It’s a 3D metal printer?! I know you want one. We all do.
nope, here’s a hint, it weighs about 2500 lbs.
5 x10 fixture table
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K28 56x104 fixture table from Kovosu, they had a great deal. Got one because of West Weld on Instagram.
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I looked at those tables awhile ago. They wanted me to lie about the value to the person that was handling the shipping so the import taxes would less and they would be be more competitive with other tables. I decided I could not do business with them after that
I’ve had that happen with a different vendor with something else, not with Kovosu. Door to door shipping and handling included all duties and taxes. I did pay with credit card and paid the extra 3% for purchase protection.
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Not that I can keep up with holla2040 but my two new tools just arrived. I have been building metal railings for my house and a couple tools that would have came in handy sooner. Any tools you guys have or have made to make life easier in the shop would be great to see. The web is filled with lots of stuff but I like hanging out here. With the smart people.
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excellent, I love everyone’s new tool day!
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Craig, I bought that band saw last night. What a deal: <$110 for the saw plus the “starter battery kit.” I initially overlooked it because so much of the stuff you buy I just know the price will not be in my budget.
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What size holes ? and did you compare that to fireball?
Excellent 
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Ahhh! …Those were the days!
70s fresh out of school and in my first real job, I was dynamic testing Ferrite Core Memories (I believe I have one stowed somewhere still) and designing and building jigs and test fixtures for them. I worked for Dataram Corp. and Later United Telecontrol Electronics (plants here in Trinidad). Had my fair share of wire-wrap, Glyptal, TTL Logic and Cyanoacrylate adhesive (Eastman Kodak) was magic. Certainly do remember the GS2B cable tie gun… Zip-ties were also state of the art replacing waxed cord. 128K memory stacks were considered large. The young folk today take all this for granted… OH, let’s not forget punch-card programming 
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Unfortunately, I do.
You just gave me PTSD from my “programming” course in college. FORTRAN :barf:
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The young folk today take all this for granted…
I was lucky growing up in Los Alamos, the lab donated and ‘old’ PDP-11 to the high school. In the summer of 1978, I heard it had computer games, like Star Trek
Unfortunately as a new 10th grader, I couldn’t use the VT100s only the DECwriters.
But Star Trek still worked just used a lot of paper.
I wrote my first program in basic that summer and never looked back, even took a pascal class in 1980. Unfortunately, my college used punch cards with Fortran 77 for freshman engineering students. Ah the memories indeed…
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