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Quote from: cnr6400 on February 20, 2019, 07:57:47 PMHi Chris, the mental image of the Sherline chuck breaking free and hitting the wall with a solid THUNK per your post pretty much evaporated my 235 HP aux diesel daydream....Your progress is terrific on the drillage / millage on the cylinder frames. Are you thinking of hanging out a shingle for "LOW COST TOOTH EXTRACTIONS DONE HERE"? Demand may be high given the high cost of dental insurance! Likely fewer complaints or yelling from your cylinder frames though..... no anaesthesia needed on them. Wait a minute - The elves may have left some of the Navy rum for human patients..... NAH! How did your archery session go? Tell, William Chris. (sorry re bad pun, without warning marquee) (to all that!)Fortunately I've seen enough episodes of Tool Time to know not to hook a Binford 6100 TurboGenerator with 4.3million volts up to my mill... (I don't think so, Tim)I had a tooth extraction (well, the outer half of a molar) this past year, so while I do have a air powered high speed rotary tool that sounds like a dental drill, past experience and flashbacks would keep me out of that business (except for telemarketers, who would get free work done. And done. And redone...).And I am still looking for where those pesky elves hid the rum!Archery this week went so-so, my aim and concentration were not at peak form, so had a few off shots. This is with a bare recurve, no sights or release, so any lapse in focus means a bad shot. I also shoot a compound with full sights and release, but it is almost too easy, no where near as much fun as the traditional class. The local shop does a weekly winter 3D league, with foam animal targets of all types out to 30 yards, plus trees, fences, etc in the way. One of the animals is always a mover, on a wheeled trolley that moves across the range. There are 5 stations, sitting, standing, kneeling, tree stand, and ground blind, shoot all targets from all positions during the session. Lots of fun, great group up there.Oh - and on the William (Tell) front - that reminds me of the running gag at our pistol league - any time the range officer gives the Fire At Will command, someone always asks 'wheres Will?'. Its interesting that we have 3 Mikes, couple of Tims, couple Toms, but we have never had anyone named Will join the group!
Hi Chris, the mental image of the Sherline chuck breaking free and hitting the wall with a solid THUNK per your post pretty much evaporated my 235 HP aux diesel daydream....Your progress is terrific on the drillage / millage on the cylinder frames. Are you thinking of hanging out a shingle for "LOW COST TOOTH EXTRACTIONS DONE HERE"? Demand may be high given the high cost of dental insurance! Likely fewer complaints or yelling from your cylinder frames though..... no anaesthesia needed on them. Wait a minute - The elves may have left some of the Navy rum for human patients..... NAH! How did your archery session go? Tell, William Chris. (sorry re bad pun, without warning marquee)
Quote from: crueby on February 20, 2019, 09:13:48 PMQuote from: cnr6400 on February 20, 2019, 07:57:47 PMHi Chris, the mental image of the Sherline chuck breaking free and hitting the wall with a solid THUNK per your post pretty much evaporated my 235 HP aux diesel daydream....Your progress is terrific on the drillage / millage on the cylinder frames. Are you thinking of hanging out a shingle for "LOW COST TOOTH EXTRACTIONS DONE HERE"? Demand may be high given the high cost of dental insurance! Likely fewer complaints or yelling from your cylinder frames though..... no anaesthesia needed on them. Wait a minute - The elves may have left some of the Navy rum for human patients..... NAH! How did your archery session go? Tell, William Chris. (sorry re bad pun, without warning marquee) (to all that!)Fortunately I've seen enough episodes of Tool Time to know not to hook a Binford 6100 TurboGenerator with 4.3million volts up to my mill... (I don't think so, Tim)I had a tooth extraction (well, the outer half of a molar) this past year, so while I do have a air powered high speed rotary tool that sounds like a dental drill, past experience and flashbacks would keep me out of that business (except for telemarketers, who would get free work done. And done. And redone...).And I am still looking for where those pesky elves hid the rum!Archery this week went so-so, my aim and concentration were not at peak form, so had a few off shots. This is with a bare recurve, no sights or release, so any lapse in focus means a bad shot. I also shoot a compound with full sights and release, but it is almost too easy, no where near as much fun as the traditional class. The local shop does a weekly winter 3D league, with foam animal targets of all types out to 30 yards, plus trees, fences, etc in the way. One of the animals is always a mover, on a wheeled trolley that moves across the range. There are 5 stations, sitting, standing, kneeling, tree stand, and ground blind, shoot all targets from all positions during the session. Lots of fun, great group up there.Oh - and on the William (Tell) front - that reminds me of the running gag at our pistol league - any time the range officer gives the Fire At Will command, someone always asks 'wheres Will?'. Its interesting that we have 3 Mikes, couple of Tims, couple Toms, but we have never had anyone named Will join the group!If my son Will an I come to visit we will have to remember that. Does your Group do the "Ready on the right, ready on the left, ready on the line, Fire at Will." routine? I found out where that came from. It goes back to single shot muzzleloaders,(and Bows before that) and Volley Firing.Ordinally it was; 1] Make Ready 2] Present : Hold normally3] Fire : Fire off the desired shot commandVolley Fire : On the command of volley fire the whole company/squad will fire at once, all in unison.Ripple Fire : When this command is given, whatever side the commanding officer is standing on, one by one down the line you will fire.Fire at Will : On this command, the whole squad/company will fire at their own accord when they can see a hostile or the line is in danger.Gerald.
Hello Chris,Man that is a lot of work on these engines, I am plum tuckered out just from following along. However, your work is fantastic as usual.Have a great day,Thomas
Quote from: Ye-Ole Steam Dude on February 20, 2019, 06:37:24 PMHello Chris,Man that is a lot of work on these engines, I am plum tuckered out just from following along. However, your work is fantastic as usual.Have a great day,ThomasI don't understand all the accolades directed at Chris. Chris is in management and just directs the elves in their work.Well, regardless of who's doing it, it's first class work !
Management? MANAGEMENT!Thems fighten words to an engineer!!
Quote from: crueby on February 21, 2019, 01:10:34 AMManagement? MANAGEMENT!Thems fighten words to an engineer!! Maybe you need to hold a meeting .. it might slow them down, you could offer cookies to all attendees Jo
My two least favourite M words - the bane of my existence much of the time. Wheelbarrows of swarf and bits of fresh-machined metals going round and round - the best antidote! Let's resume that sort of stuff ASAP!
I vote we contact GE and have the parts 3D printed in metal. They do it with jet engine parts, and you've already got the files. Maybe your elves can work with their elves?
I agree with you, the 3M's are the bane of an engineer's life:ManagementMeetingsM*rk*ting(Although the order sometimes varies.)Don