Plastic and I don't get along.  Turns out the little plastic "clamps" break pretty easy.  Made some flat aluminum washers of sorts and brought them back to life.

May change how it sits on rails but I am pretty sure it will be below the rail surface.

Experimenting with slotting tubing for dropouts on Sheldon Horizontal Mill.  Vise allows pass through for stays and keeps various diameters centered on slotting saw.  For tapered tubes the vise can be tilted to compensate and a round wire on the top of vee block makes for rigid setup.

Sputnik main tube fixture on the old horizontal mill.

Sputnik Chainstay Fixture on M22 Diamond Mill.

Another view of slotting setup.  Cut a bunch of straight 4130 to dial it in.  

Messing around over the holiday...Just setting up and will figure out attaching them later. Different materials always make welding them tricky.  Might figure out a mechanical connection...

Could not help myself...Just had to bring home the Rider VoltOhmyst.  Plugged her in and measured some voltage on some DC batteries as well as some ohms across some resistors. resistors. Dead on...Well after some adjustments and warming up.  Will put on the shelf now.

Dates around 1939.

Finished up a few projects.  Another Faux Headset for a friend and mods to some cool brass barrel adjusters for another local shop.

Cleaning up and adjusting coming along pretty well.  Arbor removal was stubborn but done.  Cut some tubing on one of them just cuz... 

Rewired all done and motors good.  Rewired one of the coolant pumps...worked good until I reassembled...now showing some sparks.  On the list but don't plan to use them anyway.  

More soon

Two Diamond M22 Horizontal Mills.  Picked up this morning and got them both into the shop.  Trip was thankfully uneventful!  One is more complete than the other...missing overarm bracket and one crank.  Saved from county school system many years ago...very little wear and should clean up nice.

1000lb each

Made in LA..neat to find them on East coast.

I have been working on setting up a Ruby on Rails project and using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host it.  AWS EC2 instance out of the box of course is not setup to run rails.  After much trial and error I have narrowed down the setup process as listed below.

1 - Setup AWS EC2 Instance (your milage may vary - Assume you have setup EC2 instance before)

I used the following:
AMI - Amazon Linux AMI 2016.03.1 (HVM), SSD Volume Type - ami-f5f41398
Instance Type: General purpose  t2.medium

2 - Setup Rails Environment

Connect to EC2 Instance (ssh via terminal)

ssh -i "****.pem" ec2-user@ec2-XX-XX-XXX-XX.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Always a good practice on new installs

$ sudo yum update

Install rvm for Ruby Version Management

$ gpg2 --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3
$ curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
$ source ~/.profile

Install zlib-devel
$ sudo yum install zlib-devel (don't exactly remember why this is needed - might be application specific)

Install openssl
$ rvm pkg install openssl
$ rvm reinstall 2.0.0 --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/rvm/usr (ruby version up for debate)

my ruby project uses bundler - install it
$ gem install bundler

my application also require javascript
$ sudo yum install nodejs npm --enablerepo=epel

install git
$ sudo yum install git
$ git clone https://github.com/xxxxx/yourrepo.git
$ cd yourrepo

run bundle install (again, my app uses it - your app may have other install steps
$ bundle install
$ rails s
You should see something like: varies depending on application server=> Booting WEBrick

=> Rails 3.2.12 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
Connecting to database specified by database.yml
[2016-05-24 13:56:28] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2016-05-24 13:56:28] INFO  ruby 2.0.0 (2015-12-16) [x86_64-linux]
[2016-05-24 13:56:28] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=27261 port=3000