That would be cool. The gmail counterfitter works. I plan to do a bit of flying about this summer, so gimme a heads up. I can set up s special support group for American dorkers who have brad-nailed themselves to the altar of the woodworking gods...well, at least till the glue dries. I'll toss a bottle of Calvados in the freezer.
r
Indeed! Come on Lew, when are you going to figure out all amazing things you can do with epoxy?
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I keep working at it.
Lew
I will keep you posted. We're planning on spending a few days somewhere near Detroit so we can tour Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. Then across the Ambassador Bridge and meander north to find a Campground with full hook-ups near Sarnia. (or back on this side if necessary; there's a decent KOA near Port Huron. )
Max
We're planning on spending a few days somewhere
-------------------------------------------- Having spent time at both the village and the museum, I found the museum to be a fascinating place.
A full day is hardly enough to see it all.
The village, not so much.
YMMV
Lew
I visited the museum many years ago and also found it fascinating. My wife has never been there and she's big on museums. We have a very flexible schedule so we'll take whatever time we need. :-) Friends will be making arrangements for a Ford factory tour as well.
Max
-------------------------------------------------- The museum had a rather extensive collection of buttons as well as other items that will probably be of interest to her.
Last time I was there was early 70's, so details are a little fuzzy.
Spent many years knocking on the doors of places that had FoMoCo on the front door.
Any idea which facility?
Lew
"Lew Hodgett" wrote
Hopefully an assembly plant. We went thru an engine plant a few years ago. The plant did "lost foam" casting and sand casting. *Very* interesting. And, in my *very* young years I worked in an axle plant in Lansing.
Max
"Lew Hodgett" wrote
Not yet. I have relatives who work in several different areas of the company.
Max
------------------------------------------------ So many of the facilities have closed.
Probably the closing of the assembly plant in Lorain, Ohio was the biggest shock a couple of years ago.
I was given a tour while still in college as part of an undergraduate engineering group when the plant first opened in the late '50s.
Turned out 58 units/hour, 24/7 for many years.
If you ever had a Thunderbird or an Econoline van, probably came from Lorain.
SFWIW, helped design foundry automation that went into FoMoCo "Casting" plants, a renaming of foundries designed to improve their image.
Last big one was Flat Rock which lasted only a few years before it was moved to Mexico.
Those plants were a tough place to work.
Lew
Because they are having fun? Greg
There seems to be allot of reading compresion problems here. The first 2-3 guys to respond to my first post wanted to warn me of the hazzards of laminate, insted of aswering a simple question! Greg
It seems ironic for you to claim that people reading your posts have comprehension problems when you have five misspellings within those two short sentences.
They didn't know what you meant by "insted".
Max (couldn't resist)
"FrozenNorth" wrote
Never thought about that. Plastic acts as an insulator, but granite is a huge heat sink and would put some heat into the frozen meat. Thick pans of either aluminum or cast iron work well too, but so is the thermal mass of granite that is there all the time.
On Sun, 2 May 2010 11:19:36 -0600, the infamous "Max" scrawled the following:
Any time, Max. (That'll be $189.95, please.)
"Thou shalt not put thine footsies on my countertop!" sez I.
Take pics of the FesteringToolPorn area, fer sher.
-- Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. -- Raymond Lindquist
On 02 May 2010 17:06:08 GMT, the infamous Puckdropper scrawled the following:
Crom'll get ya for that one, Pucky. ;)
-- Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. -- Raymond Lindquist
Just leave a layer of plastic wrap between the meat and the counter, it works great. Minimizes clean up too.
The check is on the way. Be looking for it.
No, no. The floor, the floor. Isn't that why you wear slippers? (whatever "slippers" are)
I can post a picture of my new TS75. (neener, neener)
-- Raymond Lindquist
My gun is "familiar" but I ain't letting go of it.
Max
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