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Emiliano Achaval

Emiliano Achaval

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I visited my good friend Wayne Omura today. He has the same giant hollowing system as me. He has the original Frank Sudol rig. When I told him that I wanted to add a rig for a webcam, he pulled just what I need from one of his many drawers around his shop. Problem is, he can't remember where he got it, or even the name of it. A search with Google lens gives me lots of hits. A website balluff.com has one, but it's impossible to find the right size. I will call them tomorrow. The bar is one inch and a half. The other one is 3/4 in. Then I need another one with 2 3/4 in holes. Wayne just called, he thinks he got it from J W Winco. Again, Impossible to find what you need there. I'm open to suggestions for other sites. Google gave me some good sites, one Checkoslovakia and the other one in Turkey. I think the shipping might be a bit too much from there, LOL I'll attach a picture of the main part below. Both are the same just different sizes.
 

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Todd Raines, of the https://woodturningtoolstore.com/ bought the remaining stock from Brian Mcvoy after he retired. He may be able to help you with parts. As I said in the other post, you can get the video and the original tungsten carbide cutter from him. Also carter and son bought the rights to the rig but when i tried to get a part they appear to be selling the full system only. The system did not use lasers or cameras so you may have to construct an overhead beam to hold em. you maybe able to jury rig bicycle camera mounts to the boring bar. Also, you may be able to attach the Clark system laser(or camera mount) to your existing boring bar. ( https://www.theokspindoctor.com/ )
 
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Update!! I do not why they make it so hard for the average, like me, person to search for parts. I called J.W. Winco. Customer service was really good. I got the 2 parts that I need to make my camera rig. In case anybody is curious, or if they need to buy some, I got the parts number: 133-B40-B20-2-BL and 132-B20-B20-40-2-BL
The Numbers seem very cryptic, but, it's a description in MM. I felt at home with the guy, he actually could understand and knew the Metric system. For those of you that never used it, it is so much easier, it makes sense, you don't have to think about or need to decipher what the length is. Hawaii once made an attempt to switch. When I came here 35 years ago, some gas stations were selling gas by the liter. I was so happy! It did not last long, people fought it back, rebelled, and grumble. Back to the puzzle system.
YOu probably can tell, I'm a happy camper that I found the parts I needed. Life is good. Aloha
 
Emiliano Achaval said:
I felt at home with the guy, he actually could understand and knew the Metric system. For those of you that never used it, it is so much easier, it makes sense, you don't have to think about or need to decipher what the length is. Hawaii once made an attempt to switch. When I came here 35 years ago, some gas stations were selling gas by the liter. I was so happy! It did not last long, people fought it back, rebelled, and grumble. Back to the puzzle system.
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About the SI vs Imperial (English) systems - while a decimal system is much easier to learn, it isnt necessarily easier to use when your frame of reference from diapers to adulthood has been something else, ie the imperial system. Frame of reference is the reason America pushes back. People know what a gallon, a foot, a mile are. I know the SI system fairly well, having worked with it as an engineer for 30+ years. Thing was, I had to estimate or calculate the imperial version for me to have a frame of reference of how big or how small something was. 25 um doesn’t mean anything, 0.001” does.

This is analogous, but Im asking out of pure curiosity. I only know the english language. You are from Argentina? Spanish, right? I know you know english - do you think in both languages depending on which you are speaking, or do you convert english to spanish back to english? For most of the multi language people I have known it was a matter of which language they used the most. If 50/50 they could think in either, but when they spent years in the US, they would slowly convert to thinking in english, when the ey returned home they converted back to thinking in their native language fairly quickly.
 
Doug Freeman said:
About the SI vs Imperial (English) systems - while a decimal system is much easier to learn, it isnt necessarily easier to use when your frame of reference from diapers to adulthood has been something else, ie the imperial system. Frame of reference is the reason America pushes back. People know what a gallon, a foot, a mile are. I know the SI system fairly well, having worked with it as an engineer for 30+ years. Thing was, I had to estimate or calculate the imperial version for me to have a frame of reference of how big or how small something was. 25 um doesn’t mean anything, 0.001” does.

This is analogous, but Im asking out of pure curiosity. I only know the english language. You are from Argentina? Spanish, right? I know you know english - do you think in both languages depending on which you are speaking, or do you convert english to spanish back to english? For most of the multi language people I have known it was a matter of which language they used the most. If 50/50 they could think in either, but when they spent years in the US, they would slowly convert to thinking in english, when the ey returned home they converted back to thinking in their native language fairly quickly.
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I believe you are right. I still have to translate miles to Kilometers to know how far I'm going, LOL
I was born in Buenos Aires Argentina. I went to a bilingual school. I had English classes every afternoon. If you have to translate in your head to understand, you are too slow. Something funny is that after some adult beverages, maybe some Macallan, at a party with Argentina friends and Americans, I would answer in Spanish to the American guy, and vice-versa, LOL And in Argentina, for some unknown reason, again, after some drinks, all of a sudden I started answering in English. I left Argentina when I was 18. So, I have lived most of my life in the USA. ALso, I have forgotten a lot of Spanish words. ANd I make up a lot of them. Some words make more sense in English. Of course, I'm fluid in Spanish, just a bit rusty.
 
Emiliano Achaval said:
Hawaii once made an attempt to switch.
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Thomas Jefferson first tried to switch tp metric, unfortunately there were to many former English subjects in the legislature fighting back. Just remember out money is metric and we buy electricity by the KWH. I was working in Toronto about the time Canada was switching to metric and on a radio call in program some one called in complaining the the next thing to happen would be that the government would probably want to change there money to metric:mad: .
 
Emiliano Achaval said:
I believe you are right. I still have to translate miles to Kilometers to know how far I'm going, LOL
I was born in Buenos Aires Argentina. I went to a bilingual school. I had English classes every afternoon. If you have to translate in your head to understand, you are too slow. Something funny is that after some adult beverages, maybe some Macallan, at a party with Argentina friends and Americans, I would answer in Spanish to the American guy, and vice-versa, LOL And in Argentina, for some unknown reason, again, after some drinks, all of a sudden I started answering in English. I left Argentina when I was 18. So, I have lived most of my life in the USA. ALso, I have forgotten a lot of Spanish words. ANd I make up a lot of them. Some words make more sense in English. Of course, I'm fluid in Spanish, just a bit rusty.
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A man after my own heart! Macallan 18 for me please......:p
 
Don Wattenhofer said:
Just remember out money is metric and we buy electricity by the KWH
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No, the US currency system is decimal, not metric. The watt, as in kw, is imperial/english. The metric version is joule per second. The k is called a prefix multiplier, and is applicable to all measurement systems. K is 10 to the 3rd power, or 1,000. The exponents dont show as superscripts in the table below.

Prefix multiplier values are given in Table 1.

Prefix
multiplier name​
Prefix
multiplier symbol​
Prefix
multiplier value​
Attoa10–18
Femtof10–15
Picop10–12
Nanon10–9
Microμ10–6
Millim10–3
Centic10–2
Decid10–1
Decada101
Hectoh102
Kilok103
MegaM106
GigaG109
TeraT1012
PetaP1015
ExaE1018
 
Doug Freeman said:
No, the US currency system is decimal, not metric. The watt, as in kw, is imperial/english. The metric version is joule per second. The k is called a prefix multiplier, and is applicable to all measurement systems. K is 10 to the 3rd power, or 1,000. The exponents dont show as superscripts in the table below.

Prefix multiplier values are given in Table 1.

Prefix
multiplier name​
Prefix
multiplier symbol​
Prefix
multiplier value​
Attoa10–18
Femtof10–15
Picop10–12
Nanon10–9
Microμ10–6
Millim10–3
Centic10–2
Decid10–1
Decada101
Hectoh102
Kilok103
MegaM106
GigaG109
TeraT1012
PetaP1015
ExaE1018
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so its a decimal system that uses metric prefixes such as 100 cents per dollar or 1000 watts per hour
 
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