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  1. #16
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    Hi Mike, came across this thread again. I do hope you and your family are well there under the circumstances.

    How's the project going? If at all.

    Greg.

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    Default Update (longish) -- proceed at your own peril!

    Quote Originally Posted by StrayAlien View Post
    Hi Mike

    Hi Greg, great to hear from you again. Well, it's been a busy 8 months or so here, for sure! Fortunately everyone is healthy, so that's the biggest news so far (hope you can say the same on your end).


    In March (just as the virus was blooming in earnest here in the eastern US) the missus and I decided it was time to put the house up for sale (our kids are almost all away in college, we both took new jobs further away from our old place, etc.) -- we'd been maneuvering towards that goal for a few years, and I'd gotten my big list of to-dos complete (re-sided the entire house, new basement stairway, new railing and skirting on the deck, lots of painting and new carpeting), so we figured why not. Well, we sold it within a week for more than we were asking to a couple a few hundred miles away who never set foot in the house until after the settlement (virtual tours do work, it seems). So we spent the next few months scrambling with the usual back-and-forth with the buyers whilst we looked for something we liked. We found a place in April, and miraculously were able to sell, buy and move the same day in mid-July amidst all of the hubbub with the pandemic.


    In the meantime, I needed to pack and move a mill, two lathes, the B&S surface grinder, a tool & cutter grinder, table saw, vertical air compressor, two bandsaws, cabinets, benches, tools, etc. into storage near the new place (the moving company wanted a small fortune to move everything; I did it for <$500 outlay and a few Saturdays). Once we were into the new house I took it all out of storage into the attached 3-car garage for another iteration of storage. Imagine 2 bays of this, and one vehicle in the third bay:
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    I had a full unfinished basement >2000sq. ft. with a walkout at the last house. This new house has a fully finished basement with no walkout and the Boss insists the vehicle(s) need to be parked inside long-term. So, I get to design and build a detached shop in the woods behind the house. So, I've completed the engineering and architectural drawings, and just finished our stormwater study to satisfy the township -- I'll be getting the permit submitted just in time for the winter freeze here (oh, and lumber prices are sky high here in the US, so I may be waiting until Spring to get going anyway)... Been clearing trees slowly and steadily:
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    AND to top it all off, I've acquired TWO more large lathes... First is a 1949 LeBlond Dual Drive (originally bought by Black & Decker) that was a part of a shop clean-out a few buddies and I found (think I paid $400 for this guy):
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    And, finally, a 70's vintage Austrian Vöest. This is I *BELIEVE* a DA-225 gap-bed lathe about 2M long. A good long-time friend and I scored this one as a part of another shop cleanout (for FREE, it was all going to scrap) and he wanted it because it does both metric and imperial threading w/o any fussing over gear changes... We got it into his shop, and then he very suddenly and unexpectedly passed away the beginning of September. His wife made it clear she wants me to have it, along with a bunch of other machinery and tooling, etc. Over the next few months I'll be going through his entire shop and sorting good from bad, sellable from scrap, etc. Horrible way to come across such a wonderful machine, but he and I had spoken many times casually about if something ever happened to one of us, the survivor would get free first dibs on anything they wanted from our collections.
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    So, needless to say, I haven't been sitting around, but at the same time, haven't made a single metal chip in 6+ months either! I'll be sure to start a new thread or two on the shop build and the cleanout of my friend's place (likely will have a LOT of good stuff to sell).

    Fill me in on things down there!
    Mike

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    Looks like you _have_ been busy there for sure! Life does that. We moved house a little over a year ago and with all that was going on at the same time I think I may not have even turned any machines on for 6 months or more.

    I'm gearing up atm for phase 2 of the grinder resto, and that is to scrape it back into alignment. But that is a different story ....

    When you get your nose back into the grinder refurb (or anything else for that matter) be sure to share a few pics. "we love pics".

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