Changes

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Pictured, the current chaos of my workshop. I managed an hour down there this afternoon, until I gave up due to a total lack of peripheral nerve sensation in all twenty of my collective digits. I was trying to manufacture a tool to crack open the body of the 3" chuck I've mentioned before [blog posts passim], which can be seen on the piece of white melamine board in the centre of the picture. In doing so, I needed to fire up the old lathe in order to turn down and thread a couple of bronze spigots to put into a custom wrench to free the backplate of the chuck. The old lathe hasn't seen the light of day since last summer, and the room it sits in would seem to have the greatest ingress of storm-driven moisture of all of the building; so a new plan has been hatched. I'm going to abandon the little lathe shop and move the kit to the centre of the 12 foot bench pictured, approximately where the current project is sitting. Ironically, this will bring my workshop practice back full-circle to my Dad's old shed in the house in which I grew up. Nice and circular: I look forward to some better weather in which to fulfil this modest ambition. On a continuance of my previous two posts, here's some links to [all on YouTube] content that illustrates that the AI debate is only in its very infancy: all good stuff, so check 'em out...

Richard J Murphy

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