Up-dated05/02/07
VERY IMPORTANT MESAGE
I have been working like a dog to get my garage studio up and running. By 02/13/07 I had things finished enough to get some turning done. I wanted to try out the Craftsman variable speed lathe so I set it up with a chunk of wood to just make some shavings. The lathe did seem to run a little odd but I attributed that to my unfamiliarity with the lathe. Later I tried to turn a pepper shaker that needed some degree of precision. The lathe could not turn the parts exactly round which was very noticeable. What it looks like is that the headstock spindle “wobbles” or, more precisely, it is not in alignment when it runs. I have attributed the spindle problem to the movers damaging it by dropping the headstock, dropping something on it or setting something heavy on it. I have contacted the movers, Allied Van Lines, to get resolution on this but because of a $500.00 deductible, they will not help me.
I had a PDF file explaining what happened in detail but now I have removed it. One of the fellows in the Cumberland County Woodturners club came over with a dial indicator and we determined that the spindle had a .020” run-out. This was the cause of the “wobble”. Later another fellow from the club came over and we measured the run-out and it was the same (of course) so we thought we could “adjust” it a little. After a lot of work and some “mechanical adjustment” with a 10 pound sledge hammer, we got a negligible run-out. So now the Craftsman lathe is usable.
01/04/07
We, and all our boxes, have moved in to our new home. The previous owner had pretty much vacated the house a few days before 12/20/06 when we were supposed to officially take possession of the house so we made arrangements to have our household goods delivered. A local moving company picked up our stuff at the storage unit and then moved it in here. I am going to use half of the garage for my shop and the smaller out building is the gardening building. We are using my shop area and the rest of the garage as a kind of “staging area” for stuff that we are not sure about. The house is a 3 bedroom so one of the bedrooms is the master with a master bath and one of the others is the office and the last bedroom is a kind of spare room for the time being.
The move has really stressed me out pretty bad with all the boxes everywhere and the money we have had to spend on things like light bulbs and a controller for the furnace and some other things. I still have to up grade the electrics in the shop and we have a real mess down in the woods to clean up. At least there aren’t any old cars down there! There’s a lot of work to do to get this house the way we want it but we are going to take it one piece at a time. I’ve resigned myself to the idea that the shop will take several months to get set up simply because there’s so much work ahead of it.
SPECIAL THANK YOU!
This is a special thank you to Jon and Kerri Reiver. From a few phone calls back in June 2006 and a short visit in July 2006, they trusted us enough to allow us to stay at their ranch. We were given the keys to their house within a few days of arriving while we watched all their animals. Although they were both pretty busy, Jon and I got to work together on some turning things and he allowed me to cut up some wood in his forest for turning. I wound up with quite a pile of usable turning wood. They went on a vacation for 3 weeks and they trusted us to take care of their animals. Several of their goats were ready to give birth but they still believed that we could handle it (I don’t think we were). My relationship with Jon began through the woodturning community. Of all the associations that I have been involved in, the woodturning community is more of a family then just a group of people. The Reiver’s demonstrate this family relationship. Thank you again, Jon and Kerri.
10/24/06
We closed on our new
house on Friday, 10/20/06. We are no
longer homeless! We still won’t be able
to move into the house until after 12/19/06 se we are staying at a fellow woodturner’s
ranch outside of
We closed on the
The Reiver ranch is a large (by my standards) place with about 15 acres of woods and maybe 25 acres of cleared land. They have goats, horses, donkeys and a bunch of barn cats. They had to go out of town the first weekend we were here and we got to take care of their animals. It was certainly different!
Anyway, here we are
in
ADENDUM
Jon Reiver (where we are staying) said that I could use his shop to turn stuff while I waited to move in. Well, I don’t like using someone else’s tools lest I do some damage to them so I really needed to find my tool bag in the storage unit. I tried crawling over our stuff to see if I could find it but I could not see the bag. Finally I unloaded the storage unit to get back in it and look under things. About half way in the storage unit was the freezer where my tool bag had been put!
More up-date 09/22/06
The house was
actually put on the market 09/06/06 and we had an offer late that night. They wanted us to hold a note so we rejected
that offer. The next day, some people
came by to see the house and apparently liked it because they put in an offer
by the next day. When they came to see
the house, the sign had not even been put up yet and when we got the call to
come to the office to review the offer, the sign had only been in for less then
half an hour. We have accepted their
offer and since then there has been some give and take but all looks like it is
going OK. We will close on this house
here in
We went back up to Crossville on a house hunting expedition again on 09/14 to 09/17 and found a nice place to live. The house is on 2 acres and has a large 2 car garage and a smaller work shop. About half of the land is wooded! I’ll post photos when we get up there and get settled in.
The movers will pack and pick up on 10/04 and 10/05 and deliver to Crossville on either 10/09 or 10/10. We will leave here 10/08 and stay with some new found friends from the local woodturning club. We will close on the new house on 10/20/06 but we won’t be able to move in until about 60 days or so. Apparently that’s how things are done up there.
More to come!
08/08/06
We have come to the conclusion that it is time to move. The reasons are discussed in “Who Is PT” so you can go back there and read our reasons for bugging out. We have actually spent some 2 years looking around the country for a place to move to. At first we were looking rather haphazardly but we finally settled on a list of criteria and began looking in earnest from that list.
We've been here in
We have been looking for some
place else to move to for several years. I want to get out away from a
lot of people. Actually, I need to get away from people. This place
we live in now is an old 1959 development. The houses are not real close
but they are still close enough. It seems that the younger people
that live here now tend to be inconsiderate and noisy. I get to
listen to loud music from my next door neighbor and the kids that drive around
here do not know what volume control means. There are also a lot of
really noisy dogs that bark insistently. Their owners will not do
anything about it either.
In our search for a new place, we
came to Crossville
We are now in clean up and fix up
mode to get this house ready to show. It will be listed on August
31st or earlier. When it sells, we are gone! This is another
chapter in the continuing adventures of PTville.
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