On 30 Nov 2017 01:09:52 -0400, Mike Spencer
wrote:


Larry Jaques writes:

On 29 Nov 2017 03:36:37 -0400, Mike Spencer
wrote:

Larry Jaques writes:

8" leg? That's a huge vise.

Just so. I saw three in the maintainance shop at the old underground
coal mine in Stellarton. The guy who bought the biz bulldozed the
entire shop and sent it for scrap when he couldn't get urban collector
price for for the old gear -- asked $250K IIRC. They used the vices
to hold the ancient pneumatic drills that kept failing. (See the 1910
Brittanica under coal mining for pics of such drills in use.)

Drawing and quartering for that new buyer, methinks.

Yes. He wasn't the only one like that. The next to last manager of a
shipyard & foundry in Liverpool, NS, would smash any gear they were
disposing of before putting it out by the rail spur to go for scrap.
Saw a perfectly good 25# Little Giant/Jardine hammer that had been
intentionally smashed before scrapping. I'm guessing the idea, left
over from pre-WW I notions of sharp business practice, was that it
would prevent anyone, perhaps especially their own employees, from
getting a leg up on competing with them.

(The good news there was that the dickhead retired (or, one can hope,
was unceremoniously ****canned by the owners) before they disposed of
the 300# Beaudry and his replacement, the last manager before the biz
closed, did sell it to another blacksmith in good working order. It's
still in use over in the Annapolis Valley.)

Yes, half-hanged, drawn & quartered.

I got aprox 5000+ lbs of welding rod once from a company maint manager
that had been told to not sell it, but to scrap it. Along with a
Bumble Bee 250 welder (Miller Dialarc 250) and a bunch of other stuff
of similar nature. As I recall...I gave 2000 lbs of that rod away to
members here.

The idea of not selling it..was to prevent it from being used in
competion to the company..who had stopped welding inhouse.
The Maint manager and I were both baffled as **** by those
instructions....WTF??

So I fudged up a scrap company business letterhead using a bogus
name... and took delivery and hauled it all off. And was paid $250 to
remove it from the company property. Its been 12-15 yrs so far..Ive
given away at least another 1500 lbs to friends..and I still have
probably a ton of various rods, including stainless steels, hard
facing rod, cutting rods etc in my home shop inventory.

I gave that welder to someone here on RCM as I recall.

Gunner

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