Tools/Garage Stuff

Nevadablue wrote:

I lost my grinder wrench and then discovered you don’t need one. Just push the spindle lock and unscrew the disk by hand. Put it on with the same method. No need for a wrench.

I use a pair of channel-locks for that purpose, I had a disc almost take my face off doing it the other way. I'm already blind enough in one eye, don't need to lose the other one yet lol

So here a some other homemade punches but these are all center punches.

The one of the far left started as a broken 1/4 in punch that I found at work and I just sharpened the end to a point. The one in the middle was made by my great grandfather and I found it in the tools I inherited from him. He use to work at a golf course so I think it's a pin to some kind of flail mower. He made a bunch of these center punches and both my dad and papaw have one as well. The one on the far right use to be a drift punch or something.....cant remember but I sharpened the end on it and made a center punch.


Since I just wasn't satisfied I made my owns set punches at school out of some hex stock! Turned out pretty nice, they just need to be heat treated!

Nice!

Not much I can do since I've been going to school and if you're in college you know that you dont get the freedom to have any free time to do anything other than eat, sleep, do homework, do MORE homework, and commute to class. But you ARE allowed to be stressed out the entire time and give all your money to the campus that makes your life a living hell but that's another rant for another time!

On a good note my papaw gave me this old Roflan lantern that was used on the ship he was on when he was in the Navy during Vietnam. My papaw said they use to use these as flood lights on deck. It's pretty cool looking and still works! The entire body is made of some kind of super thick plastic and has rubber seals on everything, which makes sense being used on a ship. It even has US-CE-C marked on it which is the United States Civil Engineer Corps. It runs off a 6v battery and is even rechargeable which I thought was pretty dang cool for something made in the 60s. My papaw did have to get a new battery for it but other than that it's all original and working, even the volt meter works! I didnt think it would be all that bright being 6 volt and being made in the 60s but its actually really bright and It'll shine a good 200 yards away.... I"ll have to range find something far away and see how far it will go. It's not a very big circle once it gets out that far but still impressive and it doesn't hurt your eyes as bad as LED lights! Just goes to show that military technology is a lot more advanced and well made than most commercial stuff of the same time frame.

That is really a nice lantern. I collect lanterns and flashlights. Never seen one of those before.

That's awesome I love it!

My mess!  video of my garage that I'm pretty much unable to work in so this year I'll be moving some stuff around from here to up north, throwing stuff out, taking stuff to the transfer station, maybe selling some stuff.

Nobody's fault but me own , I've made this mess and only I can undo it this .

Is your video set to public?

Spoiler:

UH no ......duh OOPS, it is now.

Thanks