Dusty

Always nice to have company while grazing.

Holly update

It's been one month since Holly had her knee op - crikey. Tonight she is booked in for another check up and then we start her rehab, daily walks of 10 mins for the first week and then increasing that by 10 mins for the remaining 7 weeks – that’s 2 months!

Update - Just got back from the vet and all good, after the 8 week rehab period it’s back  to the Vet for a final check up which includes a x-ray.

Digital Photo Tachometer

Purchased one of these off Ebay for around $20 bucks so I can measure the speed of things, in particular the bandsaw.

 

Been going around measuring stuff that rotates – interesting.

Bandsaw 5 – Skateboard bearings

I need some bearings for the blade guides and fortuitously came across a skateboard (kids grown up & left home) while putting stuff out for our annual council clean up – nice.

Skateboards have 2 bearings per wheel so I now have a set of eight.

Bandsaw 4 - Motor pulley

The new motor pulley that I made needs some grub screws to secure it to the motor shaft so back to Masters hardware.

Two packets of assorted grub screws – nice.

Bandsaw 3 – Collecting the bits

Threaded rod

Browsing through Masters and came across a nice little hardware section down in one of the back rows.



All sorts of threaded rod and other metal stuff so with the bandsaw blade tensioner in mind grabbed a 300mm length of 5/8” rod along with some washers, nuts and couplers.

Bandsaw 2 – Collecting the bits

Lower wheel drive belt.

Bought a V-belt from Supercheap Auto for $12 - to drive the lower wheel.