You know you are a Hobby-Machinist when....

schor said:
You build something for someone you don't know that you met on a forum for material cost and whatever they will pay extra, even if you spent 18 hours working on it and get $20 for your time.

You spend every possible minute watching youtubes of people making things with metal working machines because it's too cold to be in your shop making chips.

You even watch every second of a youtube of someone that does machining vids but decides to talk about their peronal life and you love every minute of it.

You go to the shop when it finally warms up and just make chips for no reason instead of fixing that old machine you bought or rearrange the shop to make it more pleasant to make chips.

You re-arrange the shop for perfect production even though your only making chips (see above).
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exactly what I would have wrote. we here right along side Lake Superior will not see above 0F today. my propane usage is going thru the ceiling. why the hell do we live here ? oh that right, we have family here. .

 
It's cold as well here near Milwaukee & the propane 'sting' is what has been keeping me out of my "better" shop. A consolation is that my older & "lesser" shop can be wood heated so if I really get withdrawal symptoms I can take refuge in there.
 
davidh said:
exactly what I would have wrote. we here right along side Lake Superior will not see above 0F today. my propane usage is going thru the ceiling. why the hell do we live here ? oh that right, we have family here. .
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I've been spending a fair amount of time out in the garage shop, and I heat that with a 220V heater, so I don't feel the propane bite out there. At least electric is still at the old rates.:phew:

We toyed with building and relocating to Medford WI area {central Wisc.) but my god it's been brutal up there this winter and last! I'm getting too old to deal with that kind of cold and snow. :whistle:

It would figure though - we just changed our heating system at the trailer home on our hunting land from wood burner to 65K BTU propane heater - I sure hope rates drop back to normal before next hunting season!
 
When you own a metal shaper. Or 3.
When you own a metal planer. Or 2.
When you own any Atlas or Craftsman machine tool. Or 3.
When you go to a swap meet, buy a tool for $5, then spend more than it's worth completed fixing it up.
When you travel halfway accross the crountry to go to a model engineering expo. And you don't build model engines.
When your wife refers to your shop as "The Mistress".
When you buy a new machine, but it takes you a year to get your shop rearanged and get the equipment together needed to lift it off the trailer and into the shop.
When people you know start comming to you to make parts for them.
When you get your wife a TIG welder for Christmas.
When your shop is so full of stuff that you spend time scheming on how you can fit another tool into it without getting rid or something you already have.
 
When your wife catches you on the computer and says "watching tool porn again?"
 
When Google shows you Enco,MSC or Travers ads on unrelated web pages
 
when you reply to this thread in a bar at key west vacation.

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uncle harry said:
It's cold as well here near Milwaukee & the propane 'sting' is what has been keeping me out of my "better" shop. A consolation is that my older & "lesser" shop can be wood heated so if I really get withdrawal symptoms I can take refuge in there.
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You know you are a Hobby-Machinist when.... you read Uncle Harry's post and immediately believe he has the answer to all your problems; Hey, I _need_ TWO shops!
 
When your shop is bigger than your house and your house 2400 sf. You still don't have enough room so you make it two stories so you can store the things you don't need in the shop all the time. People you know from when you worked look you up to get something fixed and what you give them back is better than the original and you had fun making it. You go to work in the shop just to relax and time flys by because your love what your doing.

Todd:panic:
 
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