[ddmckee54]

A squared off U-bolt is what I'm aiming for. But.... that's gonna be on hold - at least for a little while.

Meanwhile I'm going to nominate myself for Bone-head of the Week-Month-Year. (Take your pick.)

Last night, while working on a more permanent base to mount the Sherline onto, I managed to drop the dang thing. Not the base, I managed to knock the Sherline off the bench. Although the base wound up on the floor too, when I made a grab for the lathe. It, the lathe, bounced off a cabinet and a shelf on the way down and tried to spear the concrete floor. That concrete has been hardening for over 125 years, it barely even got scratched.

The headstock end of the lathe took a hit though. I tore the lathe bed apart and there appears to be only one casualty. I mentioned that I had purchased the lathe and tooling from another gentleman several years ago when he sold the whole kit-n-kaboodle to me. He bought most of the extra doo-dads that Sherline sold for the lathe, among them was the manual threading attachment. This attachment lets you do single point threading on the Sherline. The dog that engages/disengages the lead screw from the change gears is what took the hit.

Since the only time that is needed is when you're threading, and it will be MANY-MANY moons before I'm ready to jump down that rabbit hole - I'm just going to take it off for now. I'll just add it to the other busted parts in the "Box of Shame".

I've looked on the Sherline parts web-site, and it looks like that particular part is no longer available. It's beginning to look like when the single point threading time does come, I'm going to have to make a repair part before it can ever happen.

Meanwhile, now that I've got the lathe bed torn completely off, I'll clean the gunk off the spots I couldn't get to previously. Then MAYBE I'll be able to get back to where I was 4-5 hours ago - before the boo-boo.

Don