I SERIOUSLY want a bigger lathe. The little one I got is OK, but working on anything bigger than, say, a bullet projectile, is pushing the limits with it.
Nothing huge, just big enough to not be stymied because it is too small. Actually my biggest hurtle would be just getting it inside the garage and set up on a stand. Even the smaller of the next step up for me is going to be around 250 lbs or better. Connie and I just can't manage that sort of lifting any longer. But I've been thinking of ways around that. Maybe I could use the lift to manhandle it into place off of the back of Connie's truck. I'll have to see how far the lift's arms extend the next time there isn't a car sitting on it.
Well, I finally found a lathe that I want. Quite a bit bigger than my current baby lathe, but not a huge one. Weighs in at somewhere between 460 and 650 lbs, depending on where you look for that sort of info.
It's the smallest lathe I could find with all the options I wanted and the ability to handle anything I think I might want to work on with a lathe in the foreseeable future.
Just picked up a 2 ton shop crane from Harbor Freight today that I need to put together, but there is really no rush as there is likely going to be a 10 to 12 week delay before it is actually shipped. I believe this is a very popular little machine from the reviews I've found.
Incidentally, I was having an intermittent problem starting up the car that I believe I fixed. I would generally load in a new tune, and often times when I would start the car afterwards, I would get reduced engine power with service action control messages flashing on the DIC. Sometimes it would go away on a second restart and rarely might take a third or fourth restart before it would go away.
On a hunch, I pulled apart all the wheel sensor connectors, sprayed them down with electronic contact cleaner, and then reseated the connectors a couple of times. Seemed to me this problem started a while back when I had separated the driver's side front connector to reroute the cable and I did not think to disconnect the battery first. So when I started the car up afterwards, I got that same above mentioned error message that went away when I started the car up a second time. So this time I disconnected the battery first before cleaning the connectors, and so far (knock on wood) I haven't had a single reccurence of that problem.
Incidentally, I was having an intermittent problem starting up the car that I believe I fixed. I would generally load in a new tune, and often times when I would start the car afterwards, I would get reduced engine power with service action control messages flashing on the DIC. Sometimes it would go away on a second restart and rarely might take a third or fourth restart before it would go away.
On a hunch, I pulled apart all the wheel sensor connectors, sprayed them down with electronic contact cleaner, and then reseated the connectors a couple of times. Seemed to me this problem started a while back when I had separated the driver's side front connector to reroute the cable and I did not think to disconnect the battery first. So when I started the car up afterwards, I got that same above mentioned error message that went away when I started the car up a second time. So this time I disconnected the battery first before cleaning the connectors, and so far (knock on wood) I haven't had a single reccurence of that problem.
Well, so much for that hypothesis. Had the problem come back today while doing some test drives. I was changing tunes while sitting on parking lots and a couple of times after loading the new tune the car would go into "reduced engine power". I would have to keep restarting the car to make it go away.
Now I did notice that the times I get that REP error, that the car was real sluggish starting. So I'm thinking that since this is related to the traction control system which is related to the brake system which is related to the brake booster which is related to vacuum the engine generates, MAYBE the sluggish startup doesn't produce enough vacuum in the engine and the PCM feels that this is a problem. Just guessing, but it does seem to be coincidental.
Along those lines I tried to increase the fuel pulse at startup. Not only increased the pulse, but also reduced the delay programmed in that will keep a second pulse from taking place a certain amount of time from the last pulse. I've noticed that if the car will stall shortly after starting it, it is VERY sluggish trying to restart. Well, come to find out that there was a 10 second delay programmed in keeping that fuel pulse from being triggered again. So I reduced the delay to three seconds and will see how that works.
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Name : Andy Anderson
You owe yourself a very LARGE PARRRRR-TAY!
I can truthfully say that I'm gonna miss the posts with all of the insights, but
I can also truthfully say that I'm very glad for you that it's finally done.
Now you can get back to enjoying the "Beast"!
Andy
Just guessing, but it does seem to be coincidental.
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