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Ok, you can keep two shovels! But....

If it's a MT4 spindle I've got a 1" horizontal arbor and some MT4 shank shell mills for it. Shell mills run from 1/2" to 1-3/4" methinks. There is

10 of 'em, also 3/8' and 5/8' endmill holders. The tooling is just collecting dust in my shop. I bought a VHF-2 a couple of years ago and before I could get it home the dealer moved and took my deposit. Meanwhile I purchased the tooling on Ebay. One of these machines just sold for $103 on Ebay over on the right coast. Tom PS your one lucky SOB

I had a Swede once. She was blonde, and hot and ..... never mind. Tom wrote >

How about a blonde Swede, with all the accessories? ;-)

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:24:40 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:

Remember my warning, ya little twit? I mean it!

I'd forgotten about them myself.

Hmm, no, twarn't me! I got a belt sander, bandsaur, and drill press. I did get Glenn's new balled handles on the DP, though. Looks spiffy!

I have several. The one Swede I dont have is the lil bitty carbine. I had one, detested it..and swapped it off to a guy for a saddle rifle.

Gunner

"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around."

"Democrat. In the dictionary it's right after demobilize and right before demode` (out of fashion).

-Buddy Jordan 2001

I hope you used anesthetic. Or got Glenn really really drunk first.

Gunner

"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around."

"Democrat. In the dictionary it's right after demobilize and right before demode` (out of fashion).

-Buddy Jordan 2001

Laughed all the way while reading that very good reply. I've often wondered why metal working is so fun when its such a pain in the ass to accomplish. It also seems to draw other painful ever ending uphill climbs.

Got a fork lift now... I still have free travel for a machine from the south left coast area. I must have another,,, something. No planers so maybe a real lathe and get rid of some.

Ever get that tape back up part ?

Sure did. Didnt work. Seems that it doesnt know where the end of the tape is..and pulled the guts out of a couple tapes before I realized what the problem was. But thanks the same.

Gunner

"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around."

"Democrat. In the dictionary it's right after demobilize and right before demode` (out of fashion).

-Buddy Jordan 2001

Okay, so I'm late and catching up, but Gunner wrote on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:19:27 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

I just changed tool boxes at work (Carlin wants a new one for work, so he can take the one at work home, which would mean he'd have an extra one there. And I wanted a replacement for the rollaway I got a year ago. Decent enough, but the weight is buckling the bottom, so it doesn't roll straight. So I bought his.) Came up to Carlin with a length of airline - no couplers, just the air line. I said "You need some air line?" and he took it an tossed it in his box. I asked again "You need that?" and he said "Not now ..."

We are not pack rats, we are "rodents of unusual retention". Besides, pack rats aren't organized. And it is a trip to have someone ask if you've some obscure bit of something, and you say "Let me think a minute" ... and then either have it, or say "but I do have something which will work." Which reminds me, I need to get that propane Generator looked over, see if it is workable. Hey, it was a freebie.

tschus pyotr

Okay, so I'm late and catching up, but Gunner wrote on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:14:03 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

I have a Fowler 12 inch deep throat micrometer. Buddy is the tool maven, and he asked if I wanted one. I said "sure". So he scores one on Ebay - charges me $20. "Such a deal." And I even found a use for it last week. (I still say that part is good, but ... .)

tschus pyotr

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:28:41 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:

Glenn did it for me. He's a man of steel, as the shafts are steel and the balls were made of that aloonimum stuff. He seems no worse for it, either. Go figure. (Thanks again, Glenn.)

Hey, Glenn. Post a picture of your sweet little ball turner in the Dropbox, wot?

(1,000:1 odds this thread gets a life of its own. )

-- Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. --Chinese Proverb ----

- Your Wise & Willing Website Wonk

If the stock is blonde and all the accessories are there, that sounds great.

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Knowing Gunner, he'll probably put it next to the thousands of pounds of steel he has already sitting around.

I don't think that he actually want to DO anything with it. He just want to have it. Owning it, seems to be most of the joy and satisfaction for him.

Not that there is anything wrong with that, if you have the room for it.

Abrasha

================================== Gunner (as usual) is on to something.

Given the current socio-economic situation, we would all be well advised to have part of our capital in some sort of hard physical assets as protection from stock fraud and currency fraud (inflation and/or "revaluation") Iron always retains *SOME* value, even if only as scrap.

I am sure the people that owned Enron, World-Com, K-Mart, airlines, etc. stock now wish they had invested in, and had a Bridgeport or two (or even a Chinese drill press) setting in their garage, as these are still worth something.

Shows (again) some of the hidden expense of the outrageous costs of living in an urban apartment, with no equity appreciation and no storage/workshop space.

Unka George (George McDuffee) ............................. I sincerely believe . . . banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. Thomas Jefferson (1743?1826), U.S. president. Letter, 28 May 1816, to political philosopher and Senator John Taylor

As has been a well established fact..I also have several other motives.

1. Im a survivalist. I try to foresee various Bad Things that could happen and do what I can to prepare for them
2. Im a machine tool collector. No different than a camera or Hummel collector. I just need much bigger shelves.

I love in a part of the US with warm summers, mild winters, surrounded by active oil fields and co-generation plants, as well as water wells, all located in one of the US biggest agricultural areas.

If the balloon goes up..Im off the traffic pattern of the Spikey Haired Cannibal Mutants from the Urban areas such as Los Angeles, I have bartering access to food, fuel, water and power. I can barter by using my machine tools to keep oil field/ag/etc etc machinery running. I do it now for many things.

Plus as I mentioned...its a considerable distance to the nearest town of any size..and not one big on machine shops and so forth. The closest place to buy a chunk of stock, is 39 miles away, and only open till noon on Saturday..and nearly double the prices in LA.

So I tend to keep stock of various sorts on hand. Same with tooling, inserts etc etc etc. Ive collected about 150 lbs of various sorts of mig wire, about 500 lbs of rod...of the most common types for utility welding, I keep 4 C25 tanks on hand at all times, etc etc etc

I have no money..so I maintain or build barterable skills that will serve me well in my area. Hopefuly. This of course to the regular emergency preparedness materials and skills that a good survivalist practices.

Survivalism isnt beans a bunker. If you keep a fire extinguisher on hand..you are practicing survivalism. If you keep more than a couple days worth of food, batteries, a first aid kid etc etc etc..you are practicing survivalism. The more serious you are, the more informed you are..the further the preperations you make. Same with keeping gold, etc etc on hand for a bad economic situation.

Hell...I stocked up prior to the Y2K nonevent..but was damned glad I had after the ex split 5 months later. I ate the stocks and used the goods over the next year and a half, and managed to save my home, my vehicle etc etc. So it was not a national emergency, fire flood earthquake etc..but a personal emergency. And it saved the day.

Shrug.

"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around."

"Democrat. In the dictionary it's right after demobilize and right before demode` (out of fashion).

-Buddy Jordan 2001

I think that saving a considerable (in relation to one's needs) amount of money is an inseparable part of any sensible "survival preparation".

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Yes it is. Cash is king. Plastic is a non starter.

On the other hand..if your neighbor has food and is unwilling to sell you any because he needs to feed his own family..all the greenbacks in the world wont keep you from starving to death.

Gunner

"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."

- Proverbs 22:3