BOTTOM FEEDERS= a place for everything modified and/or custom made
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wow that 14" is nice. there's some really cool kits out there to cnc that bad boy 
Congrats Quigs, I knew it was just a matter of time buddy.
Such a curious thing, there appears to be 2 separate camps when it comes to these machines (I've spent many hours on machinist forums)...some guys are totally "go with the mill", and others, "lathe all the way"...I personally don't see how the two overlap, two completely different functions...but I'm about to find out.
I just remember from my high school shop classes (which I lived for) I loved the mill. Plus it was easier to get on the mills as all the guys would flock to the lathes to make either fire cracker cannons or pipes. I always had access to a floor DP as my dad had a wicked shop but up/down gets boring...side to side and up/down was way cooler (and useful)
where does one get firecrackers these days?
As for the firecrackers, that would be China like pretty much everything else nowadays.
Having had both a lathe and a milling machine for a while I can tell you that the lathe gets to see a lot more action in my shop. Don't know could also be the fact that I've been making a lot of wooden mods recently but I find the lathe invaluable
I'm actually eyeing a larger one now because I'm growing outta that small Proxxon. Thing with a lathe is you need torq and heaps of it.
Anyway I think you made a wise choice there with that grizzly.
Having had both a lathe and a milling machine for a while I can tell you that the lathe gets to see a lot more action in my shop. Don't know could also be the fact that I've been making a lot of wooden mods recently but I find the lathe invaluable
I'm actually eyeing a larger one now because I'm growing outta that small Proxxon. Thing with a lathe is you need torq and heaps of it.
Anyway I think you made a wise choice there with that grizzly.
yeah, I like my little 7x for tiny atty type stuff but anything bigger than ecig stuff goes to the big lathe and many times I use the big lathe to cut off a piece to then use on the small lathe. to make an atty starting with a 12" long solid 1" stainless steel bar. the 7" lathes gonna laugh at you , I like having the small one but if I had to only have one it would be the large one.
far as the mill vs lathe, to me they go hand in hand and I couldn't choose. I bought both at the same time. if you put a gun to my head I'd probably say mill, no wait lathe, no mill, def mill, then distract you further as I take your gun from you, but yeah, heavily lean towards both with a slight lean towards mill if I really had no choice
far as the mill vs lathe, to me they go hand in hand and I couldn't choose. I bought both at the same time. if you put a gun to my head I'd probably say mill, no wait lathe, no mill, def mill, then distract you further as I take your gun from you, but yeah, heavily lean towards both with a slight lean towards mill if I really had no choice
Someone put a ton of time into that...pretty tough to put a door on that bad boy...and if you did, shouldn't it be a piece of window from the Nautilus? I love that subdued SP look.
So I pulled the trigger tonight...I decided that killing that $16 Lancia clone's pin was just too much to take so I bought this to make a new one...
Grizzly.com® --
Maybe a little overkill but dammit I'm a man and that's how I truck...now I'm just gonna go hide from the wife for a bit till the heat blows over
congrats Quigs
Mine's still in it's crate at work lol. Gotta make some room for it at home.
here's another mod by the same guy....I love his detail. I read that his "real" job is sculpting, and this one shows it
Quigs, congrats on the Grizzly, and great price with that local pickup too. We were thinking of a side trip to B-ham a couple of years back and my ears perked up at the thought of visiting their showroom. I think Friday Harbor or the Ocean won out in the end.
My vote would be lathe over mill. I can drill and sand my way out of needing a mill. For fabbing small parts a lathe is king.
My vote would be lathe over mill. I can drill and sand my way out of needing a mill. For fabbing small parts a lathe is king.
congrats Quigs
Mine's still in it's crate at work lol. Gotta make some room for it at home.
here's another mod by the same guy....I love his detail. I read that his "real" job is sculpting, and this one shows it
I like the idea of no springs for contacts. I would think if the thumb wheel was smaller and the arrangement were flipped, you could take 1/4" of height off the mod.
congrats Quigs
Mine's still in it's crate at work lol. Gotta make some room for it at home.
here's another mod by the same guy....I love his detail. I read that his "real" job is sculpting, and this one shows it
Has anyone noticed that the door is too short for the mod??? I don't get how that door fits
might just be an optical illusion, the shot is face on but the door is further away... just a guess, or maybe the top part of the inside is supposed to be visible? the left side loks like maybe, the right under the atty, not so much
would the bottom screw be exposed to be used as a main switch?
might just be an optical illusion, the shot is face on but the door is further away... just a guess, or maybe the top part of the inside is supposed to be visible? the left side loks like maybe, the right under the atty, not so much
I thought of that but for that to be the case that mod would have to be real thick and it doesn't look like it. Anyhow you can tell the guy is an artist, great attention to detail
yeah, was thinking the same thing, if the mod was like 1.5" thick maybe, but doesn't look it, especially since it has a bulge in the door for the batteries
Are you the fuse master now?I did a bunch of testing with these "fast-blo" glass fuses. It's a whole nuther world of "fast" . .. . like minutes or never. I looked up the specs too, and they mirrored my anecdotals. Hard short an 18650 on a 10A glass fuse, and you're looking at hundreds of seconds before it blows, if it blows. There may be varieties that I didn't personally test; but, hey, before you design a mod around this shape of fuse, take the time to short a battery on a couple (SAFELY! . . . .and then discard the battery).
oh . .. . . . . . and "hi!"
I did a bunch of testing with these "fast-blo" glass fuses. It's a whole nuther world of "fast" . .. . like minutes or never. I looked up the specs too, and they mirrored my anecdotals. Hard short an 18650 on a 10A glass fuse, and you're looking at hundreds of seconds before it blows, if it blows. There may be varieties that I didn't personally test; but, hey, before you design a mod around this shape of fuse, take the time to short a battery on a couple (SAFELY! . . . .and then discard the battery).
oh . .. . . . . . and "hi!"
It looks to me like the atomizer coil would "blow" before this did.
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