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man-machine last won the day on July 25 2020

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  1. So on this forum my location says Western Colorado, and to be exact it's Grand Junction, Colorado. Don't laugh, this town is getting a lot more hip, I just saw a covered wagon with ground effects. You know you met your ideal soulmate love match in this town, your singlewide and her singlewide have the same centerline bolt pattern. And that new carpet? Much less wear & tear now that your wife and sister are the same person. There hasn't been any deaths in NASCAR lately but if there is the local trailerparks are requesting that all clothesline undershirts be flown at half-staff. My housetrailer has the premium upgrade features like the special Child Neglect Room with walk-in meth lab. Not only is the foundation skirted, so are most of my male friends.
  2. Wow, great crowd, I worked up the nerve to come back after the recent rash of thefts from the company breakroom refrigerator (burp) quickly, let's review: Monday: The Frito Fiasco Tuesday: Dill Pickle Debacle Wednesday: The Cupcake Chronicles Plus they just hired a new Quality Source Inspector and the guy's name is Larry Bevel. My question: "Larry Bevel? What's his angle?" Outside of work, more problems with the girlfriend's eighteen year old overweight daughter, not only does she want to go skydiving for her graduation, she wants the optional jump video to be done also. Disney already has a movie with the same storyline, it's called: Operation Dumbo Drop. Do I really need to spend any more weekends sitting around listening to her pants stretch? And she backsasses me too, she said: "I don't have to respect you, you're not my real dad." So I told her: "The next time you need help with your car, you're not my real daughter."
  3. "I'm so sawwy, the blade sharpening guy is really set in his ways."
  4. Ok, third and final post for tonight, and it's "Shop Humor" Humor for most situations, like that guy who's making some horrible chattering sound while machining, say things like: "Finish cut?" .... "Are you going for a 8 RMS satin microfinish?" "Could you keep the noise down? We're getting complaints fro the bowling alley next door." "Hey the guy across the street running the jackhammer went home early saying he couldn't stand the racket So what about me? I'm a terrible machinist because I ruin everything I work on. In fact when I was layed off for a year and not working the scrap metal traders on Wall Street were jumping out of windows. I introduced world-class manufacturing tolerances such as Plus or Minus a Hammer Handle, and the pinnacle of accuracy: "Dead Nuts Scrap" .... If it's undersize by an inch I make sure that inch is within .0002" There is other careers out there for me like selling AOL dialup from a JC Penny store, or maybe welder in a fireworks factory. Christmas is over and the Mistletoe Beltbuckles didn't sell like I hoped, neither did the ATV kickstands or my new line of biodegradable roofing products. Colorado weed thing? I'm getting less hits than an Amish website.
  5. Tonight's posting is being done to the backdrop of the movie Titanic. What a great movie with a great ship captain. At first he seemed angry about that bumper sticker someone put on the back of the ship that says: "How's my sinking?" But then he rises to the challenge by making announcements over the PA system: "Ladies and gentlemen the bad new is we hit an iceberg and are taking on water. The good news is the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet is now featuring fresh fish."
  6. Oh no, not you again. Listen Donut-Ears, I've had about enough of you and your Hi-Bear-Nating, what do you think this is, "Bears Around the World" ? ? ?
  7. I made three more, longer & better using a 10 foot radius compass to draw the arc onto the wood.
  8. Hey thanks everyone I'm always fishing for validation and approval, on facebook I was told to stick my head in a bucket and see if my nose writes underwater.
  9. It doesn't look like much but when one end is set in dirt and the other end is up on legs about 8-10" high it should have a decent hook to it. Getting that curved radius right wasn't glorious and those spiral-twist nails take a huge jerk (present company included) to get them out. Notice the exclusive "Strike Zone" slat spacing, mistakes I mean er umm features like this are normally only found on higher priced stolen-from-the-alley-next-to-the-dumpster pallet jump ramps.
  10. I've been wanting to take a scrap pallet from work and make it into a mountain bike trail jump ramp so I did. This job kicked my azz but I'm satisfied with the end result. Check out the ancient-history metal can ShopVac wired into the el-cheapo B&D 9" chopper, hey it was all free and works.
  11. Thanks for the warm welcome. (pics) Lathe at home, Delta II nozzle/exitcone assembly finish machined.
  12. The long-forgotten B&D "Professional" Drill Sharpener Model No. 4300 was given to me free in the early 1980's by a friend and I'm just now starting to use it. This is actually a good functioning shop asset to have but I noticed a problem right away, the grinding dust is terrible. It's critical that the sliding-swinging-pivoting mechanism work as designed and with this much dust it won't for very long. So you can see in the pics how I grafted a ShopVac hose connection into the grinding wheel's cover plate and both the sharpener and the ShopVac stay plugged into the powerstrip with both "on" all the time and everything is mounted to that ugly-colored piece of wood which I simply quick-clamp to my welding table. Turn on the powerstrip and go, wow, what an improvement. These sharpeners are not very common and it seems a lot of people have come across them with the bit locator missing. The tool is absolutely useless without it. I could help out a fellow site member with a replacement one which would be a machined copy of the oem piece I make myself 'cuz I wanna be helpful, sure, why not? Thanks for viewing my first topic.
  13. Hi there, Thanks for the add to this group, glad do be here. Full time career machinist doing 40 years (I'm 56) at various companies, jobshop, aerospace, heavy machining, blah blah blah, yada yada yada. I have machines at home, Moriseiki ms-1050 manual lathe, Bridgeport Mill, Harbor Freight deadblow hammer (came with free flashlight) ect. I'm a complete horsetrading ragpicking jerk-amongst discussion forums, I'm sure my co-workers much rather hate me online than in person, and I hope they were not kidding about this intoduction post only being on here two days, the only free drinks I get are the ones thrown in my face. Oh yeah, "Hi-i-i-i-i" on with the posts.... And what would this site be without me? (voice from the back) "Better off!"
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