the Midas touch

Karl Townsend · 2011-04-26T18:30:57+00:00

Rainy day, so i thought I'd make a pump bracket...Turned on the manual mill, the Y axis readout quit, can't see why.So, I turned on the CNC mill. The -X limit switch was stuck on. A bitof investigation found the cause and it was going in about 45 minutes.Then the home routine wouldn't work. Couldn't figure out why. After1/2 hour of farting around I manually homed it.Then I turned on the bandsaw and it blew a breaker after about oneminute run. Reset and repeat. 1/2 hour of investigation found anintermitent short in the coolant pump. Got part cut without coolant.Anyway for five hours work I've got twelve holes drilled, and stillhave a few days repair just to get back where i was when i woke up.Karl

Apr 26, 2011 46 Replies

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Larry Jaques 15 years ago

I'd love to own a kb truck, wouldn't you?

Homebuilders in 1800 didn't allow trees near any targets (homes/outbuildings) because they clearcut it for 100 yards around the house. And loggers simply dropped the trees between the other trees without having to worry about fences, manicured yards, etc.

Right. With no money, not enough energy/bodily strength/time, getting someone else to take the wood and clean up after themselves seems to be the proper engineering plan. Actually, it's an executive decision: Think quickly and get someone else to do the work.

-- Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman

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Winston 15 years ago

Who wouldn't? Bet Iggy could the heavy duty version for moving toy^H^H^H machine tools from thither to yon.

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So they could control 'direction of fall' within say +-5 degrees? We have lost so much mastery in this modern computer age! (Chuckle!) :)

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By George, I think you've got it!

--Winston

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DoN. Nichols 15 years ago

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Hmm ... consider that this date is double the 13th. It is not a Friday -- but does that shift with double days? :-)

Sure sounds like it with your day.

Enjoy, DoN.

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Larry Jaques 15 years ago

Indubitably, my dear Winston.

I watched a 75' tall pine being dropped at my neighbor's this morning, and I've felt 3 others go since then from the comfort of my own home. It was just barely within your prescribed 5 degrees. He could have done better if the tree hadn't been so curved, I'm sure. Despite two well-hammered-in wedges, it came my direction a bit.

Great Caesar's Ghost! Whatever happened to Jove?

-- Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman

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Sunworshipper 15 years ago

You could sell the wood shavings to the bitch with the horses for the inside of the stalls. Make sure you remind her what a problem she created.

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jk 15 years ago

And perhaps if you had dropped them last year..... WHat she is supposed t o wait forever on YOU? She may or may not be a bitch, but her utilizing her own property does not make her one.

Well around where I live, that isn't a problem. I have a friend who does that when EVER he can find the work. [WHich is fairly often around here]

Again, where I live, Redwood Logs are worth good money, especially in the "correct" lengths.[I don't remember what that is]

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