On 27 Sep 2005 04:50:51 GMT, D Murphy wrote:

szaki wrote in news:H82dnYrEVO7rBaXeRVn-
:

This is not a job shop, we machine crystals for lasers! We just need a
lathe to turn some pins and other parts for fixtures.
No one hold a clock over any one heads.

Hourly workers still have costs. Probably even higher than I estimated.
Wasted time is wasted money. The more money the company makes the better
off you and they are.

Unless they get paid for engineering time, every non production employee's
salary is a burden on the production workers hourly cost. Your time is the
only thing that can be charged for besides raw materials. The cost of your
time includes the cost of non production salaries.

I read some where the BV20 9x20 is a better lathe over all than the JET
and like.
Made in Taiwan has gear head, insteade of belts.
There is a BV 920 sold by Harborfreight, not sure if it's the same as
the BV20 or a newer version.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=45861

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.


Sigh...look around and find yourself a nice older 10-12"Clausing, 11"
Logan or even a Southbend. They will set you back a grand to $1500
with some tooling if you look around, and will be 20x the lathe of the
lil Chicom ones.

They are all manufactured by the Red Dragon Noodle and Machine Tool
Collective. Tuesday- Thursday lathes get sold to Grizzley and
Jet..the Monday lathes to HF, the Friday lathes to Homier...

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner