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Thread: Milling with help
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29th July 2012, 10:49 PM #1
Milling with help
I don't often get the luxury of having an offsider to work with while I'm milling, but when I do I like making sure they do the right thing.
Here is where it gets a bit touchy....we all know the Lucas has the depth of cut adjusted at each end of the mill, when I'm on my own it is simple I know what size I want. When I have someone helping out, it's easier to signal to the help what size I want rather than try shout over the engine and through the ear muffs, so I tend to signal the amount of "inches' I want, although I don't want them to actually use the imperial measurements, I want them to use the metric scale. I know most you guys would have no problem using either system interchangeably but some fellas apparently cant convert between the two...
So in an attempt to get the help on the same measurement as me, I got to thinking about a little gadget..... and the gadget is finally finished and operational. I got some pics on my new phone but now gotta figure out how to get them out of the phone, onto this little machine and then onto your machines.... was excited about getting it working so had to put the post up before pics where readyI love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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29th July 2012, 11:36 PM #2
Come on Al lets have it hey
its only short one end!!
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30th July 2012, 10:30 PM #3
"Minches" or metric inches and instead of yelling I have been using a simple bionary sign language
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31st July 2012, 02:13 AM #4Senior Member
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there is an easier way wpf
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31st July 2012, 07:53 PM #5
i just use my fingers to signal inches, and tell my tailor to use metric equivalent.
i have seen allans gizmo, its good, but far to complicated than is needed. IMO
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31st July 2012, 09:08 PM #6Intermediate Member
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I recently did some off-sidering for a local guy and we initially had a lot of trouble with this. He had arthritis and I couldn't tell what fingers he was trying to hold up. We finally hung a small magnetic whiteboard off the cross bar on his end. He wrote all the regular sizes he was cutting on it and just stuck one of those fridge magnet things on the one he wanted me to set it to. Only had one issue after that where he forgot to move the marker and ended up with a tapered board, but it made the cutting go a lot faster, as I didn't have to keep asking him what he wanted. He used the back of it to keep a list of what sizes and quantities he had orders for.
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31st July 2012, 09:15 PM #7
lets see if this works....
The main system - seen from the tailors point of view
Close up of the number display
A close look at 'the brains' lol
It's hard wired into the mill's electric system, so it only draws power when the mill is running and switches off when not running - sensible eh? and the keypad is weatherproof if it rains during a days work then no probs. From the keypad I can put in any amount I want and there is no confusion for the tailer they can see right from the other end of the mill even when I have the 8m tracks on 8)I love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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1st August 2012, 09:38 AM #8Senior Member
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That looks great! Very professional.
I rarely work without an offsider since it pretty much doubles my production in a day. Plus there are always those couple of big beams customers want that are just too hard on your back to move on your own.
Good luck with it, hope you don't get too many odd customers who want their timber in imperial measurements...
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Very Slick . . . .. but. . . . how do you know you have punched in the right numbers?
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1st August 2012, 11:35 AM #10
imperial is fine ya just tell the help we working inches for this chap and I input inches.
Right number - well if I stuff that up then I got no-one to blameI love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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1st August 2012, 01:12 PM #11
Looks good Al. I was wondering what you were going to come up with. I was half expecting you to be walking around talking into your wristwatch like a spook.
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1st August 2012, 11:11 PM #13
Good thing is I have to walk past it to get to the winch so I can take a look at it on my way to the winch, I'f I've stuffed up then I can change it
I love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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2nd August 2012, 12:50 AM #14
I see a ghost in the machine
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Pete
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