This & That

 

I was running errands on Monday and came across these. Some country, some easy listening, some Elvis. I have a turntable that will convert the albums to digital bits and bytes that I can use to burn CDs. I'm going to go through the boxes and pick out a few to record - actually, I think I might already have the Eddy Arnold one. I pulled several of the records out of the sleeves and they all looked to be in pretty good shape.

Surly, the grandson and I went to the Fab Tech show on Tuesday. Big, big venue with lots of welding machinery and consumables. I'm not really in the market for much of anything, except an auto-darkening helmet. I normally use a traditional single shade lens in my helmets, but the new auto-darkening helmets have improved technology and better headgear than my helmets. 

The part in the photo was 3D printed with the metal additive process. It looks like a guy could make the thing by just over-laying beads like the printer did, but trying to keep everything on center and getting it shaped properly without a whole lot of grinding would be the real trick. No advantage there.

I welded the mount for the mailbox yesterday. I left the end of the tube open rather than capping it off, because I'm going to put one of the plugs I bought for the weight rack in there. I'll get it primed and painted so it'll be ready to install when the grandson shows up to plant the post in the ground.

I've still got a lot of outside work to do, install the new ignition on the Sportster, finish up the fork legs on the trials bike move on to the BSA, some more work on the Jitney, and some work on the milling machine. Lots to do but having finished a couple of the bikes will be nice.