[modeleng] Re: Scraping

  • From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:59:37 -0800 (PST)

Keep an old pair of shoes at the door of the Shop and
swap upon entering and again on leaving---no swarf
tracked into the house and SWMBO stays HAPPY!

Al Messer

--- shep <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Jesse
> 
> I had not thought of using them in a vertical mode -
> will investigate 
> further, as hacksawing is getting a bit beyond me!
> 
> I am delighted that your lovely wife has proved to
> be such a good 
> investment, but doubt if she will be flattered to be
> first in the row, with 
> the el cheapo bandsaw coming in second!
> 
> I, too, made an excellent investment, and we were
> fortunate in celebrating 
> our Golden Wedding last year.    My dear wife is
> remarkably tolerant in 
> putting up with my hobby, even to the extent that
> she did not complain when 
> I invaded our little conservatory, and filled it
> with stuff from the 
> workshop.   This was to accommodate the purchase of
> a new lathe.   I then 
> acquired a huge shoe-horn, and have succeeded in
> emptying the conservatory, 
> and rearanging the workshop space in such a way that
> both the old and 'new' 
> lathe are now happily accommodated.    She does not
> complain even when I 
> walk swarf through the house - a jewel indeed!
> 
> Cheers! Hubert
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:32 AM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Scraping
> 
> 
> > Those el cheapo China/Tiawan 4" x 7" saws sold by
> most everyone for less
> > than 200 dollars US are an excellent investment
> and they work vertically 
> > as
> > well as horizontal.  About the best investment for
> the money I have ever
> > made except for my lovely wife of over 50 years. 
> All she cost in 1955 was 
> > a
> > couple of diamond rings and 10 dollars to the
> preacher.  That was the best
> > move I ever made!!
> >
> > Jesse in Tennessee USA
> >
> 
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