[6247] in APO Printshop
Re: Vice on table
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Wed Jan 26 21:55:42 2011
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:55:39 -0500 (EST)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: Catherine Olsson <catherio@MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU, rhkeeler@MIT.EDU, oremanj@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <4D3FC0B9.7020301@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:35:37 -0500
From: Catherine Olsson <catherio@MIT.EDU>
To: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>, apo-printshop@mit.edu
Cc: rhkeeler@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Vice on table
On 01/25/2011 11:32 PM, Leonard H Tower Jr. wrote:
> Use of a vise is necessary and essential to maintain and repair the
> press shop equipment.
Of course - we'll definitely find a home for it. But, the table it's
currently on is not very useful in the current layout, since it has no
under-table space. I am trying to find some way to keep the vice useable
without keeping the entire table around, if that's even remotely
possible.
AX use to have three of these work tables in the APOffice. The
actives found a wide variety of ways to store things under then for
decades. Perhaps a little more thought is needed?
It might be a tool project to build shelving under it.
It could go at the end of the couch with the small bookcase under it.
... ???
> To be useful for press maintainance, and for most use:
> * the vise needs to be near the height it is now. That
> is, it needs
> to be mounted at a height so it can be used while standing.
> * there has to be a certain amount of working room, around it.
> Moving
> loose stuff next to it is OK.
> * the top of the 'table' has to be thick, and the table top
> material has able to hold bolts under force over time. The 'table'
> has to be sturdy. The object in the vise has to be held well and
> steadily.
How horrible would it be to move it to the silkscreening room? I understand
it would be less convenient for press maintenance, but keeping the current
table in the office would be pretty inconvenient, too.
Anyone else on the printshop list have ideas?
YiLFS,
- catherio
The vise stands a much higher chance of being stolen in the silkscreen
room, I find that door open and no-one inside a few times a term, and
I'm not in W20 all that much.
I don't understand how having the vise table remain in the APOffice is
inconvenient.
It will waste hours of my time a year, to have it in the silkscreen
room. That is more than an inconvenience to me. And to APO. My time
is better spent on other Press Shop needs. Not to mention the other
parts of my life.
I understand that Catherine and Rachel and the others involved have a
certain vision involved with this APOffice reorg. But is fully
realizing that vision worth standing in the way of my helping serve
AX?
yiLFS -len
