. It's a combo mini-mill and metal lathe. It's just as "junk-tastic" as the ShopSmith, with the un-cannily similar name, but it was cheap and fits in a small space.
I never thought about using them to hold objects by hand though?

[member=66485]hdv[/member] it was Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies that started it for me. I am always stunned by people who have never even heard of Rainbow. Those same people will know Deep Purple and Dio, very Rainbow adjacent, and still not know? How? All those different singers/sounds and hardly one hit wonders, over many years. Can't leave Joe Satriani out either.

Sounds like we are all "of a similar age" (mid 50s-Mid 60s) except [member=44099]Cheese[/member] ....he's old  [big grin]

Rainbow [thumbs up] and Dio on Kerry Livgren's solo, Mask of the Great Deceiver (just found the full album on YT...). What a voice.


And I hope I'm still running electrical @ that age. Hey [member=550]Tinker[/member] Wayne I see you lurking out there...  [poke]

RMW

 

[hdv]

Anyone remember Ronny James Dio in his first band "Elf" before he was asked to join Roger Glover's project and later on Rainbow? What a voice! ... I promise, I'll stop the artist thing now.  [big grin]

[member=8712]Richard/RMW[/member] : That's a really great idea. Thanks for sharing that. I will definitely copy that!

 

[Tinker]

The 'Deep Purple' set me off. My "Mentor" was trying to learn the on piano. When I dropped in on my way to the army. He was great entertainer but he played by ear. He was practicing reading sheet music. He was gone by the time I returned from my two year hitch.

[member=44099]Cheese[/member] You are not so old. I know I'm 39. I have been 39 for 53 years.
Tinker

 

[woodbutcherbower]

Trying to learn the piano but he played by ear.

Didn't anyone tell him that he was supposed to use his fingers?