wanted to thank you for sharing your knowledge/experience

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savet06

Mike Suhie
I cannot thank you guys enough for the information that you post here on a daily basis. I am not a machinist by any stretch and wanted to extend my passion for this sport a little deeper so I sought out ways of making that happen. I have been enjoying the heck out of my little south bend and am learning something new everyday.
Thanks to Boyd's post and many others I just threaded my first tenon using thread wires as my guide and am very happy with the results. I have been grinding my own hss tool bits (something that may not stick around forever, but I wanted to understand as much as I could before I bought an insert style tool), and slowly gathering the necessary components to complete a barrel from start to finish.
Almost all the knowlege I have to be able to do this came from this site, some great youtube videos (The viper has some excellent tutorials as well as mrpete222, and keith fenner if you ever get a chance to check them out), the practicalmachinist.com, and an old Shop theory book that was given to me by a good friend.

About a year ago I won a tuner in the postals from Butch and intend to put in on my first, complete, barrel job.

Thanks again,
Mike
 
You're underway, enjoy the experience. Just be extra careful, machine tools have the wherewithal to take off fingers, or worse. AND always wear good eye protection and avoid loose fitting clothes that these machines can grab.
 
Noted. I take off my watch and ring, and only wear short sleeved shirts that I tuck in. Safety glasses always.
Healthy fear is a good thing.
 
That's no joke!

JerrySharrett said:
You're underway, enjoy the experience. Just be extra careful, machine tools have the wherewithal to take off fingers, or worse. AND always wear good eye protection and avoid loose fitting clothes that these machines can grab.
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It can happen in a flash. I was flattening a split bushing with a surface grinder several years ago and repositioned the bushing on the magnetic chuck without turning off the spindle. My left index finger barely touched the spinning wheel and it was flipped under the wheel reduced to 3/8" severing the tendons. Spent all night in the emergency room in OKC waiting on a plastic surgeon. Just happened to be the night of the '99 Moore tornado and the emergency room was filled. Pretty fortunate that they were able to fix it as I can still squeeze a sandbag between the repaired finger and thumb.
 
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