Todays Project - What did you do today?

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Started a little fix for my BIL's sound equipment. A little high precision microphone that screws onto a sound cable got stepped on or somthing and became slightly oval making it recalcitrant to threading onto the cable. I decided to make a little clamp that I bored to exactly the un-ovaled dia. on the other end. so this pic shows the clamp on the Microphone. I've asked him to bring me the cable end so we can see if it threads on.
       
Oh yeah, the background is 4 cylinder liners with pistons destined for a "rebuild with available parts" for a back up tractor engine.

Once I have the male threaded fitting and determine that it now threads easily 'll release the clamp and see if it still threads on.I figured it might spring back close to the
"ovaled" shape
If it does I plan to insert some shim stock and reclamp in an "overcompensation" mode and try again.

Oh, my BIL is a proffessional sound sound technician but I never listen to him.

Then I welded up some of the parts I've made for my new wood splitter.
       
I might have made the crosspiece/reservoir longer, out over the wheels to have more oil capacity but that was the material available.

Last week I brought home a piece of 6-15 H beam for the new
"backbone" of the splitter. Apparently 6-15 means 6" across the flats and 15 lbs. per foot.
90lbs X 6 feet in the back of the CR-V fit well diagonally.
More to follow on the splitter which will have a log lifter and a hydraulic "cross" wedge that can be adjusted hydraulically to split in 4 pieces as per the log dia. or dropped right down to just split smaller logs just in half.