But wait, more of.....never mind, you know the drill; box truck, saga, yaddy-yah

[Toolmaker51]

Yes and at the hands of an unskilled operator they can be associated with another category.
We had sold a new 32" Asian clone of a Smith& miller. An extremely robust beautifully crafted machine had a shipping weight of close to 4 tons, that's metric tons by the way.
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We sold them a round column table mill to replace it

I bet they were thrilled, and never saw the irony.

[Frank S]

I bet they were thrilled, and never saw the irony.

No and the best thing was I was able to send one of my machinist to Basra in my stead to deliver the little 200 kg table mill, think of an Enco 5-inch round column mill similar to the one in my machine shop trailer. It was capable of doing everything they needed at the time, 4 times faster than the shaper, once my guy made the fixtures to hold their parts, for them. I mean what's up with that, you want to produce a product and you can't even figure out how to make your own fixtures.

[Toolmaker51]

No and the best thing was I was able to send one of my machinist to Basra in my stead to deliver the little 200 kg table mill, think of an Enco 5-inch round column mill similar to the one in my machine shop trailer. It was capable of doing everything they needed at the time, 4 times faster than the shaper, once my guy made the fixtures to hold their parts, for them. I mean what's up with that, you want to produce a product and you can't even figure out how to make your own fixtures.

Hey; we watch 'How It's Made'. Every episode!

Funny, Mark (mwmkravchenko) and I just had a similar revelation.