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It has been an 'interesting' time since last summer when I was laid off. Had to sell the house, pack up the garage, find a new home, and get moved in. Whew...
As of yesterday, I finally managed to do a final test cut in the lathe and get the repairs done to my mill (movers are such a dumb bunch...). I am still in the process of figuring out where to fit everything in the new garage/shop, but it will get done.
This is the corner where the machines ended up.
The lathe is level and the test cut showed only .0012" variance over 9.5", which is plenty good for now. I will check again in a month or so. The mill suffered damage to the VFD's control box I made, and to two of the leveling feet on the stand. When my friend Chris made the mill stand for me, we didn't take into account the possibility of having to replace a leveler once the mill is mounted on it. Oops... But I managed to make one of them serviceable so now I have the mill sitting on three levelers and one locked wheel. It should suffice.
No job interviews or offers, so I am being forced into early SS. Shouldn't be too much of an issue though as there is a nice range between here and Tombstone where a number of clubs shoot, so I may be able to pick up odd jobs there for shooting/walking around money. Good thing I thought to buy my machines before the money tree died though...
If any of you AZ locals know where I might be able to find metals and such near Tucson (or even Phoenix for that matter as it's about 3 hours away), let me know. Probably won't be able to afford Online Metals anymore.
It IS good to have my machines functional again.
As of yesterday, I finally managed to do a final test cut in the lathe and get the repairs done to my mill (movers are such a dumb bunch...). I am still in the process of figuring out where to fit everything in the new garage/shop, but it will get done.
This is the corner where the machines ended up.
The lathe is level and the test cut showed only .0012" variance over 9.5", which is plenty good for now. I will check again in a month or so. The mill suffered damage to the VFD's control box I made, and to two of the leveling feet on the stand. When my friend Chris made the mill stand for me, we didn't take into account the possibility of having to replace a leveler once the mill is mounted on it. Oops... But I managed to make one of them serviceable so now I have the mill sitting on three levelers and one locked wheel. It should suffice.
No job interviews or offers, so I am being forced into early SS. Shouldn't be too much of an issue though as there is a nice range between here and Tombstone where a number of clubs shoot, so I may be able to pick up odd jobs there for shooting/walking around money. Good thing I thought to buy my machines before the money tree died though...
If any of you AZ locals know where I might be able to find metals and such near Tucson (or even Phoenix for that matter as it's about 3 hours away), let me know. Probably won't be able to afford Online Metals anymore.
It IS good to have my machines functional again.