On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 08:28:04 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 07:21:19 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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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

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

A co-worker got himself promoted by showing off his progress on a very
nice fly casting reel he was making at home.

They can be more difficult than they look. I started one around 20
years ago and still have the parts. It was for salt water fly fishing
and I wanted a drag and a crank multiplier. I made it too complex.
Maybe I'll try again.

--
Ed Huntress