It is interesting to observe how actual discussion of real machine tools,
actual metal working consistently brings out the better side in the group,
almost as reliably as politics brings out the worst.

Let me add my congrats, Greg. Getting ones first real lathe is a happy
thing, to be savoured. I have (somewhere) a 1954 Sears tool catalog that
shows that lathe, along with a small miller, some other pieces. That was a
dream machine for me, in my early teens (in the 70s BTW, not 50s, the
catalog was my dad's) .

Adam Smith,
Midland, ON

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And, and --- just when youall though Gunner had no sensitive side!