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Originally Posted by GregWeld
Darren.... Too funny!
Yeah -- I'm kind of a tool snob.... and I hate low end tools to start with...
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Hey, Im with you on decent tools. But sometimes the budget dictates the tool. I started out with crappy tools, then just above crappy then to some decent stuff intermingled with the crap.
For example, drill presses. Started with a hand held drill. Then a hand held in a holder wanna be drill press, then a nice lil ryobi 14" drill press, then a harbor freight 20" hunker that was powerful enough but the electrics were bad and the spindle was not too accurate. Then to my current clausing 20" with power down feed and variable speed.
Same thing with my lathes and mills. Now I have a decent southbed 10" for the long work, a really nice monarch 10" for the precision and a cnc for the contoured stuff. Two cnc mills and a sweet lil clausing horizontal.
And this is all home shop stuff cause well, thats where Im at, home
I would love to have a nice used dake, but I ran outta floor. Someone stole it all and if I catch them its ON!!!! Cant blame my wife for stealing the floor, she doesnt have anything in there. Someone did it though Errrr.... JR