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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => Off Topic => Topic started by: crazydoug on December 17, 2020, 06:00:30 pm
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good stuff - I know it is very hard to get cut-offs from local machine shops.
So you are lucky man with that catch
Congrats, Arnold ;D
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Thatis a nice score .
I can see an engine or two in there . It is up to you to release them from their current form .
Cheers
Dennis
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That sure was a nice gift 8)
Congrats Doug!
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I'll just echo all the above comments ...... and add what a deservedly lucky bugger you are, into the bargain!!!
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Great haul, Doug...!!!
Charlie is right "Good things happen to good people"
Gil
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Should be a project or 2 in There some where .
A bit of a lucky score .
Cheers
Dennis
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Good things happen to good people Doug.
This should keep you busy for a while.
Looking forward to seeing how you utilize this treasure trove.
Best wishes,
Charlie
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Wow....major haul there Doug!
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Awesome Score!! 8)
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That's an awesome Christmas gift!
Stainless isn't that bad but you have to be really careful with work hardening. You can't screw around, you need to take a decent cut.
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Nice score Doug , the stainless might require some expensive tooling to work it. Re:the solid copper rod , the one place I have seen this used was in a few machine shops where the owners wanted on actual earth ground & drilled a hole in the concrete...inserted copper rod & grounded their machinery.
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Good one! I got something similar from a model-builder's estate a few months back....
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A few months back, I met the owner of a large CNC machine shop. He was interested in getting into the model engine building hobby in his home machine shop. And during the ensuing discussion, I mentioned how difficult it is to find materials to build scratch-built engines. I told him that our local machine shops, although they have cut-offs in their scrap pile, that they end out selling them for scrap price, I have never found one willing to sell these pieces to me. I guess they just don't want to be bothered.
Suddenly last week, the friend who had introduced me to this gentleman, and who does business with him, called and said he had something for me. When I went over to his place of business to see what it was, he unloaded this pallet of material. It turns out that the owner of the CNC shop told them they were cleaning out a section of the shop, and he put all of this material on a pallet to give to me!
There was well over 1000 pounds of different materials, including brass, copper, aluminum, steel, and a large quantity of 303 stainless. I really never worked with stainless, but I guess it's time to learn! Anyhow, it took me an evening to clean off some shelf space and put it all away. But, this should give me material for many, many projects in the future. One of the odder materials on the pallet was some solid copper rod, probably 1.5" diameter. I wonder what they used that for, and wonder even more what I'll use it for, but I'm sure that it will come in handy, sooner or later.
It was a very pleasant surprise, and the price was certainly right!
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