The Weebly Web Tracking is so confusing to use.  A counter was placed as suggested on the front page of my site and since I migrated over from BlogSpot, the traffic counter only counted 1900 page views.  From the stats maintained by Weebly, I've a daily pageviews (which is very close to the number of unique visitors) of about 80 to 90 views on average (lowest of 44 to highest of 156 page views).  But the counter on the front page only displayed 1900, which is about 20 over days of traffic.  So I decided to take it down and put on Google Analytics.  Frankly, I'm still a little confused of how this is to be set up.  Let's see if I get it right.  If you know how to go about doing this beside what the instructions on Google Analytics said, please drop me a note.  I'm still getting the "tracking not installed" status as of this writing.

Tracking on BlogSpot is so much simpler... sigh...

Fellow hobbyist Terrence came by my place this late morning. He bought a piece of 4" diameter aluminum stock which he wants it cut into shorter sections. I've just the tool for this!

The little 4" bandsaw I bought took about 1/2 hr to cut through the 4" stock, leaving us little time to cut the 2nd piece. So he left with just 1 cut piece as I was also getting myself ready for my Saturday duty as a driver.

A huge piece of aluminium stock 4" in diameter.  It took the bandsaw around 1/2 hr to cut through it to make the first piece.

After Terrence left, I started making the last cut while preparing to leave home.  I've to stop here to resume later.

He brought with him the opal colour acrylic which he helped me to purchase while he was at Dama. This will be the start (I hope) of my venture into Lithophane.

The Opal colour acrylic.  Each measures 150mm x 150mm x 3mm.

During his visit, Terrence showed me the new Indian made slitting saw holder he bought from Chan Man Lee. The 1/2" shank is too big to fit into the 1/2" hole of the A2Z adapter.

I tried setting up the holder between centre using Proxxon version of the lathe dog. It didn't fit properly. Will have to think of how to use a commonly available type with the Proxxon.

We also wanted to try boring out the adapter but didn't have sufficient time to do a proper setup with a 4-jaw chuck. So he brought it back to try it on his mill with the boring tool.

We are hoping to jointly work on some projects together. May start with Tryally's vise or the touch probe.   Terrence, bring it on!

I came back home after dropping off my dearest and visited the client to finish up with the cutting for Terrence.  The cut was completed but I am not impressed with the time taken to cut through the 4" aluminium stock.  I remembered a setting for feedrate in the manual and started investigating if I'm doing something wrong.  Found that the default setting at L is meant for pipes.  According the the sticker at the back of the bandsaw, I'm supposed to set  the feedrate to H for solid metal greater than 20mm thick.  To set the feedrate, the upper section of the saw has to be swivelled upright.

I've have it set now but do not have time to test if this would speed up the cut.  If its not too late when I reach home after church and party (with some family friends for early Halloween party), I'll do some testing.

Some for some pics.

The completed job.

The feedrate setting.  If you can zoom in on the pic, the yellow label would specify the type of job for each setting.  This can't be adjusted when the saw is in its horizontal mode.

Standing the saw upright.  I put on the table that came with the saw  just for fun.  It is now in vertical mode though I've not put on the 2 bolts that hold the table in place.

This is the first time I'm exploring this and like the idea of having a 2 in 1 machine!

The "leg" of the table secured by the clamp.

A closer look.  The handle at the top is for adjusting the blad guard.  I adjusted it up for the earlier job.

Looks like that's all for now.  Leaving home in another 10 mins time.