Subject: opinions on videos and books

From: tom bean <"[email-masked]"@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 18:20:11 -0500

does anyone have any opinions or experience with which videos and books 
would be of the most value to a novice?

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From: [email-masked](Dave Ficken)
Date: 22 Sep 1996 00:55:32 GMT

I just picked up a cute benchtop planer Mill made by the Wade tool
Co., Waltham , Mass. Is anyone familliar with these machines? I'd love
to find some paper work. Also, I don't recognize the collet. It looks
like a scaled down 2B collet. I searched my collection of unidentified
collets and couldn't find anything like it.
Regards,
Dave Ficken
Meridian Machinery
PS: It's a keeper, please don't ask me to sell it!

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From: [email-masked] (Russ Kepler)
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 22:31:58 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Dave Ficken <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Co., Waltham , Mass. Is anyone familliar with these machines? 

You're my kind of guy, Dave.  Only a true lover of machinery would
call any greasy hunk of cast iron "cute".

-- 
Russ Kepler							[email-masked]

                    Please Don't Feed the Engineers

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Wiley)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 06:43:21 GMT

>call any greasy hunk of cast iron "cute".

:-) 

Told one of my friends I'd bought a medium sized shaper. He walked in the
workshop and saw a 20" stroke machine weighing God knows how much. *HE*
thought I'd got one of those little 6-7" stroke jobs that you can fit on
this one's table. "Yeah, but you shoulda seen the one I had to pass up"
was my reply.

I regret passing up a 4 foot metal planer some years ago. Haven't the
faintest idea what I would have done with it, but... 

Peter Wiley