I have to agree, I really like the look and feel of the doors, glad I have a friend that works with glass that made them up for me

Hood

   Good one!

Brett

I'd call that color "turd muddily green", lol
but wasn't that the color of one of those alien's?
just teasing...  workmanship looks great
your really pushing getting this thing done by summer's end.

You have the wrong colour there, its whats known as at the right price green
In fact its a very close match to the original colour of both my Computurn and Conect lathes .
It looks a different shade in every pic I take so really you dont get a good idea of what it actually is like but the one of the front of the doors seems to be the closest
Summer? what does that mean, seem to recall that word from my childhood but havent heard it for years
Hood

Summer? what does that mean, seem to recall that word from my childhood but havent heard it for years

It's that day usually around May/June, where that big yellow thing appears along with blue skies, and the temperature reaches double figures beginning with a two.
I'd personally just be happy to reach double figures right now!

Got a bit more done yesterday and today, panels insides have been painted and today I fitted them, will paint the outsides over the next day or two. Also got the bracket I made for the door rail painted and also the lower part of the doors, came out fairly well and its starting to take shape. Still have to get the door seals and with the Easter weekend it will likely be mid week before I get them. Also have to make handles for the doors and also a guideway for the bottom of them, at the moment I just have them resting on delrin pads.

Brett asked me to run the roadrunner at 20m/min to see what it would do. It did it but the metal guard on the head rattles about a bit. There seems to be quite a lot of metalwork missing as there are quite a few brackets and fixing points and nothing to fit to them. I think if all of the original guarding was in place it wouldnt rattle about so much. No big deal really as this speed is impractical for doing any actual cutting as the spindle would need to be a lot faster than even it was originally, however having the rapids as the original machine had is nice.

Here is a video of it doing the roadrunner, make sure you dont have the volume too loud as it might sound like an earthquake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gQ1y6I2GWM

Also a couple of pics of the side panels in place and the doors almost finished.
Hood

You forgot to put up the adult rated content disclaimer Hood.................... I'm quite sure in some places this could be considered p0rn.  I'm lusting for sure!  

Sure is looking good Hood!  You are gonna love this machine.  If you don't, I do.  It can even make the green look good!  Must admit, looks much better than I thought green could on a  machine.  Only thing I would change is it's location............ from your shop to mine.  



Brett  

Really like the doors. Make the machine look real neat! Never seen that big whole glass doors on a machine without a metal cage. What is the way it was originally done? What thickness it the glass?

Dan