I am sooooo friggin stoked. Last two months have been the ****tiest since, well a long time. Still looking at another round of surgery. But one single day can make you forget all that. Today I acquired a mill, lathe, 2 drill presses, arbor press, horizontal and vertical band saws, another buffer, and a lot of misc. air tools and other goodies to help. Including broach, knurling, and other ***orted tooling and fixtures. The cost? The labor of packing up the thousand or so pitch block castings, bases, bucks and years of collecting. And... Have to drive the forklift, one mill and the other lathe down to FL. on a trailer. The owner of the company I do HVAC engineering for also owns a prop tooling and repair company. We're moving the whole business down to Naples, FL over the next month. My one car garage just turned into a one man machine center. Hell yes. Anyone want to trade Vicodin's for other for the drive down? Joke.
Sorry no vicodins, I got some darvocete though. Congrats bro, it just doesn't get any better than free.
Damn threads run away in here anymore. Beer with that sandwich? Conch chowder? ****** service? Thinking right after the 4th is going to work out best. There will still be cost, need an inverter, and still want a lot more tooling. Either way, finally get to put ideas on paper to machine. Funny how the s**** metal at work looked differently today. "Hell no, don't throw that away, that's good ****."
iA, You aren't going to believe how your world is about to change if you've never had access to a mill and a lathe. Suddenly those things you can imagine can appear in the flesh. I don't know how much machine training you have had but if you are short on experience I recommend a night machining course. Just a beginning cl***s will show you the basics and if your clever at all the rest will come naturally. Hope we don't have another Boyd Coddington on our hands, you do know that's how he started, as a machinest. Frank
Wagon will go outside with...more on that later. About done, pickup the new driveshaft next week, radiator came today, fuel cell supposed to be here next week. Finishing the electric and brakes as we speak. The steering shaft was turned in the lathe yesterday. That last bad*** storm we had helped me wet sand. Figured what the hell, grabbed the sandpaper and went at it. Finished her in an hour and a half. All the coloring washed downed the drive and left the place clean. Neighbors are still shaking they're heads. Going to paint the yellow lower half DP90 and leave the green on top for now, it's wearing on me.
Though Boyd is bantered badly, he is an inspiration. My past is machinist, back to school, mechanical designer. Got tired of the business, switched to HVAC. No more layoff's because your sold to foreign interest. You are always learning. And that's a good thing.
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