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So you sanded the firepit with 320 grit or did you burn 320 belts? Knowing that you like to burn things I shouldn't even have asked!
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So you sanded the firepit with 320 grit or did you burn 320 belts? Knowing that you like to burn things I shouldn't even have asked!
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Took a 1200 mile road trip with our son Steven to pick up a nice Tormach 1100 Series 3 with lots of goodies. No issues with the 17 hour drive (one way . . . .). I'm not a rigger by trade, had no issues with the load shifting on the way home. I used 3/8" lags into 2x4's and 2x6's directly into the trailer's deck to lock down the corner pads of the machine (once we moved it on the trailer with a pallet jack to get some tongue weight). Then tie strapped from the 1100's top eye bolt down to the trailer.
Only unexpected problem was unloading the Tormach from the trailer. My shop has a 10' finished ceiling. The hook on my HF chain fall with everything at the highest point in the finished area is about 8 1/2 feet off the floor. The Tormach lifting bar on top of the unit ended up at about 9 feet . . . So, on to plan B.
Moved the trailer and gantry crane into the unfinished back half of the barn and raised the crane between the trusses. No issues after that point. Now that it's off the trailer, I'm good for moving it into the finished area with the crane at a lower height.
OK, here's what I brought home. 2016 Tormach Series 3 with a PathPilot controller with an expanded hard drive and memory. Couple of water-proof keyboards, one touch screen and one back up standard monitors. Job shuttle, automatic tool changers, around 60 TTS tool holders (combo of ER and end mill holders), Haimer probe, Tormach electronic probe, electronic tool setter, Tormach surface plate and height gauge with cable hook up to the PP computer. Saunders fixture plate, 2 Glacern 6" vises, vacuum pallet, 4th axis with 2 tombstones, tail stock, 3-jaw/4-jaw/5-C collet chucks. Around 30 ER collets for the tool holders, couple of sets of parallels, around 30 end mills including a few single-tooth style thread mills, 2 diamond engravers, and a slitting saw arbor. Also have some extra goodies for the vises: hard jaws, 20+ soft jaws, mitee-bites, I think what's called talon grip jaws, etc. Also brought home over 300 lbs. of aluminum plate, bar and rounds. Almost forgot, also got a MistAway MA700 mist/oil collector. Will have to go through the boxes to inventory everything, but am pretty giddy other than the HUGE learning curve I'm facing.
On the down side, the seller made the full enclosure which worked well in his shop, but I'll be coming up with my own design. I have the standard surround, but will come up with something with removable/hinged panels to access everything. The seller had a couple of 100W LED floods to light the work area which did a wonderful job. Gonna include those in my design for sure.
Yeah, WELL worth the 4 days on the road: great time with our son and another machine for the shop! Still have some work to do before it's up and running. First is moving it to it's home, run 220 and 110, pick up a tub for the coolant (left the one the seller had so he could use the coolant in his saw). Also need to design and fab up an enclosure. The seller made up a frame of 1" square tubing and tacked 3/32" sheet steel on the sides, back and top (slider doors on the front). The only access to the machine was through the front doors, so he had to literally climb into the booth to vacuum chips and access other areas. I'll contemplate things a bit, but will probably go with an angle iron frame welded to a 1" tubing base. Probably plastic removable panels around the perimeter and slider doors on the front. The seller struggled with coolant leaking to the floor (replaced the 1/8 HP Tormach system with a 1/2 HP sump pump) and sealed everything up. I'm planning on doing something more like a house roof or shower and just manage the coolant to the chip tray. More to follow . . . .
Bruce
Pretty happy with the "take away" from the 17-hour drive (one way . . .)
Needed to unload from my trailer with the gantry crane in the unfinished portion of our barn.
Couple of tries to find the balance point side to side with the lifting bar table attachment. No problems getting it off the trailer.
Lots of associated goodies.
Only unexpected problem was unloading the Tormach from the trailer. My shop has a 10' finished ceiling. The hook on my HF chain fall with everything at the highest point in the finished area is about 8 1/2 feet off the floor. The Tormach lifting bar on top of the unit ended up at about 9 feet . . . So, on to plan B.
Moved the trailer and gantry crane into the unfinished back half of the barn and raised the crane between the trusses. No issues after that point. Now that it's off the trailer, I'm good for moving it into the finished area with the crane at a lower height.
OK, here's what I brought home. 2016 Tormach Series 3 with a PathPilot controller with an expanded hard drive and memory. Couple of water-proof keyboards, one touch screen and one back up standard monitors. Job shuttle, automatic tool changers, around 60 TTS tool holders (combo of ER and end mill holders), Haimer probe, Tormach electronic probe, electronic tool setter, Tormach surface plate and height gauge with cable hook up to the PP computer. Saunders fixture plate, 2 Glacern 6" vises, vacuum pallet, 4th axis with 2 tombstones, tail stock, 3-jaw/4-jaw/5-C collet chucks. Around 30 ER collets for the tool holders, couple of sets of parallels, around 30 end mills including a few single-tooth style thread mills, 2 diamond engravers, and a slitting saw arbor. Also have some extra goodies for the vises: hard jaws, 20+ soft jaws, mitee-bites, I think what's called talon grip jaws, etc. Also brought home over 300 lbs. of aluminum plate, bar and rounds. Almost forgot, also got a MistAway MA700 mist/oil collector. Will have to go through the boxes to inventory everything, but am pretty giddy other than the HUGE learning curve I'm facing.
On the down side, the seller made the full enclosure which worked well in his shop, but I'll be coming up with my own design. I have the standard surround, but will come up with something with removable/hinged panels to access everything. The seller had a couple of 100W LED floods to light the work area which did a wonderful job. Gonna include those in my design for sure.
Yeah, WELL worth the 4 days on the road: great time with our son and another machine for the shop! Still have some work to do before it's up and running. First is moving it to it's home, run 220 and 110, pick up a tub for the coolant (left the one the seller had so he could use the coolant in his saw). Also need to design and fab up an enclosure. The seller made up a frame of 1" square tubing and tacked 3/32" sheet steel on the sides, back and top (slider doors on the front). The only access to the machine was through the front doors, so he had to literally climb into the booth to vacuum chips and access other areas. I'll contemplate things a bit, but will probably go with an angle iron frame welded to a 1" tubing base. Probably plastic removable panels around the perimeter and slider doors on the front. The seller struggled with coolant leaking to the floor (replaced the 1/8 HP Tormach system with a 1/2 HP sump pump) and sealed everything up. I'm planning on doing something more like a house roof or shower and just manage the coolant to the chip tray. More to follow . . . .
Bruce
Pretty happy with the "take away" from the 17-hour drive (one way . . .)
Needed to unload from my trailer with the gantry crane in the unfinished portion of our barn.
Couple of tries to find the balance point side to side with the lifting bar table attachment. No problems getting it off the trailer.
Lots of associated goodies.
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Got me a loaded huot drill chest for $20. Randomly checking, all the drills are marked USA. Not all huot, and has sizes up to 1&1/4". Smaller then my other huot chest, but this one came loaded.
Also picked up a nice metallic blue connecting rod. roughly 12" tall. I'm hoping one of the tank (M60) pistons I have, will look decent on it to make something cool. Could not resist for one dollar.
Also picked up a nice metallic blue connecting rod. roughly 12" tall. I'm hoping one of the tank (M60) pistons I have, will look decent on it to make something cool. Could not resist for one dollar.
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I scored today!
Last December I bought a Brown and Sharpe Micromaster 618, fully automatic surface grinder.
Bob Korves went with me to check it out. The owner saw me druling over his 7” shaper. He asked me if I wanted to buy it?. Yeah, I bought it too.
Just brought it home with some other goodies.
Bob Korves drove up to Lake Almanor with me. Thanks again Bob.
A Baldor carbide grinder with coolant pump and a surface plate.!!
I pick up the Micromaster in a couple weeks.
Last December I bought a Brown and Sharpe Micromaster 618, fully automatic surface grinder.
Bob Korves went with me to check it out. The owner saw me druling over his 7” shaper. He asked me if I wanted to buy it?. Yeah, I bought it too.
Just brought it home with some other goodies.
Bob Korves drove up to Lake Almanor with me. Thanks again Bob.
A Baldor carbide grinder with coolant pump and a surface plate.!!
I pick up the Micromaster in a couple weeks.
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Today i went to the Flea/ Tool market, i wasn't looking for anything special, but i've been needing a new set of step drills, so first thing i picked up was this set for 8$ nothing special just a china set, but then a new vendor arrived, straight from germany, i've come across this situation before and have gotten great deals so first thing to buy was a set of machinist clamps for 4$ for both then i picked this air hammer with all accessories for 8$ also a good deal but the best pick was the last. The big electric Fein impact gun, people usually go for smaller cordless tools but i need the power for those stuck axle bolts, it has a 1" square, i'll need to buy couple of reducers, from what i could quickly google there is rated 940W and 900Nm i'm assuming that is more than enough, only downfall was i had to carry it together with all the other things close to a mile to my car. It was a very hot day but a good score, i bought the impact for 55$.
At an estate sale we found a bunch of rack gears.
6 teeth per inch and about 21 inches long and 1/2 inch square.
Look like same as on small lathe bed.
One has mounting holes while rest are virgin.
Looks like it was a longer chunk that was cut into pieces.
No need for them but could not let them be tossed into the roll off...no wonder we have no room in the shop...
They were laying in the wall braces, 20 of them and with "pile price" they were basically free.
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6 teeth per inch and about 21 inches long and 1/2 inch square.
Look like same as on small lathe bed.
One has mounting holes while rest are virgin.
Looks like it was a longer chunk that was cut into pieces.
No need for them but could not let them be tossed into the roll off...no wonder we have no room in the shop...
They were laying in the wall braces, 20 of them and with "pile price" they were basically free.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk