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Sometimes I like it when it's slow at work, particularly the days where i get paid to tinker with my own projects all day rather than clean the shop I cleaned an hour earlier.
Today I made myself a new T stake, an offset ball stake and a dishing doughnut, I guess tomorrow I'll need to make myself a new stake socket that will fit 1" shanks instead of the 3/4" ones on the rest of my stakes

What's the dishing donut made out of?

Sean

Those will never work. You should ship them to me for immediate disposal. I'll PM you my address.

Ignore Paul; they are too pretty to use!

They should be shipped to my soon-to-be-founded Museum of Fine Tools where they will be properly honored and preserved in our temperate tidewater environment!

I will, of course, be forced to demonstrate their use, from time to time, even if there are no visitors present. (A "practice demonstration" if you will. Of course. If you don't use them a little, they'll go bad...)

Those stakes will never work for you, they were built sideways. I'm further south where the earth is at a different angle, so ship them to me and I'll test them. For a long time.

Nice work.

Good job. Jolly well done.
May you pound long and prosper.

Hal

PS:
I finished up this kit for overseas shipping today.
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Too bad they are 2 pounds overweight for the flat rate box.

Nice job!

I'll get the new socket bolted to my bench today and I think by tomorrow I'll get to try them out.

Sean, the doughnut started out as a giant eye bolt a buddy gave me a few years ago, I chopped off the threads, ground the shoulder off smooth and polished it up, Then it's welded to a 1 1/4" piece of 4x4" steel tube on the base plate. I'd still like to go into it a bit with a die grinder, there are some forming marks on it that i think could gouge up my steel if i dish something to deep enough in it.