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longbedder

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I traded my wife's elliptical exercise machine straight up for this bad boy! A buddy of mine (machinist by trade) had it in his home hobby shop and just upgraded to a Bridgeport. His wife is also trying to get back in shape post-baby.

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You traded an elliptical exercise machine for a small white boy?
 
So you've gone frome exercising in one place to milling in one place. Huge step up in my opinion.
 
eagle mark said:
:haha:

Humor aside, nice trade... hows the wife feel about loss of excercise machine? :doah:
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Weeeeelllll, she won't admit that I was right about the elliptical in the first place, but that's OK because she hasn't said a word about the trade or the mill.

I was opposed to the elliptical to begin with because I knew it would get used a handful of times then fall into disuse...which of course it did. I didn't fight it hard because she was dealing with post-baby body issues and didn't want to go the gym. In the long run it turned out fine.
 
longbedder said:
Weeeeelllll, she won't admit that I was right about the elliptical in the first place, but that's OK because she hasn't said a word about the trade or the mill.

I was opposed to the elliptical to begin with because I knew it would get used a handful of times then fall into disuse...which of course it did. I didn't fight it hard because she was dealing with post-baby body issues and didn't want to go the gym. In the long run it turned out fine.
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I would say you got a great return on that elliptical investment. Wow that is a nice setup.
 
Found some weirdness at Enco...

A set of 20 cobalt endmills is $156 - it comes two each of 10 different sizes, one 2-flute and one 4-flute. Linky

The exact same mills, however, if bought in two sets of 10 - one set is 2-flute (linky) and one set is 4-flute (linky) - are $38 less.

The wooden box for the big set must be really nice :rolleyes:

Any suggestions for a decent DRO from the CK5 crowd?
 
longbedder said:
Any suggestions for a decent DRO from the CK5 crowd?
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My guess is for 98% of the things the home machinist will do the DRO is unnecessary. I'd put that money towards a vice and a set of collets. :dunno:

Remember 40 or so years ago they didn't exist guys used the dials and turned out some amazingly accurate work. :waytogo:

Just my $.02

Either way Nice score. :woot:
 
woodchk502 said:
My guess is for 98% of the things the home machinist will do the DRO is unnecessary. I'd put that money towards a vice and a set of collets. :dunno:

Remember 40 or so years ago they didn't exist guys used the dials and turned out some amazingly accurate work. :waytogo:

Just my $.02

Either way Nice score. :woot:
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I agree that they aren't necessary...but they sure are a great crutch for us amateurs. I'm the kinda guy that will forget to add backlash when changing directions or something when I'm 90% done with a part.

The machine comes with a vise and collets.
 
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