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Originally posted by Griff
...snip...Charlie, do you do your own machining or can you or do you buy steam kits?
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Mostly, I do my own machining - I've got a 12"x36' lathe and a Burke Millrite (MVN) down the basement, along with a little Sherline mill (It was my first mill), that I'm setting up with CNC. It doesn't matter that the Sherline fits on the table of the Millrite
For those of you who wonder what a Millrite is - You may have seen a Bridgeport Vertical Mill - Bridgeports came in 3 basic sizes - the old M Head, the J head, and the Series II (In size order). The Millrite is somewhere between the M head and the J head in size (Closer to the M Head), but takes R-8 tooling like the J Head (In fact, the HEAD of the J-head will fit on the ram of the Millrite)
I guess you could say I'm a multidisciplinary Geek :p - I can do "Steel Age" stuff - weld, steel fabrication, machine shop work (what I did for $$$ during college), I can do electronics tech work (right after college), and now I program for a living