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New machine in development(can I borrow a few hundred grand?)

Here's my version of a super-model driving a Ferrari on her way to pick me up for a night on the town.

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5 axis, high speed staple-set brush machine that a company in the good 'ole USA is getting ready to introduce into the market. 5 axis!!! I could probably put tufts in an Escher construct!!! This will specialize in very intricate short-run to 24-7 production. It will NOT be available to ANYBODY outside the USA! This company has supplied me for generations with equipment (that I severely bastardized) and they are my very good friends.

The best complement I EVER had was at a convention and there were a bunch of people around this company's booth. The owner was explaining the virtues of a new machine design to prospective buyers. As I approached the booth, he said: "I'll just send one of these to Tom for six months and then we'll know what it can REALLY do." I blushed...

There is a possible collaborations with one or two of my machine designs that they would produce and market. When I retire, I have threatened to set up a cot in their lab.

Reply to
Tom Gardner
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Cool.

Is it true that there is only one real manufacturer of this kind of machine in the whole USofA?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Reply to
Spehro Pefhany

Looking at that machine is like eating an ice cream sundae.

Reply to
Jim Stewart

Now if only that were a custom 5-axis ice cream sundae machine.

Imagine the number of people who'd be buying a second helping, just to watch the machine work.

Actually, has anyone seen the ice cream machine in the basement of MIT's Infinite Corridor?

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When I was in the States I saw this machine in person. And I bought a second helping!

Chris

Reply to
Christopher Tidy

True! One in Italy, two in Germany and one in Belgium. The European machines are not robust and are persnickety and expensive to run. The American company once dropped a machine 3 feet off a truck in South America, they plugged it in and it ran...the guys WERE sweating bullets. Good shit Maynard!!!

The Italian machines look like they were designed by German engineers on LSD.

Reply to
Tom Gardner

ALL Italian machines look like that.

gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

Reply to
Gunner Asch

Not ALL machines. Look at the Focke-Wulf 149. Designed in Italy by Piaggio, licenced by Focke-Wulf and built by them as the principal primary trainer for the German Air Force. Kinda the opposite. I want one.

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Reply to
Bob Chilcoat

I have to do maintenance at a high-end store (which shall remain nameless - they have Lawyers) designed and built by Italians - they built the fixtures in Italy, and sent the tradesmen over to do the install work. I'm forced to re-engineer everything as I go - It looks simply lovely, but they didn't plan for any maintenance access at ALL to the stupid lamps.

I have to cut holes in walls and place access doors, install new access catwalks and ladders inside the walls, pry open service doors that were installed but screwed shut from the inside, split circuits where supposedly 'removable' fluorescent light panels were strung together with hardwired BX or SO Cord and made non-removable...

One side panel with 6) F21T5 strip fixtures needs 3" clearance to swing over and slide out, and it's 1" away from a 16" structural I-beam - I have no idea how I'm going to get it out short of major destruction. I can shave the fireproofing compound off the beam and probably get the clearance I need, but that creates other problems...

Love Em, but these are the people who think $8,000 to totally tear apart the car just to change the clutch is perfectly normal.

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Reply to
Bruce L. Bergman

Roland does something different I suppose -

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had it in one of their insider letters.

Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

Spehro Pefhany wrote:

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Martin H. Eastburn

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