Todays Project - What did you do today?

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It seems we've had a number of "It's been one of those days today" posts. The trend continues....  

I went to heat treat the new ratchet ring for my arbor press today. After digging the turkey fryer out of my storage shed I see that the spiders have been at work blocking the air inlet on the burner assembly again. So I have to start by cleaning out the spider webs. Then I see the huge grease buildup from days of turkeys past and decide to clean that up as well. That led to disassembling the burner for access and I see that the baffle is sitting crooked in the burner housing. The center bolt hole in the baffle is off-center. (Made in China molded into the bottom of the burner.)  
Chucked the baffle in the lathe and drilled a larger (centered) hole.

The air damper on the burner is glued tight from all the grease as well. Take that off and clean it up, and see that the end of the air inlet housing is crooked and lumpy, and bulged out in the center. <sigh ...> Over to the belt sander to grind the inlet flat. Everything clean and back together, fired up the burner and adjusted the air damper and the burner is working better than it ever has.  

   

Now what was it I came down here for?  
Wow, look at the time! Geeze!  Oh yeah - ratchet ring...

Wash the dirt and crud out of my aluminum boiling pot. Hmmm.... a lot of that crud was corrosion. Pot is now FULL of pinholes.  Into the trash bin it goes.
Pick up a new stainless boiling pot. Dump in 5 gallons of quench oil and put it on the turkey fryer burner to pre-heat the oil. (It's 30 something degrees outside.)

NOW I can fire up the heat treat oven and let the ring cook for awhile. Pull it out of the oven and quench. Cleaned up the ring and now have to let the oven cool down for a few hours. The wife is yelling something about dinner. Oh well - I guess I'll do the temper tomorrow. Never fails. Yep, it's been one of those days....