Recent content by 2007markb

Thats a shame about that factory, too many companies doing that

An Ayn Rand character........

@helterskelter - my supervisor has been researching all of the violations we got cited on. A lot of their regulations can be interpreted in several ways. Does this part apply to this, or does this? You could probably get ten different inspectors and they would come up with ten different...

@roots - sounds like a great idea. We did email the website link, which states OSHA compliant, to the inspector and we got an "ill have to look at it after installation." But i think getting a document with the companies letterhead stating that these products are compliant is an outstanding...

The equipment is going on 70 years old and there was never any guards in place from the get go. Warner and swasey is out of business, but a cleveland based company specializes in these lathes. I contacted them at first and they have nothing. I have found guards online. Basically its a...

Im not saying that. The company will pay to guard the equipment proplerly, its not a matter of money. We found retractable curtains that move with the carriages, $2300 each, we need three. We emailed them to the inspector to see if it will suffice for what they are looking for. We get "i dont...

Well, there are lot of comments to make comments on. First of all, we havent had an inspection in over 20 years, so i guess it was bound to happen. We have 20+ people in the shop so were screwed there. The original inspector saw the feed shafts the moment he looked at the lathe. It was...

No, unfortunately it was a verbal over the phone deal

Ok, so i have a very old warner and swasey turret lethe. We had an osha inspection before xmas. There was a long discussion on the feed shafts for the carriages. Told we had to guard them, a few weeks later, we were told no, its ok. So we thought we were in the clear....now $2500 fine for...

It appears to be a piston groove cleaner. The flat should ride in the groove of the piston, and the small wheel at the lower left corner of the picture spins in order to get to the proper size of the groove.

I filled the lathe back up today, everything is a nice white color, so ill see how long it lasts. Ive never heard of hangsterfers, ill do some research and see if it will work for me.

Thanks for the info, cleaned the lathe out today and ill be refilling it tomorrow:thumbup:

I always check to make sure the table, if it spins, isnt drilled into like swiss cheese

I keep reading in case i missed something and im still laughing

I dont have anything quite that fancy to mix........now im really jealous. Pretty much turn on faucet near equipment and start filling, and coolant, run, check and adjust. I do have the same refractometer as above. Ill try your ideas and hopefully it will work. Thanks for the input!