Quote Originally Posted by Mikebr5 View Post
The table doesn't make me uneasy at all. I like the look of it. A bit of extra work cleaning it wouldn't bother me either. I far prefer the heavy construction from raw materials to the scrounging parts from quality metalworking machines. It breaks my heart to see a solid old machine scrapped.
I have a 4'x4'x6" granite surface plate with micro-adjustments. It is my coffee table, and if my kids want to use it as a surface plate after I pass, it'll all be there.
Your granite coffee table is in a witness protection program? He whack some people's shins, or what?

Mikebr5's perspective is more tolerant, and therefore more correct. Raw material is a far better source than cannibalizing mere bits for style and sacrificing the remainder.
Not much different than killing a shark for just fins, or buffaloes for hide alone. All those, I guarantee, only become progressively harder to replace.

Unease for Jon (assuming so) and I is directed toward instances that style/ form is a highlight, when function and fit are displaced as secondary, or even ignored. Balancing them is no simple task. Most any type of product shows it. Various competitors must tweak features to sell theirs; and little details separate leaders from the pack.

And to Jon by the way, can the Post Quick Reply button function be checked please?.
What I mean is, Post & Reply work fine, Quick isn't...