so waht ya doin today?

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
Went over to building yesterday morning and talked to electrician. Figured out where to put the 400A breaker panel inside and the underground type meter box outside. The electrician seems real nice, he teaches part time in the certification program for apprentices in the local IBEW, we talked a little about the value of communication and hands on problem solving skills and found out we agreed a lot about certain things.

Noticed that the pavement on the road in front of building had been dug up and filled with white rock. That is where the connection for the sewer is located. The excavator/plumber had dug it up to make hookup but had wrong size connectors so they filled it up until correct parts come in, should only take a couple days. Once it is hooked up and tested (and it will require electricity) they will repave road.

Getting more excited now that I am seeing the final stages get started. Starting to do some serious planning for moving the equipment and supplies. Need to order a couple of 4' x 8' polycarbonate sheets (internal windows and visitor entryway guard) and buy some more storage racks. I don't want to move in until I have a place to put things, handling anything more than once is a waste.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
tempered glass is price comparable to lexan and a whole lot easier to work with in a frame.
I'd get an estimate from a window company you might be surprised when you remember the frame part [and quite often the installation] is included in the price.
 

popper

Well-Known Member
Polycarb and oil don't mix.
Been reading a lot of early settlement of Mo, Ks, Ne history on line (actual stuff, not from the 'books'). You know, the whistle/wagon stop towns. Basically from trading post to 'town houses' for the regional land owners. Dang, those kids did walk 3mi. in the snow to get from one place to the other and thought nothing of it! Farm kids with 3Rs education ended up doing lots of stuff we send ours to college to learn. All the 'wars' along the Ks/Mo line. We may have technology now but really nothing changes.
Got a 7:30 Am appt to get her car reprogrammed so the main bearings don't go bad - otherwise noted as detuning the 2l turbo motor. She's too busy to take it in - she says.
 
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Intheshop

Banned
I'm starving.....


Been saving lunch money and sprung for a 512 Timney for the daily driver R700 SPS 7-08. I'd adjusted factory trigger to an acceptable 3 1/4#. Which,ain't bad for a hunting rig.

So now,with skipping lunch not only are the abs right much lighter..... the 7-08 is sporting a real clean 2# trigger.

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KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
Just bought three sheets of 3/8" Tuffak. Most of one sheet will be a 32" tall x 96" wide window between shop and office. The other will make an L shaped entryway wall at the main entrance, I want something to provide some impact protection to visitors as they enter the building. I'm going to attach some baskets with ear and eye PPE in them. Three 48" x 96" sheets delivered was $869.

The problem with tempered glass is cutting it to fit and you can't drill or tap it. Not sure why oil and polycarb don't mix, I've used the stuff for machine splash guards and such for years w/no problems.
 
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Creeker

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September 17,1862..... Battle of Antietam

Beginning early on the morning of September 17, 1862, the battle of Maryland's Antietam Creek began. It would be the bloodiest single day in American military history.

On September 15 & 16, the Confederate & Union armies gathered on opposite sides of Antietam Creek. Fighting began in the foggy morning hours of September 17. The bloody combat continued for eight hours across the region.

By the time the sun went down more than 3,600 stepped out into eternity.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
you can't cut tempered glass.
it has to be cut first then tempered.

I can see the poly stuff now.
I figured it was just gonna be like a sliding window between the office and the shop, or between the office and the reception area type thing.
 

Intheshop

Banned
Creeker,wifey and I go every cpl years.... extremely beautiful countryside. Harper's Ferry right down the rd is one of our favorite places.

Anyway,walking down the sunken rd at Antietam never ceases to raise hairs on my arms..... it's THAT eerie. My youngest lives in Fredericksburg and we walk to the stone wall there and you sorta get the feeling but not like Antietam.
 

popper

Well-Known Member
Regular polycarbonate is at risk of stress cracks when exposed to some mineral oils and fuels.
Hooker was a jerk. Great on the parade ground but lousy in combat - like Custer. Lincoln's biggest problem was finding officers that knew how to fight. Should have entirely been an artillery battle! Choose you battle site carefully. Get the enemy to err, which the North did exclusively. Lincoln had to increase conscripts to replace the lost. NYC was offended - several went to overtake the armory and were finally dissuaded when the armorer loosed a cannon of grape shot on them.
 

JonB

Halcyon member
YUCK YUCK YUCK.
I had plans to work in the garden today,,,too HOT and STICKY for me.
Actual air temp is upper 80s in Glencoe (Hutchinson is 15 miles away)
I work the Farmers Market tomorrow, I hope it cools off a bit this evening,
so I can at least pick one bushel of tomatoes to sell, since they are going for $45.

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fiver

Well-Known Member
wish I could split the temp difference with you.
I had my flannel shirt on all day, after the rain this morning the humidity was about 65% all day making it colder than it really was, which wasn't 60 to begin with.

pre-season hockey has started, the weather seems to be commiserating.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
Overhead lights in shop are installed, tomorrow they will finish putting in the meter box outside and the breaker panel inside. The lead electrician stopped by our current shop and checked out our dynamic rotophase 3 phase system and took down all the specs off our equipment. We're going to reuse all the fused disconnects and control panels, we discussed when we would need to break down our system for the move.

Meeting with the plumber tomorrow to double check that everything will fit, especially the one-piece shower unit.

Talked with our attorney this afternoon about setting up what is called a "triple net lease". My wife and I are 50/50 owners of BigFoot Storage LLC, which is the legal owner of the property and is the entity borrowing the money for the building. Me, my wife, and my nephew are the legal owners of the manufacturing/machining business known as BigFoot Technical Services Inc, a chapter S corporation. BigFoot Tech will be renting from BigFoot Storage, it's a way to insulate one business from another if there is ever any legal issues. In order to be legit in the eyes of the IRS and the legal system there has to be a clearly written contract between the two business entities. A triple net lease basically says that the renter of a property pays all the expenses associated with the property - taxes, maintenance, utilities, and any bank loan - so the owner of the building doesn't make any profit and therefore no income tax liability. And the cost to the renter is considered as a business expense so 100% of it comes off any profit.
 

Rick

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That legal stuff makes me cross-eyed. Better safe than sorry though as the old saying goes. Do ya have a date set as a goal to start moving the machine tools? How long will the business be down? Any contract jobs that your doin while the shop is closed?
 

Creeker

Well-Known Member
Creeker,wifey and I go every cpl years.... extremely beautiful countryside. Harper's Ferry right down the rd is one of our favorite places.

Anyway,walking down the sunken rd at Antietam never ceases to raise hairs on my arms..... it's THAT eerie. My youngest lives in Fredericksburg and we walk to the stone wall there and you sorta get the feeling but not like Antietam.

Never been to Antietam but sure enjoyed Harper's Ferry.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
Having a good accountant and a good lawyer is a requirement if you plan to run a serious business. I figure I might as well take advantage of the system and use every legal means available to come out ahead. It's hard enough as it is! Like Ian's sig line, it's the way you do it. Lot's of ways to run a business, we could accomplish the same end result - a profitable machine shop - with a number of different organizational setups, but some ways are more profitable than others. I think it's always a good thing to minimize tax and legal liabilities/exposures, and that is where good lawyers and accountants come in handy.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I used to get my hair cut in Tupper Lake NY by a guy named Tony. Tony was a 1st generation immigrant from, I assume, Italy. Tony wasn't much of a talker and he tended to short responses and greetings, "How you today?", "Yah yah". I think a haircut was $5.00 at the time and his was at least as good as the other choice down the street and his shop was lots cleaner. The inside of the shop was like stepping back into 1966. The walls of Tony's shop were plastered with Bugattis and similar type car pics. Never forget those pictures.

Worked hay yesterday. Little back field that's hard to get to in a good year and lots harder after a winter of Gord rutting up the road. Saw a coyote on the way in, too quick to have gotten a shot, but he was a good sized dog. Saw a Bald Eagle the day before in the same area. Got all the field done except for the last pass or two down the middle and KERBLANGITY-BLANG-BLANG-BLANG-BLANG!!! Anyone whose run PTO equipment will recognize that as the sound of a PTO shaft that busted and is banging against a drawbar. I guess I turned a little too tight and broke the yoke on a u-joint. Oh well, we're talking a strip 7-10 feet wide in a 7 acre field, and it doesn't even run the length of the field. . Good cover for bunnies, or so I tell myself. Got out of that hole and made it home only to discover the sheep were out...again! Was about time for the kids to get home anyway, so I let the dogs out and the bus soon arrived. Put Gord to raking and I started moving fence. Girl child came out and helped with that. Ate supper and by then it was after 6PM. Gets dark by 7 now, so much for that day! I did get Scrapie tags ordered in the morning. These are ear tags you have to apply to your lambs/sheep when they leave the premises to track a disease that is pretty much non-existent .Used to be Uncle Sam provided them free of charge since it was his program to start with. Now the producer has to get his own tags at 70 cents each. A little less chance for profit, as usual. 100 tags enroute.
 

Intheshop

Banned
Haha Bret,got my first and next 5-10 or so years worth of hair cut by a "Tony". Probably in his late 60's then. Interestingly he,besides being an ace barber was a classically trained guitarist..... finger picking so fast it sounded like a machine gun. He got my older brother "into" guitars and music..... who then took it pretty durn far up the ladder. More of a singer though,sung at Constitution Hall in Washington at his high point.