so waht ya doin today?

JWFilips

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Was Making my supper today at 4 pm when I had a chance to grab this photo of the big boy watching me through the Kitchen window!
Finally out before twilight!
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You can see that he has a bit of deer fuzz on one of his points! Well he just got finished giving a spike buck the ole antlers up the rump!
 

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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Ordered the .223 Remington Ruger American with black stock and Vortex scope. It's strictly a distributor special, because Ruger's site only shows the moss green (yukko!) version. The store owner said it could take up to 10-days to receive it, then there's the stupid 10-day waiting period, which will complete the deal close enough to my birthday for it to be a present to myself.

Also, ordered dies from Midsouth, and will likely order 500 pieces of once-fired .223 Rem. Winchester brass from GI Brass. but first will see if anyone here has extra they'd like to sell.
 
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popper

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That is a good looking buck! Just dumped 5# of PPU 223, have to turn necks to make BO. It's good stuff, just makes thick necks. Canned tamales aren't nearly as good as the real thing but not too bad. IIRC the canned stuff uses corn meal which is different from masa.
 
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fiver

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for a dump and eat meal they ain't the worst thing I've ever ate.
just don't try them cold... bleh.

messed around in the green house some today.
I'm kind of thinking about trying some Beets or cauliflower out there.
my only reservations are we haven't come into the cold part of winter yet and they might want more daylight hours to grow properly.
I dunno [shrug] everything is still try it and see out there.
the mint I put out there looks like it might try to take over part of the box, if it does I will plant some in the floor around the doors and in the corners and such and let it go some.
 

JWFilips

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Man.... if any of you would like to share a tamale recipe I would enjoy it! Granted I'm from the North East but I really enjoy Southwestern/ Mexican Cuisine.... A taste of a real Tamale would be exciting! Been growing the Hatch style chillies the past few years and really get into the "Green Chili " recipes!
 

StrawHat

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Tonight ends a relaxing two days in Northern Illinois. Tomorrow we go back to work. Four times a year we bring our business, and our two dogs, to Chicago to sharpen for the customers of a medium sized grocery chain. The next six days will be long hours of non stop sharpening.

Kevin
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
We finished anchoring the rotophase and got the manual knee mill leveled and anchored. The hammer drill I bought recently is a champ. Tomorrow we plan to level up and anchor down the manual lathe. It has leveling screws and it's light enough we can use the porta-power to lift it. After that we will work on the air compressors. Need to flip them on their side and remove the drain plug, will replace it with an elbow, a short section of pipe and a shutoff valve. Since we're mounting the units on some antivibration pads we'll have enough room underneath for the plumbing. This will make it easy to drain out the condensate. Also have to enlarge the holes in the mounting pads to accomodate the antivibration pads.

Once the a/cs are anchored the electricians can come in and finish up the wiring. The plumbers will come back in a couple weeks to put the piping on the wall for the air lines but until then we can use some flexible air hoses to hook up to the CNC machines and any air tools we might need.

The plumbers showed up and installed the water heater and all the bathroom fixtures. They used a bypass to go around the water meter to test the lines for leakage but by law they had to disconnect it from the system when they were done. The water dept will install a meter tomorrow so we ought to have working plumbing - hot water and flush toilets - real soon. Yeah!

Here are a few shots. I was standing by the center door on the east side of the building and tried to get a panoramic photo montage.

South wall. An air compressor will go where the tricycle is sitting. Our MIG and TIG welders will probably be parked there, there will be two outlets along the wall to for extension cords. We have enough cord length to weld anywhere in the building if need be.
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The center machine is a small Rockwell horizontal milling machine, it will plug into a three phase outlet.
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The center machine is a 15' x 50" Clausing manual lathe. It will get leveled tomorrow.
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The center machine is a 10" x 54" vertical (knee) mill. The short gray machine to the right sitting in the corner is a tool and cutter grinder. Had this stored off-site, now we can finally use it. Visitors coming in the door will be able to see the whole shop through the polycarbonate windows while still being protected from chips and flying debris.
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Our rolling chuck rack, welding table and shelving and tool boxes.
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Our cutoff saw (not in its permanent location), foreman's desk, and some shelving we got from Home Depot.
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Our foot powered forklift in front of our new shelves, our other a/c, and the end of our CNC lathe.
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Our CNC lathe along north wall.
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Along the wall is our drill press and a 7" South Bend shaper. The miscellaneous hardware in the foreground will get moved to a better location.
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KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
Our CNC mill in the north east corner.
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The handicapped stall in the bathroom.
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The non-handicapped stall with toilet and urinal.
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The sink in the common area. To the right is a handicapped accessible shower, no photos of it. Note the color flakes in the bathroom floor and the gloss finish compared to the shop floor
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KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
Well, it's not a dance hall, it's going to get dirty sometime. But we will try to do our best to keep things clean. The particle board surface of the foyer wall and office/bathroom area will get covered by the same steel paneling as the interior building walls. This will make the walls easy to wipe down and clean.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
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Easy to clean is good. Those little bits of metal get everywhere. Coolant and cutting oil hold them on surfaces like glue.
 

fiver

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you need some color in there.
brighter green's [like that one bench] red's and Blue's, that's too drab and un-cheery.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
That's Scott's personal toolbox that he just bought, about $400 at Home Depot. It's got a power strip and USB charger built in. I'm thinking about getting one for me in a different color.
 
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Ian

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Filled the place up already, didn't you? :p

You're gonna need a bottle of Windex and a roll of paper towels to clean the noseprints and drool off of the Lexan if any of us amateur hobbist types ever get a chance to stop by and see this outfit in person. However...welding? Over that floor? :eek: I assume you have plenty of fiberglass blankets for that?

I also assume the one bathroom will have handrails and such? Something I have often thought about (and due to being injured a time or two have wished for) is some kind of hanging bar or chain with a padded tee-handle or hoop hanging at about seated chin level right in front of the toilet so a person could pull themselves straight up and forward to swivel around 180⁰ into a wheelchair.

Congrats on nearing the end of a very difficult, expensive, complex, stressful, politically treacherous journey. My hat is off to you.
 

Ian

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Well, I have a conundrum. As of this evening I now have two full-time jobs occupying the same hours of the same days. Broke the news to my employer and friend of 11 years tonight that I accepted a firm offer elsewhere. I kept him in the loop up to the minute the whole time since September, but some things don't hit home until they do, and now it has for both of us. He's gonna break the news to the rest of the crew in the morning and we'll work out the damage control and how many loose ends will need to be tied up over the next few days after that. Another employee will be offered my position and based on the response (likely not favorable) I may stay part time for another week to train. Then I get to gear-up again in earnest as a full-time dealership service tech, which means going through all my tools, probably acquiring a new, midsized toolbox (not moving my monster box out of the garage...ever), and sorting all that out for the move.

I was in fact asked about several other positions (you guys were right) before the official offer but not really offered them because the compensation levels wouldn't quite meet my stated requirements. I'm quite satisfied with the offer and tech position, it is, after all, what I have always been happiest doing for a living. Lots of manufacturer training and testing to do, much adjustment and learning, but much to look foward too again, finally.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Ian, my very best wishes in your new job! Change is always a mix of pain and fun, you'll live through it either way.

Keith, any shop with a shaper is a real shop IMO. That is one sweet layout! On the welders, as Ian mentioned, they make mats you can put down to protect your floor and screens for the rest of the shop. 2 toilets in one shop! Such luxury...the mind boggles! ;)

Fiver, IME if any kind of mint finds favorable ground and conditions it WILL take over the area. It will also show up in places you never planted if you have any around. We have some chocolate mint growing wild near our mud room door. The plants it must have come from were way out around the front of the house. No clue how it got there.

Gotta try to get some stuff done without messing my back up further. This should be interesting...