It’s been getting cold around here lately, and I’m wondering if anyone else is leaving the machine on overnight? I usually turn the machine on in the morning, turn the heat on in the shop, and then home the machine about an hour later. But over the past couple of days, the machine has been a bit bitchy to fire up properly. I’ve been following this method for the past 4 or 5 years and it works fine. But this week? Bitchy.
I’m thinking that because I have a bunch of work to do for Christmas, that the machine has decided it doesn’t care about deadlines and just wants to mess with me…
Why not just leave the heat on?
Machinery, especially things like shafts and bearings like staying at the same temp all the time.
Also {depending upon how much metal you have in your shop}, bringing it all up to temp is more expensive than keeping it at one temp
Pony
Good point Pony!
In the past, I use a propane heater to warm things up at the start of the day… and use an electric heater (on and off) for the rest of the work day… Unfortunately my son is back home (economy and politics and other toxic topics), and he seems to have a habit of forgetting to close the door behind himself. It got cold lately and the Elite didn’t like that. So leaving the machine on over night has solved the start up problem. I avoided high blood pressure and sounding like a broken record, and it made the machine happy. So, win win?