Adventures of trike repairman

[C-Bag]

The biggest eye opener for me is the creative attitude to machining on display here at HMT. As long as it's safe it's ok. I always thought being a machinist was a little more confining with strict ways to do things. But seeing some of the behind the scenes where folks who have been doing it for decades like FrankS, Olderdan, Paul, PJ and TM51 to name a few have given me the insight there's a lot more creativity involved than strict procedures.

I thought when I got my lo buck 9x20 & RF-30 it was just to make simple parts. But the ability to make more precision tools to accomplish things I could have only dreamt of doing before is an ever evolving revelation. Its also a lot like my mech work in that once you have the basics it's all about the old hand tips. Those are the kinds of things that you'd pick up working with some experienced guy in a shop. So these little tips that surface at the end of threads are the cool stuff for me, like TM51's using a small ball mill to start a angled hole, just to name a recent one, whoda thunk!