Progress on my Lathe project #23 - Plettenberg Bay, S.Africa

[Gerald D]

It can go under the machine if . . . . .

- people won't kick it

- a broom won't knock off the wires under the box

- water won't get there when the shop floods, or you hose down the floor

- boards and forklift trucks don't bang into it

- it has space for cool air to convect up from the floor, pass the sides of the box, and move away. (musn't form a bubble of warm air under the table surface

- somebody does not lean off-cut boards against the control buttons

- somebody does not lean off-cut boards against the control box making a blanket and keeping the warm air in.

- it does not form a layer of sawdust on top that acts as a soft blanket.

- you are young enough to work that low down for trouble-shooting

[hennie]

Sucks! it would have looked sooo good!

[Gerald D]

You mean that you are not young enough to lean down that far?

[hennie]

No, I am quite capable at least I don`t have a boep that makes things dificult .It usually comes with age.

[Lex]

Thats why I have to lean to the left before I can look up!. Problem is that my focus point is always wrong with the bi-focals.

[hennie]

Is it the mass with gravity that works against you?

[Lex]

Yes that and the rubber arms combined with the compound angles!

[hennie]

OK Alan made me jelous so I had to do something today
I started putting the framework together

[Lex]

Hey! Daar kom hy!
End is in sight. Making me jealous now.

[hennie]

Still some work to do but it will happen soon .
I am using it this weekend for a boxing ring.

[Kobus_Joubert]

Looking good. Just hoping you are not boxing with your project manager

[hennie]

Gatiep if he comes drunk to work on Monday.

[hennie]

Last bits & pieces to be done.

[Lex]

Nearly there! Could be a Christmas present.

[kaartman]

Yes Johan, from daddy TO daddy with lots of love

[Lex]

Koning, I will be forced to be happy with a six pack Windhoek for myself. Not complaining

[hennie]

I took this pic this morning on my way to work.Looked like these youngsters had a rough night ( Plett Rage )Wish I had a shebeen

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[Gerald D]

Ag fooitog, those kids heard that you go to Plett to spend a night on the tiles - and then they thought it was meant to be the roof tiles!

Hennie, did you know that shebeen comes from the Irish and the word was used in America?

Some more info on Plett Rage:
http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...=matrics+plett

Matriculants are kids who have finished high school, typically aged 18, the age at which they can buy liquor and get driver's licences. And Hennie's beach town (Plettenberg Bay) is where they go and let go. (our school year ends before the summer break, which is this week.)

[hennie]

I didn`t know from Irish but where I grew up in ( Fietta`s -Vrededorp Jhb) there were a couple of them I know what it is about.Raided a couple of them when I was in the SAP in the early 90`s.

Another week and my town is full of tourists.

[Kobus_Joubert]

Don't leave Margate on the Kwa-Zulu South Coast out of this matric rage thing..So many kids do stupid things during this time and pay for it the rest of their lives.

[hennie]

Ok. silly season is over so now I can spend some time to complete my MM.
Will take a break for the next 5 weeks then it is time for a new year again.
I can complete all the last bits but can not do final assemble until next year when I can move into my new workshop,what a bummer.

Kobus will be in Gangsters paradise from the 20th will contact you.

[Gerald D]

Just a note to those from the cold northern hemisphere:

Today, most industrial businesses closed their doors for the summer/Xmas holidays, out here in South Africa. We re-open our factories either 5 or 12 January, some even later.

[domino11]

Gerald,
Wednesday this week, we had to close our schools for an ice rain storm that went through the area.

[Gerald D]

Heath, the first time I read your post, I read:
. . . . . we had to close our schools for an ice cream storm that . . . .
that is just our natural association with the word ice here at the beach in summer.

[Kobus_Joubert]

Hennie I am in Sabie fixing some things to my house over here. Will leave for GP on Friday. So contact me and we can get together. I will be back at work on Monday 22 Dec but can always make a plan.

[hennie]

The wife wants to stay till the 3rd of Jan in GP so we can turn a steak over when it suits you will contact you when I am in town.

[hennie]

I took some pic`s of projects that financed my Mech Mate.

[Kobus_Joubert]

nice very very nice

[Doug_Ford]

Beautiful work. I wish we had some of that gorgeous wood here in the US.

[sailfl]

Hennie,

Nice work. Did you cut the counter tops and back splash on your machine?