Hi Chris Glad to hear from you. It's been quite a while. I keep asking a couple of mutual friends about you.
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 19:39 -0800, Chris Daniel wrote: > Greetings, > > I am hoping to re-assemble and update my Sherline system and exhibit it > once again. According to the bootup message, it's been 870 days since I > last fired it up. I've had a few little life changes since then (marriage, > kid, 2 moves, bought my first house) and am hoping against all odds to have > a functional system by Cabin Fever time. > > I used to hand out little aluminum "worrystones" with an ovalized conic > spiral plunged into 1" x 3/8" aluminum, with a 3/16 ball end mill. Something > that maybe looks cool to the kids, and impresses the older gents which > quickly > realize "you can't do *THAT* spinning the handwheels!" I've still got one right here. That'll set you to wondering how I got it. I think Steve Stallings thought about me when he saw you making them. > Even if I can't get the circa 1977 Sherline motor rebuilt in time to cut > chips, I can still make the steppers spin for folks. Give me an addy and I'll send you a whole Sherline head for the show. Rayh BTW your "life changes" reminds me of a great line in an old movie titled Zorba the Greek. Zorba: "Wife, kids, house, the full catastrophe." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
