This it kind of OT, but in the end it has to do with a bunch of metal lathes.
As some know I am taking a couple classes on Industrial Maintance at the local tech college. We have been using 6 lathes to turn our projects. There were 8 total but only 6 were good enough to use. Well, the school got some extra money about bought a bunch of new machines.
The new machines arrived yesterday and they took the old ones to the scrap yard! So they got $250/ton for the machines when they could have got double for them as working units. Most of the tech colleges put stuff on the www.wisconsinsurplus.com website. Apparently this one likes throwing away money so they just go to the junkyard.
I stopped by the scrap yard this morning to see if I could buy a couple of them, but they said no way. Oh well, if anybody knows of a cheap lathe I am still looking. :lol:
As some know I am taking a couple classes on Industrial Maintance at the local tech college. We have been using 6 lathes to turn our projects. There were 8 total but only 6 were good enough to use. Well, the school got some extra money about bought a bunch of new machines.
The new machines arrived yesterday and they took the old ones to the scrap yard! So they got $250/ton for the machines when they could have got double for them as working units. Most of the tech colleges put stuff on the www.wisconsinsurplus.com website. Apparently this one likes throwing away money so they just go to the junkyard.
I stopped by the scrap yard this morning to see if I could buy a couple of them, but they said no way. Oh well, if anybody knows of a cheap lathe I am still looking. :lol: