It has been a long couple days of machining but it is a finally here: a complete X-Y module. 

Travis and I spent these first few days of Thanksgiving Break covered in cutting fluid. In Travis' case, these days extend back, oh, say 2 weeks. And I cannot forget the parts Jacob left us with prior to his departure. Or the times Xy has squatted on a lathe to secure our use of the machine.

Somethings first, such as steps, lost teeth, legal bar trips, and salaried jobs, you celebrate. The first time you break a tap is not one of those, especially when it is embedded in a piece that is complete done bar those threads! Luckily Travis came to the rescue and milled and surgically removed the tap with careful mill passes. Now one of the end parts has a lovely tooth out of it:

Travis should be glad to know that if engineering doesn't work out, his steady hand may do him well in performing black-market organ transplants.

Happy Thanksgiving all. Our CNC machine may soon be able to carve turkeys!