Richard King
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2005
- Location
- Cottage Grove, MN 55016
Just thought I would let everyone know I have listed what I sell in the tooling wanted and for sale. Thanks
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I find it interesting that Cash chooses to do the re-building in house. Wonder if this is due to size/ rarity of many of his bigger machines and cost of shipping, or control of quality?
L7
There was a YouTube guy in Texas called "Tool for Machines" or something like that. He had some camelback style cast and I think he sold a few. But when I inquired two years ago, he had none on hand and no intention of casting more.
I find it interesting that Cash chooses to do the re-building in house. Wonder if this is due to size/ rarity of many of his bigger machines and cost of shipping, or control of quality?
L7
It's been my observation that many folks who set up to make these scraping tools seem to do so as hobby or at the very least, some kind of low priority side business. Or maybe it's just too costly to maintain any kind of inventory.
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All of us trying to provide castings are having a devil of a time getting anything from the foundries. Very long lead times are the norm. Very frustrating to have people inquire and of course wonder how long until I will have some on hand again and I have no answer, because I can't get a answer from the foundries. Larger customers ordering hundreds, if not thousands of castings are keeping our small orders at the very bottom of priority.
Rich can tell you that selling the castings may be profitable, but you ain't gonna get wealthy from doing it. Most of us do it not so much as a hobby, as you say, but out of giving back to the metal working trade and to try and help keep old machines in tip top shape.
Cheers, Gary
Paolo, Gary Martin has a pattern for a 52" long with dovetail straight edge. Saw pics of a machined casting- nice, but 125 lbs! For comparison the HKA 48" I scraped is 61 lbs. Use it regularly, but it's plenty heavy for this weak guy ;-)
L7
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