My PM935TS arrived today!!!

GA said:
Check your texts on your phone... :thumbsup:
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Rats, my flip phone won't receive em. icon_smile_dissapprove.gif

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compsurge said:
Oh come on. What makes them so special to see the pics first?!

You're killing us!:lmao:
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To answer your question...

Back in early October... when I was still concerned about totally blowing my budget sky high... silly me... hobby machine shops do not have budgets... :rofl::rofl::rofl:

I drove over to SC to visit Morgan Redhawk and JayBob... both of them have PM1236 lathe's.

Since I have met them both... when Morgan started fussing... sent him a text with a pic.

Sorry guys... I know this is difficult... waiting to see juicy pics of a dream mill...
A 3/4 BP mill clone...
Brand new...
Made in Taiwan...
All cleaned up and set up...
In a custom made stand painted to match PM colors (well kinda, the blue is a little different)...
With power feed on the X and Z axis...
With an endmill in an R-8 collet in the spindle...
With a vise on the table...
With a piece of Aluminum in the vise...
With an Easson '12' DRO hanging on the side, with all 3 axis zero'ed...
All oiled up and shiny...
Just waiting for someone to take the controls and make some serious chips...
:thumbsup: :man: :applause: :wavinghi: :allgood:

If I could... the pics would be here... :sorry2:

But you guys are just gonna have to wait until the computer is working....
Then the pics will flow... :victory:

Until then....
Anticipation... :panic:

Besides... you guys need something to see on Christmas day...
:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
 
I got one only because he has my cell number. Unfortunately, since it is an old flip phone, I have no way of getting the pic off of it, otherwise I would post it up.
 
Oh, I'm just messing with you :p

It sounds like it's a real nice machine!
 
compsurge said:
Oh, I'm just messing with you :p

It sounds like it's a real nice machine!
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Figured... thus the teaser post above... :)

I am NOT a geek... computers frustrate me. I guess if I disciplined myself enough... I could figure out the subtle details of Windoz... however in the past doing a wipe and rebuild has been the easier route.
Problem has been time... just not enough of it this year.

The good news is... between this and a few other issues... I will 'make' the time to get it done.

THX for the kind words, best of the holidays to you!

John
 
GA said:
Figured... thus the teaser post above... :)

I am NOT a geek... computers frustrate me. I guess if I disciplined myself enough... I could figure out the subtle details of Windoz... however in the past doing a wipe and rebuild has been the easier route.
Problem has been time... just not enough of it this year.

The good news is... between this and a few other issues... I will 'make' the time to get it done.

THX for the kind words, best of the holidays to you!

John
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Follow-up...

YEAH... :thumbzup3:

The computer rebuild is DONE!!! :victory:

It is amazing how BAD :whiteflag: the old software build was... yet I was used to it. Now the new build works SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better! :applause:

I did some heating and AC work for a fellow gyro friend... he did the software rebuild for me... Barter is always a good thing... :allgood:
It took a LONG day... We replaced the HDD with a SSHD (250G), and added a pair of 1TB storage drives (not a RAID array, rather the second one is set up as a copy of the first--this way the RAID array is not a problem if one drive crashes). We also mounted a new optical drive (R&W all formats, even writes BR's). The old software load was buggy as well as seriously infected... so we isolated it and did all the new stuff. Then AFTER the new build was running, with multiple each AV and MW (anti-virus and malware) protection... we allowed access to the old drive and retrieved data from it.
Long story short: Same MB, processor, and RAM... moved from XP to 7... machine works a LOT better.
Albeit I am still learning my way around Win7Pro/64. :think1:

One more issue to go before I can post pics of the new PM mill: Getting the pics out of the cell phone and into the desktop computer (gonna try a USB cable this evening)... then I may have some pics to post of the new PM935TS. :thumbsup:

Wondering if I should keep the suspense going until Christmas morning... or just give in early... :lmao:
 
I deal with this stuff everyday (RAIDs, Enterprise OSes, SSDs, etc.) so it is sometimes a shock to realize that not everyone knows how (or even wants) to deal with stuff like this. :)

I learned a long time ago to do my critical stuff on a Mac/UNIX machine and leave the winblows (Win 7Pro) machine for games. Of course it probably won't surprise you to know that I have a Alienware water-cooled, 6-core i7 based machine (with storage in a RAID 0/1) just for playing games... :lmao:
 
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