[TheForge] Jet tailstock disassembly?

[Jerry Frost]

Me too Pete but I don't have the excuse of no schooling. I grew up in a 
spinning/machine shop, took shop classes starting as soon as they were 
offered, up to and including trade schools and I still screw things up 
trying to fix them. I'm now turning into the old geezer who really 
screws things up thinking I can fix them. right now the snow plow on the 
old pickup is just sitting there dead. I don't know why it stopped 
working last winter but I sure know why it ain't a gonna work now. I 
tried fixing it. <sigh> Just because the guy who mounted it in the first 
place was an idiot doesn't mean I couldn't have figured out how to get 
the power cable off it without breaking it in several ways. Grrrrr.

Jer


On 7/1/2013 8:54 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> I fear you are talking about me Jerry.
> My ignorance and stubbornness have resulted
>   in more than a few mechanical embarrassments         .
> I never took a shop class and until i joined the CBA,
> never saw anybody work who knew what they were doing...with very few exceptions.
> I am the cheap guy who pays the most, all too often.
> The consolation is that the tools have often been
> broken already, when i get them.
> I'm a geezer now, and more " successful",
> but i still think like that habitually.
> I was suppost'a grow up.
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> On Jul 1, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
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> Pete: When I first read Andy's post I had to ask myself if he or a previous owner had tried to take it apart to "fix." I've had too much experience with guys who adjust machines because they don't know how to operate them and then there are the guys who take them apart to "fix" for the same reason. I've had harsh words with such . . . People.
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