Relaxation

[smokeywolf]

Gotta go with Rick on the red oak. That's what's best for tritip. I get mine at a firewood place on Topanga Canyon Blvd. just So. of the 118. Rick likely knows this location and maybe even the specific business to which I'm referring.

In an offset smoker, I always start with a bed of mesquite lump charcoal. By the time the heat is up and the smoker sterilized, half the charcoal is burned away. Then add: cherry wood for poultry and shrimp; apple and hickory wood for pork.

Pecan is a good wood for most meats and results in a milder smoke flavoring.

 

[S Mac]

I've mentioned it the past, peach is hard to beat with poultry, especially combined with hickory.

 

[Brad]

This is why I need vacations.

 

[smokeywolf]

This is your week to stop thinking about pharms and focus on gun smoke and wood smoke.

 

[KeithB]

• Wow, a Jefferson Airplane reference. Long time since I thought about them.

 

[Brad]

My techs don't have a clue. My wife and I knew it right off. She wasn't even born when it came out........

 

[Rick]

 

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[fiver]

boy, oh boy.
I think they actually do that.
I had to take the wife over to Pocatello Friday to pick up some meds they don't have here in town.
we got home and they gave her 2 different doses of the same med.
one was right, one wasn't, but they charged her for both and she didn't know which dosage to take.
when she called them I had her ask if they could that with Percocet's or oxycodone's too.

I could hear the pharmacist in the back round just ripping on his pill counter at that point.

 

[Brad]

Did I mention how much I like the new lathe chuck? Runs very true after some adjustment. I now make cuts with no chatter that were a nightmare before. I can remove a part, turn it around, and still have it run pretty true. That just wasn't possible with my old 3 jaw. Bored a set of soft jaws to hold a Star sizer for fishing boring and hone and it runs very true. This is going to make it so much easier to get good results.

Sometimes spending money does make a difference.

 

[KeithB]

Great! Good tools make tough jobs a lot easier. Sometimes you just gotta decide to cry once and smile a lot thereafter.

 

[Brad]

So true Keith. Quality counts in some areas and quality often doesn't come cheap. This is a purchase I won't be regretting.

 

[smokeywolf]

Wouldn't be surprised if the new chuck pays for itself in less than a year in time saved, better finishes and lower scrap rate. Oh, and less frustration, more enjoyment, more satisfaction.
Be sure and research the tricks to boring soft jaws?

 

[Brad]

I clamped a small piece in the rear of the jaws. I went slow and used a tool the cut a square corner in the back of the recess. I went slow increasing the diameter of the bore until a Star die would just enter. At that point I was increasing by .001 per cut. I put a die blank I had turnser in the bore of the soft jaws and put my .0005 indicator on it. With the lathe running slowly I saw .0005 runout. I can't imagine me needing more than that for boring a Star sizer die.
Next up I will get some Al soft jaws to bore to hold 7/8-14 thread. That will let me hold a Lee type die to finish it

 

[freebullet]

.0005 runout.

Impressive accuracy for an at home lathe for certain. Sounds like a very nice addition.

 

[Brad]

That is with the bored soft jaws. Since they were bored for that specific diameter on that lathe and chuck they run very true. That is the value of soft jaws, they can make any chuck run very true for the specific diameter they were bored to. Great for holding a specific part, like a Star sizer in this case.

 

[smokeywolf]

Even the best of the 5C collets frequently don't run as true as Brad's new chuck with bored soft jaws.

There is only one type of collet that I've used that consistently run that true. Jacobs rubber collets running in a Jacobs Spindle Nose Lathe Chuck.