On 12/10/2018 7:43 PM, galoot@l... wrote:
> If the bbq featured a turkey with trimmings can we call it a BBQ? In
> any case, Darrell and Kathy hosted the annual Advent event, about
> half a dozen people, one of whom brought wooden toast, charcuterie,
> and salad tongs for everyone, all of whom brought assorted goodies
> came.
Hi Esther,
I got kind of caught up yesterday with the crank old drill press
so I neglected to report on the Galoot Xmas BBQ event.
I was still messing about with the drill tonight, managed to get
a new motor mounted on it, but I wired something wrong, as
it spins the wrong way. If Kathy wasn't threatening to go buy
a new one tomorrow I would have let it be for a while, but
SWMBO is the correct term! Enough about the silly tools.
I had 5 shop guests, Esther, Richard, Matt, Craig, and Rob.
Dan and Mihai sent their regards, but were unable to attend.
We had lots of snacks, and a tray full of Kathy's cookies.
Also had a bowl of cookies from Esther, which she whipped
up in our kitchen when she arrived. Rob brought his chocolate
covered bacon, an interesting take on sweet & savory.
Esther provided the most interesting suggestion for Galootish
activities for the Xmas BBQ (turkey notwithstanding). I have
a Foley retoother, which was at one time operated by some
magical means, but the smoke escaped from the beast, and
I simply cut the traces and turned it loose. The machine came
with an handle that screwed onto the flywheel for Galoot
operation. When I was practicing on a junk saw on Saturday
morning, I was cutting 11 TPI and it went through the steel fast
and easy. The old rip saw Richard brought wanted to be 4 1/2
TPI, so I swapped out the ratchet bar and set it up to straighten
out the tooth line. It was cutting LOTS of steel this time, and
After half a dozen teeth I ran up against a dead stop, when I
failed to give it enough Zoom to keep it going. Once I got
it cutting again it was fine. But I had to take a file later to
correct the one misplaced tooth when the machine jammed.
It's noisy, even when Galoot powered, but it makes retoothing
a saw a fairly easy and fast operation.
We had a couple of saw vises set up, and lots of files to choose
amongst. Esther and I made three saws sharper, and Richard
went much more slowly and carefully, completing a very fine
crosscut panel saw, at 11 TPI I think.
Dinner was delicious and lots of it, dessert was cookies and
tarts. We hung around until about 9 PM, Esther left a bit earlier
as she had a longer trip. Good friends, good food, fun with
tools, and conversation that was interesting and varied.
Merry Xmas to all Galoots, near and far!
Darrell
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Darrell LaRue
Oakville ON
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
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