Subject: Re: Remeiniscing my Machine Shop Dayz PARTE TRE

From: [email-masked] (Larry Smith)
Date: 2 Oct 1995 15:18:30 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Jim Harvey) writes:

>Go back to the kiosk Fabo, there's a guy at pump 2 wanting hi test.

I used to resent seeing his posts, until I finally realized
one day that I was looking at a parody of a classic satire:
where the hackers of the net once enjoyed the hyberbolic
adventures of BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL, now machinists of
the net can enjoy:

THE BASTARD MACHINIST FROM HELL!

read that way, it can be pretty funny.  Not as Fabo intended
it, of course, but funny.  Okay, you need a slightly eccentric
sense of humor, but hey, if you can't machine eccentrics...

-- 
Larry Smith - My opinions only.  Killfile [email-masked] & [email-masked]
The attempt to justify an evil deed has perhaps more pernicious consequences
than the evil deed itself. The justification of a past crime is the planting
and cultivation of future crimes. - Eric Hoffer  Digital Unix: 64 bit _now_.

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From: [email-masked] (James Kirkpatrick)
Date: 3 Oct 95 08:03:07 MDT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] ("Kevin Duffy") writes:
|>I also teach high school pupils.  The information in this newsgroup is an 
|>excellent resource.  Where can I access old postings for producing our 
|>own database.
|>K Duffy

The archives, as well as the FAQ, are kept on plains.uwyo.edu in the
METAL directory.

Jim

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From: [email-masked] (Russ Kepler)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 00:37:52 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Jim Harvey <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Hey Russ....where's my #$@# lunch money you borrowed?

C'mon - I never ate lunch on campus, it wasn't cool.  So it must'a
been someone else.

>>I'm not sure that we're up to date here - I don't see much discussion
>>on negative rake carbide insert cutting, cermet tooling, etc.  Most of
>>the technology we use wouldn't be out of place in a 1950's shop.
>Well, I have not seen any questions pertaining to that, but we use
>that technology in our shop, so if someone needed a question answered,
>I am sure a reply would be forthcoming. And seeing as you brought it
>up , you have to answer it :^)

Well, I'm slowly but surely getting up to speed, adding a DRO to my
mill, etc.  I have a lot of insert tooling for my lathe, but find that
HSS gives me a better surface finish for the work that I do.  I think
I need to try some of the positive cermet inserts before I make up my
mind, though, as so far all I've used are the ground carbide inserts.

>In a flash of inspriation (after an hour of taking measurements and
>making sketches) I chucked it up in the vise, center punched the
>studs, and drilled them out in the drill press. Sometimes we can't see
>the forest for the trees.

Sometimes all it takes is a start - I've found that I get stuck on the
silliest things, and that all I really need is a start of any kind to
get going.  Fear of breaking something keep me from more projects than
it really should...

>Seriously, Valenite, has wonderful information on all their cutting
>tools which is readily available. If anyone has a problem locating
>resources, just drop me a line.

I should call 'em and ask for their app catalog.  I know that there's
useful stuff in there.

-- Russ
-- 
Russ Kepler posting from home  [email-masked]

                      Please don't feed the Engineers