You may recall the sump system that I built for our plasma table a while back?

Yeah, the submersible pump for the filter system didn’t last long at all. A seal let go and filled the pump with water. It should be under warranty, but of course the Amazon vendor that I bought it from has vanished without a trace. 🙄
Crazy thing is-this pump would still run for a few seconds even full of water in the motor!

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Some of you may have seen where @monkeyswrench was working on our Freightshaker crane awhile back-here’s some random pictures of some of the work I was doing on it at the same time.
Mag base drill to punch out a seized pin. It’s crazy how many chips this made!

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Here’s the pin once we got it out.
It was in beyond poor shape!😬😬

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Replacement pin I built with an upgraded retaining tab.

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Some shiny new hoses I made for the crane before showing Kevin how to make them and turning that operation over to him.

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A destroyed piston retaining nut from the main boom hydraulic ram that gave us no end of trouble. Plus a major delay, because neither myself nor anyone around stocks a grade 8 inch and a half -12 pitch thin nut. 🙄

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Needed some hi-viz shirts for an upcoming job and found some that I think look pretty nice, considering.

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Delivered about 6 thousand pounds of steel pipe, conduit and strut to said job for inspection to verify it’s made in USA prior to commencing construction.

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Some equipment layout design work I’ve been doing for that job.

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And that brings us almost up to date!

Originally posted on: May 15, 2025 at 5:11 pm
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