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Russ Garrett

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Mar 25, 2011, 8:10:20 AM3/25/11
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As I mentioned in the other thread, is now ordered. Delivery is
Tuesday between 8.30am and 5.30pm. If someone can't be there during
those hours please let me know by the end of today, because if
nobody's there we have to pay the £80 delivery charge again.

Cheers,

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spooq

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Mar 25, 2011, 9:26:32 AM3/25/11
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You've made my Friday.

Luke

Russ Garrett

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Mar 25, 2011, 10:01:28 AM3/25/11
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On 25 March 2011 12:10, Russ Garrett <ru...@garrett.co.uk> wrote:
> As I mentioned in the other thread, is now ordered. Delivery is
> Tuesday between 8.30am and 5.30pm. If someone can't be there during
> those hours please let me know by the end of today, because if
> nobody's there we have to pay the £80 delivery charge again.

Just to clarify: if I don't have assurance that someone is going to be
at the space from 0830 on Tuesday then this delivery is going to be
cancelled.

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Billy

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Mar 25, 2011, 7:22:44 PM3/25/11
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I'll be there.

Been looking forward to working with it.

No, i won't dive in and start playing with it. We'll need to wait
until it's properly set up first...

Will there be a delivery manifest? What should i be looking for in
terms of delivery notes?

We should probably clear some space for it on Monday night.

Any other thoughts, i'll stick up here.

On Mar 25, 2:01 pm, Russ Garrett <r...@garrett.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25 March 2011 12:10, Russ Garrett <r...@garrett.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > As I mentioned in the other thread, is now ordered. Delivery is
> > Tuesday between 8.30am and 5.30pm. If someone can't be there during
> > those hours please let me know by the end of today, because if
> > nobody's there we have to pay the £80 delivery charge again.
>
> Just to clarify: if I don't have assurance that someone is going to be
> at the space from 0830 on Tuesday then this delivery is going to be
> cancelled.
>
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> Russ Garrett
> r...@garrett.co.uk

Russ Garrett

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Mar 25, 2011, 8:34:47 PM3/25/11
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On 25 March 2011 23:22, Billy <bi...@billycomputersmith.com> wrote:
> I'll be there.

Thanks so much - you're a legend.

> No, i won't dive in and start playing with it. We'll need to wait
> until it's properly set up first...

Yep - If nothing else I suspect considering it weighs 250kg that it's
probably worth waiting until we have a couple of people around who
know what they're doing :)

> Will there be a delivery manifest? What should i be looking for in
> terms of delivery notes?
>
> We should probably clear some space for it on Monday night.

As I understand it'll be delivered by the manufacturer, so it's just a
case of letting them in. There should be plenty of spare space in the
workshop area to keep it temporarily.

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Russ Garrett

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Mar 28, 2011, 4:09:49 AM3/28/11
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On 25 March 2011 12:10, Russ Garrett <ru...@garrett.co.uk> wrote:
> As I mentioned in the other thread, is now ordered. Delivery is
> Tuesday between 8.30am and 5.30pm.

In addition I have arranged to have a 4-jaw independent chuck
delivered with it at a cost of £90.53.

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Don B

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Mar 28, 2011, 6:54:10 AM3/28/11
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   Russ,

      I can back-up/assist Billy with the delivery tomorrow if you like: I'll forward my mobile to you and you can pass that on to the delivery people. If they call me 10 minutes before they are on-site I can drop-in and help out as I'm just around the corner :-)
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spooq

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Mar 28, 2011, 6:58:14 AM3/28/11
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Now might be a good time to discuss where exactly we are going to make
room for and install it ;) We don't want to move it twice!

I would like to get some space up near the unused front door of the
unit, near where the trebuchet is living. I'd also like to put the
kiln there as well. Any other ideas?

Luke

Nigel Worsley

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Mar 28, 2011, 7:02:28 AM3/28/11
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> I can back-up/assist Billy with the delivery tomorrow if you like

Has anyone checked to make sure that Chester will have the necessary mechanical handling equipment
with them?

They may assume that the customer has a fork truck or similar, it wouldn't surprise me if the delivery
vehicle doesn't even have a tail lift. Getting over 200kg of metal off the back of the truck by hand isn't
very practical!

Nigle


Don B

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Mar 28, 2011, 7:04:08 AM3/28/11
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  Not to mention getting it upstairs.
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Garret Smyth

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Mar 28, 2011, 7:17:06 AM3/28/11
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> Russ Garrett <ru...@garrett.co.uk> Mar 28 09:09AM +0100 ^

>
>> As I mentioned in the other thread, is now ordered. Delivery is
>> Tuesday between 8.30am and 5.30pm.
>

What's happening to the old lathe?

spooq

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Mar 28, 2011, 7:19:30 AM3/28/11
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On 28 March 2011 12:04, Don B <donint...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>   Not to mention getting it upstairs.

There is a lift.

spooq

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Mar 28, 2011, 7:19:47 AM3/28/11
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Nothing, it will continue as it is.

Don B

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Mar 28, 2011, 7:24:01 AM3/28/11
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   I was referring to the difficulty in moving over 250kilos into/out of the lift and all the way into the space, if we don't have any equipment to assist.
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Nigel Worsley

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Mar 28, 2011, 7:29:50 AM3/28/11
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> I was referring to the difficulty in moving over 250kilos into/out of the
> lift and all the way into the space, if we don't have any equipment to
> assist.


One of the other units probably has a pallet truck that we can borrow, might be worth checking this
out in advance. The problem will be lifting it up onto whatever it will sit on. And potentially getting it
off the delivery truck in the first place.

Nigle

Russ Garrett

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Mar 28, 2011, 7:30:28 AM3/28/11
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On 28 March 2011 12:02, Nigel Worsley <nig...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I can back-up/assist Billy with the delivery tomorrow if you like
>
> Has anyone checked to make sure that Chester will have the necessary
> mechanical handling equipment
> with them?

They will do. These guys deliver to hobbyists all the time so it won't
be an issue.

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spooq

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Mar 28, 2011, 9:44:46 AM3/28/11
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We should have a stand (courtesy of Abby) by the weekend.

Luke

Martin Johnston

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Mar 30, 2011, 6:32:04 AM3/30/11
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I see from the workshop webcam we have a delivery!

On Mar 28, 2:44 pm, spooq <spo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We should have a stand (courtesy of Abby) by the weekend.
>
> Luke
>
> On 28 March 2011 12:30, Russ Garrett <r...@garrett.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 28 March 2011 12:02, Nigel Worsley <nig...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>> I can back-up/assist Billy with the delivery tomorrow if you like
>
> >> Has anyone checked to make sure that Chester will have the necessary
> >> mechanical handling equipment
> >> with them?
>
> > They will do. These guys deliver to hobbyists all the time so it won't
> > be an issue.
>
> > --
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> > r...@garrett.co.uk

Toby Catlin

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Mar 30, 2011, 8:33:05 AM3/30/11
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woohoo
i would like to buy some metal to try out the new machine (under instruction of course). 
Anyone know a good place to buy some brass bar on the cheap?

toby

spooq

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Mar 30, 2011, 9:56:37 AM3/30/11
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There is some small diameter round and hex brass bar, suitable for
practice, in the drawers under the mill. I'm going to buy a large
square section bar of aluminium on the weekend for a project, and I
don't mind handing out a couple of pieces of that for people to play
around with.

Luke

Toby Catlin

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Mar 30, 2011, 9:58:43 AM3/30/11
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Ok great.

I thought i might also buy some stock for others to learn with as i didn't contribute to the pledge and now i feel guilty.

t

spooq

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Mar 30, 2011, 10:01:28 AM3/30/11
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You can always contribute to the tooling pledge, when it comes time for that :)

Luke

kev

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Mar 30, 2011, 3:31:51 PM3/30/11
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On Mar 30, 1:33 pm, Toby Catlin <t...@korfball.com> wrote:
> woohoo
> i would like to buy some metal to try out the new machine (under instruction
> of course).

I'm looking to start getting some practice in with this as well, and
was thinking it would be a good idea to order some more metal in. I'd
contribute to an order if one was going to be forumulated. I don't
know where to buy from though. Will research...

Kevin
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