Well after sitting idle for four years (billet parts)

Great input I’ll get right on it
 
Dave, Thats a nice shop, I wish we could keep ours that clean. I have allot of the same machines, but we rarely use the manual stuff anymore. Most everything has turned automated. It's the only way to keep up these days and make any money. I can's seem to get away from the old manual stuff though. Just don't have the heart to sell it. I could make a ton of room in my shop, but some of the machines have been with my family for 45 years. The Routers and lasers have really changed the game for us. They are my bread and butter, the rest is just for one off stuff, when we have to fixture or figure out a problem solve. The machines seem to multiply when your busy though!
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Dave, Thats a nice shop, I wish we could keep ours that clean. I have allot of the same machines, but we rarely use the manual stuff anymore. Most everything has turned automated. It's the only way to keep up these days and make any money. I can's seem to get away from the old manual stuff though. Just don't have the heart to sell it. I could make a ton of room in my shop, but some of the machines have been with my family for 45 years. The Routers and lasers have really changed the game for us. They are my bread and butter, the rest is just for one off stuff, when we have to fixture or figure out a problem solve. The machines seem to multiply when your busy though!
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Very cool what are you making with that vacuum table router?

On that manual rotary is the center slightly raised? Mine is like that and it drives me fucking crazy because I always have to fixture around it.
 
On a side note until I get some regular work around the shop both Eddie and myself are working on pet projects..

He wants to make a kind of high end belt buckle and belt.. not something you would buy at a store but something you buy for life.

Anyhow he started machining the aluminum prototypes last night and will finish them up over the next couple days before he makes them out of stainless..

Only pic I got because I was working on something else at the time.

What are you seeing is a top view of one of the sides. And then another one on the opposite side of the block.


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Very cool what are you making with that vacuum table router?

On that manual rotary is the center slightly raised? Mine is like that and it drives me fucking crazy because I always have to fixture around it.
Various parts. The black parts are spacer plates for a customers product. The white parts are a large housing for measuring certain mined minerals.
We made the center for the rotary table. It's a pvc centering pin for a specific part we make. Otherwise the rotary table is flat.
 
Various parts. The black parts are spacer plates for a customers product. The white parts are a large housing for measuring certain mined minerals.
We made the center for the rotary table. It's a pvc centering pin for a specific part we make. Otherwise the rotary table is flat.

I was talking about the circle outside of the centering pin.. mine is slightly raised which makes it a pain in the ass.. I have never understood why mine is like that and I have almost heaved the thing into the trash more times than I can count..

Now that I have a CNC I doubt I’d ever use it again
 
I was talking about the circle outside of the centering pin.. mine is slightly raised which makes it a pain in the ass.. I have never understood why mine is like that and I have almost heaved the thing into the trash more times than I can count..

Now that I have a CNC I doubt I’d ever use it again
Couldn't you just disassemble it and use the mill to knock it flat?
 
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