Gunners Home shop

Thank you, thank you Gunner. You have alleviated my guilty conscience about my shop clutter. BTW were you injured when the explosion occurred?

Stu Fields

Steve: I don't know where you got your bypass, but I don't remember any chest pain at all. Darn few pain pills after leaving the hospital. I do have a nice long scar though that seems to affect the nerves a bit right in the area of the scar. Have had my 3rd class flite physical for sometime now.

Stu Fields

Looks like you could use a D9 Cat, and just push it all out the door and start all over! ;-) Greg

Dood,

How many square feet is alladat?

Can you get set up for any prototyping/production, mebbe get some jobs?

Where's the Confederit Flag? No Confederit Flag? Robert E. Lee Memorial?

How do you keep it so clean? Mine's a mess.

Steve

Thanks, fun to see. You need more tools I was surprised to not see any CNC equipment. Say, was one of those bikes the Indian you worked on a while back?

Karl (cranking out .308 by the bucket) Townsend

Hey, watch that Robert E. Lee stuff. He's a very sensitive subject in my family. Where my son goes to school, Lee's birthday, January 19th, is "designated and set apart by the Board of Trustees as Founders' Day" to be "observed annually, forever, with appropriate commemorative exercises."

The commemorative ceremonies are held just a few feet from the burial place of Traveler, Lee's horse. I never asked how deep they buried him, but I'm glad we didn't have to dig the hole.

On different days his "ranch" is either 1/4 acre, 3/4 acre, or several acres. And he says he's wrestled an 8' rattlesnake and a 2' centipede. Now, which of his answers for the size of his carport and yard would you believe?

No time left over after 2000 Usenet posts per week. Besides, his power is soon to turned off, and use of the siphon hose needs to be rationed in order to keep the fridge and 'puter runnin' for a few days after. Hopefully Palin will get drafted before that and declare days 30 hours long, so that gummer will have enough hours to tell us how he punked PG&E by spending $1 for what they used to charge him a dime for.

He had 4 gross of those in soggy cartons, but traded them for a 55 gallon drum of evapo-rust... that must have leaked out into the dirt.

Wayne

Not even an Omniturn! No nostalgia for Gummer, eh?

Ayup...it was bike #2

The 15"x52 Clausing is in there as well...chuckle..though covered by my machining bench

One of these days Ill pretty up the shop..but at the moment..it works ok.

I was taking pictures of the Rockford drill press and realized that when I looked at the pictures..it looked much smaller in the photos. That vise on the drill presses table..is a fullsized 6" Kurt clone and the machining bench is 6' long

That Clausing 8540 horizontal btw..is for sale.

Gunner

"Aren't cats Libertarian? They just want to be left alone. I think our dog is a Democrat, as he is always looking for a handout" Unknown Usnet Poster

Heh, heh, I'm pretty sure my dog is a liberal - he has no balls. Keyton

The blue machine on the workbench with the keyboard on the front is an OmniTurn CNC lathe control..the lathe is in the backyard. Ill have photos of it as I rebuild it.

Gunner

"Aren't cats Libertarian? They just want to be left alone. I think our dog is a Democrat, as he is always looking for a handout" Unknown Usnet Poster

Heh, heh, I'm pretty sure my dog is a liberal - he has no balls. Keyton

If you could package some of that empty floor space into a flat rate box I could certainly use it over here :-)

Mark Rand RTFM

Looks pretty good. I need to continue cleaning...

Robert E. Lee was an honorable man, no matter what side he fought on.

Wes

Mines pure white, still sanding drywall :(

Wes

-- "Additionally as a security officer, I carry a gun to protect government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 06:46:59 -0800, the infamous "Steve B" scrawled the following:

It's a whole lot cleaner than I saw it a couple years ago. The new front door (rollup) makes a helluva difference, too.

-- Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.

Yes, he was. And so was the horse he rode in on. d8-)

I've found it really interesting over the years to try to put myself in the place of antebellum Southern gentlemen and officers. Such a contradiction; some of the finest people we've ever produced, with one big blind spot.

Lee was the president of my son's university after the war. He instituted a number of things, including an absolute honor system. Anyone caught cheating or stealing is given an opportunity to leave quietly, or to submit to a student court and be drummed out if they're found guilty. Most tests are given without professors or proctors present. Some are taken home by the students. It's amazing to me, but it works.

They hold Lee in high esteem down there, and Stonewall Jackson, too, who lived in town.

Even if he owned the place free & clear with no debts I doubt he could sell what must be (by now) a superfund site to anybody.

IF he had one someone might expect him to get a job & earn a legit income.

Almost as quickly and the Lee family departed the estate they loved and called home, the Union Army moved across the Potomac and began using the rolling hills around Arlington House. By 1862 the Lee family owed $92.07 in taxes on their former estate. To settle the tax matter, either General Robert E. Lee, or his wife...the great-granddaughter of George Washington, would have leave their Southern sanctuary to pay the debt in person. It was an unwinnable situation. Under the "Act for the Collection of Direct Taxes in the Insurrectionary Districts within the United States", the federal government in Washington, D.C. confiscated the land once part of George Washington's own family.

Under Brigadier General Irvin McDowell, the 1,100-acre plot became a buffer zone on the border between the Capitol City and the "Insurrectionists". It was the ideal location for a hospital, and two military forts were erected to defend it (Fort Whipple which later became Fort Myer and Fort McPherson). On January 11, 1865 the federal government offered Arlington House and its land for sale at public auction. It was purchased by a tax commissioner "for government use, for war, military, charitable and educational purposes." It was the open door for the man who now commanded the garrison at Arlington House to vent his hatred for Robert E. Lee.

Brigadier General Montgomery Meigs jealousy for Robert E. Lee predated the beginning of the Civil War, and General Lee's defection to the Confederacy only fueled the fire. By the Spring of 1864 a Nation wearied by three years of Civil War, tragic battles at places like Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, Chickamauga and others, waited desperately for an end to war. General Meigs was determined to insure that Robert E. Lee would never return to Arlington. On May 13, 1864 Union Private William Christman became the first American to be buried on the grounds at Arlington. Meigs excavated the once-beautiful rose garden to create a 10-foot-deep stone and masonry vault to inter the remains of 1,800 soldiers killed in 1862 Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia. By the time the Civil War ended, more than 16,000 Union soldiers were interred on the grounds of Robert and Mary Anna Lee's estate. General Meigs vendetta proved a success, Robert E. Lee never returned to claim the now uninhabitable estate for his son, George Washington Custis Lee. In 1870 Robert E. Lee died and was buried in the chapel of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. In 1892 General Meigs died in Washington, D.C. He was buried nearby in what was now a National Cemetery...only 100 yards from Arlington House.