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Oh man that's funny! Wait a minute...does this have anything to do with you guys talking about a "jelly dong beat down"?

"High-Pressure bolt" makes more sense...smaller firing pin hole for escaped gases from a ruptured primer to travel through.

Welcome from AZ!

Sounds like a story from the book "Tales From Squatch's Bench". <laughs> "After placing about a ton of lead on the bench, I was finally able to get enough lift on the arm to get the ram to lower."

I've had two Smithys. Don't remember the first model...not very impressed with it. The second one was a Granite 1324. It worked okay for milling...just make sure whatever axes you are NOT cutting in are locked down firmly. Speaking of which, locking down the column had to be done in stages. With milling, light cuts was the key to accurate work. As a lathe the Granite did very well...with the exception of threading. Any facing, drilling, boring, or turning it did well. With threading it would do great until you were on the third or fourth pass. At this time the half-nut would only partially engage or, if engaged properly, the leadscrew clutch would let go and hose your threads. Supposedly they have that all worked out now. With much use, the holes in the speed selector plate start to wallow. Also, when cutting hard metals, the motor would get VERY hot...it really needs to be a 220V (which is an option). The 110V doesn't like the slow speed/high torque needed for hard metal. I'm in the market again but won't get a 3-in-1. Grizzly ( http://www.grizzly.com ) has good dedicated lathes and I just found out about Precision Matthews ( http://www.machinetoolonline.com/index.html ). Both have reputations for exceptional customer service in the hobby/small production machinist world. Grizzly has 3 HUGE warehouses to ship from. Precision Matthews is a small operation and you may have to wait. Though it may have changed, the customer service at Smithy was not as good as it could have been. Honestly I didn't intend to get the Granite but the widow selling it had it listed for a long time. Only like two people made lowball offers. I told her I wasn't intersted but would appraise it for her. When I got there she said "You're the only helpful person. Give me $10 and it's yours. And that bench. Better take that bandsaw too. My husband needed the engine lift to move it, so take that as well." Someone stole the engine lift. Sold the machine after I put several hundred hours on it.

Your Packard is looking nice already! Keep us posted...

Radness! That depends...what could they do on an old Triumph and XR1000?

Kinda makes the self-proclaimed "AR-armorers" look a bit lacking.

Another AZ welcome!

Welcome from AZ!

Another AZ welcome!

You're killing me! The Lowa's are beautiful items, made with the same Swiss precision as SIG rifles and Breitling watches. And a price tag to match. But they are NOT made in China!

/\/\/\/\ Yup. I'm waiting for the full force of the empire to come crashing down on Jan Morgan.

Welcome from AZ!

I only go there to watch babes.

Stopped by Summit Hut the other day and they had botht he Salomon and Lowa boots. Lowa-made in Switzerland. Damn, Tom, just damn. Salomon-made in China?!?! WTF Robo?! $160 for some Chinese made slave fashioned hipster booties?! At least Lowa are made by hot topless blonde women who make a living wage!

None of us are that good looking nor have hair that long. Where'd you get your camo shorts Toolindie? <laughs>

Well, probably NOT a certain person who just sold their CNC in S. AZ. :eek13:

Welcome from AZ!

Why you keep repeating yourself?

Give him another so it sinks in! <laughs> :hornet:

Great article, very thorough. With the author's reference to "the people who wrote the law knew how ammunition is manufactured", intentionally choosing a careful wording, I would make the same claim about the "lack of a third decimal place" denoting .22 ammunition. In manufacturing, when a blueprint calls out a tolerance for a non-critical dimension, a lack of a third decimal place denotes a plus/minus tolerance of 0.015". Using the author's same reasoning about the lawmakers' ammunition knowledge, surely enough lawmakers in 1986 had metal shop when they were in highschool.

That looks kickass! Great. Now we need 308AR decals.

Thanks but I don't want to google that shite! I want Tom to say "Damn brother! I have a line on these badass stomp-protectors from ___________! Tell him Tom said 'Hi!' for me!"

As said above, this isn't over. It will happen as a "And on page 18, paragraph 3, we banned the green tip ammo anyway. Moving along..."