[MachineShop] cutting wax, logbook

[Denis Muradov]

I'm a little confused. Mitchell you used the lathe to cut some wax? I'm not
familiar with what's involved with that. Wouldn't the vice just crush the
wax?

There is some merit in that a bad clean up job might demonstrate
fundamental carelessness, which might serve as a risk marker for a
potential future accident. While a log book might help, I'm not sure if
it's going to be well received given the intended purpose. From my
experience, if there is a mess to deal with, it's typically the individual
that vehemently complains about the machine shop. The other issue is that
the kind of person that leaves a mess is also the kind of person that isn't
going to sign a log book. In the end there is a camera above the door, so
if we really need to determine who left a mess we could ask Adam for the
footage - maybe work on streamlining this, with remote viewing?


On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM Mitchell Newberry via Machineshop <
machineshop at quelab.net> wrote:

> Wow, thanks Yak, you're the best!
> On Thursday, October 16th, 2025 at 2:11 PM, Jack Rexer <
> jackrexerlego at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm going to work on getting the carving done over this weekend and cast
> it in bronze next week. I'll report back with how it turns out! Also I
> unplugged the lathe and flipped the breaker off as part of my cleanup of
> the machine shop afterwards.
>
> -Yak
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM Mitchell Newberry <mitchell at localpost.io>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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