Todays Project - What did you do today?

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Its dead on this site, if people don't soon start posting i'll have to start a thread from the cabinet shop.
Stole away again today to work on that wood chipper.
In my recycle mode I used an old truck axle to make the new shaft. Was hard but turned nicely on the big lathe with carbide. Then came time to cut the keyways, Oops a HSS end mill wouldn't touch it. Didn't have a carbide one small enough, thought about driving an hour into the city to buy one, but what if it won't cut it either. Next thought of remaking the shaft. Then this came to mind. I had a buggered 1/4 inch carbide drill bit. Over to the grinder and made a single lip cutter out of it.



Cut like a dream. 20 thou passes with coolant and we saved the shaft.





Now I need to find a bigger press. Machined the shaft for a 0.0015 interference fit but my little press won't move it all the way.