On 03/06/2011 11:39 AM, gene heskett wrote: > On Sunday, March 06, 2011 11:38:20 AM Jon Elson did opine: > >> Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: >>> You guys. Stop please! You're making me feel so inadequate... ;-) >> >> You just have to come to terms with it! Somebody, somewhere, always has >> a better, faster, bigger "tool"! >> But, in this case, strange pills ordered over the internet can't help. >> >> Even before I got into EMC, way before there was an EMC2, I had an >> Allen-Bradley 7320 >> CNC control patched onto my Bridgeport. A guy got in touch with me, he >> had a G&L mill >> with a 50 foot bed. He was building a shop for it, pouring 8 foot thick >> concrete or whatever. >> I never did hear from him again, maybe that project just got too big or >> something. He was asking >> for help, eventually, to get the 7320 up and running. >> >> So, I was exposed early to the "bigger tool" envy. >> >> Jon >> > Thanks for my Sunday morning chuckle, Jon.
Right now, I just get to drool over machines that other folks have, and use on a daily basis. My daughter's best friend in high school has an Dad who owns a local machine shop, and I've farmed out parts that were too big to do on the puny mini-mill I have when I was making my bamboo saw beveler. I always looked forward to the "field trips" to the machine shop. Big boring machines, big lathes, a whole bunch of mills - it was a heavy metal fetishist's wet dream. My next shop is going to have full size machines in it (I'm very limited for space right now working on bamboo rods out of a half a garage). Once I get the full-time rod making shop up and running, there _will_ be space for larger machines! Course, I doubt I'll ever have room for a little mill like Stuart's in the shop though! ;-) Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
