Thats a little north of where I am going there Bob!!! HE! HE! HE!
I'll be down there on I 10.
Kurt
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Thats a little north of where I am going there Bob!!! HE! HE! HE!
I'll be down there on I 10.
Kurt
Kurt, I think I told you this story, but when I worked at the marina there was this huge lathe in the machine room and it only got used occasionally. They were revamping the place and they offered it to me for free. I looked and looked at it, but the thing was so big our forklift did a reverse wheelie when they picked it up to move it! :eek: I had to pass because it would have taken up so much room in the shop, plus none of us know how to use one.
I found out it had come off of a WWII battleship and I guess was a really good piece of equipment, but it was just not for us. The other thing was I worried about one of us getting seriously hurt by it.........we are dangerous enough with a 4 inch grinder. :o:LOL:
Don
HE! HE! HE! I hear ya Don I was just yanking your chain one more time!!!
I can hurt myself with a tooth brush, Had my arm crush in a ringer when I was 3.
Spent the next year under going operations and skin grafts for the damage it did.
I have heard some bad stories about people getting their cloths cot in a lathe and
rip off arms and stuff. I knew a guy that had long hair in a brade and it fell in to a lathe while he was working on something and lost his whole scalp to it. But atleast I don't have to worry about my hair falling in to anything, my indian wife already scalped me a few times. I am gonna beef up the top of my trailer with steel plate and hual it out, if no one wants it from the club around here. I was told it weighs about 3,500 and was trying
to figure out what I would tow with the U haul the Vette or the machine. I guess it will be the machine, it ain't as aero dynamic as the Vette is, plus the Vette weighs about 3,500 too so it's about even on the weight. I thought that the Vette's were lighter then that. Kurt
That's the same reason I had to decline Kurt's very generous offer. I'm trying to work on my car in 2-car garage that's already packed full, I don't have room for a 12' lathe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Itoldyouso
Mike
I've got a freinds son who is a machinist comming to look at it tomorrow.
He's got a big shop and has room for it, he's just got to look to see if it's something he wants or not. His dad has been a good freind to me for the last 3 or 4 years since we met. Probably the best electrical car guy I have ever met and is great with installing fuel injection systems on older cars and trucks. He's the one that put the fuel injection in my 1970 short bed pick up. He's got two more in his yard right now that he is building. He has the one down to the frame and has already installed the 89 fuel injection motor from a 89 Lincoln and just like mine he did you touch the key and it start right up.
77 years old and he's still going strong and lives to install fuel injection systems in older cars.