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We are in the process of getting my father's headstone done for his unveiling and it is so expensive.

It won't be as big as the one you show, same size as my mothers so they match.
I hate dealing with this kind of stuff.

 

My Mom was INTO collecting old and BIG millstones.....it just dawned on me in reading this how much we ARE into recycling!!!! Both of my parents each have their own millstone for a headstone and my oldest brother and I each have one too!!!! And upright they do stand.....mine and DH's had to be 're-grooved' and I wasn't totally happy with it, but it 'is what it is' and it too will weather down once again!!!!! Ours is on Block Island and if Bev hangs out in Orleans Cemetery I'm sure she will come across my parents and brother's which is up a wee bit from our parents!! Ha Ha.....at least one (mine and DH's) got brought up from NJ TO Block Island TO the Cape and BACK to Block Island!!!! That's some decent mileage it acquired!!!!!

 

you should see what I just paid for back to back funerals.......sheesh !

 

Now you know how my 3xGreat Grandparents got so rich.............

 

I can only imagine Komo.
I was shell shocked when I saw the cost for my father's funeral this past December.

 

folks are beside each other....think i'll go for a double headstone when the time comes...

 

Just a bit of Manson's irony - my family made a fortune through staging funerals, crafting caskets, building cemeteries and carving grave markers.

In our family it is traditional to be cremated, have a quiet family lunch, and be scattered in the nearest rose garden. We used none of the products or services that made us rich................sort of like Henry Ford riding around on a bicycle..................

 

IOW they were too smart to fall for the hype. I'm already signed up to be a med school cadaver.

 

I offered my brain to science, but they are to frightened to let it out of my skull, said that while the consequences were unknown they didn't want to take a chance of endangering humanity....................

 

I watched Young Frankenstein and thought "so that's where Uncle Abbie got to"....

 

Mind telling how much???

 

From around your neck to...

 

....but willingly so!!!!!

 

Finishing the job: Table with mounting points, mounted stone with helper and lifting device, space between points and surface plate. We had planned to maneuver the lifter to align the three marks on underside of stone exactly over the three points on the table. Did not work, just couldn't adjust the lifter with heavy stone with any accuracy at all. So we had the sudden inspiration to see if one person could adjust the light aluminum table to line up the points and the marks, while the lifter remained in place. That worked perfectly and took about two minutes. I'm happy that hardware for points and table are all recycled items we had on hand here already. Soon I hope to find time to measure the actual flatness of the granite as-mounted.

First pic shows a little of the electro-hydraulic tipper we used to tip the stone on its side so we could mark the bottom without getting under the stone. The tipper's forks rotate clockwise (in this photo) up to 90 degrees, then it wasn't difficult for two people to waddle the stone, then resting on edge, on the machine and away from the forks to do the measuring and marking. The old tipper's wheel brake didn't seem to be working so we used the improvised brake, thin wood strips, visible in the photo.

 

This is fascinating...........do you craft on actual the surface, or is it strictly for "quality control" as it were?

 

Precision surface plates are classed as "inspection" instruments. In most cases they're used in conjunction with precision height gauges for checking dimensions of finished parts, or sometimes in-process parts with critical dimensions. There are other flat stone plates used in the machining area for working measurements but those are usually smaller pieces of black granite.

Btw here's a pic of the stone on edge on the raised tipper after we measured and marked it. The tags on the side of the stone have info on its maker and its original accuracy certification.

 

Kewl!!!!!!! Thanks for the information - it was as I expected (but most likely did not phrase well).

So, on average, how many robots do you produce annually?

 

that's a big honkin stone !!

 

Most all industrial robots I see were made in Japan by any of many robot-mills there. The first mass-produced production line robots are now obsolete and I can get them for as little as $1k, but then the software is obsolete, can't get parts etc. If I got one it'd be as an hysterical object only.