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

Cool.

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

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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

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?

Chris

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 s*it Maynard!!!

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

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 s*it out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

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.

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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Roland does something different I suppose -

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