[Shop] milling vise is back

[Igor Yeremin]

Hi Mike,

Misha was going to repair the vise by welding a new piece of metal where 
the old one cracked and replacing the thrust bearing. He also might've 
bought a new vise as a replacement instead. You'll have to ask him about 
the details.

I bought the replacement disk and belt for the sander. I was at Busy Bee 
to look at the lathe and decided to grab the supplies for the sander 
since they were on sale, and the sander is not very useful worn down.

The job of the board is to make sure Hacklab can pay rent and utilities, 
that's it. Members who use equipment are responsible for maintaining the 
equipment.

In that let's-maintain-stuff spirit there is now a wiki page for the 
sander: https://knowledge.hacklab.to/wiki/Sander . It contains supplies 
info, replacement instructions, and a wishlist/todo with features that 
would be nice or problems that need to be solved. I've also created 
pages for other equipment: https://knowledge.hacklab.to/wiki/Drill_Press 
https://knowledge.hacklab.to/wiki/Metal_Bandsaw and updated some info on 
the mill page https://knowledge.hacklab.to/wiki/Milling_Machine
I'm planning on writing up a page for the engraver soon too.

Igor
On 2016-12-31 12:00 AM, MikeP wrote:
> Hello
>
> As I see the milling vise is back to our workshop.
> Few questions regarding this event.
>
> #1. It was very good to know that vise were taken for servicing.
>  Thank you Misha for letting us know about this, it helped me to avoid an unpleasant surprise (when you came for milling and milling machine is out of order).
>
> #2. The vise is back. Are they back in order? Is it OK to use it?
>
> #3. Who did repair the vise, who paid for the repairment? who paid for parts?
> Yes, I can guess who is this guy, but I want to know, not to guess.
> Life taught me that it is not such thing like 'free lunch'
> Google taught me that if service is free for you - you are the service.
> So I always what to know "who is paying for a party?"
> Somebody bought and replaced sanding belt and disk on sanding machine in our workshop.
> Who is that guy?
>
> As far as board of directors does not care about workshop specific needs (I am not saying that it is bad, it is actually right, everybody should take care about themselves first), should we take care about our needs in our hands?
> One way or another we must (we will be forced) to take care about aging equipment and consumable materials, so I am suggesting to do it on sober-minded/planned basis rather then on ad hoc emergency basis.
>
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>
> Mike P
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