1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I take whatever Coors, Redbull and an occasional shot of water gives.

 

and thats what I wonder...

the Economy/proximity of CKY isn't what it is in CA, PNW or even the North East... I also can't contractually sell the parts I have the passion for designing lol

 

cirrhosis and/or dialysis later on I'm guessing

 

Mill is way more useful, then you can toss that drill press out too and have more bench space

 

Well if you look at the above map...that's just online stuff and totally excludes everything I do locally

At the same time, I don't make much doing this side hustle; I've been doing more welding work here and there than actual cutting on my table but it's fair to say the table averages about $500/mo.

Was slower last month but I blame that to me not doing much work on top of people having spent money over the holidays

 

I would love a CNC mill, I like where your head's at

 

Kidney stones

 

the secret is to die young I guess

 

@Speedytech7 you got experience working a mill?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JA25BIxgtk

 

Yeah, I worked at machine shop, machining lol

I wouldn't bother with a CNC mill for a home gamer, all the decent ones are a ton of money. And the cheap ones can't do shit. Just a good Bridgeport or Bridgeport clone kneemill and learn to operate by hand. Lots of valuable lessons to be learnt by figuring out how to setup and fixture items, then how to complete your job. Plus you get to learn all the good shop math.

 

I couldn't remember if you had done lathe work that's why

Yeah a manual one would make sense, both from a learning experience and financial standpoint

Tooling is supposed to be the real expensive part of it all; give it a few more years and I'll be bringing this subject up again

 

Yeah tooling is really expensive no matter which one you choose. Tungsten carbide doesn't come cheap and high speed steel is pretty cheap but all it really makes you do is wish you had tungsten carbide

 

@eon_blue

Before you break off and float away to Russia, consider just moving closer

We'll get you set up for powder coating work in the garage, split profits

 

I've seen the videos of collisions and holy fucking shit...both tool, spindle, work piece, and more all gone to shit

 

you're on the other side of the fault line? you might end up with Mexico sliding up next to you

I mean really though we're talking about something happening a million years from now lol

 

Bro, if you don't wanna have River and Theo growing up together just say it

They could've been welding bros

 

believe me I couldn't sell Rebecca on the Central Valley if I tried lol. No family close enough to justify it being that far from the coast

 

Maybe I should send hints

'Baby's first welding set'

Some onesies

Real welding hood for when he's ready to wear one

$20 Blue Demon Little Demons kids welding gloves, 3X-Small White

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BX4Y61T

 

Yeah bad CNC programming has its consequences. Also whoever is running it shouldn't walk away until they've proven the program works. It sucks after a bad crash you have to replace some parts yeah that's not the big deal you also have to get the machine aligned