No, Gene, I never laugh at you. I just chuckle at your great stories and colorful descriptions. You remind me a lot of my "Uncle" Phil, an old navy buddy of my dad's. Like you he was a broadcast engineer at a small town radio station here in MO. Though he never finished high school he was very well read and a real wizard of electronics. He was always taking old junk , electronic or mechanical and repurposing it to make all manner of useful gadgets. Phil could knowledgeably discuss nearly any subject and express himself in the most colorful language. Being an old sailor it was suitably salty, of course, but even my rather prudish mom admired his creative use of swear words. As a young lad I would sneak out of bed to listen in on his conversations with my dad, thinking Phil was the smartest man I ever knew (and maybe he was).
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." -Kenneth Boulding, economist “How unfortunate that the Earth’s first intelligent social animal is a tribal carnivore” -E.O. Wilson, sociobiologist >________________________________ > From: Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> >To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Saturday, June 7, 2014 4:57 PM >Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Either I am a survivor, or he isn't ready for me. > > >On Saturday 07 June 2014 11:14:07 Greg Bernard did opine >And Gene did reply: >> Of course he isn't ready for you yet. You still have a lot lot of work >> to get done to get that lathe of yours working the way you want! > >Actually its about there, but the whole OEM timing belt drive is an old >style belt, only available from LMS and the mounting for the jackshaft is >just flexible enough to let it slip a few teeth. If its under cutting >load, thats instantly a burned up pulley on the jackshaft. > >> I >> hope you're up and at 'em soon, Gene. I've always found your posts >> endlessly entertaining and useful as I follow your progress. Without >> your unique posts this list would be greatly diminished . > >What a nice thing to say, thank you Greg. And even if you are laughing at >me, at least you laughed. :) > >While I doubt if I'll be making swarf in the next week, the deck on the >shop is a nice place to get ones vitamin D, and has a comfy chair, so I >ran the update-manager on both machines while I was sitting there >yesterday around noon, nursing a cuppa our real coffee. I asked the cooks >at Ruby why, when they make at least 100 gallons of coffee a day, why it >wasn't coffee. No answer. > >Where I got forcibly stopped, is rigging some limit switches to detect the >end of the screw as it approaches the ball nut & stop it from dropping all >those balls in the dirt. Once thats done, then tip it up to get at the >nut holding screws & change the whole thing out. But I don't know as I'd >trust me to handle the weight of the tables just yet. That is the big >base and table kit from LMS. > >Two projects to do as soon as I feel like it, the rider needs to be fired >up, as the front yard is about 5" high, and the light switch for the >ceiling lights in my bedroom has picked the last 2 weeks to slowly expire. >Switches I have, I just need to go round one up, along with the right >sized screwdriver. I buy those things in contractor 10 packs. Goes with >owning the place free & clear for quite a few years. > >The grass may be a little higher yet before I fork that old 38" Craftsman. >Pushing 30yo, its getting hard to shift, the drive must be fully unloaded. > >But I still am, and have been told that heart wise I am as good as new >once the right side of my heart shrinks back to more or less normal. They >spent at least an hour watching it on the ultrasound screen 2 days later. >So thats encouraging. > >Cheers Greg, Gene Heskett > > > > >-- >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >-Ed Howdershelt (Author) >Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> >US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book >"Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their >applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, >this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! >http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
