No machining video this week. 😢

I am not able to upload a machining video this week. We had a bad storm come though my area that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of households as well as knocking out internet service. We are all safe and although we have had power, we have been without internet for the past 5 days so I don’t have a practical way of getting a full length video uploaded.

My wife and I, being part of the work from home economy, not having internet has made it impossible for us to “go to work.” I’m able to make arrangements but my wife is out of luck until our service is restored.

Topping all that is this massive tree in our front yard has been damaged beyond being able to be save. Thankfully, it did not hit the house. Unfortunately, since it didn’t hit the house, removal is not covered under insurance. So I have to let go of some projects I wanted to tackle.

I had recently acquired a 1960s South Bend 13” lathe with a 7 foot bed. I was going to record a quick restoration video and then rehome it. Unfortunately, I have to unload it sooner rather than later. If you’re interested, hit me up at greg@mylilmule.us. I’d even be willing to deliver it within 100 miles of Lake County, Ohio.

Hopefully, my internet will be restored soon and we can get back to real content.

Making a Ball Hitch for a Lawn Tractor

Not my usual kind of video, but my channel has always been, what I did, is what I record. And this week, I needed to make a ball hitch for my lawn tractor to move a log splitter around my backyard. I was able to fire up my PrimeWeld MIG 180 again, something I haven’t had a chance to do in a while.

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Making a drive gear for my Kearney & Trecker universal milling head – FINAL

FINALLY!

The drive gear is finished. Now I need to see how well it fits and make some chips!

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Machining the dogs for the drive gear on the Kearney and Trecker. I came close to RUINING the gear!

The LAST bit of machining to get this drive gear usable for the K&T. after MORE THAN TWO YEARS! I can’t believe I have had this thing for that long. And I nearly RUINED it!

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Making a Drive Gear for the K&T Universal Milling Head – More Machining and Solving Challenges

With the drive gear spacer machined, I need to mount it properly to the drive gear. But more importantly, I need to figure out how I am going to machine and mount the drive dogs on the back of the gear.

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Machining the Drive Gear Spacer for the K&T

An important piece of the drive gear for the universal head is a spacer screwed to the front of it that ensures proper meshing with the driven gear inside the universal head.

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Machining the Drive Gear Arbor for the K&T

Continuing on with this project to get the K&T universal head mounted onto the horizontal mill. I need to machine an arbor for the drive gear and it only makes sense to do this on the horizontal mill to ensure concentricity.

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