a metalwork birth defect...look only if your brave

[eskimo]

you've all heard of birth defects etc etc...a lamb with two heads, lizard with two heads


what about a horrible bridgeport

[Stustoys]

I want one!
If that doesn't go for more than $4k(which I assume it will) you're going to see a grown man cry.
Stuart

[Greg Q]

That Tasmanian* Bridgeport maybe more heartache. I read that hydraulic tracer or copy machines typically show the most wear as they were used for production as opposed to tool room or prototype work.

* Married to one, spent $1000's on that vanishing cream for scars.

If anyone ever tells her I said that..

[Stustoys]

spent $1000's on that vanishing cream for scars.

After a comment like that, her's or yours? lol

Good point about the wear though, now I wont feel so bad.

Stuart

[azzrock]

your secret is safe. what does tool snob mean?

[Greg Q]

what does tool snob mean?

Why, that would be me!

[QC Inspector]

Just what I need. A machine that lets me double my scrap rate.

Pete

[RayG]

Perhaps it was built too close to 3 mile island?

Regards
Ray

PS.. I was trying to source Geiger-Mueller tubes for a little project, and since the Fukishima melt down, Geiger counters parts have been drying up.
Every one in Japan wants one...

[Greg Q]

Perhaps it was built too close to 3 mile island?

Regards
Ray

PS.. I was trying to source Geiger-Muller tubes for a little project, and since the Fukishima melt down, Geiger counters parts have been drying up.
Every one in Japan wants one...

Boy, I'll say! I too have been looking for a reasonable Geiger counter off-and-on for a few months now. I think this will drive prices up permanently. Even the ex-Soviet stuff has gone through the roof.

[BobL]

Boy, I'll say! I too have been looking for a reasonable Geiger counter off-and-on for a few months now. I think this will drive prices up permanently. Even the ex-Soviet stuff has gone through the roof.

I use Geiger counters as part of my day job and in light of recent developments have been asked many times to recommend models. I tell everyone to save their money and go buy a case of wine or a couple of cartons of beer.

[Greg Q]

I tend to believe that a couple of slabs of beer is the answer more often than not, but I wanted a geiger unit for a project. Also, I am reading lately that quite a bit of steel products coming from China have a little contamination problem.

I was raised downwind of one of the world's great ecological disaster areas: I have no illusions about the late effect of a few stray gamma rays.

GQ

[neksmerj]

Pray tell, what would one need a geiger counter for in an aircraft hangar?

Is it used to proof test rum?

Kenneffff

[RayG]

Hi Greg, Bob,

This is the one I was looking at getting..

You can get some that will do gamma, and beta, but not alpha, This one does all three. It's a kit, that I think I can modify to do what is needed.

Geiger Counter Kits

It's for a mining application (of sorts)....

Regards
Ray

[Greg Q]

Thanks for that Ray...I haven't seen an affordable unit which detects alpha particles. (I think the KGB is after me with their pesky polonium pellets)

[jatt]

Pray tell, what would one need a geiger counter for in an aircraft hangar?Well apparently there was Uranium (depleted?) in 747 rudder weights. Not sure about other planes. Can see merit there, the stuff is very heavy.