From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 8/26/2025 10:12 AM, David Billington wrote:   
   > On 26/08/2025 17:36, Richard Smith wrote:   
   >> "Jim Wilkins"  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> "Richard Smith"  wrote in message news:m11poywd34.fsf@void.com...   
   >> I thought about that - is it time to have my own machine-tools...   
      
   YES!   
      
   > Was that meant as a rhetorical question? I think those of use still here   
   > are already on the side that has them and are screaming yes at the screen.   
      
   Probably.  LOL.   
      
   I have made tools for jobs faster than going to the store to buy one,   
   and I have made parts on an evening or a weekend when I couldn't buy   
   them and still finish the job today.   
      
      
      
   >>   
   >> Build a lean-to for solid fuel - empty the outbuilding as much as   
   >> possible.   
   >> Board out the rafters and put lighter rarely used things up there.   
   >> Buy a compressor and park it 4/5ths the way up the wall not taking up   
   >> floor-space.   
   >> Lathe, maybe a mill, in.   
   >>   
   >> I got a lathe as a kid.  But my dreams were bigger than all of my   
   >> {abilities; mentoring; pockets; etc; etc.}   
   >> I can see it now and forgive myself a lot.   
   >> Now I have a range of abilities, something in my pocket, and small   
   >> dreams.   
   >   
   >   
      
      
   --   
   Bob La Londe   
   CNC Molds N Stuff   
      
   --   
   This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software.   
   www.avg.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)