NickJ

Was excited for wof achieved update, bummer for the plug thread

99% sure i'll be there, just with one income and the new garage build on, discretionary spending is currently limited.

I'm keen as, just fully 100% unemployed at present Reasonably optimistic income will be non-zero by August.

Lift arc was super annoying for me as a learner, having a foot pedal and 2t/4t options really helped to let me focus on the task than trying to learn all at once under constraints, I found I enjoyed learning on work's fancy machine way more than persevering on an arc welder with lift tig tacked on. Foot pedal helped learn settings, just added 20% to what I thought and could ramp up or down if wrong. 2t/4t meant with harder geometry I could hold the torch in a few more ways and the ability to back off if settings were way off.

Mean, in a kayak + lab? thats him, hopefully you get in touch, really nice guy and good for a yarn or two. Spam sharns: He is bit of a humble legend of the area, years ago there was this thing called the World Heli Challenge, where snowsports folk would hang out in Wanaka to do silly things on helicopter accessed terrain. Rip Curl was key sponsor so for shits and giggles they added a surf day into the schedule, most of the crew were pretty accomplished surfers along with some token pros they brought over, it wasn't a token bunch of kooks being let loose on a gnarly west coast break, was lining up to be a pretty impressive day. We convoyed over to mussel point near Haast where a decent shore break was guarding access to the waves, a number of the crew got pretty beaten up just paddling out with the lucky few having a good time out the back. Without much fuss, Mark wanders off solo down the beach, few of the crew picked up and started asking what the old fella was up to so a few eyes were in his direction, he casually climbed out along the rocks, with precision timing slid into the water past the shore break and paddled out for a pretty decent wave, zero stress and effort as expected on his home break. Some pretty capable pro surfers got schooled hard and were left asking who the old guy was, good laugh for the locals when the reply was just some tradey who followed us here.

Correct, belonged to the Sheehan family in Wanaka for many years, their kids both went to the winter Olympics for skiing, no doubt that car played a big part in taking them up the hill. I used to live on the same road, their dog would wander up to our place to sleep on the couch, Mark would come up looking for the dog and also park on the couch, often talking about surfing on the west coast, that car has lived a life of adventure, don't stop!

Sorry sun, ol mate Skinner has me sorted

Trailer brake master cylinder?

I recently brought a ER16 collet chuck for the router so it can fit 1/8" shank microdrills Buy a second to hold the jet and you'd be able to overkill the job without risk of breaking drills or needing good eyesight.

Mean! Always assumed those numbers had some meaning but never looked into the details, cheers!

After guessing the shape, dad provided me with dimensions and photos of original boot panels, gave the CAD model an update, grabbed a sheet of 4.75mm hardboard and set about probably the most to factory spec part of the rebuild! Also carved up a gear knob from scrap rimu with the correct shift pattern, scrubbed up real nice with linseed oil too.

That place is real cool however..... Last time I did a day mission from chch the river was flowing hard against that bank and straight over the top, could feel the water on the sides was a bit warmer, but no hotpools to relax in, just sandflies to say go home! Cedar flats is probably my favourite in the area, but a 4 hour walk means its better as an overnight.

Winter is dry season on the coast, best time to visit, just need hotpools!

Oh thats pretty simple! will get LCNC running really fast, all the little details in linux will make the machine really useable, excited for ya! I've just got my head around the PLC side of it, just mulling over how to re do the wiring then I can start looking at getting toolchange working, toolprobe etc etc. Wiring sucks cos once I move that its past the point of no return, up to now i've just been chipping away on another config file. Yeah parallel breakout won't work with my machine cos closed loop servo drives, needs the Mesa board to do the realtime movement control, which kinda sucks cos I pulled a stack of breakout boards from the previous controller!

When I was doing aviation stuff with Mg, SafeAir/Airbus in Blenheim were the only people in NZ doing it, and somewhat difficult to get a job in, might be worth getting in touch with the warbird guys?