Monday, August 24, 2020

Mounting a Drill Press Vise

 Work has been kind of crazy-making lately (blame Covid-19), so I wanted to make best use of a rare full day in the shop today, plus a couple of hours yesterday. I set these parameters for a quick project:

1. Make something that would be useful in the shop.
2. Finish in about a day or less.
3. Make something that, if I messed it up, would be absolutely inconsequential - I was trying to decrease stress, not increase it!

Friday, August 7, 2020

Beck TD, Part 66: Wind Wings, cheap!

 Well, this is yet another complex and time-consuming fabrication project to save a few bucks. My lovely wife enjoys an occasional cruise in Beck TD, but she says she doesn't like to be "buffeted." There's just so much you can do in a very open car with a flat windscreen, but I did notice that both Charlie and Cor run "wind wings" on their windshields. Here's a close-up from an old photo I took of Cor, with the wind wing annotated: