Shop Time w/T.W. Friends

I really could've avoided a lot of my headache today if our old Milwaukee portable mill was working. Unfortunately the variable speed controller for it took a shit. I could've shifted the shaft over a couple inches, cut new keyways up at the location, and been done with it. Instead I had to remove the whole thing, carry it down to the shop, at which point it was easier to cut a new shaft and key that one.

 

Damn... you'se guys is hard on your gear!

 

If it's not broke, it will be shortly! The portable mill is lord knows how old, has the original wood storage case still. In my defense, that was broke before I started at the mill, I think I was told somewhere in the neighborhood of two years it's been toast. They didn't use it enough to want to find a replacement, so I got the short end of the stick today

 

Nice job, turned out great!

 

FIFY

 

Ah yes, I missed that tiiiiiny detail

 

You get rode hard and put away wet just about every day from what I see.

 

Interesting the cable driven Speedometer went to120 mph

Did imports need to meet this law??

 

If you can get a model number, I'll do the leg work and see if I can find a part for it.

 

I'll take a gander at it tomorrow, I'll let you know. I think they have one at another of our mills they wanted to try and reverse engineer as well, I'll probably give the right person a poke about that possibility too.

 

Milwaukee has funny ideas about repair parts. A bunch of their legacy stuff still has repair items available, but some items made in the past 10-15 years are non-existent.

 

Good morning afternoon friends!

 

Friend of mine went and picked up a feed bin that holds 15 tons and brought it home yesterday, 3 hours away

 

With the rising cost of feed it will be worth it

 

Well they broke in and stole 24.00 in honey and broke off the door come on

 

I'll try and have you some info tomorrow. All the sites I use are at work

 

FFS. People suck!!!!!

 

Much appreciated! Considering how much these units cost, I can't believe they didn't bother fixing this to have it working.

 

That sucks.

Can you throw a trail cam in there so you can at least get pictures of the idiots? They'd probably steal that, too.