[Coco] coco in a box as a Christmas display

[S Klammer]

Great stuff! (Both the projector & lathe)

A Merry Christmas to all!

On Dec 24, 2017 10:42 PM, "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Sunday 24 December 2017 20:08:53 rietveld rietveld wrote:
>
> > Using my coco3 on a stick in a box with a pocket projector as a
> > Christmas display
> >
> >
> > https://youtu.be/DixkeTmfzgU
>
> Now thats downright creative. Good job.
>
> > Merry Christmas
>
> Not quite 2 hours to go here in WV. Just came in from the garage, where
> I've been re-grinding the inside of a lathe spindle, back to an MT5
> taper. I think the spindle is very slightly bent, so collets for round
> material were running eccentric as much as 10 thousandths of an inch.
> Not a tolerate-able error.
>
> Got it about as close as I can get it, the run-out is now a bit less than
> 0.0001". That at least gives me a chance to do repeatable work.
>
> Now we sit and wait for grizzly to ship me an MT5 to 5C adapter, late
> this week arrival. If its that precise, then an ER-40 adapter plugs into
> that and I'm off to the races for round parts up to an inch in diameter.
>
> CNC is nice, without a compound toolpost holder, I can still cut any
> taper I can rig a cutting tool to reach. The computer is the compound,
> to angular accuracy's in the arc second range. The original compound was
> the victim of the lathe falling over on its front face, sometime back in
> the mists of the last 65 years. Since it weighs 1500 lbs, something is
> gonna get bent or broken when it hits the floor.
>
> Merry Christmas all, and have a good night if you haven't already.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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