{"id":2660,"date":"2009-01-31T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T14:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2009-01-31T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T14:29:24","slug":"how-big-is-big-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2660","title":{"rendered":"How Big is Big Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Common Sense Militates in Two Different Directions<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s an interesting Craigslist ad: CLICK.<\/a> It’s a Bridgeport mill with CNC stuff on it. The CNC bits need repair, however.<\/p>\n

Last night I was thinking about tools. I was thinking about how I had finally learned my lesson: NEVER BUY SMALL. I’ll tell you why this was on my mind. I bought what I thought was a gargantuan compressor, but it turns out to be just about the minimal size for sandblasting. For a few hundred more dollars, I could have had a 7.5 HP model which would have been better. And it would run on the same size circuit and take up the same amount of room.<\/p>\n

I’ve also started to come up against the upper limits of my MIG welder. I bought 1\/8″ and 3\/16″ steel for my saw base, and 3\/16″ is the biggest I can do without going to flux-core wire.<\/p>\n

People assured me I was overbuying. Well…WRONG. I barely went big enough.<\/p>\n

Here’s the funny thing. Right after I thought about the lesson I had learned, I started thinking about how I should go look at the Millrite milling machine I had located. Because a Bridgeport is just too big.<\/p>\n

I immediately sensed the contrast between the two trains of thought. 1. I have been stung by buying small tools. 2. I should buy a Millrite because it’s small. I felt like I was getting a message.<\/p>\n

But I’m still not sure what to do. I have no idea what I can do on a Bridgeport that I can’t do on a Millrite. And I wonder how much more expensive (if at all) Bridgeport tooling is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Common Sense Militates in Two Different Directions Here’s an interesting Craigslist ad: CLICK. It’s a Bridgeport mill with CNC stuff on it. The CNC bits need repair, however. Last night I was thinking about tools. I was thinking about how I had finally learned my lesson: NEVER BUY SMALL. I’ll tell you why this was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}