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Pistolero

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Now THAT could be a money maker for you. Use them to do the code, AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS,
and you just make chips, on a "as time permits basis". Or do their simpler stuff to free up their machines. Keep your
existing machines working, no big $$$ invested. Cool. Running their codes off loads a lot of time and responsibility
for errors onto them, headaches that you don't need (and probably don't want). Proving in CNC code on complex stuff
takes time, and unless you cut foam can make expensive scrap. You'd need some way of handling a 24x24x4 or 5"
chunk of aluminum, ballpark 300 lbs. Pretty unhandy, besides expensive. Or get a 24" "rod" and slice off the lengths
you need. :)o_O We used to have a lathe at work that could turn 17-20ish ft long and ~6 ft in diameter. Never saw it used.

$80+K bikes.......:oops: well, that can explain $2-3-4K for a wheel, if my estimate is anywhere near right. Wow.
 
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Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
It was just a search engine hit, Bret, sorry if any endorsement was implied. You have an adequate lathe and welder from what I understand so you should be able to make something work with off-the-shelf parts.

Understood Ian, just passing along my warning to anyone that might consider buying from them.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Bret, I have never worked with a gib key, but would there be a way to make a slide hammer to hook onto
the head and slide hammer it out? I have welded up and ground custom slide hammers a few times
and moved stuff that was impossible to do any other way.

Yes Bill, that's why I bought the slide hammer. I imagine I'm going to have to warm this up a bit and then try to drive the gear on further (the normal way you remove a gear held by a gib key in this type of equipment) and then use the slide hammer to pop the gib key out while it's still hot. I've seen guys have to weld a larger pulling surface onto a gib to get it to pop out before. I've also seen guys drill them out enough to collapse them. Hope it's not that bad. Pretty sure I pulled this one 10-12 years back with a borrowed slide hammer. Regardless, it's a 2" shaft with a bad bearing and the outside plate that holds the self centering bearing, I think the industry calls them "flanges", is busted in 4 pieces. It's all got to come off, it's just that it's in the 80's with about 80% humidity right now and that's real hot for a northern boy. We just moved the sheep fence and the whole kit and kaboodle back onto the other farm. Wasn't much fun. Messing with the gib key is just more of the same. OTOH, the pool is now "un-green", so there's always that option...
 

JWFilips

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Well not today but: The little lady and I are heading to Bethel Wood's tomorrow morning to get back to our rock & roll roots! Hitting the Woodstock Museum!

I was a young man was heading there in 1969 with my Cousin ( who is now a very well respected Judge!) Got so far and turned around!:rolleyes:

My bride to be was my girlfriend at that time and I was going to take her with me but parents stopped that!
So we never got there but it was our time period!
So "Got to get back to the land and set our souls free"
Let you know how it goes
 

fiver

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the wife decided she was a gardener today.

I done what needed done this morning, and went in the house, before she got all her gear out and went looking for the tools that have been in the same place in the shed since I built it.
[1hour later]
I don't even wanna go out and look to see what she done, but the broccoli spears still need cut, and i'm sure the spinach still needs taken out and de-leafed for freezing.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Jim, I attended the 2 Woodstock "revival" festivals in a professional capacity. I seriously don't see how that can be anyones idea of a good time.

Found out my neighbor Earl, who I thought was dehydrated, was having a stroke. Never even occurred to me, feel terrible I didn't see it. He's in a major Syracuse hospital. Praying for him, not much else I can do.

Supposed to be upwards of 100F with high humidity here today, but we've got a good steady breeze, so that will help a bunch.
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
This morning range session was mostly about the Uberti 1866's Federal versus Tula back-to-back primer test. Twenty-five rounds each, loaded with Sierra 158-grain JHC and 5.7-grains of Unique, with rounds fired by alternating primer brand at its own target. While the groupings were pretty much the same, the Tulas did put more holes in the black. (Quick qualifier: the load was previously developed using Tulas.) Be that as it may be, my bifocal-corrected vision and a semi-buckhorn rear sight are not qualified enough to definitely say that one primer is any more accurate than the other.

Also started the 1891 Argentine's jacketed load development using Sierra 180-grain SPBTs and 46.0 ,47.0, and 48.0-grains of IMR 4350, with the 47.0-grain load being today's winner. It's a numbers-matching Loewe with faint tiger stripping wood that is almost ding-free, however the barrel and been lopped-off to 24", a Lyman target receiver sight and globe front installed, and the bolt handle turned-down. Though it doesn't have any collector value, it is a handy short rifle.
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Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I like the Argie. Used to be able to find them all over the place before I started to appreciate them. I bought the only one I'd seen in 20 years after giving it a quick once over. Graf brass and the GB Fat 30 FN make a nice shooter from just under the sound barrier to "Okay, that's way hotter and punishing than I thought it would be!" The mag keeps it thin and I've always been reminded of a Pa style longrifle I used to own when carrying it. Nice rifles.

Got that stupid gib key out. Took my torches, a 16lb sledge, a hunka 1.5" brass I'd found years back and 2 fire extinguishers, but we got it out. I'm pretty sure I put it on last and I will definitely use some more never-seize this time. I also won't drive the gib in to extremes, breaking a long tradition of overdoing the easy stuff. I suppose I could try doing this myself on my little lathe, but I'm going to have Enos the Amish machinist do the job. From him it'll probably be a $20.00 job and he might well have the 60 pitch 18 tooth sprocket in stock. You'd have to see this set up and his store rooms to believe it. I can do the welding no prob.

Talked to my neighbors wife, he's doing well after surgery to clear a blockage. She said he finally admitted to having these events several times before. The Docs figure he's been having strokes for a couple weeks! I'm just glad he's gonna make it!
 

Ian

Notorious member
Good to hear about your neighbor improving. Isn't "Amish Machinist" a sort of contradiction in terms?
 

Rick

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Staff member
Depends on the Amish. Some have no power tools or power anything for that matter. Some do. When I had the property in NW Montana there is an Amish community there that builds the most beautiful true log homes ya ever saw. They have their own complete saw mill. They won't drive but power tools abound.
 

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Rick,
Where in Montana? My soul resides somewhere between Sula to the South, Northwest to Troy, and East of Flathead Lake. We used to have property in Seeley Lake.

A lot of log home builders are located in the Bitterroot Valley.
 

Rick

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Outside of Eureka on the shore of lake Koocanusa, just west of Glacier Park. Gods country. :)
 

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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
We only went as far up-river as the dam. Really liked Libby and Troy, and almost bought property in Troy with the Kootenai River as the back property line.
 

Rick

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Staff member
The place was something like 6-8 miles from the Canadian border, east side of the lake. Sold it in the mid 90's when I got sick and didn't think I'd ever get back up there much less build on it. Then I got better and said aw shit. :sigh:
 

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Eureka is a port-of-entry.

We bought in the Spring of '95, went back in the Fall of '97 to see about cutting in a road, a well and septic field, but the local contractor turned out to be a flake, so we headed home. Eventually, after spending all our vacation time at the lake and re-thinking snow starting at Thanksgiving, we sold in '02. Definitely Eden, though.