Sail Delmarva

 Well, not quite. This winter I've gotten into machining and shop stuff. Metal lathe. Milling machine. Improvements to many shop tools....

 Clamp-on vices are never satisfactory. They slip and twist and the surface is scared. They are not strong enough. My solution is a drill pr...

 Small radius curves, like the Wheel thimbles and small pulleys are turned using a form tool; a chisel ground to the desired profile. But wi...

 Yeah, I hate politics, but some things need said.  A trained monkey could handled the economy better. Just hands off. Oh, and I think it...

    Just a few of the projects: Lathe-related ·          Shim or re-fit all lathe control handles. They were sloppy. ·          Cross sl...

 Well .... Obviously. Trump is actually smarter than that. I think. I hope. So the question is, why does he say things, make statements, and...

 Half the people voted for Trump. If you did, is this the world you foresaw? He wants to be King. They could have guessed that. They should ...

 I should have done this 20 years ago.  I was surfing the net on a business trip and came across a super simple table for a portable band sa...

 The barrel and hardware were phosphate conversion (Parkerized) treated. This protects against rust and also provides a more authentic color...

 Most machining projects have been practical. Time for something impractical.  This started out as a rough 1-inch iron bar t6hat I found rus...