Kerri,
None of us knew anything when we started out. Some of us were fortunate enough to work in an environment where we were taught what we needed to know. I would recommend you take some classes at your local community college, or join a metal working club. Talk to some one who works in the metal working field or shares your interest in metal working. By all means keep reading every thing you can find on metal work. Also before you take on a rebuild project, get the manuals and parts lists for the machines. Good luck and keep us posted on your progress.
Tom B
-----Original Message-----
From: Kerri Duncan <silverforgestudio@yahoo.com>
To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, Dec 30, 2010 10:36 am
Subject: RE: [gingery_machines] Re: new article: Aligning to an Axis
Rick- Maybe you feel really nervous because its obvious to you... but then again- this is your field... Please let me encourage you by saying for someone NOT in the metalworking arenas (Im in healthcare) even the "ON" button can be mystifying! HA! In my job- what is obvious to me is not to the majority of the folks I encounter... so yours is a relative concern I should hope to let you know is very minor... your note of the collective intellect you sign off with is evident of that... You publish and write- it will be read.
Just to illustrate this point: Inspired by the group and a few other ventures- I have aquired several things "For the shop" that I dont even know how to USE yet... but they were incredible deals that I would be kicking myself for later... a MIG 135 Lincoln setup complete with Argon bottles for 150 (I can't weld...yet)... 10 free Freon and Propane bottles for foundries/forges (once I get around to the construction after the thaw), and the newest babies are an old 40's-50's Craftsman/Dunlap metal lathe and a 1942 Dunlap Drill press who need some love and work (BUT... I have never done a re-build or used a lathe or mill)... My point- my fear of NOT knowing how to use these things doesnt stop me from knowing I will NEED the knowledge and abilities of these tools later... and your common-sense approach definitely makes it #1- more applicable as to WHY I am doing it this way.. and #2- like OLDSTUDMSGT said of his algebra- IF it had a use then I would have
applied more effort (or something like that)
Yes- I have a tool-fetish, and a library of metal books... and in that spirit I see warm weather and longer days ahead... but it all is crap till I get some constructive tool-time under my belt. That is where your notes and pdf's will help!
Heck- I think you could write a brownie recipie and folks would appreciate the process!
Kerri
--- On Thu, 12/30/10, Rick Sparber <rgsparber@aol.com> wrote:
From: Rick Sparber <rgsparber@aol.com>
Subject: RE: [gingery_machines] Re: new article: Aligning to an Axis
To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010, 10:07 AM
Bill,
Glad you liked it. This kind of article sometimes makes me nervous to
publish because so much of it is REALLY obvious once you stop and think
about it.
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of worktoil
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 4:58 AM
To: gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [gingery_machines] Re: new article: Aligning to an Axis
--- In gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Sparber" <rgsparber@...>
wrote:
> <snip>
> If you are interested in how to align any straight edge to any axis on a
> mill, see
>
> http://rick.sparber.org/aa.pdf
>
Great stuff, thanks.
Bill in Punxsy
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