"Jon Elson" wrote in message
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Mike Henry wrote:

"Wes" wrote in message
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I have no connection to this company.

http://www.machinerepair.com/scrapers.html

If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see a raw casting for
a
25" x 3" wide raw casting that you can scrape in to use as a reference
surface. At $210.00 plus S&H it seems like a logical first step for
those
that want to improve your old iron.

I figure if you can't get this thing scraped in, it is better to leave
your
machine alone and deal with it's inaccuracy's.


I believe that is Michael Morgan's web site. Run a Google Groups search
on that name and you should find that several buyers have had problems
getting product from him. He still owes me the Bridgeport rebuilding
book or at least a refund.

Contact him again. He was in DEEP doo-doo for a while, with several
family members dying and a business that employed half a dozen people
having to be foreclosed. I paid for the raw straight edge casting and the
Bridgeport book. It took a LONG time to get the casting, which I was very
happy with, and then he disappeared for a while. When he showed up again,
I contacted him about the book, which wasn't written yet, and he agreed to
send me the scraping book instead. There wasn't a lot in there that I
hadn't already figured out, but he did eventually make good on the deal.
He's a nice guy, and he's trying to make everything right. (Still, as a
small businessman myself, I would never let things get this bad before I
stopped accepting orders. But, having the kind of troubles he has been
through, it can mess up your psyche, you think you will have everything
cleaned up and be back on track in a week or two, then the next shoe
drops.)

Hi Jon,

I tried contacting him for quite a while before just giving up. It was only
$25 or so which is a drop in a bucket so far as such things go and the
time/effort spent on trying to get current status was starting to be more of
annoyance than not getting the book. ISTR that he had handed over sales to
someone else so maybe things are better organized now. The scraping book
and video seemed like a nice companion to Connelly's book.

Mike