I suck.

[Tom O]

Both Monica and I think YOU SUCK!
Cigar anyone?

 

[Mcgyver]

well done!

 

[Chawbeef]

Wow, ya really get eaten alive here when ya make a score. LOL..........................Chawbeef

 

[jorogi]

Dang I like sucking.

Chris was a big help making the loading go smoothly. The lathe was winched off the loading dock on to a Totem Towing tilt deck tow truck. Slick. The driver did a great job jiggling the skid off the deck onto my shop floor. Probably tied the truck up for 3 hours total and I was billed $305, a total bargain.

Not to be superstitious but things often happen in threes. A couple of buildings over from the machine shop at the University they're putting up a new building. They have a massive huge foundation almost up to grade. Sprouting up out of the concrete is probably one of the largest rebar structures I've ever seen and I have seen quite a few. Over the weekend, for some reason it all fell over. Ooops.
Number two was this morning at the machine shop. The shop auctioned of a mill at the same time as my lathe. They loaded it onto a tandem axle, tilt deck pick up truck style trailer. Just after they landed it on the trailer they realized that they hadn't secured the tilt lock and over she went. Luckily the chain block caught it and they managed to save the situation.
Luckily for me the streak ended at two.

 

[jorogi]

I have no idea what this lathe is, apparently the "c" stands for Chinese but it is in the shop at UVic where I got my Meuser from and it will be coming up for adoption probably in the new year. If any one might be interested I could dig up a number or addy.

 

[StevSmar]

I’m glad that you totally suck big time!!! Looks like a lovely lathe!

 

[jorogi]

I’m glad that you totally suck big time!!! Looks like a lovely lathe!

I'm really going to enjoy it. I'm having to move every machine I have to get it where it has to go. Got it through the outer shop and into the shop proper after work today. Hopefully, 1 maybe 2 days and I can start looking at the power supply.

 

[wmetfab]

Dang I like sucking.

Chris was a big help making the loading go smoothly. The lathe was winched off the loading dock on to a Totem Towing tilt deck tow truck. Slick. The driver did a great job jiggling the skid off the deck onto my shop floor. Probably tied the truck up for 3 hours total and I was billed $305, a total bargain.

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Not to be superstitious but things often happen in threes. A couple of buildings over from the machine shop at the University they're putting up a new building. They have a massive huge foundation almost up to grade. Sprouting up out of the concrete is probably one of the largest rebar structures I've ever seen and I have seen quite a few. Over the weekend, for some reason it all fell over. Ooops.
Number two was this morning at the machine shop. The shop auctioned of a mill at the same time as my lathe. They loaded it onto a tandem axle, tilt deck pick up truck style trailer. Just after they landed it on the trailer they realized that they hadn't secured the tilt lock and over she went. Luckily the chain block caught it and they managed to save the situation.
Luckily for me the streak ended at two.

And the reinforcing grid system is at:... The UBC school of engineering materials strength testing and building earthquake resistance engineering!
How embarasing
"Able to resist forces encountered during erection"
Very lucky nobody got killed.

 

[wmetfab]

Omg. Did I just say that ?!?

 

[jorogi]

Omg. Did I just say that ?!?

OMG. Did you just remove it ?

 

[David]

I removed it.

 

[wmetfab]

Oh no, I really suck. Properly like.
I got the Meuser lathe auctioned at UVic. First auction and I won, it's easy. Eight seconds remaining and $22.90 more than the next guy.
I went and looked at the lathe on Monday and it's a beaut. UVic bought it in 1971 (I have all the paperwork) for their science departments collaboration with the Triumph project, the cyclatron at UBC. As I understand it this was basically a one man shop. He passed away a few years back and the shop just fell idle. Now the university wants to convert the space to another purpose and so the lathe and the mill are going.
There is another shop there and they are doing Triumph stuff and and other UVic stuff. Chris, who handled the sale runs the show. He would have liked to have this lathe for his shop but it doesn't have a foot brake so it's not allowed, not safe. He showed me the lathe and gave me the background on it and then I got the shop tour. Two BP sort of mills, a Chineesium lathe, a clapped out Colchester and a small Haas lathe and mill. Very clean and very interesting looking projects.
So for pictures, here you go,

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This cart has seven boxes, two pails of oil and one of the steady rests. I picked this up today and will be picking the lathe up on Monday. As a rough inventory the boxes contain the following,
1 6" 3-Jaw chuck,
1 8" 3-Jaw chuck,
1 8" 4 jaw chuck,
1 14" 4 jaw/face plate chuck,
1 8" drive plate,
1 tool post for ball turning,
1 spare motor drive pulley,
4 chuck keys,
2 dead centers,
1 live center,
1 3 3/4" live cone center,
1 5" live cone center,
1 lantern toolpost with 5 tool holders,
1 drill chuck,
1 change gear (high speed ?),
6 drive dogs,
3 center drills,
9 boring bars,
2 insert tool holders,
6 Enco multifix tool holders,
6 pin wrenches,
1 solid tool post for large boring bars,
Oodles of original wrenches and hex keys,
2 steady rests (8" and 4" ?),
1 follow rest,
1 solid adjustable carriage stop,
1 each left and right micrometer carriage drive release dogs,
1 oiler,
and a few things I have no clue about and a bunch of high speed steel.
More to come when I get the lathe.

I suck, do I have a seconder ?

What!..no taper atattcment ??!

I removed it.

No hard feelings. Just as well

 

[jorogi]

What!..no taper atattcment ??!

No hard feelings. Just as well

No TTA. No coolant.
No hard feelings, how do you think I got the money to buy such a nice machine in the first place, way ahead of you grasshopper.

 

[jorogi]

The Meuser has landed. Right way up and everything at that. Note to self, don't do that again, at least not till you make a toe jack.

Hopefully I'll be adding another 140 or so square feet to the shop this summer so I'll get to move it all again.

So now I have to get back to my sweetie designated hobby but with a bit of luck I'll get a few hours to clean, power and fiddle a bit.

 

[David]

sweetie designated hobby

What might that be?

 

[jorogi]

What might that be?

Not fun.
I'll be very happy when it's done, it'll be a short thread then.