Time to lift the knee back onto the Column. This is a heavy part and I did not want to scratch up the paint job.. Don came over and we spent some time starting the reassembly of the Bridgeport knee mill.
Thanks for bringing us along! Yet again I find myself, refreshing beverage in hand, other hand in pocket, nodding sagely and offering the same advice and assistance I’d give if there in person. It’s like some kind of virtual reality experience for the machining enthusiast. The wife wants to know who I’m talking to. I just say “Steve” and she says “OK”.
Why thank you. In part two Don and I screw up, Well I tried to take a short cut and it back fires, but it's still Don's Fault. The Ram is going back on and we look over the grinder control electrics...
Fantastic episode, I was so engrossed in the goings on that literally I forgot to drink my morning coffee as I watched. Really a great historical episode ,keep up with your productions I can't wait for the next one!
The #1 reason I only get Bridgeport's to restore.... I have about 5,000 in new parts so far. The only thing I'm thinking about is replacing the spindle. Have all new bearings but the spindle is about another 780.00
Holy Cow, I wish I could have been there helping you guys. It would have been The Three Stooges Meet The Keystone Cops! Awesomely fun video. I'm keenly interested, as I may have to do the same thing to my Lagun Mill in the foreseeable future.
Steve, I know exactly what you mean about anti-coagulants. I got quite a deep cut in my arm from the razor sharp corner of an aluminium window at my French house, when I got up at 2 AM to shout at the drunken idiots in a camper in the small road at the bottom of my drive to stop singing at the tops of their raucous voices. That was over three weeks ago and it is still bleeding, whenever I change the plaster.
The doctors have cut my dose of blood thinners in half since I started the Monaro shots and the Blood sugar, Blood pressure and weight loss started taking effect.... Still bleads though :)
After all the effort you're putting into this machine, you better make your own super heavy on this bridgeport to make this restoration worthwhile - haha
I ordered it about three minutes after star ship landed on a crippled mostly gone forward flap:) I was watching it on my pad with earbuds on... Sitting in my favorite breakfast place eating my morning omelet, I told the staff not to worry about anything I was doing . I was jumping around in my booth like a wild man through out the flight :)
@@10swatkins I saw the video of the flap disintegrating on re-entry. It's amazing that somehow it hung on - I thought for sure that flap was a goner as soon as hot plasma was coming out the topside of it! They clearly have a long way to go and a bunch of issues to work out still
The chain is so small that the bolt will not go through a link that has two connected to it... I would have had to cut the chain down... First thing I tired :)
The Bridgeport is coming back! Like your SpaceX t shirt! Elon is suggesting a booster catch on the arms for Launch 5. Hopefully the swim club will be out of business next time unless the booster needs to suicide itself.
