jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 18, 2013 5:36:51 GMT -5
Hope to get 6 or 7 per day till they are all done. The big ones are heavy and slow. These are 48 inch out of 7/16 plate. But do 42,36,30 and 24. Or will do bigger if contracted to do so. I could go get 6 that are out of 1 inch plate and 96 inches across-yo... Cutting 2.5 inch sprinkler pipe for the legs  Making chalk marks and welding legs on using top secret rotary table jig   Add feet and 2 inch NPT threaded drain  Finished el producto  |
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GeorgeStoneStore
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Post by GeorgeStoneStore on Dec 18, 2013 6:32:50 GMT -5
nice work. What is the means the photo center ? the pipe pieces In addition ( first photo)
as if piece rail , mounted angle grinder...
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 18, 2013 8:17:17 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 8:30:44 GMT -5
Your rotary table thingie is sweet. There are very few ways to lay out a dome like that and yours is the very best for doing different sizes. Smarty pants (I think that is how we said it when I was a kid) Smarty pants, smarty pants.
Jeeze I wish I could remember current stuff as easy as the way past stuff.?.?.?
Anyway, back on subject, are you using your massive fork lift to move those things or are you killing your back. Keep in mind that forklifts can be rebuilt much easier than backs. I am living proof and I try to warn everyone, not just you.
Jim
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Post by jamesp on Dec 18, 2013 8:53:33 GMT -5
I roll them around Jim except when picking one side up to stand it up. The smaller ones are way lighter. Just that 48 that is so heavy.
I had back surgery 15 years ago. i respect what you are saying. Sorry you hurt your back. It will put you out of operation.
You can say smarty pants. Or you could tell me i am a genius. They both work for me. I'll take anything i can get.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 18, 2013 10:42:01 GMT -5
Your rotary table thingie is sweet. There are very few ways to lay out a dome like that and yours is the very best for doing different sizes. Smarty pants (I think that is how we said it when I was a kid) Smarty pants, smarty pants. Jeeze I wish I could remember current stuff as easy as the way past stuff.?.?.? Anyway, back on subject, are you using your massive fork lift to move those things or are you killing your back. Keep in mind that forklifts can be rebuilt much easier than backs. I am living proof and I try to warn everyone, not just you. Jim By the way Jim. You mentioned that i was a smarty pants. The shrink said that my IQ was between 10,000 and 11,000. And that i was from another planet. My wife says i am from the planet youranus. Ha, she can't even spell....or was that intentional ?? |
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Post by Fossilman on Dec 18, 2013 11:38:32 GMT -5
Nice chop saw buddy!!! I like your layout area for working,looks like lots of room...Thumbs up
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Post by Fossilman on Dec 18, 2013 11:41:45 GMT -5
I roll them around Jim except when picking one side up to stand it up. The smaller ones are way lighter. Just that 48 that is so heavy. I had back surgery 15 years ago. i respect what you are saying. Sorry you hurt your back. It will put you out of operation. You can say smarty pants. Or you could tell me i am a genius. They both work for me. I'll take anything i can get. I had back surgery about 10 years ago (Decompression) L3-L4-L5.............I still get stupid sometimes and pay for it-LOL.... |
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Post by jamesp on Dec 18, 2013 12:40:15 GMT -5
Mine was a cyst between L4 L5 Micheal. But believed to started from a little chip off of the disc. I was lucky. I feel bad for bad backers, some pain from that injury can make you like age way before your time. It is often us super hard workers that get back injuries  |
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Post by quartz on Dec 18, 2013 12:51:24 GMT -5
Nice setup you have there. I like the grinder in the I for a deburring stand, good idea, nothing like a portable cleaner-upper rather than having to drag a belt sander around or wrestle doing it free hand, even has "handles" on it.
I read some years ago that when God made people, he made a finite amount of common sense, to be taken on a first-come, first-served basis by all of us. That common sense is now running low, having been mostly used up by people of our ages and older. It's good to see you got in there for a big chunk of it.
That tan-brown coral in the last link is beyond good, ma nature and you made some real art there.
Larry
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 18, 2013 13:52:56 GMT -5
I got a 4 year in Mech Engineering. So what! The millrights got a hold of me in my first college job(thank them and God) and common sensitized me real quick. Like i thought my
learning was over and it was just beginning. I was already hands on dude and worked my own way through college. So i was broke in purdy good.
Grinding those small corals is hands down my favorite stone to play with. Those will be targeted since i got the heat and tumbling figured out. Need some grinding equip
to make cabs and stuff.
I know someone else full of CS and can i apparently smell them all the way to Oregon. Except any one who tumbles rocks bigger that 5 pounds makes me look twice at their CS.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 18:27:08 GMT -5
Scott hires 17 year old kid
shows kid the storeroom floor is filthy
while swinging his arm to show the entire room scott stops by pointing at a small pile of sand.
scott asks kid to sweep "the floor" and I apparently punctuated that by finishing the swing at the sand pile.
10 minutes later I come back to check on my charge, He is sitting down sipping a coke.
The floor is unswept, but the little pile of sand is gone.
Scott asks "Didn't I ask you to sweep 'the floor'
17y/o responds "you pointed at the sand I swept up the sand."
I said "sweep the floor" and did the same swinging motion to indicate the entire floor and he picks up only on the sand.
I ask him "doesn't the rest of the floor look like it needs sweeping too?"
"Yes, but you didn't ask me to sweep the ENTIRE floor"
I calmly and politely said, "from today forward, if you like working for me, please show it by doing MORE THAN I ASK. Now sweep up the entire STORE and anything else within these walls that needs cleaning, clean it too. We pay you by the hour and expect you to stay busy the entire hour". He did a good job! He got it. That kid has his own store now!
Common sense is learned. Parents (my close friends included) do not seem to take the opportunity to teach common sense. To afford their youth with opportunities to "get the idea" without being told.
I liked him working for me, so I paid him more than promised with fabulous bonus envelopes at christmas dinner. That dinner for employees and a date in a restaurant they would never go to on their own.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2013 18:31:46 GMT -5
Ohh.. and I am totally envious of your remarkable workshop. Bad@ss!!
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Post by Pat on Dec 18, 2013 23:03:20 GMT -5
jamesp looks like you have as much fun with a welder as I do with a glue gun... 
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Dec 18, 2013 23:04:11 GMT -5
Pretty amazing how much there is to learn after the "learning" is done, never ends. If you were like me, after putting yourself through school, you were not only broke in pretty good, you were pretty broke, I sure was. Never regretted it for a minute though. CS is what builds the tumblers, the big rocks are partly lunacy and mostly challenge. I wish I could fix the internal defects in them as well as making the outside nice.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 19, 2013 8:25:24 GMT -5
Look pretty and functionality are 2 issues. One look in the mirror each morning and a message suggests functional.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 19, 2013 8:34:45 GMT -5
jamesp looks like you have as much fun with a welder as I do with a glue gun... Zee partsens must goes togetherens Pat's future generations  |
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