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My Shop

So I reworked the light and bracket that holds it. The bracket didn't have anything to keep it from spinning on the bolt. So when you loosened it the vertical adjustment bolt the light would flop around. Most annoying. So I welded a couple of pieces of square stock to it to prevent that. Then while I was at it I cleaned and repainted it. Also redid the electrical cord. So now it looks good too.
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Picked up this metal cabinet. It was in poor condition, hammered out the bigger dents. Then cleaned and painted it. Had to make a new hinge pin as one was missing. Still have one more shelf to clean and paint.
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Spent my spare time recently working on cleaning up the adapters for my brake lathe. Bought an inside mandrel set off Amazon for around $35. Put the 1" one in my 4 jaw chuck and indicated it in. If the inside hole wasn't too bad I sanded the hole and then mounted the adapter one it. Then I used the lathe to clean up any dings and out of trueness. With the lathe and then sanded the cut pretty smooth. The I'd swap it end for end and repeat the process.
Some were pretty rusty plus there was some sort of chuck in the pile too, it was pretty crusty. d11d814a-9d16-4b54-9d74-993a7d7c9ebe.jpg
The chuck itself was really rusty. I bought some evaporust specifically for it. I was cleaning up a bunch of other adapters first and while I was waiting I decided to take it to my wire wheel first. Outside cleaned up fairly easily I was still expecting to soak it in the evaporust. Decided to try and turn the scrolls in the chuck and was shocked when they moved. Took me about 2 hours to take it all the way apart and clean it and back together. It works awesome.
So far this is the best $250 I've ever spent. Just the used chuck on eBay is over $500
 
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