Todays Rant

[Trucker47]

Well i waited a day and started fresh today with new material and it was a success! I had to make an electric actuator with 1.75" stroke. I measured everything, did it right the first time and when it was all assembled it worked perfectly! I'll try to take a picture tomorrow to show you guys what i made.

SANDCRAFT TRANSPORT - yea i was running thin on patience that day hahaha. I geuss after 8 hours alone working in the shop with everything going wrong i got a little ancy.

td9cycle - So far i think i've got easily 100 hours in the shop, probably half on my drill press/makeshift lathe/light duty home made milling machine, 100 on my computer designing it and probably 24 writing the report; i think its up to 300 words or something like that.

Heavy Metal - Oh man! I think thats when i would just get extremely angry and walk out.

9W Monighan - Yeup thats usally the case, i get excited since its almost all done and overlook a step on the last piece and it all goes downhill from there.

tc1cat - $12,000 dollars?!? What are you making? must be cool if its that pricey. Hahaha yes i've been there and done that. You always think it will work just barely, but in reality it won't, doesn't and ruines what you working on. Like when i was tapping the 10-24 thread the tap i had; snapped so i thought, "i'll just use half of it, it SHOULD work". Well lets just say the hole got ruined and the broken tap landed in the neighbors yard

9W Monighan - Yea i love Pink Floyd so i turn on some Dark Side of The Moon, lie down and relax.

[tc1cat]

My main 9 to 5 job is for an orthopaedics company. I make replacement hips, shoulders, and elbows. Mostly out of titanium or cobalt chrome. Been at it for almost 25 years. Most of my time is spent running a CNC lathe with live tooling- milling and drilling heads in turret. Lots of ops. done at the same time compared to 10 years ago.

[ihbuilder]

Originally Posted by tc1cat

My main 9 to 5 job is for an orthopaedics company. I make replacement hips, shoulders, and elbows. Mostly out of titanium or cobalt chrome. Been at it for almost 25 years. Most of my time is spent running a CNC lathe with live tooling- milling and drilling heads in turret. Lots of ops. done at the same time compared to 10 years ago.

It would be so nice to have 1 of them right now . but I'm not about to take out another mortgage since I'll be just under 50 when my first is paid

[tc1cat]

I think that that is most expensive hip we make. Most are a lot less. Hospital bill and surgeon's bill will make you cry. My knee op 3 weeks ago has a $11,000 hospital bill plus the surgeon's bill which I have no idea how much it will be. And this was out-patient surgury, in at 9AM out at 3PM. 2nd surgery yesterday for bladder stones was about the same for time in at 7AM out at noon. Can't wait to see that bill Looks like my buying things went done the drain for the foreseeable future Lots of nice things out there to get with no money to buy