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Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday July 12th at 10am. The signup thread is here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!
I suck.
- Thread starter jorogi
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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.
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.
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.
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.
OMG. Did you just remove it ?
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.
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.
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.
What might that be?
Not fun.
I'll be very happy when it's done, it'll be a short thread then.
Chips at last. Why didn't any of you warn me that bigger lathes make bigger, hotter chips ? Bastards.
When previewing the lathe it was pointed out that the front way wipers were missing and the holes for their mounting were plugged. There had been some mystery attachment in that location which was also awol. So first task was to to make replacements. The plugs were flush so I ended up drilling a small hole in the end and using an extractor to unscrew them. Luckily I had a flexible 12" drill bit so I was able to drill without removing the carriage from the machine.
Arbutus kindly provided some felt for the wipers. The Meuser has way guards that afix to the wipers.
So the first chips were from a mystery honey hobby part, well two actually. They are made from a section of angle iron and they needed a 2" counter bore on the inside of the angle. First try was on the rotary table but there wasn't enough clearance for the ER40 collet chuck and no endmill long and large enough. Second try was with the boring head but my boring bars that are long enough to reach just don't have the rigidity. Third try was in the Meuser. The bars in the multi fix could reach but I'd have to alter the shape of part to get clearance over the saddle. Oh but wait a moment, one of the many accessories that came with the lathe was a large boring bar holder that mounts in place of the tool post. The 1 1/8" boring bar reached in easily, woo hoo, easy peasy.
Happy times.
When previewing the lathe it was pointed out that the front way wipers were missing and the holes for their mounting were plugged. There had been some mystery attachment in that location which was also awol. So first task was to to make replacements. The plugs were flush so I ended up drilling a small hole in the end and using an extractor to unscrew them. Luckily I had a flexible 12" drill bit so I was able to drill without removing the carriage from the machine.
Arbutus kindly provided some felt for the wipers. The Meuser has way guards that afix to the wipers.
So the first chips were from a mystery honey hobby part, well two actually. They are made from a section of angle iron and they needed a 2" counter bore on the inside of the angle. First try was on the rotary table but there wasn't enough clearance for the ER40 collet chuck and no endmill long and large enough. Second try was with the boring head but my boring bars that are long enough to reach just don't have the rigidity. Third try was in the Meuser. The bars in the multi fix could reach but I'd have to alter the shape of part to get clearance over the saddle. Oh but wait a moment, one of the many accessories that came with the lathe was a large boring bar holder that mounts in place of the tool post. The 1 1/8" boring bar reached in easily, woo hoo, easy peasy.
Happy times.
One odd thing is with the motor. I believe that the correct operation is to lift the clutch lever up for normal spindle direction and push down for reverse rotation. This lathe works the opposite of that. It's not really an issue for me as I am not accustomed to using this type of control. I reversed two of wires which made everything operate "properly" except the oil pump does not work in that direction. Perhaps the up and down is not standardized ? Comments ?
In my limited experience, down is forward, up is reverse. So I think it was right as you got it.
SightlessSeer
Well-Known Member
On my Leblond up is forwards and down is reverse (there is a gate on the lever to lock out reverse unless you move it aside).