2013 Knee-deep BS thread!
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Good morning Oregon FTE gang and friends.
Morning Don, Gerry and Allen.
Beautiful sunshine and warm again today.
That really angers me when someone makes a deal and then changes their mind. It kind of smells like someone may have bent the owner's ear and given them a number off the cuff.
When the right deal comes along things will work out.
Morning Don, Gerry and Allen.
Beautiful sunshine and warm again today.
That really angers me when someone makes a deal and then changes their mind. It kind of smells like someone may have bent the owner's ear and given them a number off the cuff.
When the right deal comes along things will work out.
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From: Paradise Found!
Morning Tiny. Well the first deal was a good deal for a clone with no tooling, but how it can change to over TWICE what I've found for REAL Bridgeports is amazing.....
I'll find another......
I'll find another......
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From: La La Land
I suspect the person who jacked the price up has just killed their chances of selling it at all.
There are only a hand-full who have three-phase power, and that kinda' limits their pool of available buyers.
You sure don't want to do business with someone with those ethics. Dog only knows what else they would try to pull along the way.
Best left where it sits.
"All good things come to those who wait".
Pop
There are only a hand-full who have three-phase power, and that kinda' limits their pool of available buyers.
You sure don't want to do business with someone with those ethics. Dog only knows what else they would try to pull along the way.
Best left where it sits.
"All good things come to those who wait".
Pop
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Howdy Tiny Don Pop Jim n all, when I make a deal my word is good Tiny
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From: Paradise Found!
Evening Dave. This week sucks..........I went and picked up the steam cleaner I WAS going to buy for 200 bucks. Pump is locked up, and the coils have splits in them. Pure junk. At least I can take it back and lose no money. Just the time to check it out............Damn.....
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From: Paradise Found!
You know what really hurts? Charlie (dustybumpers) sold his machine shop back in Delaware, and is hauling TONS of tooling and stock to the scrapper! He has a nice Cincinnati mill, and a Southbend mill THAT HE'S GOING TO SEND TO THE SCRAPPER!!
AND a CnC machining center that is going to scrap also........
I could just cry..................
AND a CnC machining center that is going to scrap also........
I could just cry..................
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From: McKenzie River
Cnc machining centers don't stand the test of time like old school machine tools, we have Cincinnati mills from WWII that still go strong.
Our CNCs seem to have about a 20 yr life span before they are not "supported" anymore, and parts are impossible to find.
Old machine tools just keep on going, but the people who KNOW how to use them are getting rare indeed.
Our CNCs seem to have about a 20 yr life span before they are not "supported" anymore, and parts are impossible to find.
Old machine tools just keep on going, but the people who KNOW how to use them are getting rare indeed.
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From: Paradise Found!
I learned from master machinists starting when I was 7 working in my grandfathers shop. It was still run by overhead shafts and a onelung engine outside. That old man could do things that would make a "new" machinist scratch his head in wonder. I miss those days........
If I had a larger lathe, and a mill here I could draw work from a hundred mile radius and put in 40 hour weeks if I wanted too. More importantly, I have an Indian V-4 design I've been working on for twenty plus years that I need a mill to build the engine cases with. Someday.......
If I had a larger lathe, and a mill here I could draw work from a hundred mile radius and put in 40 hour weeks if I wanted too. More importantly, I have an Indian V-4 design I've been working on for twenty plus years that I need a mill to build the engine cases with. Someday.......
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From: McKenzie River
I used to work with a old gent who became a master machinist in the Navy in WWII, he could make things at so close a tolerance, no one ever bothered to "test fit" them before assembly.........If the print said +/- .0005 it was LESS than that, on old well worn machines.
All that skill and knowledge gone forever, he passed away 2 years ago.
All that skill and knowledge gone forever, he passed away 2 years ago.