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May you'all have a new year filled with excitement and good health. Yes, I know my "Merican friends will say I spelled you'all wrong, but I tend to write like I speak...with a French Canadian accent, Heh! :-) Last year we celebrated our first New Year celebration together by going to the New Year ball on the base. I am still an associate member of my Sgt and Warrant Officers mess  (CPOs mess for Ralph) Getting ready to celebrate, last year This year we are doing something different, we are going to the city, Halifax, overnite to celebrate the New Year. My first thought was to partake in the outdoor festivities, skating, concert and etc, but as we are now in the middle of a deep freeze, I think we will retreat to something warmer inside instead... :-) That deep Artic freeze shows no signs of letting up soon , it is already the longuest we had in a heck of a long time. If anyone out there still does not believe in climate change... Come here and experienced for yourself its ...

To all men of goodwill. Here is hoping that this find you and your love ones in good health and a safe place on this crazy world of ours. Life is way too short to wasted it: Live, love and do good This year, I choose to spend my birthday  working at my local food bank, with Jean. A great way to celebrate having made it, one more year ... My son Matt is home for the holidays with his two cats, who seems to be running Rudy around. We will work together on another project he has in mind while he is here. As we work on projects together I am slowly introducing him to his upcoming tool kit :-) The grandkids are here too, they will experienced their first Christmas the way we do it in my family: Go to bed early Christmas eve, woke up at midnite, Christmas mass, open your presents, eats tourtiere, and etc, stay up as long as you want, while the adults go to sleep. That way, the kids are dead tired in the morning and the adults get to sleep in undisturbed :-)  It really work !! Then w...

Part 2?? What happened to part 1? Well that was a while ago... That poor BBM has been on my bench for a long time, before Heather passed away, it is grand time to do something about it. And besides, it's in the way right now... The area in front of my bench need to be cleared in order to install my Boring till to the right of the window. The white peg board in front of the bench  is in the way and must be removed. The boring till top will be in line with the Plane till top  To do that, It would be nice to clear my bench, but... I hate to just move the partially dissasembled BBM and loose track of parts etc, it's already in a partial state of tear down. So, may as well get on with the job. I had already gave it a quick assessment when it first came into my possesion The part that I really want to keep straight is: Which bushing covers came from where.  So I made a board showing their relative position to the BBM, so I can keep track of them as I work on them. The reason fo...

Various forms of hand held tools had been designed thu the ages to bore holes, but to really ensure a level of angular precision, requires some sort of fixed apparatus which hold the drill implement at 90 degrees (some have adjustable table for angles in between). Enter the drill press. And yes they made their apparition long before electricity... Besides holding the bit at a fixed angle, the other requirement is a down feed force. Either supplied by you via a lever or spining a wheel, or... with some sort of mechanical ingeniosity. The Miller-Falls No 25 Breast drill equiped with a chain drive on the chuck. As the chuck rotate, it tigthen the chain and pull the drill bit into the workpiece. Makes drilling into metal or hard woods much easier Some of the early design, simply mounted a regular hand drill in a special frame to hold straight. And of course some were simply made with a built in drill apparatus. Similar construction as the lowly hand drill but not removeable. These rather s...