Mid-South ride, eat, and meet

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barryg

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• Oct 24, 2020

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Danny and Jacob went over to the cutoff saw and lopped a good piece off. Funny their gun ho on the hi-tech and a little slow on the old school stuff. Jacob had the bar locked down in the saw and was trying to measure his piece. The blade was a foot above the part. I reached over turned the valve and slowly dropped the blade down and stopped it just above the part. Jacob smiled, nodded and gave me a thumbs up. He made his measurement. I’m old school, but Jacob is off and running into the future with the computer age.

 

mikegalbicka

Back in the saddle again

• Oct 24, 2020

• #4,382

That made me smile. I remember when someone showed me that trick my first time.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 24, 2020

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Danny and Jacob are dragging me kicking and screaming into the future. I’m trying to hold on to the past. They ain’t giving up on me.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 24, 2020

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mikegalbicka said:

That made me smile. I remember when someone showed me that trick my first time.

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One of my favorite little tricks on a lathe is showing beginners how to center their cutting tool on the round work stock.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 24, 2020

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Using their 6 inch scale from their pocket protector pouch.

 

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junkjohn

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• Oct 24, 2020

• #4,386

Hacksaw blade works great.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 24, 2020

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Yes, it does. But it seems like a little overkill. At the school shop the other day I used a short broken off piece of a bandsaw blade.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 25, 2020

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junkjohn said:

Hacksaw blade works great.

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Good choice/idea to center the cutting tool.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 25, 2020

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CNC Mill

We’re moving on to the CNC Monday. Gotta preview Friday. Rick giving an early lesson.

X,Y, and Z axis. I think I see a rotary table on another machine. That’ll be a 4th axis. Danny and Jacob birddogging the instructions.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 25, 2020

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Shop tour

The Rains invited me down for a class study session. I couldn’t turn that down. After that, time to tour the shop. Danny does a good business in boat repair, but he really likes American muscle sports cars and motorcycles.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 25, 2020

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Cool early AMC Javelin getting new floor pans and a ton of more work. Danny does almost all his own work. Impressive.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 25, 2020

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They like American motorcycles and love to ride.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 25, 2020

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Engine bay of the Javelin is gonna look outstanding. Danny’s gotta lot of new pieces going into this resto.

Like this complete new steering column.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 25, 2020

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Boat and motor repair pays the bills. Danny, U are one busy man.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 26, 2020

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Work Piece


This is the piece that Danny and Jacob turned on the CNC lathe using the program they wrote and developed. I know it doesn’t look like much, but it’s a big step in writing a program; making a part and not crashing the machine.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 26, 2020

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Got my first shot on the CNC milling machining center. Removed the vise, cleaned the table, cleaned the bottom of the vise. Reinstalled the vise and installed the indicator. Trued the vise in 0 to 0 both ends. Locked it down and checked both ends again. 0 to 0 both ends. When the vise was removed it was set down on a table flat. Flipped the vise over on it’s side and cleaned the bottom with my hand. Barry, why do that. Vises are never set on their bottom mating surface. Gotta keep it clean and undamaged. I’m still behind on remembering codes and running a program. My mind/brain ain’t what it was.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 28, 2020

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Writing a simple program, then running it. A small step to complete the class.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 28, 2020

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Here we’re using a wood block for material to machine.

 

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barryg

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• Oct 28, 2020

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Candace steps up for her turn to indicate the vise.

 

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barryg

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• Nov 1, 2020

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Hope Ur enjoying the machine shop class. It’s a little different from the usual motorcycle stuff. Been a little eye opening for me as well. I spent over 25 years in all types of machine shops, this has been a challenge for me; probably due to me being a senior citizen. Got some more of this coming, then back to bikes.