Nice work; now we need to see the Shopbot in action. I've been thinking
about getting one for several years.
The Logan should be a nice lathe; I had a 9" model that I used for a
number of years before I sold it for a 12" Grizzly. Did you get the QC
with it too?
On 1/29/2013 9:35 PM, John Miller wrote:
> ...having access to a Shopbot CNC router can be dangerous to one's
> sanity.
>
> First the (7yo) daughter suggests that, well, she'd like to do
> sleepovers but that really means she needs more room and a bunk bed
> might be a good idea. Mommy agrees so Daddy's sent off to make sawdust:
>
> http://www.milleredp.com/~jem/image/misc/bunkbed.jpg
>
> Along the way, Daddy concludes that since he's already fallen off the
> deep end building a five-drawer chest he may as well do some cabinets
> to fill the grubbily underutilized space under his workbench:
>
> http://www.milleredp.com/~jem/image/misc/shopcabs.jpg
>
> And, the old saying goes that things happen in threes, at least over
> the last week free stuff happened that way, first was a Systech
> network serial-port server from a friend cleaning out his shelves,
> then came the '86 Celica (turns out to need a fuel pump, so not truly
> free...) and today I picked up a clean but quite old 10x36 Logan lathe
> from a fellow local Lion who, after a couple hours of chat about his
> past career, turned out to have been (as nearly as I can peg it) my
> older (now-deceased) brother's junior high school metal shop teacher
> nearly fifty years ago.
>
> John.
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