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Lots of progress

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I had a busy weekend. I was going to watch the Arizona vs Washington State football game but chose to work on my crucible project instead. Good choice, I was productive and didn’t have to watch the Wildcats choke. Again. I need to make a set of tongs and a skimmer and I’m good to go to start making ingots out of hard drives.

Not all the work was on my project – I actually fixed the grater for the wife. She’d been bugging me for a while to fix it and my daughter reminded me of it today when she was grating potatoes for breakfast.

I got a shop press!

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I’ve been wanting to get a shop press forever. Seriously. I could have used one when I was building my AMD-65’s, for pressing the barrel and components. Well, I got my monthly flier from Harbor Freight at the end of September. Someone there knows me…spooky. There, on the second page was the 20-ton press, on sale. Regularly sells for $280, but on sale on a super coupon for $149.99 that expired at the end of October. With tax it came to $162 with tax. What a SCREAMING deal! I’ll be able to press bearings on and off, press stampings, flats for different ‘projects’, whatever I need. Thanks to my gorgeous wife who made it happen.

 

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