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Tangent Corner / Re: Surprise !

« on: August 20, 2011, 04:57:11 AM »

Don't drink the water while in Mexico, and don't eat the chilli while at Overloadeds house.

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Tangent Corner / Re: A new arrival

« on: August 17, 2011, 02:28:38 AM »

Very nice! I'm jealous!

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Using Biodiesel as a machining fliud - Video

« on: August 17, 2011, 02:09:55 AM »

The first time I smelt the exhaust of my mate's Toyota Landcruiser, I commented to him that he would be likely to attract cats.

Thank you for the laugh!

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Bridgeport is getting an overhaul

« on: July 29, 2011, 11:20:09 PM »

That looks real nice, Hood! Very slick indeed.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Cylinder Heads

« on: July 26, 2011, 09:30:30 PM »

That was the first thing that hit my mind also, Tweakie. That fan looks MUCH better, Steve.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Cylinder Heads

« on: July 24, 2011, 07:01:22 PM »

Holy crap, you made a stand too! Sweet. I was actually talking about the full size picker in the background behind the Craftsman stool. (that hurts your butt when you sit on it for more than 10 minutes because it don't have good padding and you have to tighten the bolts ever so often and its not very sturdy that was purchased on sale and still ended up being overpriced...)

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Cylinder Heads

« on: July 24, 2011, 05:31:24 PM »

Good stuff, Steve. I see you've got the cherry picker behind the stool ready to go.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: July 12, 2011, 09:16:56 AM »

That's just crazy about the patent, Tweak. Sounds more like an infringement on personal rights to me. I could see it, if it were applicable to a specific method that was unique. Anyhow, that looks very interesting! So, you could ink the pattern however you liked, I suppose, eh? Say if you were to make a grape vine, you could color the leaves green and the vine brown, and grapes blue or whatever. If you made hundreds, then you could just silkscreen them I suppose. How does a cleaner such as bleach affect it? Looks great as usual, Tweakie!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Safety First

« on: July 10, 2011, 01:54:54 PM »

Jeff, by no means are they removed and thrown away. Any time if I feel like using them, they are right there next to the machines. 100% personal preference. You'd be hard pressed to go into a job shop, around here, anyhow, and find 1/10th the safety equipment, and operating rules that a larger industrial place has. Not trying to sway from the original thread here, but...personally I feel like SOME of the "safety" measures put in place are just as much of an added hazard, as to what they really offer in protection. Take vehicle air bags for instance. They are a great thing and save many lives, but lets say that airbags were not enclosed, but rather partially inflated. They are put in place to protect you, but the added hazard of working around them, actually creates or contributes to other hazards. This very subject (safety guards) has been preached many times in other forums, especially in woodworking forums. Wars have been fought about it, and people have been killed. Kinda like religion or politics. What I'm concerned most about on a lathe is the stringer chips. Get a pile of those in the pan, and it don't take but but a split second for a stringer to pick them back out of the pan, in tornado fashion. Only thing a guard would have done in that particular case, is add to the shrapnel flying around. To each his own, I guess. Nothing is a guarantee, whatever the choice. Do whatever is safest for you.

About the mind focus...I ALWAYS have my hand on the e-stop when I run a part for the first time on the CNC lathe, and turn the feed rate down. Things have gone wrong before, and even then, when I'm prepared for it, my mind still thinks "oh crap, what do I do!" for a split second, and I have to refocus on pressing that button. Strange.

When these things happen, your brain seems to work in slow motion.

A guy at a shop next door to us was using a large hand held disk grinder. He must have been using it in an awkward position or something, but it kicked back, and gashed the side of his neck open. I spoke with him later, and he said that the first thing he thought was "I'm dead. I'm going to bleed out before I can get to the hospital."
     'I had come to terms with that, and that's just the way it was. There's nothing I could do about it.'
"Then I thought, How are my wife and kid going to make it without me. I don't have enough life insurance to secure their future."
"You'd be amazed at the things that you think about when something like that happens. It's not the bills that are coming due, or new tires for the car, but all the important things in life that really matter."

It was sobering to hear him tell it, and see the skin graft battle scar. Sends shivers down my spine every time I see the guy now.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Safety First

« on: July 07, 2011, 04:50:29 PM »

Wow    Glad you made it out alive. It coulda been a whooooole lot worse. Actually being able to focus your mind into hitting the E-stop in a time of panic is no easy feat. If the chuck had been spinning faster it prolly woulda got ya regardless. Hopefully the company won't try to pin it all on you, not following safety protocol, and fire you or "downsize" or some other nonsense to get rid of ya.

preventing me from fully closing the chuck guard

What's this "guard" you speak of?    All of ours are removed. Hope I never pay for it with injury.
Thanks for sharing your experiences.