Ha ha Stu... definitely no service tech. It's going to be a dedicated machine for making my blanks, including the notch in the bottom. Should I ever get it tweeked just right... I'll never touch it again.
Tod, you're right about rounding the bottom corners though
I certainly didn't think of that. I am considering some sanders on the outfeed table though for that.
Tyler, my background is jack of all trades, master of none.
I've fixed and restored tons of old stuff... cars, houses, boats... but this was/is another thing completely. Necessity is the mother of invention. I couldn't afford to pay the rigger to crane it in, or the electrician to wire it. So I put on my mitt, and got in the game. A dear friend ( who just recently passed away
) taught me this years ago about electrical work... water comes in and water goes out. Now you know what I know.
Oh... and only touch one wire at a time.
The building is well over a hundred years old. It's an industrial complex now called Manufacturers Village. I'm told that the owners were partners with Johnson... before they split, and Johnson became Johnson and Johnson.
But the 200 amp wire I ran for the moulder was small potatoes compared to the size of the stuff I tore out of here. Looked like the wires going to the service at the mall.
Actually I'm on my way to the scrap yard to cash it in. Gotta be a couple of hundred pounds of copper.
Three strands of "triple 0 ought" (if that means anything) inside a 4 " pipe.