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Shoxthemonkey

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  1. I just talked to the saleslady and was quoted $1100 for that package. Seems reasonable enough.
  2. Thanks. I just sent an inquiry to them.
  3. We have an old Mazak Slant-Turn lathe (199?) with Mazatrol T32-3 controls. It has limited memory so our operator has been dumping old programs to clear space for new jobs. Not a problem as long as the programs that are dumped are one-off jobs that will never be repeated. We have reached the point that everything left in memory is something that we need to keep. The problem is that Mazak controls don't allow us to download these programs to a laptop or PC. There is a single RS-232 port for data transfer. Have any of you figured out a way to do this? A quick google shows several 3rd party software packages available that purport to do this and we are going to download some free trials from a couple of them to look at. It doesn't sound like the trial versions have the transfer capabilities enabled so I doubt that we can witness what we actually want it to do for us. It's probably a longshot but are there any programmers/shop owners here that know this shit? I'm not a controls guy so use small words and talk to me like I'm in 4th grade.
  4. Thanks. I will give that a try next spring.
  5. Sorry. I do use glyphosate but it only kills what is already sprouted. Less than a week later there is more green to cover the brown. I need something to stop the germination. I use Preen in my landscaping but I can't afford to use it on almost an acre. I'm lower tier surly.
  6. Is there a pre-emergent that any of you use to keep weeds in your gravel drives in check? We had 10" of rain in July and already have had 2 1/2" in August and the weeds are going nuts. It's mostly crabgrass, goosegrass and Mexican sandburrs (goatheads) but there are lots of low spreading weeds that look like sandburrs without the stickers. My house and landscape plantings are downhill from the drive so I hesitate to put down a sterilizer. Anybody have any suggestions?
  7. So much this. I've been using the same Zebra for over 30 years. I've flirted with a lot of others but I have yet to find one that is more reliable. I put a 1 5/16 grip on it and can't imagine using anything else. We play a 1,2,5 game on the weekends with up to 12 players. I had 5 birdies and 2 bogies for a 69 and 2 eggs today. One stroke from shooting my age again.
  8. At my age it's ball powder, nomsayn?
  9. Obviously he don't hustle South Broadway.
  10. Baez probably is the best at making tags right now but that play was all on Contreras. Baez only needed to close the glove. Oh, one other thing. Mondesi is playing like he'd rather be somewhere else. I can't think of another player that makes so many half-hearted swings at balls in the dirt. His defense is sucky too.
  11. Way too many to list but I think Annie Lennox and Susan Tedeschi are my top two. I can't argue with anyone listed except Tracy Chapman.
  12. Top half of assless chaps, dude.
  13. This looks bad. Do you think this looks bad? It's from my '93 Tiger River 2-person. Purchased new and used often until last night. Hit the ON button and nothing happened. Smelled a little ozone and knew it was fucked. I can get a new board, Tiger River/Hot Springs parts are easy to come by, but I think I will look for a new spa. 26 years is long enough.
  14. Yeah, it's far from finished. I'm retrofitting a newer style blade guard from a later Craftsman saw. The original guard for this model is cumbersome and hard to find. Mcmaster has some belt guards that are easy to modify. Already on order.
  15. My Grandfather's 50's Craftsman tablesaw has been sitting in one of my outbuildings for 35 years. I pulled it out to make some more space for other junk and decided to get it running again. I bought new arbor bearings and grabbed a motor from our assortment at work. It took the better part of last weekend to get all of the mud dauber shit and rust off of it. I rattle-canned the base and added new casters that matched the originals. It turned out pretty good. It has a bit of blade wobble and I'm not sure if that is from the arbor or the cheap ass DeWalt blade I put on it. I'll check it with an indicator and turn/face the arbor if it's crooked. I'm looking for some batwing extensions to make it friendlier for plywood ripping but I haven't found any that don't cost more to ship than to purchase. I'm looking forward to making some picture frames from the large lot of walnut, maple and oak lumber that my Dad left behind. I welded up a bracket to hold a vintage Craftsman safety switch. Maybe Grandpa would have died with all of his fingers if he had installed one of them 50 years ago.
  16. The other end of this muffler rusted through and was beyond repair. I went to Ebay and found a muffler for an Onan generator that had the same diameter and length body. It had a different inlet neck, so I cut the neck from the old and clamped it to the new and, walla, it lashed right up to the header pipe. $39 vs $250. It exhausts towards the spring now but I don't think that's a problem.
  17. I have spent a lot of money there over the years. They had a great hardwood lumber selection. My kitchen cabinets came from them.
  18. Central air. We had swamp coolers until Dad cut a hole in the wall for a big-ass Gibson. Noisy bitch. Parents that only worked one job. Schwinn bicycles. My Dad could fix just about anything so we had lots of things that had been discarded by rich folks and repaired. Sometimes they were name brand but they still carried hand-me-down stink.
  19. Did somebody say Mellotron?
  20. Goddammit, stop with the Goering jokes! I'm gonna tell Uncle Hermann and its not Goring to be funny when he shows up. I'm warning you!.
  21. @Patricio Swayze.Thanks for sharing. Sometimes just letting others in on the problem helps. You will find that you aren't alone, many of us are in a similar boat and we care. I'm sure you have thought about this and investigated it but there should be a way to monetize or make a career out of your photography. I always look forward to your posts in the snek and photography threads. There are several of your rural, abandoned building photos that I would purchase if you were offering prints. You have a real talent for that. Hang in there as best you can, I care.
  22. Always rep the OW
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