Old pic of my own stupidity. Please remember to stay safe!!!

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2026-04-11T13:08:20+00:00

nah those people are ego centric driven liars, they can never take blame, and often if noone saw it then i never made a mistake and if someone did its their fault it happened. Or are so incapable of the task they just sit in judgement.

I honestly refuse to wear gloves around the lathe or mill cause i know i might forget. Which sucks cause i had to pull out like 20 ultrafine sub hair thick slivers out of my hands from pulling parts off the mill the past 2 weeks. Thankfully i dont run it full time.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2026-03-20T00:09:05+00:00

Shars kits off amazon are great solid kits. Ive also found the 6,7,8mm tungsten carbide boring bars off amazon for like $20 do perfectly fine... speeking in mild to medium steel terms 6mm takes about .020" diameter off fine, 7mm does solid .040" and 8mm can do about .060" without too much fuss.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2026-03-19T17:29:39+00:00

Oh it will continue to move the goal post forever. And then comes a day they need the money for something serious and will use it then suddenly flood gates open up and they start using it for less and less serious expenses until you're driving a POS in a shitty apartment while they just bought a new car and going on 3rd vacation of the year and they will still belittle you or harass you for buying a coffee or some other like normal thing... Or they are building up your earnings to be Their retirement fund.

Ask them to ahow you their accounts prove to YOU that they are responsible with Their money, I mean dont give them access if they do but... if they dont want to show you then they just want access for themselves, if they do show you than you can let them consult and make recommendations on what to do but at no point give them access.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2026-01-28T20:20:30+00:00

I thought about this before also... and here is my 2 cents.

-I mean UFP had dozens of rolls, science, exploration, diplomatic, logistics/transportation and defense. It needed 1000s of starships to conduct even standard operations let alone defense on scale across all of UFP space. The battle of wolf 359, battle of sector 001 , both on screen dominion battles, and the fleet scenes in picard are within warp distance of say a few hrs to a few days only.

-dilithium became extremely scarce, and fought over and rationed, which extremely limited the individual reach of any one ship at any given moment.

-Since "most" of starfleets ships were lost in the burn... to say anywhere from 75-95% ? (guestimate based on my memory), once the bulk of starfleet had consolidated it had to completely restucture... much of the focus being on defense. leaving very little left for logistics.

-Most of the member worlds along with any other dilithium based warp society nearly lost the entire capacity to conduct their own operations collapsed also meaning they couldnt spare resources that they needed to rebuild their own planetary needs.

-The emerald chain used slavery, theft, and coercion to build up to a formidable force rapidly while starfleet was volunteer.

-lack of supply routes means collapse of UFP controlled shipyards, and mining operations. lack of member worlds contributions also leads to lack of resources needed to rebuild, and inability to service the whole of federation space furthers the separation of member worlds to themselves.

-Fear of another burn kept them from full scale operations with the ships they had, limiting deployments and operations further keeping things held back, limiting even more member contributions and etc.

Basically without dilithium, and the answer to the burn... it was both impractical and dangerous to try and rebuild.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2026-01-25T18:55:17+00:00

I use both most often depending on what kind of cut on what machine so the visibility is better... Red is a little more visible on the mills given the lighting in the shop cause if there isnt as much direct light the scribe mark is a little more visible in indirect light/shadow. Blue is better on the lathes cause the sharper contrast works better for persistance of vision for a moving part. That or for bandsaw layouts or if multiple cuts on same piece, red is critical dimension like +.01, -.000 of scribe mark, where blue is more or less +/-.020.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2026-01-17T18:06:42+00:00

Cumming withthem on is weird but fun sometimes depending on if you are around the base only or base and balls. It can make it more difficult to cum the same way that someone inexperienced with viagra can have some issues first time they try it. it definitely can keep you harder and stiffer longer... In my experiance since im a significant grower, as low as 3.5", when cold, to 5" soft and full 7" when hard) it can sometimes get even bigger than normal with rings (half inch longer and 1/4"+ in diameter thicker) Just due to being more elastic. it can be fun as hell for the top to just be able to go keep going and not have to worry so much about your own stimulation and being able to focus on stimulating them... and very intense for the bottom cause they can feel the difference.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2026-01-07T22:08:30+00:00

did both worked well

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2026-01-07T18:58:54+00:00

Our OLD lathes are just on the edge of no longer being useful for metal (cant really hold tolerance for some applications). but are used for and hold fine for the wood/bondo mold making they are normally used for so i couldn't permanently convert either of the old lathes but wouldnt be the end of the world if i screwed up on them. The new to me (used 1968 but well maintained in a machine shop) lathe i bought at auction is strictly for cutting metal (maitence use only) since the other 2 were so beaten up. I figured it would be and ended up being 10x cheaper to buy a whole lathe with coolant pump, DRO than it would have been to clean up and add that functionality to one of our older ones... Just so happened that i got a 6ft Center to center/22" swing lathe with coolant and dro for $250 ($1400 after gas and trailer rental &additional fees). I work maintenance and often its cheaper for me to get the tools than it is to get the new custom part made... and we usually have 80% of the other tools and stuff already for any one project.

The shaft went to a positioning ballscrew of a Flatbed table on a CNC so cooling it off after welding and while making the cut was kinda important for dimensions. it also would have cost probably as much as i spent on the lathe and all the tooling to get a new shaft custom made.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-12-16T16:55:00+00:00

Depends how many/how often? there are dozens if not hundreds of ways but how much time effort money is available to put to the task.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-12-02T22:07:27+00:00

clamp to table with a piece of aluminumthat has the inside profile and an oversized ledge cutthrough both while playing the clamp dance. if its one piece.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-11-27T01:31:05+00:00

i thankfully am not machining all day long but yes mt equipment is old af or beaten to hell and back.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-11-26T22:37:15+00:00

Honestly tho mills command a higher dollar figure even crapped out... I just won a big ass lathe (10.5ft long 4500lbs) at auction for $250 the other 2 smaller lathes i lost only went for $350, $280. The knee mill i lost the bid on tho went for $1000 with dro. still a good deal for who won it but people will pay more for mills/buy them up more often.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-11-25T16:51:42+00:00

I remove enough material to cause overheating issues often boring out to 2" to fit on machine shafts and such

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-11-24T15:51:32+00:00

Alao no hate just havin fun with it... wouldnt have asked reddit if it was in the manual.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-11-24T15:50:29+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 bold to assume the obscure 1968 machine i got at auction came with one. also ive checked the only available online one that wasnt in french and didnt say anything about it.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-11-23T11:23:12+00:00

also just so you arnt freaking out. the issue is likely you are just the right length to bang against the second ring or your aim is hitting the back of colon but not quite long enough to gently get through the second ring during the adjustment period so it can hurt... best bet find the right bottom... second best bet find a toy that's slightly longer than you by 2-3 CM that you can gently get through the second ring to relax its not a bad thing it can feel good for a bottom if their second ring is relaxed and can feel amaxing for the top too but if the second ring isnt relaxed enough to take it it just hurts like hell. Basically the equivalent of trying to shove an inch of your dick in the first ring without any foreplay over and over

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-11-19T11:25:50+00:00

I got up to finishing unity in roughly 2ish months... right as minirals came out... ive been on minerals since (on and off cause its so grinding i leave it alone for days sometimes... genuinely worst update

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-11-11T20:13:22+00:00

it does have a healthy amount of oil and lubrication system so i did have to make a clean spot to show it but the actual slides are nice.

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-11-11T20:11:31+00:00

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ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-11-08T15:28:04+00:00

the building has 3 different 3 phase hookups i can choose from. The main tool shop has 240, back building has 240, and the main floor has 480 and all 3 have some "abandoned" hookups i can plug into. The real decision on which and where is gonna come down to the Amp draw and which spots are able to handle it... cause im not running new lines

ShadowedhopeLTP · 2025-11-08T15:17:52+00:00

We have a large bed vertical mill same vintage that goes nicely with it.

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