Ebay jokes of the night

Hanz

Cast Iron

Joined

Feb 2, 2003

Location

Casselberry, FL

• Jan 21, 2006

• #1

'This mill includes an optional motorized feed in the X-axis for semi automatic operation. ' Would that be 'almost' CNC?

Bridgeport

Why would you put the serial number in the title?

Wells

Looks like someone got hurt real bad here-

Cincinnati

Heres a nice Cinci, set your timer to snipe it!

Cinci

Hanz

 

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Mike C.

Diamond

Joined

Nov 25, 2004

Location

Birmingham, AL

• Jan 21, 2006

• #2

Same guy with that #4 Cincy has a MONSTER Norton surface grinder. He's just as nuts on the price of that one, too.

You have to wonder what the hell these guys are thinking. I mean, you can pretty easily look around on Ebay and get an idea of what machines similar to what you are trying to sell are going for. I guess a guy can dream (because that is all he is going to do).

 

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SteveF

Titanium

Joined

Jul 4, 2004

Location

central NC

• Jan 21, 2006

• #3

When I'm up late and need a good chuckle I go into Business & Industrial and search on "patent".

Here a good one - item 7582928062

Enjoy.
Steve.

 

Milacron

Administrator

Staff member

Joined

Dec 15, 2000

Location

SC, USA

• Jan 21, 2006

• #4

$4,000 Buy it Now on the ancient Cincinnati no. 4 vertical...gawd, what an idiot....I paid $100 for one just like that 12 years ago. And this Bass Machinery doofus...man, everything rusty or absolute junk Bar feed from Hell

 

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Michael Az

Stainless

Joined

Dec 16, 2002

Location

Safford, Az., USA

• Jan 21, 2006

• #5

Same guy with that #4 Cincy has a MONSTER Norton surface grinder. He's just as nuts on the price of that one, too.

Click to expand...

He's also as nuts as to the weight being 5,000 lbs.
Michael

 

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steelhead

Cast Iron

Joined

Dec 1, 2004

Location

Dallas Tx

• Jan 21, 2006

• #6

The bridgeport guy probally thinks his is "classic" like this one with the paint job
http://cgi.ebay.com/CLASSIC-BRIDGEPORT-VERTICAL-MILLER-w-J-HEAD-VISE-L-K_W0QQitemZ7580506340QQcategoryZ12584QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

Rick Rowlands

Titanium

Joined

Jan 8, 2005

Location

Youngstown, Ohio

• Jan 21, 2006

• #7

If the tire chain patent is so good why doesn't the seller just start marketing them himself? What isn't he telling us?

 

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Mebfab

Diamond

Joined

Jun 7, 2003

Location

Mebane North Carolina USA

• Jan 21, 2006

• #8

Saw a Cincy #4 vertical like that but looked WORSE sell at myron bowlings auction last week. $4500 + 10% and loading

 

Milacron

Administrator

Staff member

Joined

Dec 15, 2000

Location

SC, USA

• Jan 21, 2006

• #9

Re Cincinati no. 4, that's funny Dan as I just assumed you meant the newer style...so it was the older style like that one ?? Holy Moses, what sort of wild intoxicants was MB putting in the drinks there in Rocky Mount...Ectasy in Budwiser cocktails ? I would have been pretty jaw dropped over that one. Would have been hard to resist going over to the high bidder and saying "excuse me sir, but I just have to let you know that you are the dumbest person I've met this year"

 

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railfancwb

Stainless

Joined

Mar 10, 2005

Location

Nashville, TN

• Jan 21, 2006

• #10

See http://cgi.ebay.com/metal-rolling-machine-for-sheet-metal-fabrication_W0QQitemZ7582120512QQcategoryZ633QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Has Beaufort changed states or are there two of them?

Charles

 

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Frederick Harvie

Stainless

Joined

Jan 7, 2004

Location

Halifax Nova Scotia

• Jan 21, 2006

• #11

There are in fact two Beaufort's One in north and the other in South Carolina . One of the claims to fame of Beaufort North Carolina is that Blackbeard the pirate was from there. In all liklyhood there are a few more around the U.S. somewhwere

 

Milacron

Administrator

Staff member

Joined

Dec 15, 2000

Location

SC, USA

• Jan 21, 2006

• #12

One of our local "celebraties" once was "assistant producer" or somesuch for the TV sitcom All in the Family, who one day decided he wanted to be a sailor. So he sets sail from Beaufort, NC trying to navigate toward Bermuda. 6 days out, and ends up in a storm and due to the combination of inexperience and poor navigation eventually washes up in St Helena Sound not far from Beaufort, SC.

Dehydrated and delerious from the ordeal, Coast Guard sends him to our local hospital. Wakes up a day or two later and sees "Beaufort Memorial" on the clipboard at his bedside and exclaims to the nurse "Damn, a week at sea and all that ordeal, only to end up right back where I started !

 

JRIowa

Diamond

Joined

May 27, 2003

Location

Marshalltown, Iowa, USA

• Jan 21, 2006

• #13

One of our 1st shift supervisors is from around Beaufort SC. He came back from a visit to home one time and said that the governer had a place close to him. I asked him if he knew because the trailer was skirted and there was a limo on blocks in the yard. No sense of humor!
JR

 

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kilroyjones

Hot Rolled

Joined

May 22, 2005

Location

South Central Kansas

• Jan 21, 2006

• #14

JRIowa

Funniest thing I have seen on the internet all week.

KJ

 

Warren

Cast Iron

Joined

Nov 16, 2005

Location

Sutton, NH

• Jan 21, 2006

• #15

I dunno how many people use tire chains here. But I simply use two rubber bungee straps & my tire chains stay on nicely. That idoit is smoking the drapes!

 

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Mebfab

Diamond

Joined

Jun 7, 2003

Location

Mebane North Carolina USA

• Jan 21, 2006

• #16

The Cin#4 I saw was about the oldest single dial type I have seen. Much shorter table. NO scraping left on it. Not under power. One of the bidders had his teenage son do the actuall bidding while he proudly watched.

THere were people from all over, mexico, costa rica, french canadian? and the assorted states of the US. Funny thing is nothing special there. Just a LOT of it. Cranes, forklifts, welders, fab, chipmaking, tons of contracting.