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I have been spending ALL my time in the shop working on the lathe. It's at maximum disassembly now, and everything is pretty much clean. I have the bed and the top of the cabinet to paint which will take 2 or 3 days, during which time I will be reassembling the quick change gearbox and a few other things. The motor probably needs a new bearing and I should deal with that now while I have the belts off anyway.
Photos and rambling about the lathe rebuild process are on my blog at dragonflydiy.com
Capricon was good fun as always. I got in a nice meal out with friends in a restaurant just a few hundred feet away with no wait and no stress. Caught up with a few people, stayed up way too late, went to a panel and a couple of live performances that were excellent. All great fun. Not sure if I'll get to Penguicon - if not the next con for me is Windy again in November, though summertime could bring some other meetups.
Haven't been on the bike since picking up lathe bits on Feb 3 - snow on the roads. It looks like Friday or Monday might be possibilities.
Right now the lathe parts have exploded in pans, cardboard boxes and horizontal surfaces all over the shop, making it extremely cluttered, and also stripper, solvent and paint fumes have taken over. When I get the lathe put back together and subsequently hopefully clean the shop up, I do need to do a bit of scheduled maintenance on the bike.
Photos and rambling about the lathe rebuild process are on my blog at dragonflydiy.com
Capricon was good fun as always. I got in a nice meal out with friends in a restaurant just a few hundred feet away with no wait and no stress. Caught up with a few people, stayed up way too late, went to a panel and a couple of live performances that were excellent. All great fun. Not sure if I'll get to Penguicon - if not the next con for me is Windy again in November, though summertime could bring some other meetups.
Haven't been on the bike since picking up lathe bits on Feb 3 - snow on the roads. It looks like Friday or Monday might be possibilities.
Right now the lathe parts have exploded in pans, cardboard boxes and horizontal surfaces all over the shop, making it extremely cluttered, and also stripper, solvent and paint fumes have taken over. When I get the lathe put back together and subsequently hopefully clean the shop up, I do need to do a bit of scheduled maintenance on the bike.
