[MachineShop] cutting wax, logbook

[Mitchell Newberry]

Yesterday new member Yak and I used the lathe to "cut wax" for Yak's art project machining hard wax for lost-wax casting. Yak is making partly carved partly machined castings to work as decorative caps for modern bicycle forks, so obviously I am into it. It was fun and if you thought machining aluminum was forgiving, try machining wax!

We cleaned up in a hurry because I had an orientation to do, and I forgot to unplug the lathe and flip the breaker off. Sorry about that; if I get back there I'll unplug and turn off, or if someone else is there, please do it. Reminds me to follow up on our earlier discussion of checklists.

I was also thinking it would be nice to have a shop log / guestbook for who, who's the second person, what and when. It would be nice to see what's going on in the shop, and then we know whom to blame when I forget to unplug the lathe. What do people think?

Mitchell
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