so waht ya doin today?
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JWFilips
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Our son and his significant other stoped by this afternoon.
It was nice! I made them a full Thanksgiving meal in a large pan! I like doing it this way because you use a lid and everything steam warms... Then I finnish it by boosting the heat, taking off the lid and putting good gravy over everything they wanted gravy on! This way the turkey doesn't dry out!
No complaints on their end and their dishes were cleaned off when I cleared the table! Then for some pumpkin pie!
it was very enjoyable having them over . We can see a big change in both of them since they will become new parents! I guess I sure can get used to them being together now that they have a mutual bond! I hope it continues. Almost felt like a real family again!
It was nice! I made them a full Thanksgiving meal in a large pan! I like doing it this way because you use a lid and everything steam warms... Then I finnish it by boosting the heat, taking off the lid and putting good gravy over everything they wanted gravy on! This way the turkey doesn't dry out!
No complaints on their end and their dishes were cleaned off when I cleared the table! Then for some pumpkin pie!
it was very enjoyable having them over . We can see a big change in both of them since they will become new parents! I guess I sure can get used to them being together now that they have a mutual bond! I hope it continues. Almost felt like a real family again!
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Nope, all that stuff makes an already great tasting pie all the more tasty. Yum, yum!I can understand all the stuff on top of the pie. You have to do something to kill the taste of the pumpkin.
Ian
Notorious member
I managed to avoid Horror Fright today, even on-line. So much stuff I need but don't really need don't have room to put. However, I did manage to spend $400 on stuff from Jeff's Dollarama to fill a few of the worst gaps in my machine shop tooling inventory. I put the BS-0 dividing head kit in my cart and took it back out a few times, it was $50 off but one of those things that needs another several hundred dollars worth of tooling to be very useful, it can wait. Settled for a nice AXA tool holder set for the new lathe and jumped into the carbide lathe tooling game in earnest. I also picked up a few other handy-dandy odds and ends that just get absorbed into the conglomerate and makes you wonder where all your money went until you have to find room for another tool box to put it all.
JWFilips
Well-Known Member
Ian,
Sure would love to see some posts on any new machine work you are doing!
I try to stay way from Black Friday-ites... But My wife and I got a great new Big Fish game On BOGO free deal today. We love sitting around and playing "Big Fish" games on the Holidays! She loves "Mystery Case Files" "Christmas Adventures" And "Park Ranger" & I got to admit, If she can sit me down for 1 hour.... I love them to!
Sure would love to see some posts on any new machine work you are doing!
I try to stay way from Black Friday-ites... But My wife and I got a great new Big Fish game On BOGO free deal today. We love sitting around and playing "Big Fish" games on the Holidays! She loves "Mystery Case Files" "Christmas Adventures" And "Park Ranger" & I got to admit, If she can sit me down for 1 hour.... I love them to!
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Cast 160-plus Lee 452-230 TC, primed 50 .45 ACP cases in preparation of loading them with various amounts of Herco and the 452-230 TC bullets I lubed yesterday evening. Emptied the Lee 20-pound pot of the handgun alloy and got it ready to cast some of the NOE 311-188s, when they arrive.
Talked to one of the twin brother next-door neighbors, and he said their three-week Washington elk hunt was another skunker. Lots of rain and snow and cold, bear and cougar sign, spotted two wolves, and on the last day they saw an elk a mile away. The only bright spot was their nephew's 12 year old son killing an elk on his first hunt. Oh, it was so cold the coolered beer froze.
Talked to one of the twin brother next-door neighbors, and he said their three-week Washington elk hunt was another skunker. Lots of rain and snow and cold, bear and cougar sign, spotted two wolves, and on the last day they saw an elk a mile away. The only bright spot was their nephew's 12 year old son killing an elk on his first hunt. Oh, it was so cold the coolered beer froze.
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Ian
Notorious member
I have a machine question that's been burning in my mind off and on for several years now. Haven't asked because I figured the reason would become obvious as I gained experience with lathe work, however the reason has NOT become any more obvious with time and I can find no explanation for why lathe headstocks are always on the LEFT. This just seems fundamentally stupid to me, particularly for a screw machine.
Let me explain. For anyone who has ever single-pointed right hand threads on a manual lathe, you know what I'm talking about. Sure, a fellow can rig his cutting tool upside down and on the back and thread away from the chuck, but it's a workaround, is tough on gibs and dovetail ways, not very rigid, and you can't see the tool bit very well. For a world revolving primarily around right hand threads, why isn't the headstock on the RIGHT, where the operator can position the tool into a very minimal relief groove (or nearly against a shoulder feature), engage the half nuts, and have a sip of coffee while watching the tool go safely away from the work features and lathe chuck?
Let me explain. For anyone who has ever single-pointed right hand threads on a manual lathe, you know what I'm talking about. Sure, a fellow can rig his cutting tool upside down and on the back and thread away from the chuck, but it's a workaround, is tough on gibs and dovetail ways, not very rigid, and you can't see the tool bit very well. For a world revolving primarily around right hand threads, why isn't the headstock on the RIGHT, where the operator can position the tool into a very minimal relief groove (or nearly against a shoulder feature), engage the half nuts, and have a sip of coffee while watching the tool go safely away from the work features and lathe chuck?
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Okay, okay. I can spel purty gud but cant tipe as gud.
Morphed the elf into an elk and the kids are going to love Santa.
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Hawk,
Check your inbox for the recipe.
KeithB
Resident Half Fast Machinist
I have no idea why traditional lathes are right handed. Maybe it has something to do with early lathes being driven by an overhead belt. Maybe in Australia they put the headstock on the right side. LOL. Of course nowadays on a CNC lathe we cut inside and outside threads on the same part using the same tool just by reversing the spindle direction and X axis motion. They’re built to run in either direction.
RBHarter
West Central AR
Because of clock wise rotation motors and the mass industrial belt drives of yore .
Everything runs on right hand threads except oxy and propane so it stands that the drives should run on the same .
Last it keeps the right hand away from the drives . The predominance of the population is right handed so if there is a probability of an injury from an external drive belt , chain , etc , then it should be arranged such that in the event it damages the off side.
Everything runs on right hand threads except oxy and propane so it stands that the drives should run on the same .
Last it keeps the right hand away from the drives . The predominance of the population is right handed so if there is a probability of an injury from an external drive belt , chain , etc , then it should be arranged such that in the event it damages the off side.
