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Spare battery for my camera and groceries for the week.

Asus UL30vt. I needed I netbook that wasn't.

BBQ pork and fries lunch at Jax.

Started taking the plunge:

[1] machinist's square

[2] center/edge finders

Started taking the plunge:

[1] machinist's square

[2] center/edge finders

pics!

Started taking the plunge:

[1] machinist's square

[2] center/edge finders

What plunge, exactly?

^ Nice!

Some serious win in this thread recently, o2s+new machine shop.

pics!

If I buy a mill I'll post some pics.

What plunge, exactly?

Thinking about setting up a small machine shop in the garage. It would bring hole cutting technology to a whole new level.

Starting with the one in the wallet. However I'd be more than happy to help provide test projects for said mill.

Starting with the one in the wallet. However I'd be more than happy to help provide test projects for said mill.

Probably going to go look at this little guy in the next week or so.

Can't decide if a very well kitted CNC benchtop unit would be better than a much larger, manual mill. Honestly I'm leaning more towards the manual side of things since I want to be the one cutting the holes.

Wait, CNC machine is actually in consideration? I can't believe I was partially right when I jokingly posted you're getting a CNC machine and an anodizing station.

Probably going to go look at this little guy in the next week or so.

Can't decide if a very well kitted CNC benchtop unit would be better than a much larger, manual mill. Honestly I'm leaning more towards the manual side of things since I want to be the one cutting the holes.

Perhaps a manual mill that can eventually be converted/upgraded to CAD easily?

Perhaps a manual mill that can eventually be converted/upgraded to CAD easily?

I've found a local machinist within 10min. of my house that has both a vertical mill and CNC router so really my thinking is that a manual machine would be enough and that if I wanted anything that really needed CNC I'd just farm it out. Conversions, even the easy ones, are really expensive. I've also got a line on a full-sized, CNC equipped knee mill that I'm going to try and check out. The pisser with the little TAIG mill pictured above is that it's not really good for manual work anymore and I don't want to be tied to the computer for every part.

My second Qualia, this time a red one. Bad case of seller's remorse.

Well done that man! HC gold star.

Yeah that is seriously impressive. Good find, and glad you have a Qualia again!

Round trip tickets to Tucson AZ. Time for closure.................

Round trip tickets to Tucson AZ. Time for closure.................

Really sorry to hear that Greg.

Ok, new in this thread, but with a somewhat big thing: Meridian 808.2i arrived here

(and, hey, it IS BIG!!).

Congrats on the 808.2i, that is one sweet CDP and I bet the DAC will be damn fine for other digital inputs.

I don't know anything about that Meridian, but if Al says it's good, then congrats. Does it have special things inside of it?