#cryo project

[again-thepommel]

What was John & co doing to those bodies for the cryo project tho

"[The bodies] were going to get dumped in some concrete skip because after what we'd done to them they couldn't be cremated or buried safely"

"Most of the bodies got the melt, like we thought they would. Damaged beyond repair. Their brains liquefied almost immediately"

The shareholders suggested melting them all into a liquid contained inside a concrete box, very This Is Not A Place Of Honor type of situation

[fawltylathes-blog]

Shop Log

I detected a problem with the Anilam mill today. There is a manual switch that locks the spindle, which works by rotating a flange which is secured to a shaft that has a boss machined into it, with a small divit to allow a set screw in the flange to be tightened onto the shaft. The spindle lock was not working and after I fiddled with it I realized that the set screw and it's boss spot were worn down. A new set screw and a little bit of elbow grease got it working again. It was cool to learn how a part of the mill works - it's always seemed strange that one can use a complicated machine to make things without having much of an idea how the machine itself works. One of my goals is to learn as much as I can about the guts of my mill. 

Today:

a small base plate for the cryogenics project was machined on the mill to within +- 0.1mm using Delrin (these were tough tolerances to achieve as Delrin tends to expand under the heat from the mill - the overall approach was to "sneak up on it" and take a small amount off each pass with breaks in between so that the plastic had time to expand and contract)

organized bolts, nuts, washers

cleaned off the main shop table upon which most orders and parts come in and out of the shop - lots of old, abandoned projects are on this table, some from up to ten years ago... so a clean was long overdue

each mill and lathe was meticulously cleaned, lubed, and wiped down

the SC210 coolant was running low so a new batch was mixed up