Things to make

[MBG]

Originally Posted by ghyman chess pieces. Years ago, I started a set out of a bar of ø1.25 brass that had been "laying around" for 6+ years. I wrote the code long hand, and keyed it in to a bar-fed Warner & Swasey 2SC with a GE-1050 control (no way to back it up... just a tape reader). This was my lunch-time project for 2 months... normal production during normal hours, but from 7:00 to 8:00pm, I was a chess-piece making fool. The other set was made from remnants of dura-bar. I never finished the set; they made me a programmer after one of my pieces was found by day shift in the parts catcher, and I never went back to running a machine. But that was 15 years ago, and I only have four or five of the pieces left. So please, MBG... make an old machinist happy, and make a nice, unique, awesome chess set!

cool story. But I already made a set. Anodized one side black and the other side is clean coated.

[RotarySMP]

No offense, but if you didn't actually need to make anything, why did you get a lathe, mill and surface grinder?

For me (apart from the fact that a lathe is basic hand tool everyone should own), I have the plans to build an RV-4 aircraft, but live in an inner city apartment, and can't get started yet. So I started getting ideas to buy a bunch of cheap VDO guages, and integrate them into a single multi dial instrument. To make the case I started to design a CNC router, decided I can't make a router without a lathe, so now I have a CNC lathe on the balcony.

What do I make..... parts for the CNC lathe, and now some parts for the CNC mill. One day I might start the gage thing, or even the plane.

Visit your local model helicopter club. These things have lots of intricate expensive little parts which die instantly when the guy crashes. They love machinists.

[MBG]

Originally Posted by RotarySMP No offense, but if you didn't actually need to make anything, why did you get a lathe, mill and surface grinder? For me (apart from the fact that a lathe is basic hand tool everyone should own), I have the plans to build an RV-4 aircraft, but live in an inner city apartment, and can't get started yet. So I started getting ideas to buy a bunch of cheap VDO guages, and integrate them into a single multi dial instrument. To make the case I started to design a CNC router, decided I can't make a router without a lathe, so now I have a CNC lathe on the balcony. What do I make..... parts for the CNC lathe, and now some parts for the CNC mill. One day I might start the gage thing, or even the plane. Visit your local model helicopter club. These things have lots of intricate expensive little parts which die instantly when the guy crashes. They love machinists.

I am in school that is how I have these machines