... Blast from the past. Got my first CNC mill in 1983. Here it is and me - a Kondia manual CNC retrofitted with an Anilam Crusader 3-axis retrofit kit that l, with the help of the Anilam installer, laid out and made the adapters required to make it work on the very first Kondia converted to Anilam CNC. Good times. I thought I was on fire 🔥 after turning that bad boy on 😂 As you can see, there must've been a nationwide shortage of eye and ear pro stuff 🤷 And that R8/Qwikswitch adapter left the cutter stuck out like a pecker on a dog 😳 ML
841 likescletus.james.walker That's one helluva coolant flood !
rmor_knives Akimbo coolants 😂 very cool picture. Look at all you have accomplished!
czychris137 Thanks for making me feel young 😂😂 1 like
realmda13 OSHA has probably saved a couple eyes and fingers over the years... 😂 Look at that young buck, so wide eyed and full of hope! 😂 Youth... 1 like
davidjulier Inspirational! Seriously. Do something you love and and do it well. The "success" will follow.
kcjengr Awesome, thanks for sharing! Good reminder that you can start from anywhere, and with a little determination, become the best.
gwerkin88 That thing got coolant thru spindle?!
kingmackerel Running the double guns I see... "Smoke those skin-wagons"... Or something like that. 2 likes
- tyler.deklend @kingmackerel skin that smoke wagon haha
mckeonekert You were Looking pretty svelte back then.
jtac_tard Old school
jkedsnake @laruetactical what where you manufacturing back in those days?
- laruetactical @jkedsnake ... In the vise was a heatsink for Modular Power Systems. A maker of clean power supplies. ... garbage power in, clean power out. ML 4 likes
ws7z Pretty high tech coolant injection. Bet that was the upgraded version. 1 like
ohiofirstdefense 😂 1 like
- laruetactical @ohiofirstdefense ... Oh, you have experience with 1980s Anilams ? What's the Crusader Aux code for "continuous motion" and what cancels it ? 3 likes
- ohiofirstdefense @laruetactical I have zero experience with CNCs and I don't pretend know what you were talking about. My laughing response was to your comment about the cutter being stuck out like the "pecker of a dog". Very illustrative and I could see that from the picture.
- laruetactical @ohiofirstdefense ... Oh, yeah, machine shop descriptions are descriptive 🤷 1 like
justn84 inspiring💪
colefromclifton I can smell this picture.