Yea, well, it took a lot of work on college student / garage tig welder wages to save up and buy this thing, and the ways are as-new... So i'm a little paranoid about keeping them that way. haha
The fact that the rotary converter is so noisey (I really do need to get an inverter for the spindle and use that converter as a paper weight) and the cycle time is so slow for the lube, not knowing what was going on with it was driving me crazy.
That, and the fact that I grew up racing shifter karts, and then raced open wheel cars- Things where you spent 10x as much time wrenching then using... The concept that there isn't a billion hours of maintance to be done is bugging the hell out of me. I feel like its going to explode into a million pieces when I turn my back on it.
I did a bunch of machining in school, I'm getting my M.E. degree, but we never had to do any maintance, all we did was sweep up our chips. |