Lathe rusting outside in Seattle
Clark Magnuson
parks and recreation maintenance shop. Out in the yard is a Monarch
lathe, aprox 14x40. It has a spindle through hole big enough for any gun
barrel. From the rust, it looks like it has been there at least a
couple months. It looks like 1930's vintage equipment.
Just inside the building, is the old lathe's new replacement, a 13x40
Jet.
If it were a business, one could make an offer, but knowing the
buauachracy of Seattle, it may not be buyable.
Clark
BEAR
offer to take it away for free... likely you'll get an ok...
sounds like they junked it.
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PLAlbrecht
offer to take it away for free... likely you'll get an ok...
But... but... it has RUST on it!!! One member of this group (did he really
leave? Was it something I said?) decreed that any such machine is unclean and
must be cast into the deepest, hottest pit of hell to be purified and
reincarnated. It certainly should not be touched by any of the Chosen who seek
to achieve .0001" accuracy...
Pete
Mike Graham
>But... but... it has RUST on it!!! One member of this group (did he really
>leave? Was it something I said?) decreed that any such machine is unclean and
>must be cast into the deepest, hottest pit of hell to be purified and
>reincarnated. It certainly should not be touched by any of the Chosen who seek
>to achieve .0001" accuracy...
Well, if it's got a few month's worth of Seattle rust on it, then it *is*
doomed as far as tenths are concerned, though it could be re-ground and
whatnot... probably (though not certainly) more cost than it's worth.
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jim rozen
PLAlbrecht wrote:
> But... but... it has RUST on it!!!
Boy I hope I never upset you, Pete. You *never*
forget, and you *never* miss a trick!
Now just what _would_ one use for such a purification
ritual?
Marvel Mystery Oil?
Kroil?
LPS-3?
Or maybe peanut butter from that other thread.
OT but I swiped my daughter to go and help me deliver
a lathe that I was donating to the Rhinebeck Aerodrome
last weekend.
Lathe: http://www.geocities.com/noramm10566/47desc.html
(turn off Java)
Aerodrome: http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/
Anyway there was a small fuss because it meant she would miss
going to church with her mom. But I prevailed.
We dropped the machine off and stayed for the air show, daughter
got a real kick out of it. Walking along the line of aircraft they
were running gave a real good whiff of old engines and castor
oil blowing around. I said, "see, this is *my* church, and those
smells are *my* kind of holy water!" She got a kick out of that.
We went for a biplane ride, too.
Jim
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> OT but I swiped my daughter to go and help me deliver
> a lathe that I was donating to the Rhinebeck Aerodrome
> last weekend.
>
> got a real kick out of it. Walking along the line of aircraft they
> were running gave a real good whiff of old engines and castor
> oil blowing around. I said, "see, this is *my* church, and those
> smells are *my* kind of holy water!" She got a kick out of that.
> We went for a biplane ride, too.
Rhinebeck Aerodrome, where I had the most fun I've ever had out of bed.
Amen! That place _is_ a church!
Thanks for helping keep it going a bit longer.
PLAlbrecht
forget, and you *never* miss a trick!
Just don't forget to send your weekly payment.
Pete