Sunday gardening, night in the sprocket mines

[frobzwiththingz]

Spent the morning getting rained on and putting a bunch of tomato plants into
5-gallon buckets and the raised bed outside. I don't think they really liked
the change from the relatively warm and dry inside into what they got thrust
into today, but hopefully they will perk up and deal once it turns bright and
sunny again in a couple of days.

Then spent the afternoon in the shop, some work-y stuff and then finally starting
to work on the automatic ball return for the outdoor bowling lane. Could not for
the life of me find the second of the two 36T bicycle chain sprockets i'm sure i
had kicking around. Though about ordering another one but then said the heck with
that, there's a 36T sprocket sitting right there in that scrap piece of aluminum
plate, I just need to dig it out. So spent the next few hours at the Bridgeport doing just that.

Probably way more work than it's worth, but it really is more satisfying this way.

Comments

[bikergeek]

Now is ze time on Shprockets ven ve dance.

[rmd]

You have freed the sprocket from its encasement!

[milktree]

How did you get from the top picture (which I can easily see how you do that) to the bottom one?

The tooth profile in the lower picture is way more sophisticated.