Todays Project - What did you do today?

[Dr Stan]

(12-26-2014, 09:44 PM)f350ca Wrote: Ken must have spooked me, so I used the four jaw this time and clamped them down. Pretty sure the last time they shrank from the welding heat, but better safe than sorry.


Drilled and installed.

While I was on the USS Samuel Gompers I accidentally tossed a gate (around 4 to 6 inches) from a gate valve I had mounted an adjustable angle plate on the face plate of a 24X120 Lodge & Shippley lathe, TWICE!  No idea what I did wrong.

BTW, the leading petty officer a First Class MR (AKA foreman) had his desk just behind the lathe surrounded on three sides by flat files.  Needless to say he "was not amused".