On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:32:55 -0700, Rudy Canoza
wrote:

On 10/20/2017 8:03 AM, Neon John wrote:
On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 11:09:46 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:


I am trying to collect material and ideas in order to make a mini backhoe. I may never make one, but I am proceeding on the grounds that I will.

Why don't you just buy a mini-backhoe?

I am certain the majority of people who follow this group make the wrong
decision on make-or-buy.

If this was a home economics NG, you would be right. But this is
nominally a recreational metalworking NG, and making wrong economic
decisions is our raison d'être. d8-)

Making things when it makes no economic sense to do so, and keeping
ridiculous old junk alive by fixing and making spare parts for it, is
our equivalent of camping in a tent when you have a perfectly good
house to sleep in.

--
Ed Huntress