EARTHQUAKE!! Shopbot still going

[gabepari]

Just had a 5.8 centered about 7 miles South of us. Bot was 2.5 hours into long file in a $1K piece of acrylic. After running like a little girl out of the building and talking to the neighbors, I remembered the bot. It's still running, no problems, no missed steps, no jumped rails. I'm happy, still shaking though (me and the ground)

Gabe

[harryball]

Glad you and the bot are ok. This quake is being called "moderate". I think the only "moderate" quake is like "minor" surgery... that's when it happens to someone else. :-)

/RB

[jamesgilliam]

Gabe, Glad to see you both made it through. You aren't close to any of the fires out there too are you?

Moderate and minor are relative terms, along with close, it only counts in horse shoes, hand grenades and atomic bombs.

[rcnewcomb]

My daughter said it shook things pretty well. She claims that all the items on the floor were in the book cases before the quake.


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[harryball]

If that's the case... it hit my daughters room pretty hard then... and we're in Georgia ;-)

I'm glad there was no serious damage and everyone is ok.

Gabe, I was curious about that $1000 of acrylic... if the bot had been disturbed enough to ruin it... I wonder if insurance would have covered the materials? Of course that's provided you have earthquake insurance.

/RB

[bcammack]

I was in Anchorage, Alaska for the Good Friday quake in 1964. They reevaluated the data a couple years ago and bumped it from 8.5 to 9.2 on the Richter scale. Lasted 6-1/2 minutes.

When I lived in California I wouldn't even bother waking up for anything under a 7.0...


Glad you got through this one safely. Lucky for us that machines don't scare or have any self-preservation instincts or you'd be ordering a new piece of stock this morning. (and mopping up god-knows-what from under the 'bot LOL)

[gpari]

Thanks guys.

Randall - My daughters room always looks like that


RB - I'm sure I could have filed a claim with our general liability policy, maybe not mention the quake...

Brett - Having lived in Southern California my whole life, I too am accustom to quakes. The ones you "feel" are usually at night, and shaking around in the bed is kinda fun. But when they come in the middle of the day, and you see everything in the shop jumping up and down, including the steel beams holding up the roof, it's a little weird. Also, we were only 5-7 miles from the epicenter, usually the "moderate" quakes are father away and we only get the swaying waves, not the initial JOLT.

The only damage I know of in my area is the hobby shop next store had a plane fall from the sky (a model, it was hanging from the ceiling) and destroy their glass display case by the register. Didn't hurt the plane though!

Back to work,

Gabe

[dray]

HAHA.. we did the same thing.. Bot was cutting corian and we all ran out of the shop!

My shop is a tilt up concrete building, supposed to be very strong in an earthquake, but if a wass was to fall you would be flat as a pancake.

BTW $731 sheet of corian was fine and bot kept cutting lol!

[woodworx]

I was cutting some counter tops just 15 minutes south of the center. Absolutely no problems. The guy I was doing the work for came over to see if everything was ok. I told him my little worker never misses a beat!