Are You Personally Prepared For a Natural Disaster?

Spelling is over-rated. Can you spell pompous? The owner of the errors is in contention.

 

The plywood is much dearer. You don't need to believe me here. That is straight from the US government census. It's just fact.

I can tell Australia is in decent shape from the outside. Why? Everyone and his brother seems to be building catamarans there, despite the insane cost for marine hardware. Most of the people I know building 15 meter cats are from Australia. One is from the states.

 

Hardware costs here are insane, true. I got quoted a bit over $8K AUD for an Edson steering gear setup for my boat. I estimated that the local agent added a modest 100% markup on US retail to get to that price, said US retail being ridiculous to start with.

So, like a lot of things, I just made it myself. After which I considered my lovely American WW2 Monarch lathe paid for. It was effortless to cut the 2" dia 2 TPI LH square threads I needed.

One of the ways to prepare for a disaster is to have lots of tools & know how to use them. I may well lose all the tools, but the muscle memory and learnt history of mistakes using them stays with me. I hope never to find out if this also applies to boat building. While I'm quite certain that I could build another steel hull of the same generic type much more quickly, I've no real ambition to try.

Mind you that was what I said after I built my second house, and I'm living in the third one.

PDW

 

10EE?
Round dial?

I am considering a 1942 example just now for the shop..

 

"Never trust a man who only knows how to spell a word one way."
-- Various

 

If you spell a word another way it also magically changes its meaning.

Do you understand what I am sawing.

 

No, it's a CY 16 x 54 geared head. Much bigger beast, some 2.6 tonnes weight.

If you've found a 10EE in good order and the price is not extortionate, buy it. With maybe 2 arguable exceptions as equivalent quality, there has never been a better toolroom lathe made.

I've got a Colchester Chipmaster as my small toolroom lathe and the 10EE is a much better machine. Friend of mine in NM has one and I practically drooled over it when I was there.

PDW

 

There's a difference between creatively spelling a word and spelling a different word.

 

and then there's Webster, who should have been shot, drawn, hung and quartered. IMHO

 

Thanks will do.
I have a Hardinge TL I picked up as a basket case & am not finding the time to get it sorted.

 

I dew, oar at leased eye wood.

 

Ah, you're just mad because he got that man acquitted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_and_Daniel_Webster

 

Yes its called a spelling mistake

 

I like my steak cooked medium well. Wrong thread.

 

Must not be too big of an issue, since I can always understand what you mean when I read your posts.