{"id":1245,"date":"2010-09-07T18:13:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T23:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.tedatum.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2011-02-01T15:53:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T20:53:50","slug":"back-breaking-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Back Breaking Work"},"content":{"rendered":"            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image ngg-right\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/blog-internal\/dsc02172.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/blog-internal\/dsc02172.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/blog-internal\/thumbs\/thumbs_dsc02172.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"123\"\n             data-title=\"dsc02172\"\n             data-description=\"\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"06c4109c637f50b6e2ccae0c119913ff\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/blog-internal\/cache\/dsc02172.jpg-nggid03123-ngg0dyn-320x240x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"dsc02172\"\n             title=\"dsc02172\"\n              width=\"320\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        \n<p>I made one part (#10) two pieces last weekend. I milled a 1\/2&#8243; square bar of brass into a 1\/8&#8243; x 1\/2&#8243; angle. It is to be used for the brackets to hold the tender steps. I got the milling done just fine. Then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I reached around the X3 mill, I think to turn off the main power. It felt like I got stabbed in the back. I have a bad vertebra at the bottom of my spine. Years of heavy lifting destroyed the padding. Occasionally I get an extreme pain spasm and this was one of them.<\/p>\n<p>That shut me down for the rest of the weekend in the shop. ($#^$&amp;#^) <span style=\"color: #008080;\">&lt;&#8211; swear word<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I didn&#8217;t even get the holes drilled but I did get it cut into two parts. That&#8217;s not the correct location in the picture. I just posed the parts&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An immediate heat pad and some\u00a0ibuprofen got me healed and back to work today. This was one of my shortest episodes. I&#8217;ll have to hit the heat pad quickly again next time. Also, I didn&#8217;t keep pushing it. It&#8217;s heck to get old. I wonder when I will get there?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just claim working on scale steam locomotives is back breaking work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made one part (#10) two pieces last weekend. I milled a 1\/2&#8243; square bar of brass into a 1\/8&#8243; x 1\/2&#8243; angle. It is to be used for the brackets to hold the tender steps. I got the milling done just fine. Then&#8230; I reached around the X3 mill, I think to turn off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[84],"tags":[82,79,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}