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    Just spoke with my buddy about this, and one of his several lathes goes up to 48". He also told me about a shop that is less than a mile from my office that does aircraft tooling. One of theirs goes up to 10 FEET.

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    The used to use vertical lathes to make the crankshafts for battleships. Those are impressive.
    The powers that be might take it all away
    Together we burn, together we burn away

    Uncle Tupelo

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    Guess who forgot to bring his flippin camera to work today so he could upload pictures to this thread...









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    Buzz is smoking our cigars. This probably is his triumphant scam.

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