Lousy Week

[cfellows]

It's been a lousy week and today was a particularly lousy day! All my own fault!

Earlier this week, I knocked my Pentax digital SLR off the shelf and it fell 5 feet onto a hard floor. Needless to say, it doesn't work anymore.

Yesterday, I was trying to press the new plumbing tee on my plumbing parts into the base. I had turned out the threads in the floor flange because the pipe wouldn't fit in perpendicular to the base. I was going to just press in an unthreaded portion of pipe. All was good except the interference fit was too tight and I flattened the top of the tee trying to press it in. I took off the flattened tee, pressed out the cylinder liner, then attempted to use a short section of round rod to press the flattened part out round again. It worked, but in the process, it split the top of the tee.

So, today, I went to Home Depot and bought another plumbing tee. This time, in machining it out, I bored out one end too big so the cylinder liner would no longer fit. Next I turned a small ring to press into the too-large opening. I was turning out the ID of the ring to be a close fit with the outside of the cylinder liner and I, again, bored it out too far!

Tomorrow, I'll make another ring to press into the too so the cylinder liner will fit...

Chuck

 

[vlmarshall]

Ugh! Sorry to hear about the Pentax. The metal stuff, well, that's all part of the 'fun' of the hobby, ain't it? ;D

 

[bearcar1]

That sounds like a real set of downs you have experienced this week Chuck, just remember, "sometimes you're bug and sometimes your the windshield". Looks like you were the bug this time. :big: :big: :big:

BC1
Jim

 

[Tin Falcon]

I am with you bro It had been a long tough week.
Tin

 

[Deanofid]

Too bad about the Pentax, Chuck. If they "made 'em like they used to" we could fix it.
Better weeks are a-comin'.

Dean

 

[rake60]

I have had days like that while on the time clock Chuck.
You not only get to beat yourself up, a foreman, quality control man
and occasionally a plant manager will help you do that with comments like:
"What were you thinking?" or "How could that have happened?".
If you think like me, several snappy answers come to mind.
All of which are better kept to one's self.

No where to go from there but up.

Rick

 

[Maryak]

Chuck,

Sorry about the camera. :'(

The other sounds like a pretty normal week to me.

Best Regards
Bob

 

[bearcar1]

That sounds like a real set of downs you have experienced this week Chuck, just remember, "sometimes you're the bug and sometimes your the windshield". Looks like you were the bug this time. :big: :big: :big:

BC1
Jim

 

[cfellows]

Actually, I usually wind up laughing at myself at times like this. As Rick said, I have to ask myself, "What the H*** were you thinking. I get impatient and am my own worst enemy sometimes. But I'm also an eternal optimist and don't seem to mind making the part 2 or 3 times instead of taking the time to do it right the first time! :-[

Oh well, I jumped back on the horse last night, made a new reducing ring and pressed it into place. The sleeve is now a perfect sliding fit that will be locked into place with Loctite 620 when the time is right.

Finished out the day by cleaning up the shop. Now it's calling my name to go out there and make it messy again! :

Chuck