Larry Jaques submitted this idea :
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:48:55 +1000, Jon Anderson
wrote:

On 8/15/2014 9:28 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:

Oh, you're waiting for your cargo containerized shop, aren't you?

Yeah, probably a year before I can bring my stuff over, and it'll just
go straight into storage here, but at least I'll be able to get at
things. Then still have to put up a proper shop. Making some good
connections here. A guy at work will help me do up forms for the slab,
and his son will do the finish work on the concrete real reasonable.
Probably get a shop in a kit and have a shop raising part. Get a few
guys from work over, and we could knock it up in a weekend easy.

It's good that you're making friends and gaining conspirators.


But not bringing any machinery. Had nowhere to store machines there.
Shouldn't be too difficult to find a decent 5C capable lathe. But most
of the mills I see here have either Morse or NMTB tapers. Have only seen
one Bridgeport with R8.

Never heard of non-metallic tubercular tapers. groan I'm surprised
that the stuff in Oz isn't, um, Whitworth.

Due to our adapability we can and do put up with every known
measurement and thread form.
Whitworth, BSP, ASP, SAE, Metric, British standard Cycle, BA and
whatever else. :-Z