Holes Aren’t Going to Make Themselves
February 22nd, 2010But This Chair is so Comfy
I think today is going to be the day I mount a 3-phase motor on my drill press. The South Bend vise I ordered for it arrived last week, so now the motor is the only major issue.
I have a 2-HP motor that was supposed to go with my lathe. It’s a little large for this job, but I don’t think it will cause a problem. The frame designation says it should fit.
Maybe it’s time to think about a mortising attachment, if I can find one cheap.
I miss fooling with my tools. Pizza has really gotten out of hand.
I bought stuff to create a new 220 socket. I should really have four of them. Why play musical sockets?
I need to put a handle on the pizza-removal tool I made for church. The radiant heat from a 500-degree oven heats the tool pretty fast, so if you use it to remove two pizzas from the oven, by the time you get to work on the second one, the tool is surprisingly hot. I suppose I can make a metal coupling from the sheet aluminum I saved, screw it to the tool, and attach a short wooden handle to it.
I want to get a dust collector. I have fooled around long enough. Dust problems have discouraged me from woodworking. But the machine I wanted is no longer available for credit card points, and I can’t make myself pay actual money.
Okay, here I go. I’m going to grab the hammer drill and get to work. Look out. The dust is going to fly.
In a minute.
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:57 PM
How do you drill holes in a drill press?
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:02 PM
A couple of 1″ copper pipe couplings and a 36″ section of 1″ wooden dowel should do it.
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Cut the dowel in half to make two 18″ handles
Split the couplings half way along two opposite sides (180 degrees apart and half the coupling length deep) on one end to make a slot wide enough to slip over the edge of your pan.
Then slip your handle in the other end of the coupling, then squash the slotted end flat with a hammer or vice. Then drill a hole throught the copper/pan sandwich and one though the other end of the coupling and throught the handle and bolt everything together.
Just an idea…
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:59 PM
No need to make a handle for the pizza tool. Just donate some of those new gloves that handle high temps. I finally got some and they really, really work.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:32 PM
Like welding gloves?
February 22nd, 2010 at 3:24 PM
I think Ruth means the “Ove Glove”.
February 22nd, 2010 at 3:27 PM
You have to keep gloves clean just like the peal…could be a problem with a leather or synthetic insulated glove
February 22nd, 2010 at 3:31 PM
Photo of Steve’s Pizza Kitchen crew:
http://www.westernsafety.com/chicagoprotective/cppg4-Entry-Suit.jpg
(The non-belivers could buy similar attire also for other reasons…)