Drill Press

 Busy day yesterday - burned the brush pile and started over again with trimmings from more trees, started moving some pieces to the lean-to for the firewood and got stung on the wrist several times by yellow jackets. That hurt! Wrist was sore the rest of the day and I woke up with the wrist itching this morning.

The new drill press was delivered yesterday. I had to pay a little extra for lift-gate service and the gate ended up being on the ass end of a 45 ft. trailer. The driver called before heading down the long lane to make sure he'd be able to turn around once he pulled in. With the corn up on both sides of the lane you can't see what's at the end now. Anyway, he made it in and got turned around without too much trouble - professional driver on a closed course and all that. Next up is to move the old one out of the way and get the new one installed. Since it came disassembled, I can easily handle the individual pieces except the head. I'll probably need some help lifting that up and sliding it onto the column. I could have done it years ago, but I'm not even going to try it now. Between the loss of muscle and the chest issue, the last thing I want to do is drop it or hurt myself. I'm paying enough for the sins of my youth as it is.

I bought a couple of muffler inserts for the drag pipes on the Sportster. I haven't checked the fit yet, but if my metric conversion was correct the 42mm should fit the inside of the 1.75" OD pipes correctly. The inserts have a removeable cap on the intake side. I'm going to take the caps off. I have some muffler packing material I could wrap the perforated tube with, but I doubt that'll be necessary. I just want the bike to be a little more user friendly to me and the neighbors.