Quote Originally Posted by Toolmaker51 View Post
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.