Pete, hope that the tooth is ok when the drugs wear off

Yes I was very lucky today. I was booked in for 8 am and usually you hang around in pre-med as they work through their operation list, and drag you in when they've hosed down after the previous carcass has been shifted to the morgue. This time I was the ONLY one on the surgeons list so things were pretty fast. I did tell him it was probably because his fees are too high and he needs to respond to market conditions

Then the anesthetist tells me he's had several hernia operations and has to keep coming back - just what you want to hear as the knife is poised

Still, end result is back home by 2pm sitting by a log fire and posting the 'light' thread, which I'm sure that you realise was actually made and photographed a few days ago

But all this is

Nowt worse than old blokes grumbling about the bits that are falling off
Got great plans for the lathe when I'm allowed back in the workshop. The Bar Puller (That sounds like a prostitute!) turned up at last the other day so my first thing is to try a simple 'multi component' run - something like a thick washer. Drill, part off, bar pull and repeat to get used to it.
Can't do much heavy stuff on the lathe as the coolant isn't yet filled, but my 20 litre drum of Castrol Hysol Excel arrived yesterday ready for it. At 7% it will take the full 20 litres. Got to clean and disinfect the swarf conveyor tank first. Normally you'd dump some anti bacterial cleaner like "Castrol Techniclean MTC 43" in the sump and run the machine for 24 hours before discarding the old coolant and filling anew.
However the sump is empty! ( Emptyish - got the usual tramp oil sticky gunge which will be fun to clean.) What I'm planning to do is shove the"Castrol Techniclean MTC 43" in the coolant for my Beaver Parts Master which could do with a coolant change, run that for a while, pump the coolant into the lathe, add more MTC 43, then run the lathe coolant pumps to circulate everything, as although it will be far from full, I won't be machining anything at the time.