This seems to be the weekend for wishing you lived somewhere else. I wish I lived in New York. There's an interesting machine on ebay that looks complex enough to scare other buyers away. It's a Swiss sort of horizontal machine that looks like it also has enough capabilities to to some interesting things for a live steam modelmaker like myself:
It's somewhat strange, and you have to spend some time looking and thinking about it. I'm guessing it's missing a large angleplate but I dunno. There's also a nice shaper around the Albany area. My theory in mentioning these machines is that if I bid on them and get them, it was meant to happen. However, someone else will probably now bid. This would save me from having to explain to my wife why we need another piece of metalworking equipment of the eve of going to cabin fever where we might find we needed still more. It seems appropriate to quote the very rev. teenut's reply to someone who wrote in they had a bunch of money to spend:
"Do you not realise sir, that scores of readers of this list are recovering LATHAHOLICS!!!!
Many of them have wasted their lives, fortunes, families, careers...EVERYTHING...EVERYTHING I tell you, in dreams, lustings schemings, plots, and plannings of what would be their IDEAL LATHE if only they could lay their hands on $20,000...Nay Sir One HALF of that Princely Ransom!!!
Our TWELVE STEP PROGRAM here, has helped so many of them to return from the brink of the ABYSS!!! So many have been able to supress their PRIMAL URGES, their SECRETIVE and FURTIVE attempts to SELL their own CHILDREN on EBAY no less to raise such an impossible sum to slake their BLACK LUSTINGS
We have been able to help them find HAPPINESS with far far LESS...Can you believe Sir, in many many cases less than ONE THOUSAND of those DEVIL'S DOLLARS...to buy whatever heap of RUST and MISFORTUNE happened their way...To NURTURE said MISBEGOTTEN heap of JUNK...To learn to CHERISH and UNDERSTAND...aye Sir..Even to LOVE it's many FAILINGS and SHORT-COMINGS.
They have come HERE to this PLACE of FELLOWSHIP and UNDERSTANDING..First to CONFESS their FILTHY SECRETS..and to eventually COME to TERMS with them....Many have recovered enough to even begin to REBUILD their SHATTERED LIVES.
And now Sir, YOU Sir, with one THOUGHTLESS MISSIVE have DESTROYED all that!! Do you realise how many poor WRETCHES you have condemned to the SLOUGH of DESPOND, the PIT of WRETCHEDNESS that only another LATHAHOLIC can COMPREHEND!
BEGON Sir, take your DEVIL'S WORK with you and Let us FEW who are able to SHUN your BEGUILING, SIREN SONG, begin our GENTLE MINISTERINGS over..YET AGAIN...To SALVAGE what we can from the WRECKAGE you have so CARELESSLY WROUGHT!!!!!
GET THEE BEHIND US SIR!! "
That was from January 21, 2000.
Still ROTFLMAO, still sad as hell. Charles Morrill