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I'm no whiner BUT.....did you ever have one of those days where nothing worked out...even a little? I had a whole 3 days to my lonesome, me and my lathes, and all I could accomplish was chips & piece- big and small. The shop vac caught on fire-that was fun. The clicker I was trying to make blew up. The Skiprat nutless bolt tribute pen crashed and burned, not once, not twice, but many times. The I thought I could redeem myself with a cool kitless, and trashed almost all the alumilite blanks I had. I almost had a nib done and the drill loosed up and it went the way of the previous stuff. Oh well, better luck next time, and I can't wait.
 
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Cris, you might try Butchs method. Gomething about, yellou socks and, standing on his left foot ???? :confused: I don't know. Hope it gets better for you.:wink:
 
We had a day like that at work earlier this week. If somebody told us that the property had burst into flames while being attacked by aliens we would have known the answer to ,"what else can go wrong."
 
Cris, after my wife's cancer when I was trying to get started back into turning. The stress gave me many days like that in there and elsewhere in life. I then decided that the treatment was to turn around shut off the lights, grab the family and go to the park for a couple hours, dinner or a movie. When I came back I had a better frame of mind to either clean it up that day or the next and try again.


I hope you get it all fixed up and try again.
 
Hey Cris,

After the SECOND failure in a row, try turning your "stand-by" pen. The one type you KNOW you can NAIL every time (for me, a resin cigar). Once that pen is done successfully, then embark on new paths again---but you will have a predisposition to succeed.

After two failures, I believe we develop a "What else can go wrong" attitude---and it DOES!!

Just another FWIW after 15 years of watching pen blanks spin!!!
 
Well I just blew up on of ED'S purple blanks the lower barrel blew up. So I had and extra blank whipped it and proceeded to drill the whole for the upper barrel. Now no Jr Gent I or II has two upper barrels that I know of. So get out the rest of the replacement blank and drill the proper hole and glue the correct tube into it. So far in is going OK but did slow everything down including myself. Like they say S happens. The drill bit I was using should have been a MM instead of the fractional alternative. The whole was a tad larger and the tube wasn't glued in correctly. Oh well live and learn will go out this evening and finish. I even made a custom finial for the cap so I don't want to give it up on it.
 
Sorry to hear about that Cris. You might have to come over and show me some of those nice lookin' chips. By the way, how does a shop vac catch on fire? Static electricity? I hope our ancient shop vac doesn't do that.
 
Mapster said:
Sorry to hear about that Cris. You might have to come over and show me some of those nice lookin' chips. By the way, how does a shop vac catch on fire? Static electricity? I hope our ancient shop vac doesn't do that.
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Ya gotta clean out those filters once in awhile and, spend less time on a metal lathe :biggrin::devil::biggrin:
 
dalecamino said:
Cris, you might try Butchs method. Gomething about, yellou socks and, standing on his left foot ???? :confused: I don't know. Hope it gets better for you.:wink:
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The yellow socks ALWAYS work !!! :devil::clown::biggrin:


Hey Cris ..... How many of those T shirts do you want ? BTDT over and over and over and .....
 
mredburn said:
Is the shop vac salvagable?
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Well.....depends on what you would call salvageable. I kept the cord and some attachments. I ended up getting a ridgid from the orange box down the street. Marshall, the old standby must have gotten packed full of "stuff"-from pen chips to long hair (not mine) up inside the intake. It squealed like a stuck hog and finally started smoking. Not too cool in a one car garage, but at least no one was home to lecture me on that one.....
 
Chris, had one like that last weekend. Blew out two blanks for no apparent reason. Dropped a tool and chipped the end, bent to pick it up, bumper head on metal table. Decided that was enough, back in the house for some TV.
 
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