On Monday 20 February 2017 00:37:19 Erik Christiansen wrote: > That's very good to hear, Gene. > > On 19.02.17 19:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > We're home, but I think she thinks my hip joints get 100 miles per > > pain pill. NOT. 20 yards, maybe. > > New ones are a 24 carat godsend, Gene. My mother (85 in a few weeks) > was right out of it on morphine patches, a few years ago, when she > went in for the first artificial hip joint. After a week and a half in > hospital, then a couple of weeks in rehab, she was off home. It went > so well that she asked the specialist if the other one could be > slotted in without the extra months of delay that would occur if she > went back through the GP for a referral. The second one was easier > than the first, with a good new leg for support, and they wanted to > send her home after just a week in hospital - no rehab. They settled > on one week of rehab, rather than the standard three, by which time my > sister could be there when she came home. I think it took nearly a > year for both hips to be done. It has given her a new lease on life. > It is possible that being a farm girl from the time when they loaded > sheaves onto wagons with a pitchfork has given her the stamina, but > ISTR you're cast in a similar mould. > Chuckle. I'd like to think so, but I've not been that good to me over the years, and that pick up 200 lbs & walk it across town if it needs to go attitude has caught up with me, darnit. The Missus, w/o mentioning why, had me disable our water softener about 3 years ago. We can afford the salt. But I think she wanted to remove the struggle of me handling 2 to 4 40lb bags of salt thru the house & down a flight of stairs when it needed refilled. And while I won't claim I can cast nails out of it, it is a little hard. OTOH, the human body needs the trace elements in hard water.
Even the chuck on this lathe seems pretty heavy but I think its under 40 lbs. A 3 jaw, 2 piece jaws that I can't read the brand name of, but made in Poland, but I'm considering at some point a 4 jaw non scroll replacement even if it is fiddly to zero in the workpiece. An ATSC scroll would be nice, but needs about $1500 to put the boxes on my front deck. But I've not checked ebay either. I'll make a little more slop in the ledge size of this one yet & see if I can get it closer yet. Whatever I do, it will need a new backplate too. And an internal thread cutting boring bar big enough to cut those 8 tpi threads in the blank plate. I'd get a ready made plate from grizzly but the pix don't show a rear hub I can grab to lock it to the spindle. But with the Missus on the injured list, I've not had the time to dis it again. So it needs that, both home switches installed, and some sort of a crossfeed screw cover to keep swarf off that screw yet. I'll put up some pix and ask for advice at some point. I have it covered between the toolpost base and the back end of the screw by letting in a piece of ALU rack panel about and inch wide by widening the nut slot in the crossfeed about 1/16" of both sides to a depth of around .1" and gluing the panel into the recess formed. > It's harder to fit in when you're a carer, but if postponed until the > hips won't go any more, then there's no choice in the timing. > (Sometimes it pays to grab the bull by the goolies, rather than wait > for him to catch you on his horns.) > > Erik My hips are actually in excellent shape, plenty of cartilage left in the sockets according to the MRI's, its collapsed disks pinching on the sciatic nerve, so I have lots of phantom pain in the joints, but the joints are very good looking in the pix. Some of the left knee might well be from the same cause, but the h. acid shots into the area under the kneecap work pretty well for at least a year. And they are due again. Its been pulled out of joint too many times in 82+ years. The last 2 times, side ways. Not good... Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
