Tippy little bastards, aren't they. In hindsight, of course it should have been bolted to a concrete slab twice its mounting width the whole time. Plywood just wouldn't do.
Yeah, the old one-of-four problem. The idea is, though, that these should be bolted to the machine mounts, not simply placed under. They must be part of the machine during transit.
At Aerophysics they "installed" the Clausing 15 inch lathe by dragging it in with a ratchet winch off the end wall. They probably put an eye bolt in the wall near the floor near the desired position of the corner, and pulled on that corner.
I know what that feels like. At least you jumped away instead of trying to catch it and getting perforated by the cross feed handle.
You are about to recondition a lathe after a fall. You'll learn how to straighten that shaft on the arbor press to about a mil of runout, and how to scrape surfaces straight. This will make you an even better machinist.
I lost 17 when I went from the little white tablets to the little blue capsules. Was that ever a productive month! Now, it's like three is not enough and I get a bit silly, and four is too damn many. The pharmacist says seven of the half-strength capsules should be juuuuuust riiiiiiight.
Shit happens. Just don't ever quit.
That's one of the best uses of an open forum. Not too much about nuts and bolts, please, let's keep a sense of adventure and drama if we can.
Likewise, when you delete the final version of the annual report, the bezel on the monitor does not suddenly change color. Nobody knows anything unless you tell them. Spin doctor to the machine lab, stat!
Yours,
Doug Goncz (at aol dot com) Replikon Research
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