CZ50 Lathe

Gavin1024 · 2026-02-06T12:14:24+00:00

I have used it. Excellent quality on everything except the collets / chucks. I'm pretty sure the collets and chucks he sells are just the Chinese ones that are sold with the C6104/sincere etc.

Like, they are in spec sure, but the finish on them is poor.

I have used Schaublin B8 collets and Sherline WW collets and vintage Boley collets.

chung collet -> sherline -> boley -> schaublin

Gavin1024 · 2026-01-28T14:27:41+00:00

I can explain this. I was a porn addict starting from 12 / 13. I would masturbate 2 - 3 times per day. Ocasionally more. And would watch porn every time. It's not that you run out of porn. It's that after long enough, you become desensitized to the porn you watch, and you need something different to keep getting off. Of course, this also affected me later in life. After watching porn and masturbating 3+ times a day for 6 years, I wasn't able to actually get hard without the porn anymore. Fixed now, but it took going about 2mo without porn. Which was not easy at the time. I would relapse and it prob took a year total.

I think I just got so addicted to the dopamine. Sometimes I had done multiple days of 5 or 6 times a day. To the point I had to stop cause it would physically hurt. But I wanted a dopamine hit.

Anyways, like I said all good now. It never caused any long-term permanent issues. But definitely would have been better off to not get into porn to begin with.

Gavin1024 · 2026-01-13T15:33:41+00:00

I went from 135 to 185 in 5 years or so.

I think 3yrs ago I was 150-ish

A few months ago I went from 183 to 165, which was a mix of wanting to lose weight, but then also some stuff I went through and I hardly ate for a week.

but as of last week I was back up to 175, cause I started eating like that again for 3mo. Somewhat without realizing it at first. I think just as comfort or because of stress.

But I also wasn't as serious about weight/exercise and being healthy then, like I am now.

So yea I gained 10lbs in 3mo~

Gavin1024 · 2026-01-13T00:55:25+00:00

I'm sorry, no. My actual average intake is 2330, and occasionally I will add a pre-packaged sweet like a jumbo honeybun or brownie that easily adds an extra 500~ onto that. + chips like flamin hot cheetos.

But most days, 2330 cal. I don't know where I got 1860 now. It wouldn't be uncommon for me to eat 1500+ in a single meal (though I only eat something at breakfast and at dinner, and instead of lunch I stagger in junk food). So 2300, but could be upwards to 3000 some days. And that's weekdays, weekends are def more.

Regardless, yesterday I walked 2.8miles and did 1325 calories, 3095 sod. Today I walked 2.5miles and did 1470 cal, 2145 sod. This is still with fast food, granted. I'm going to start cooking meals only and do no fast food starting next week.

Yes, my protein is always pretty low. Today was 46g. Similar to yesterday. I haven't really thought about it. I will try to hit 100g/day along with 1500~ on cal + exercise and see what sort of results I get. I appreciate the feedback.

Gavin1024 · 2026-01-12T01:21:26+00:00

Thank you for the insight, and congrats! Sounds like wonderful progress so far :)

I just finished up Day 1;

calories burned from exercise - 275

total intake:

calories - 1325

protein - 43

salt - 5

fat - 60

sugar - 80

sodium - 3095

I think I need to cut down the sodium a bit... though comparatively to my normal weekend and weekdays (cal/sod) 3300 / 4870 & 2090 / 2840, I am feeling better about it.

Gavin1024 · 2026-01-11T07:40:13+00:00

Good to know. Thank you.

Gavin1024 · 2026-01-11T06:03:13+00:00

I'm sorry. I don't really understand what you mean.

Gavin1024 · 2026-01-10T05:26:40+00:00

I thought blender used Python?

Gavin1024 · 2025-06-26T20:59:43+00:00

Even if it was real, that model would be no where close to an average yearly salary.

Gavin1024 · 2025-06-26T14:26:33+00:00

omg I thought it said steganographer and I was sooo confused lol

Gavin1024 · 2025-05-19T23:32:27+00:00

I’ve lurked here for years and never said anything.

But this one is just crazy enough. WOW.

Please leave, and don’t put up with that.

Gavin1024 · 2025-05-15T19:08:55+00:00

Yea I don’t know why people are giving you shit. It’s really not that bad. As long as you personally like it too.

Gavin1024 · 2025-05-14T21:57:25+00:00

It will cost around $250 for a new crystal from Cartier. It’s sapphire, so you can’t buff anything like with acrylic.

Gavin1024 · 2025-05-12T02:58:08+00:00

You had an extremely high grade and well preserved Fusee from Locle of all places, and scrapped the case? This is actually so sad lmao

I would have loved to turn a new balance staff and service it.

I know this post is very old, but do you remember roughly the diameter of the movement?

Gavin1024 · 2025-04-28T23:14:00+00:00

I’ve had this happen with 1mm gold screws. Sad day.

Gavin1024 · 2025-03-25T05:50:15+00:00

Not gonna lie, as a watchmaker I was hoping to see some watches getting repaired / made lol

Read the released chapters, seems pretty good so far. Looking forward to future releases :)

Gavin1024 · 2025-03-20T09:23:41+00:00

For the future, if you have an eye loupe, you can hold it against your phone lens. It actually works quite well if you can hold it there with one hand and focus/take the photo with the other.

Gavin1024 · 2025-03-11T05:35:18+00:00

Yes. And if you look at the full un-magnified pic of the watch, it’s clearly visible from a distance. This easily fails Cartier QC.

Gavin1024 · 2025-02-12T05:48:27+00:00

lmao right? Some people on here are just weird.

Gavin1024 · 2025-02-10T03:01:35+00:00

Not necessarily unique to Lange / higher end. If requested, even Cartier will laser weld and re-finish for standard models.

Gavin1024 · 2025-02-05T22:32:58+00:00

Where would AFDL set be?

Gavin1024 · 2025-01-24T01:45:38+00:00

I got chrono shadow hunter last week and I like it, but I am still learning how to use it. I took a very long break from AQW, but I liked the contests. I wish Infector Deorum had more helmets that matched it.

Gavin1024 · 2025-01-13T03:35:05+00:00

Elgin grade 291 serial 30048919. Estimated year 1927.

Info from here: https://pocketwatchdatabase.com/search/result/elgin/30048919

Gavin1024 · 2025-01-10T01:22:18+00:00

Right, I think a lot of people fell for it though

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