[modeleng] Re: Shapers

If you are ambidextrous, Tony, and have a project at hand requiring a lot of 
shaper work, you'll no doubt be ready for the rowing team when the project 
is done.  Phase converters are not all that expensive to build....  Charles

> They look both good Alan! I suspect that the powered one is three phase
> though - I can guarantee it if I go after it, due to me not having a
> converter! The hand powered one might therefore be a beter proposition for
> such as me. The only problem then would be factoring in the cost of the 
> 500+
> mile round journey to collect it! Whilst this sort of distance is only an
> afternoon's jaunt for such as Tel, it is all extra cost. What we could do
> with is some sort of staging post scheme, whereby stuff such as this can 
> be
> transported all over the country from list member to list member .... 
> <VBG>.
>
> Incidentally, for we poor folks with bad backs, how hard is it to operate
> one of these manual shapers? I once saw a Fred Dibner programme on TV, 
> where
> he was drilling out a new boiler plate for one of his steam engines - with 
> a
> hand powered ratchet pillar drill. He called it "blooming hard work", or 
> at
> least words to that effect!
>
> Tony Wells.
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