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I went and did it again.
Tomorrow I pick up a new to me Bardon's & Oliver Number Three Turret Lathe.
Few hobbyists need such a machine but once again, I have taken a fine hobby and turned it into a slowly but surely stressful business.
My day job is slingin' Chrome with Snap-On tools (which my wife really wishes I'd give up because of the HUGE amount of time it consumes). The rest of my time is filled up by my passion for all things mechanical in which I run a Land Rover shop and use my machine shop mainly to make bits and pieces for them.
One of the products I have made in the past but have ignored for the past few years is a field-repairable repair kit for oil and transmission cooler lines. I used to make them from machined/brazed components but between finally firing a vendor and the amount of time needed I've kinda let them slowly die on the vine.
Due to excessive demand and some minor product improvements, I decided to purchase the turret lathe in attempts to be able to make the parts in a single chucking operation, depending upon my success in parting them, it might be a single-chuck job.
Wish me luck, SWMBO doesn't know about it yet and if things go as planned, I might be able to keep it a secret until it's been here long enough to use the old "oh that old thing, I've had it for years" line-but, she did catch me using it when she noticed a different AR-15... Who knew she could recognize the differences?
Pray for me fellas, it's a BAD addiction. But, I'm told the first step to recovery is recognizing the problem exists.
Tomorrow I pick up a new to me Bardon's & Oliver Number Three Turret Lathe.
Few hobbyists need such a machine but once again, I have taken a fine hobby and turned it into a slowly but surely stressful business.
My day job is slingin' Chrome with Snap-On tools (which my wife really wishes I'd give up because of the HUGE amount of time it consumes). The rest of my time is filled up by my passion for all things mechanical in which I run a Land Rover shop and use my machine shop mainly to make bits and pieces for them.
One of the products I have made in the past but have ignored for the past few years is a field-repairable repair kit for oil and transmission cooler lines. I used to make them from machined/brazed components but between finally firing a vendor and the amount of time needed I've kinda let them slowly die on the vine.
Due to excessive demand and some minor product improvements, I decided to purchase the turret lathe in attempts to be able to make the parts in a single chucking operation, depending upon my success in parting them, it might be a single-chuck job.
Wish me luck, SWMBO doesn't know about it yet and if things go as planned, I might be able to keep it a secret until it's been here long enough to use the old "oh that old thing, I've had it for years" line-but, she did catch me using it when she noticed a different AR-15... Who knew she could recognize the differences?
Pray for me fellas, it's a BAD addiction. But, I'm told the first step to recovery is recognizing the problem exists.
Welcome aboard PT . Although you're at the wrong place to cure that addiction !!! Seems we all have it .
