M.B. Naegle
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2011
- Location
- Conroe, TX USA
It seems that the more I try to get caught up, that's when the projects I can't live without pop-up.
I had to schedule a service call over to Austin and was going to be out of the shop all day yesterday between picking a machine up from a customer, dropping it off at our Yoakum shop, and driving across the terribly large state of Texas.
Well, my mistake was looking on Ebay and discovering this jem in Corpus at auction. We have been wanting one for years but money always went elseware and we found other ways to check stuff. I thought about it and dropping down there would add another 5 or so hours of driving, but it was doable. I bid and won it for $115. I considered it a fair price as I bought it sight-unseen and as discovered later the coastal air hasn't been fair to the exposed metal.
So far as I can tell it's all there. No extra screens but a couple extra lenses and a sparce bit of tooling. Wiring and electronics might be salvigable, but I'm researching doing some retrofiting.
This unit apparently was bought off of one of the naval bases in corpus by a gentleman who used it in his garage. He gave it to his buddy, the guy I bought it from, who says it was alot more machine than they ever needed, and it was last lit-up about 6 years ago.
So.... another project. Need to rearrange the inspection area. I'm a little tired today as I was on the road between 4:00am and 11:00pm.
I'm still googling and I'll post as I make progress. Anyone have any wisdom they could impart? I need to get a line on a manual for sure.
I had to schedule a service call over to Austin and was going to be out of the shop all day yesterday between picking a machine up from a customer, dropping it off at our Yoakum shop, and driving across the terribly large state of Texas.
Well, my mistake was looking on Ebay and discovering this jem in Corpus at auction. We have been wanting one for years but money always went elseware and we found other ways to check stuff. I thought about it and dropping down there would add another 5 or so hours of driving, but it was doable. I bid and won it for $115. I considered it a fair price as I bought it sight-unseen and as discovered later the coastal air hasn't been fair to the exposed metal.
So far as I can tell it's all there. No extra screens but a couple extra lenses and a sparce bit of tooling. Wiring and electronics might be salvigable, but I'm researching doing some retrofiting.
This unit apparently was bought off of one of the naval bases in corpus by a gentleman who used it in his garage. He gave it to his buddy, the guy I bought it from, who says it was alot more machine than they ever needed, and it was last lit-up about 6 years ago.
So.... another project. Need to rearrange the inspection area. I'm a little tired today as I was on the road between 4:00am and 11:00pm.
I'm still googling and I'll post as I make progress. Anyone have any wisdom they could impart? I need to get a line on a manual for sure.