Awl--

A'ight...
I think I'm oh-ficial now--still a hack machinist, but an *oh-ficial* hack
machinist--cuz, well, now I got a Bridgeport! Yes indeedy... and a
Kalamazoo saw, and a Hariq surface grinder. wow....

The BP nearly fell off the lift-gate truck delivering it! The lift gate
actually just *dropped to the ground*, essentially cushioning the fall of
said BP! goodgawd...

Sed BP is a 1.5 hp varispeed J head (more ways to tilt that head than you
can shake a stick at), powerfeed in Y, pump lube, chromed ways, about a
dozen r8 collets, horizontal drive head.
Ahm no 'spert in BPs, proly won't use it much, but boyoboy, it sure is
perty!

The Kalamazoo is *kick-ass*, a 9x16 hydraulic automatic-feed cut-off saw, 1"
blade, w/ re-circulating coolant & pump; wow.... Old, really been worked,
but set up properly, you can cut material to within about .010, repeatedly.
Also has a "cut counter" as well, variable speed, blade brush, spray coolant
before and after cut. Plus about 4 blades, no cheap item for this saw
(130.5", .030).
Really a production saw--also don't know when ahma use this, either... but,
it sure is perty!

The Hariq is a 612 (6x12?) surface grinder, w/ magnetic chuck . Very nicely
made, it seems, very high quality castings. Gotta rewire it from 208 to
230, some other stuff, but basically in great shape. Not only is it sure
perty, I might actually use it perty soon!

All for $2500. Plus goddamm rigging.... about another $500.
Oh yeah, and I had to set up the guy's replacement Kalamazoo, a real
beaut--same design as the above, just newer everything--and *clean*! Real
workhorses, these saws.

So how'd I do? Not bad, I think, esp. as I know the guy very well, know
that Kalamazoo very well, and have seen other comparable stuff at effing
outrageous prices.

Will undoubtedly have a million Q's on this stuff, but for now I just gotta
clean it up--what a mess!
Well, ackshooly, d'Wife will be cleaning it up.

I think she's actually getting the machining bug--mebbe I'll get some free
labor out of her...
I hope so, so's mebbe she'll stop watching goddamm HGTV ( How Gauche TV?),
and mebbe stop bugging the **** out of me for all those bull**** Fantasy
Renovations.
Anyone have a clue as to just how much Chico's oh-so chic fukn pot lighting
costs??????? goodgawd...
..
Ackshooly, she's so grateful that, at over 40, I 1. still don't drink 2.
I have not yet decided to start the next great R&R band (like her friends'
sorry-assed untalented hubbies), and 3. that my ass is not (yet) sagging
(visavis David Caruso's ass, on NYPD Blue--goodgawd...), that she
*cheerfully* tolerates my shop habit.
Don't make me whip out my Blues harmonica.....
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Mr. P.V.'d
formerly Droll Troll