Really too small to mention, but it's been a slow day.
1: Ever since we bought the ironworker the area where the shear blades live has been shrouded in darkness. Setting up a cut was something of a braille exercise.
I finally made a mount for a swing-arm lamp to go onto it - a bit of
1/4" x 2" bar stock bent to a 90 with a press-fit piece of round stock bored for the lamp mount. Hooked it up to one hot and the ground (yeah, I know, bad electrical, but easy to do because I didn't have any 220 volt bulbs) Voila! Let there be light!
A side benefit - setting the lamp off to the side of the punch station to illuminate it obliquely makes center punch marks really stand out and speeds hole punching immensely.
2: We just got a cheapo HF fold-up hydraulic 2 ton engine hoist (cherry picker) - Good sale price, plus a 20% off coupon. OK...
It's the one with holes in the boom for 1/2-, 1-, 1 1/2- and 2-Ton lifting capacity that align with a hole in the telescoping boom arm .
Sliding the boom in and out and finding the alignment to get the locking pin into the hole was a visual challenge - a black hole with a black telescoping arm.... So I pulled the arm out and painted a 1" white space on both sides of the hole in the extension arm. Now I can see the alignment clearly while sliding the arm in and out.
Another small annoyance conquered!
Carla
Vocabulary word for the day: Liquidity: When you look at your investments and wet your pants.