From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 9/19/2025 3:26 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > I had an email this morning from a customer asking for a semi custom   
   > variation of a stock design mold so I headed out to the shop early. As I   
   > mentioned in another post we've had some rain off and on from thunder   
   > storm cells.  Large anvil head clouds.  It could have rained last night,   
   > so I wasn't surprised at first to find some water inside the back door   
   > of the shop.  It seemed like an awful lot of water, and the outside   
   > wasn't wet.   
   >   
   > Sometimes if I get a lot of rain with some wind I'll get some run in   
   > under the overhead door on the wind blown side of the building.  No big   
   > deal.  Its never an issue.   
   >   
   > This morning there was a standing puddle in the back that was running   
   > into my office.  I stood there for a moment studying the problem and   
   > then I noticed the sound of running water from behind the lathe.  Where   
   > I tap into the waterline going to my shop fridge and icemaker to feed   
   > the water distiller.  I use a water distiller for pure water to mix with   
   > cutting coolant.  Probably overkill, but I started doing it years ago   
   > when I was trying CRAPMist, and CrapMist wouldn't recognize the fact   
   > that for long duration projects CrapMist stains aluminum parts.   I've   
   > been running distilled water ever since.   
   >   
   > I turned off the water to the shop.  I don't know what the problem is   
   > because I'm just to big to fit in the gap behind the lathe to look at   
   > it.  I'm going to have to move the lathe.  I guess that will give me a   
   > chance to finally put the leveling feet on it and get rid of those   
   > stacks of shims.   
   >   
      I finally got around to wiring my lathe for reverse today . I'm   
   finding the need to make metric threads , and on my lathe that means a   
   set of transposing gears and you can't disengage the half nuts or you   
   lose register . Gotta back out of the cut and rewind back to the   
   beginning .   
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   Snag   
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