"Harold and Susan Vordos" wrote in message
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Hi Harold,
You're most likely not believing any religious stuff you read on the
internet. Just to fill you in, false teachings have been around as long as
false teachings. It has always been a practice of God to "Sign" the truth
with signs and wonders, AKA miracles. That doesn't mean that all religions
that don't have signs and wonders are false nor does it mean that all signs
and wonders are God's signature on truth. There are many Good religions
that teach the essentials but don't see many miracles. It's not that their
teaching is wrong but that they have faith without miracles. On the other
hand, often false religions can reproduce the miracles of God up to a point,
they are limited though. One example is the Egyptian magicians performing
miracles equivalent to Moses' miracles but the God of Moses kept on with the
miracles that the Egyptian magicians could not.

On Topic:

So, do you machine for a living now or are you retired and doing it as a
hobby? That CNC mill sounds awesome, especialy if you get to play with it
in the hobby realm vs having to earn a living with it. I currently have no
handy shop. My shop is in the building at my old residence where my mother
currently lives. I've been hoping to get a shop building at my current
residence but finances have been too tight to make it happen.

In my home shop I have 2 manual mills and 1 CNC mill, nothing under 2000lbs
and a manual lathe, 13 X 54 South Bend, and a CNC lathe, 14 X 20 Yam. Both
of my CNC machines came with Anilam Controls. I didn't get the lathe
control running so I converted it to run EMC2 from a Linux PC. If I ever
get a shop here, I plan to convert the mill to EMC2 also. The PC based
control is nice since I can transfer programs so easily.

You probably didn't do too bad by avoiding CNC until now because you can get
a lot more CNC machine today for the money than you could a few years ago.
For Example, my CNC lathe was $40,000 to the original buyers in 1986 but I
bought it a couple of years ago for $1400 and spent perhaps $1500 on the PC
based controls, vfd, cable, etc.

RogerN



Roger, you have now broached a proper subject, and I thank you for asking.

I have been building our retirement home for a few years, which is not yet
finished. Mean time, my machines have been idle aside from the occasional
use in support of the house building project. However, I recently took
possession of a HAAS CNC mill, a toolroom model. It has no tool changer,
and I am not experienced in the least with CNC operation, having worked my
career as a manual machinist/toolmaker, and making the decision to avoid
getting involved with CNC. That's a decision I now regret, but I will
attempt to get caught up to some degree, and will likely purchase the
mill. I expect learning to program and operate the machine will widen my
horizons considerably.

How about you? Is there something you can share with us, the readers of
RCM, that is not controversial, and is interesting? I read your comments
about traveling a great deal, and enjoying machines as time allows.
Please do tell us more.

Harold
RogerN