a photoblog of what i did today.....

[chrisinhouston]

Today I went wine tasting and shopping and found a neat winery in central Victoria in the town of Great Western that had a neat wine cellar that they let me wonder around in. The winery, Best Wines is about 150 years old and from the amount of cobwebs and bits of sunlight filtering through the rafters it made for a great little photo adventure. Some of the vessels for storage were of the largest I've seen in quite a while made of oak; a real testament for the craft of good cooperage. I think the images work well in color or B&W depending on your mood

And they had some really nice wines so I ended up with 6 to bring home next week. That makes 28 bottles so far!

[ZenGum]

Wow.

Australians. "Cellaring" wine in sheds for over 150 years. Cause "shedding" wine sounds gross.

That last image is great. Have you offered it to them, maybe for their website or promo uses?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Beautiful.

[Griff]

Well done, Chris.

[BigV]

great.

now I'm thirsty.

[zippyt]

So i got thrown off into a cluster F**k of a job ( nothing new here but it still SUCKS ), F'd up old truck scale that we moved ( why , because the customer wanted it )

So we had to make some holes in new bace plates for anchors(Bace plate is 19"x 13"x 5/8" thick ) these holes need to be 1" so a 3/4" anchor can pass thru and secure the plate to the cement ,
I spent the better part of an afternoon drilling progressively larger holes with a Hand drill , Screw that stuff !!!!!!

Here is the bace plate ,

Photo422 by zippyt, on Flickr

So I called around and found a Houge drill , Truely a Cool thing !!!
Here is the drill , more milling Mec if you ask me ,

Photo423 by zippyt, on Flickr
it has a Electro magnetic bace and uses a Cool bits ( actualy called a Roto Broach ) that cut a core out of the steel

Photo425 by zippyt, on Flickr

Photo424 by zippyt, on Flickr

Photo429 by zippyt, on Flickr

Photo428 by zippyt, on Flickr

Photo427 by zippyt, on Flickr

Zip 20 holes later , it was harder jacking up and pulling the bace plates and putting them back in than it was cutting the holes .

[BigV]

cutting cores sounds like smart engineering. you have to move less metal to get the same amount of hole. Niiiice tool buddy!

[footfootfoot]

Plus, you get to keep the really short, ƒucking metal bars.

[xoxoxoBruce]

And build a cannon to shoot them.

Hougen drills are the shnizzle, we used a lot of them at Westinghouse, where you needed big straight holes in 50 or 100 ton pieces, in the field.
zippyt is smarter than the average bear.

[glatt]

That's a cool tool. I love the electromagnetic base. Great idea. That final picture looks like it has some sort of oil tank on the side. Does it oil the cutting bit automatically, or do you have a helper squirting as you cut?

[footfootfoot]

If it's got an electro magnetic base I bet it has an automatic oiler. It looks like it might be that yellow hose leading from that plastic reservoir.

[glatt]

I kinda want one, although I have no use for one or space to store it.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by glatt

I kinda want one, although I have no use for one or space to store it.

I'm sure your wife has a bunch of outfits she never wears, get her to give them to good will to make some room. Show her the bits that go into the thing and she'll see how cool and necessary it is.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I'll bet not many $1500 dresses though.

There's a ball valve at the bottom of the oil reservoir.

[zippyt]

Yes thats an oiler But im a paranoid feller so as holes were being cut I was giveing it a dose of cutting every now and then , l didnt want to mess up the only bit we had.
That it turns out we bought when we rented the drill , so when my boss took it back for me ,they looked at him funny when he asked about the bit, oh thats Yours, so I have acool thingee to add to the collection