Random Thought Thread

Blues said:
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You old couger you!
 
Go for the 70K grinder if you can swing it, even though you may feel that you do not currently have enough big projects to merit that purchase. Naturally a couple of preorders or just one for something special like the I.D will raise the required capital and then some at the snap of your fingers but being so close to the end of the year, you may have decided that a much larger 1099-K issued by PayPal in 2022 may not be the way for you to go, depending on how you keep your books. There are several other relatively easy ways for you to raise that 100K if you don't wish for it to count as "revenue", without mortgaging the Mothership. Just saying.
 
Casinostocks said:
Go for the 70K grinder if you can swing it, even though you may feel that you do not currently have enough big projects to merit that purchase. Naturally a couple of preorders or just one for something special like the I.D will raise the required capital and then some at the snap of your fingers but being so close to the end of the year, you may have decided that a much larger 1099-K issued by PayPal in 2022 may not be the way for you to go, depending on how you keep your books. There are several other relatively easy ways for you to raise that 100K if you don't wish for it to count as "revenue", without mortgaging the Mothership. Just saying.
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That grinder may be available for a song next year if things around the world continue in the current direction 😕
 
Casinostocks said:
Go for the 70K grinder if you can swing it, even though you may feel that you do not currently have enough big projects to merit that purchase. Naturally a couple of preorders or just one for something special like the I.D will raise the required capital and then some at the snap of your fingers but being so close to the end of the year, you may have decided that a much larger 1099-K issued by PayPal in 2022 may not be the way for you to go, depending on how you keep your books. There are several other relatively easy ways for you to raise that 100K if you don't wish for it to count as "revenue", without mortgaging the Mothership. Just saying.
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Pre-orders to buy materials and secure a person a slot in an enlarged production run is one thing (a legitimate business model). Pre-orders to buy machine tools is something different. That way madness lay. I'm running a legitimate business, I have good credit and a credit line at the bank. I can buy an expensive grinder if I want to. The question is, does it make sense to buy something like that just because I screwed up a material order. And I'm thinking the answer is no.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
So, I mentioned before, I messed up when I ordered the steel plate for the Kukri project and the plate is sized for the blade in the wrong orientation with the material grain running perpendicular to the part. I can fix this by changing the part layout in the sheet, which makes the sheet size larger and gets one and a half more blades in it. (we're going to have a special: off spec Kukris, half off) <----- that's a joke.

Which isn't great but it's a fix. But it's 16.5" and my 16X32 grinder can't deck the new larger sheet size. I've been wanting the next size up auto grinder and I've found what looks like a good used grinder, but it's about $70K. Which is steep just for this project and we really don't need to run big stuff like that frequently and I already have a bunch of automatic grinders here and I'm starting to think I just screwed up and I should just bite the bullet and order more steel instead and order it right this time and then I'm wondering what the hell do I do with this incorrectly sized steel because its's really thick and what do you make with a 6" blade that's 5/16" thick and then I got thinking about daggers again....


this has been a long week
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I'm confident that I could design something pretty amazeballs with that blade length in that thickness...
 
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