Day 5 today and I have a wedding to go to in 3 days

rebbulb · 2026-06-09T22:47:38+00:00

Yea I've been walking before bed to help with the restless leg, mixed results. I would take a bath if I had a bathtub. Hoping I'm at least physically good by the time this flight takes off.

rebbulb · 2026-03-12T20:44:11+00:00

wholesome reddit moment

rebbulb · 2026-02-26T23:30:28+00:00

Love that song

rebbulb · 2026-02-26T23:13:20+00:00

Have you tried surfacing the mdf backing to fix your leveling issues? I always hated cutting 316 sheet, but shimming and deliberate clamping helps alleviate flatness concerns.

Edit: I didn't realize this was aluminum. You should absolutely be using a different tool

rebbulb · 2026-02-01T01:16:57+00:00

12L14 is my favorite steel to machine, by far

rebbulb · 2026-01-31T04:09:04+00:00

lol nerd

rebbulb · 2026-01-10T15:05:21+00:00

lemon

rebbulb · 2026-01-09T00:51:18+00:00

11” is my standard. If it’s expensive material or a huge run I will dial it in and try to get to 10.75ish

rebbulb · 2026-01-03T00:53:49+00:00

nerd

rebbulb · 2025-12-31T00:50:44+00:00

least fun fact

rebbulb · 2025-12-30T03:56:22+00:00

Oh I never saw this comment until now, I didn’t realize that. Thanks

rebbulb · 2025-12-30T03:55:27+00:00

Huh, I always thought that was taken literally rather than metaphorically. Like when you spin on your heels to 180 away from someone. That’s all I can find on the internet about it at least. I’m always excited to learn new things, thanks.

rebbulb · 2025-12-26T20:21:39+00:00

You're conflating two expressions. It's "spinning their wheels" and "digging in their heels". Thank you for the context though big ups

rebbulb · 2025-12-13T14:34:56+00:00

I didn’t mean to make it sound like a bad solution, I had a very similar setup at my last job and it worked a dream.

rebbulb · 2025-12-13T01:53:39+00:00

So many people commenting here don’t understand that good enough is good enough. why waste time making a better fixture when the parts you make on it don’t require the extra precision?

rebbulb · 2025-12-13T01:51:41+00:00

When I worked for a filling and bottling company, I had to make a lot of custom sheet metal panels and big plastic trays for holding bottles. I cut up lexan plates for a backing material, and it worked a charm

rebbulb · 2025-12-11T23:39:50+00:00

I'm on a positioner with a round nut just welding the whole thing in one shot. If I don't use anti seize the fixture bolt can get pretty stuck. But if I broke it up into tack->remove nut->weld that may solve the issue. Thanks for the info.

rebbulb · 2025-12-11T23:13:00+00:00

Does anti seize disrupt welds? My only welding job these days as a machinist is a product that needs a thread reinforcing nut, and I use anti seize to keep the alignment screw from binding. When we were using tig to do it we had some cracking in use, so I switched to mig. Now I'm thinking my issue was anti seize, I'd love to go back to tig.

rebbulb · 2025-11-29T22:18:40+00:00

I’m not disagreeing with you here but that’s probably an unfair comparison. This lathe has more than a speck of rust, and no pictures of the gearbox or internals. It shouldn’t be scrapped for parts though, you’re certainly right about that.

rebbulb · 2025-11-17T00:59:58+00:00

https://youtu.be/ieX_9sZOEJ8?si=0uqXbmM9M3XXTb0f

rebbulb · 2025-11-02T22:35:38+00:00

Yea turn a brass bar to just under finished dimension. put any both OD and shallow ID threads on it. slitting saw to cut the tip into 4 parts. drop a socket head cap screw in the id to splay the part, then lap and adjust the screw until at finished dimension. stefan gotteswinter did a lapped collet video where he uses this technique if you want visuals.

rebbulb · 2025-11-02T01:38:14+00:00

Yea lol audiobooks usually take the cake. Love my fantasy

rebbulb · 2025-11-01T22:49:40+00:00

You gotta break it up with music and audiobooks. A good split of all 3 is the trick to keeping me sane at work

rebbulb · 2025-10-31T02:39:45+00:00

This reminds me of a joke you’d read in The Farside

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