old techniques still in use?

Lew Hartswick wrote in news:4OGdndrpVO7eoofVnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:

Ok....I guess I'm not as funny as I think. I live in Pennsylvania a hop skip and a jump from where the movie was filmed and know how to pronounce it I just thought the movie way was funny. I'd never use it with someone not familiar with the correct pronounciation.

Bill

"Jeff R." wrote in news:481b01d6$0$30462$afc38c87 @news.optusnet.com.au:

My favorite is,

"What does an Amish bride get on her wedding day thats long and hard....... A new last name"

Yea, I know I need help.......

Bill

Are you sure those aren't Meonnites? ...lew...

=========== Be sure and send this to both Paulson at Treasury and Bernanke at the Fed, too late for Greenspan.

Unka' George [George McDuffee]

------------------------------------------- He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).

Okie Dokie I doubt, however, that i could phrase my message nonsensically enough to get their attention. LOL I'm not real good at the "Up is Down" thing and these guys appear to be experts.

The "black bumper" Mennos in Ontario were the Waterloo-Markham group, mostly , and today they don't even paint any chrome that happens to be on the car.

A lot of the old-order Amish (Nafzinger?) don't use zippers on their clothing (hooks and eyes or buttons only) and use NO RUBBER - not even boots or soles or heels on shoes. Iron tires on the buggy. If it didn't exist in about 1540, it is not allowed.

Then there's us "modern mennos"

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As I stated earlier, the "Black Bumpers" are a conservative Mennonite group (here in Ontario, generally Waterloo/Markham Mennonites) The old "Western Ontario Mennonite Conference" used to sometimes be referred to as the "amish" conference of Mennonites because many shared common ancenstry and family names (had come from the Amish to the less conservative Mennonites)

The Schwartzentruber Amish are the most conservative (Ohio and Indiana) The Weavers are less conservative, and there are also the "new order".None own or drive cars to the best of my knowlege.

Here in Ontario the "Dave Martin" Mennonites, or the "Reborn" are the closest Mennonites to the Amish in many ways (the "shun" etc) but they use computers and electricity in their businesses - some very high-tech manufacturing in the Yatton/Wallenstein area and it is not uncommon to see them talking on the cell phone on the way to town in the buggy. Most do not use electricity in the home, and they don't own or drive cars -------.

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Yep, accountant "types" don't understand stuff like that. So they piss off money for the lack of an engine lathe & a drill press & an old bridgeport mill. I have all of these just in case my CNC's take a shit.

I don't think I know how to "program" my 3 drill presses

And how about programming that power downfeed?

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I like that I work with equiptment that is "cutting edge" (A matsuura

5 axis cell) & yet no more than 20ft away there is an old engine lathe that gets used daily to fix some piece of farm equiptment that is covered with cow shit. Now we might not do things like babbit bearings....but those of us who have been there (at our shop) for a few years have at least seen one...and give us a bit of time for the learning curve....we could do the damn thing. & BTW...the old school engine lathe (with a good guy running it) can make the shop $100/hr. Not bad for a machine that has been paid for at least 20 years...

I guess I need to go to school to learn that @ 63 yrs old . My shop started in 1972...

I have been using "digital positioning" on my drill press for years.

I use my fingers to turn the handles on my four-way drill press vise.

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So that would make its resolution 4 bit then or 5 if you count the thumb..... :)

Bill