Re: FWIW first welding job, 2 years on

On 12/20/2024 1:17 PM, Richard Smith wrote:

"Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> writes:
 

"Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:vjhbbh$3e2nh$1@dont-email.me...
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The valuable equipment is a lathe for power transmission components and a
vertical mill for the static structure, plus a horizontal bandsaw to cut
stock.
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 I'd like to have a lathe again for sure.
 When I was a youth I had no connection to anyone familiar or who could
mentor me.
Now I have been involved in a lot of commercial manufacturing operations
and done a fair amount of machining.
With landing-down here, might soon come time to look at this - getting
some machine tools.

There is something to be said for trying to finish a project on a Saturday afternoon, and being able to make a part complete the job today.  As opposed to waiting until Monday to run down to the store if you have the time on Monday and if the store actually has the part you need.  Or worse have to order the part and wait until Monday until they ship it... at the earliest.
I've spent $100 (or more) worth of my time to make a $2 part more than once to finish a job and get it DONE rather than having another unfinished job on the list waiting on parts.
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Bob La Londe
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