On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 08:17:44 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 07:21:19 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

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Or spending a great deal of money to catch a few fish.

That's why I use my SB lathe to build my own fishing rods.

A $1,000 investment and ten or twenty hours of work will save you
$200. Such a deal!

--
Ed Huntress

After using small home made tools to solve the immediate problem I
cleaned them up to look nice and took them to job interviews. I think
they got me into Segway.

-jsw


See, you're one of those guys (like some others here) who have one
foot in metalworking as part of your vocation, and the other foot in
metalworking as an avocation. That's a good deal -- "Have more fun at
work."

I got a bit of that when I was editing metalworking magazines. I'd
study something for an article, and sometimes I'd get to try it at
home, for fun.

For example, when I was trying to get a handle on filler metals for
welding 4130 and got to beat the crap out of this piece of tube:

http://magazine.fsmdirect.com/2016/sept/d/#page10

--
Ed Huntress