Friday, June 1, 2012


this is not a good thing

The rebuild of Jasmine has started!  I did some basic inspection and found that Jasmine has turcite on her table, and that it need replaced before she can make chips.  This requires me to get some turcite cut to shape, install it, and grind/scrape it.  Of course I am not doing all of this.  I am hoping that American plastics in Columbus cam make the strips.  I am looking for a rebuilder to do the scraping.

So in general that sucks.
But in for a penny, in for a grand.  So since the table is off, I am ordering new plumbing for the one shot lube system.  The one shot lube supplies all the moving parts of the mill with lubrication, and it’s a big deal when it breaks.  2 lines in the system were corroded and that is probably why the turcite was chewed.  In the mean time I have only 30 or so other things to do like build a table for the Rockwell, plumb some air lines, buy a compressor, finish the design for the rpc, build the rpc, finish the flood coolant for the saw, put some lights up, find a compressor, run electric to all machines, and maybe even get a job.  I feel like I still don’t know any answers but I am at least starting to ask the right questions.